Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

Vítězslav Jarý, Ph.D., the postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, was awarded the prize “Česká hlava” (literal translation “Czech Head”). In particular, Vítězslav Jarý obtained the price of ČEZ group for the excellent PhD thesis in technical sciences.

Recently there has been increasing demand for new materials which can be used for detection of invisible ionizing radiation (X-ray, gamma ray), for example in industry (searching for leakage in materials, looking for new natural resources), medicine (CT, PET scanners), security (security checks at the airport gates), physics (LHC particle accelerator in CERN).

The Czech Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Ms. Katerina Valachova has visited Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), U.S.A. on November 13, 2015. Fermilab general director Nigel Lockyer welcome the visitors and deputy director Joe Lykken introduced the Fermilab scientific programme and appreciated the contribution of 45 Czech scientists in last 18 years of collaboration. Ms. Valachova then discussed working and financing problems connected with work at Fermilab with five Czech physicists currently at Fermilab.