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American psychologist Prof. Philip G. Zimbardo received the highest award of the Czech Academy of Sciences

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18 Sep 2015

The most significant award of the Czech Academy of Sciences – the honorary medal De scientia et humanitate optime meritis – was presented to Prof. Philip Zimbard by President of the CAS Prof. Jiří Drahoš. The psychologist Philip Zimbardo is famous particularly for his so-called Stanford prison experiment and also his authorship of many books. The most famous is Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, which was published last year in the CR by the Publishing House Academia.

Three professors from the Czech Academy of Sciences on the List of the Most Cited Scientists of the World

18 Sep 2015

On the list of Highly Cited Researchers, issued by ISI Thomson Reuters, 3,125 scientists from the entire world appeared this year. Only four of them are from the Czech Republic. Prof. Petr Pyšek and Prof. Vojtěch Jarošík from the Institute of Botany of the CAS and Prof. Pavel Hobza from Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS figure in the list. Next to them, the physician Prof. Petr Widimský from Charles University in Prague is also there. The head of the Department of Invasion Ecology Prof. Petr Pyšek is among the most cited scientists for the second time already – he was on the list also in 2014. Also Prof. Pavel Hobza is on the list for the second time and is the most cited Czech scientist of all. He currently devotes himself to so-called non-covalent interactions and their applications, particularly the computer design of new drugs.

Conference on Democracy (not only) in Muslim Countries

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17 Sep 2015

On Wednesday, 16 September, the Oriental Institute of the CAS organized an international conference entitled Democracy in the Political Culture of the Middle East, Asia, and Russia. “One of the questions which we want to answer is whether education can support democracy,” stated Director of the Oriental Institute of the CAS Mgr. Ondřej Beránek, Ph.D. A number of important foreign guests appeared at the conference, including for instance Shadi Hamid (The Brookings Institution), Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University) and Thomas Ruttig (Afghanistan Analysts Network). The presenters devoted themselves primarily to the situation in Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan but also in Uzbekistan, China and Russia. The conference took place within the Strategy of the CAS for the 21st Century and the conference Forum 2000.

New possibilities of imaging molecules with atomic force microscope

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6 Aug 2015

Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) together with colleagues from Osaka University in Japan presented in the journal Nature Communications [1] a new method that significantly advances the current possibility for atomic force microscopes to image chemical structures of individual molecules. Recent developments in scanning microscopy enable us to resolve the chemical structure of individual molecules deposited on surfaces. The sub-molecular resolution of individual molecules opens up entirely new possibilities in the study of physical and chemical properties of molecular nanostructures. However, it was possible to carry out these measurements only at very low temperatures close to absolute zero with specially modified microscope tips.

Chile and Canary Islands selected for the construction of the largest gamma-ray observatory

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21 Jul 2015

During a two-day meeting held on 15 and 16 July 2015, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Resource Board, with the participation of Czech representatives, decided to choose two sites for detailed contract negotiations for the location to host the world’s largest gamma-ray telescope network: a location in the Atacama desert in Chile in the southern hemisphere and Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, Canary Islands in the northern hemisphere.

The Legacy of Charlemagne

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30 Jun 2015

The travelling exhibition on Charlemagne’s legacy has developed within the Cradles of European Culture Project. After Ename in Belgium and Italian Ravenna a reworked version will be presented to Czech visitors in Prague. Our main aim is to describe the Early Middle Ages as a time, the interpretation of which still supplies us with a number of impulses for the creation of local and national identities. The visitor should not only be involved in the search of what we had in common and what distinguished us in early medieval Europe, what still inspires us; he should also be guided to consider in what different ways history can be viewed.

Hunting for insects with a crane: forest ecology research on six continents will be spearheaded by the Czech Academy of Sciences

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22 Jun 2015

How would forests entirely devoid of insects look like? And why most of insect species prefer life in tropical jungles to temperate zone forests? Questions asked by a curious child, perhaps, but also by international research team from the Czech Academy of Sciences, recently supported by the European Research Council to study forests all over the world, and build a new canopy crane in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea.

International conference “The Present and Future of Institutions of Non-University Research”

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28 May 2015

Non-university research has a future

The future of non-university research and its connection with higher education institutes, industrial research and business were the main themes of an international conference that the Czech Academy of Sciences organized on Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at its headquarters. The roundtable discussions were attended by the elite of European science – Martin Stratmann (president of the most important German scientific institution, the Max Planck Society), Peter Haslinger (director of the Herder-Institute, Leibniz Association), Soren Wiesenfeldt (director of research at the Helmholtz Association), Ed Noort (vice-president of ALLEA – All European Academies) and other guests from Italy, Great Britain and the USA.

The Czech Academy of Sciences at EXPO 2015

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22 May 2015

On 1 May, the gates of the world EXPO 2015 with the motto “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” opened in Milan. The raising of the exposition’s flags was accompanied by the tones of Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony and precisely the Czech pavilion was selected by the Italian media as one of five to be recommended for a visit. Their last discoveries are then presented also by two institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) in the Laboratory of Life presents research aimed at seeking new human medications for lifestyle diseases. A human cell as a miniature chemical plant in which thousands of events take place necessary for the healthy functioning of the organism was rendered for the Laboratory of Life and the IOCB by the artist Jakub Nepraš.

Public Lecture with Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland

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15 Apr 2015

Prof. Finn E. Kydland (University of California, Santa Barbara), 2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics, will give a public lecture on "Innovation and Capital Formation in Today's Policy Environment".

The public lecture will be held on Thursday, April 23 at 16:00 at CERGE-EI, Politických vězňů 7, Prague 1. Seats are limited. Register your place by filling in a short form.
Finn E. Kydland, the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics. The prize, shared with Edward C. Prescott of Arizona State University, was for "contribution to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."

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