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Klára Benešovská was awarded the Knight of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

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23 Nov 2015

The art historian PhDr. Klára Benešovská, CSc., Head of the Department of Mediaeval Art at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, was made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Chevalier de l’Ordre de Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) in Prague, on the premises of the Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in the Czech Republic, Estonia and the Ukraine, on Wednesday, 18 November, 2015. The order of knighthood was conferred by Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Nassau, and Dr. Benešovská received it at the hands of Her Excellency Michèle Pranchère-Tomassini, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

AugerPrime Inauguration

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16 Nov 2015

Celebrating 15 years of achievements and signature ceremony of a new International Agreement for the next 10 years

During November 14-17, 2015, the Pierre Auger Collaboration celebrates the inauguration of AugerPrime. Spread over an area of 3000 km2 in the 'yellow pampa' in western Argentina, Auger is the largest cosmic ray experiment in the world. AugerPrime allows the Czech researchers to contribute to discerning the mysteries of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays until 2025.

Institute of Physics received two of four awards of the Technology Agency in 2015

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16 Nov 2015

The prestigious prizes of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic for the best projects accomplished in applied research in 2015 were awarded at the official ceremony in the New building of the National Museum in Prague on October 22nd, 2015. Among four award-winning projects there were two projects that included teams from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS).

The Czech Academy of Sciences 2014-2015: Selected Research Results

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21 Oct 2015

The Czech Academy of Sciences has issued a report accounting selected research results achieved by its scientific institutes in all research areas in 2014 and in early 2015. It outlines its research activities, as well as goals of the new research centres and facilities of the CAS and its new Strategy AV21, the main aim of which is to perform top level multilateral interdisciplinary research reflecting the needs of contemporary society. The book (printed version in PDF) documents the CAS´s efforts to transfer research findings into practical outputs and its co-operation with partners in the industrial sphere, it presents the CAS´s co-operation with various institutions on international, regional and local levels and mentions some of the major social events and anniversaries marked by the CAS in 2014 and 2015.

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.

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