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Academic bulletin 07/2000


RESUME

Kaleidoscope - Photogallery

Meeting of the NATO Science Committee in Prague - press conference

Research and Development Council of the Government of the Czech Republic

Report from the 135th session of the Czech Government's Research and Development Council

News from the Academic Council

The 47th session of the Academic Council of the ASCR took place on June 27th.

Anniversary

Assistant Professor Miloš Ondřej
Well-known Czech expert on plant genetics celebrates his 60th birthday.

Portraits from the Archives

Jindřich Šebánek
Jindřich Šebánek, professor of special historical disciplines on Masaryk University in Brno, was born October 12th, 1900, in Písek. In 1918 after he had graduated from grammar school he began his studies at Charles University's Philosophical Faculty. His major was history and geography. From 1920 - 1923 he also completed additional studies at State School for Archivists.

Science - Research - Society

Czech Polar Expedition Is on Its Way to Antarctica
After few successful extended visits of Czech scientists to foreign Antarctic stations, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports is supporting an independent project of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University in Brno called Ecology of Coastal Antarctic Oasis. The first official Czech polar station will be built next year.

Science for Peace
The first meeting of the NATO Science Committee in the Czech Republic was held on June 15 - 16 in Prague.

The Cosmos Is Everything Outside of Our Own Identity
The 11th world conference of the International Association Cosmos and Philosophy was held in Prague in May.

Celebration 2000: Unique Project of the Geophysical Institute of the ASCR
This broad research project was organised in several locations throughout the country on June 23 - 26.

Jan Evangelista Purkyně Medal

Speaking Good Czech Means Speaking it Right

Meet Universum, the New Czech Web Page about Science

Interview

The Science and the Invisible Dog
Writer and journalist Ondřej Neff is the best known writer of Czech science fiction, and the author of many novels and story books. At the beginning of the '90`s he founded the monthly for sci-fi Ikarie. Within the last four years he has been publisher and editor in chief of the most popular online e-zine, Invisible Dog.

Awards

Dr. František J. Holeček and Dr. Werner Korthaase received the Jan Patočka Medal, official award of the ASCR.

Introducing the Institutes

Optical Development Laboratory
Optical Development Laboratory is located in Turnov, a town with over 100 years tradition of optical production. ODL was founded as a part of the ASCR in the early '60`s responding to a need to produce unique optical components for the project Interkosmos.

Obituary

Dr. Svetozár Pantůček, an expert for Orient studies and former editor in chief of Academic Bulletin and the magazine New Orient, has died.

Events

Project ESA INTEGRAL

Conference on Transition to Sustainability in the 21st Century in Tokyo

Female Yuppies Statistics

Interesting results of research by the Institute of Sociology

Engineering Mechanics 2000

International conference organised by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Technology, Brno and the Institute of Thermomechanics of the ASCR

News - Announcements

Working Papers 1999

Resume

New Books

Chronicle:

Events at the Academy in Photos

A report on the Jan Patočka Awards ceremony.

Topical Supplement

The Story of a Human Being - Something Never to Forget
This issue supplement is devoted to the life story of Hanuš Münz who survived the German concentration camp in Minsk. He escaped from there and then took part in guerrilla warfare. His destiny is a small pebble in the mosaic of the tragic and cataclysmic event called the World War II.