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At the end of the last year, postgraduate student Miroslav Myška from the Department of Particle Theory and Phenomenology was awarded the Prize of the Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague for an outstanding PhD thesis of the II. Degree (typically three prizes in each degree from I to III are awarded annually).

Miroslav Myška was supervised at our institute starting from his research work up to his very successful defense of PhD degree...

Lukáš Ondič, PhD. student at Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, received the Best Presentation Award for his contribution titled Two-dimensional Photonic Crystals for Enhancing Light Extraction Efficiency from Luminescent Layers to The 2nd International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science held at Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, U.S.A. from December 13th to 17th, 2013. The...

Zirconium alloys are currently used in all commercially operated light water and heavy water nuclear reactors. Devices in nuclear reactors have to serve for a very long time, quite faultlessly and without maintenance, and their environmental parameters can become very extreme. Zirconium alloys are affected by surrounding setting even during normal nuclear reactor operation, but at temperatures above 800 ° C dangerous high temperature corrosion occurs. This corrosion is...

The Nobel Prize winner Professor Walter Kohn will give a public lecture in Prague on July 9th 2013, 2am in seminar room no. 103 at FJFI ČVUT, Prague 1, Břehová 7.

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