Institute of Mathematics

Uzávěrka přihlášek na přednášky a exkurze je 20.10.2016!!!

Tradiční Dny otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR jsou součástí Týdne vědy a techniky Akademie věd ČR, nejrozsáhlejšího vědeckého festivalu v ČR pořádaného Akademií věd ČR ve spolupráci s dalšími institucemi ve dnech 1.–13. listopadu 2016. Široká veřejnost a především studenti středních škol mají možnost nahlédnout do pracoven, laboratoří a knihoven a poznat, jak se dělá věda. Badatelé z výzkumných pracovišť AV ČR připravují širokou nabídku exkurzí, přednášek, výstav a diskusních večerů, ve kterých představí své výzkumné projekty, předvedou nejmodernější vědecké přístroje a experimenty a přiblíží návštěvníkům nejnovější trendy v oblasti vědy. V Matematickém ústavu AV ČR se Dny otevřených dveří uskuteční na pražském pracovišti ve dnech 1.–4. listopadu 2016, v brněnské pobočce 9. listopadu 2016.
Traditional Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics CAS will be held as part of the Week of Science and Technology, the most extensive scientific festival in the Czech Republic, organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with other institutions from 1st to 13th November 2016. The scientists from the research workplaces of the Academy of Sciences prepare a wide offer of lectures, presentations, panel discussions, seminars, excursions, exhibitions and discussion evenings, in which they present their research projects, the most modern scientific apparatuses and outline the latest trends in the areas of science in the Czech Republic and the world. The Prague departments in the Institute of Mathematics will be open to public from 1st to 4th November 2016, the Brno branch on 9th November 2016.

Marián Fabian and Vladimír Müller, the leading members of the Department of Topology and Functional Analysis have been awarded the Honorary Bernard Bolzano Medal for Merits in Mathematical Sciences. The medals were presented by the Vice-President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Dr. Jan Šafanda on 29 September 2016 during the international workshop Interactions between Algebra and Functional Analysis.

Monografie Oborové didaktivy: vývoj – stav – perspektivy získala cenu za pozoruhodnou výzkumně zaměřenou publikaci. Autorský kolektiv vedli Iva Stuchlíková a Tomáš Janík a jeho členkou byla i Mgr. Marie Tichá, CSc., vedoucí Kabinetu pro didaktiku matematiky Matematického ústavu AV ČR. Cenu uděluje Česká asociace pedagogického výzkumu. Předal ji její předseda doc. Mgr. Petr Novotný, Ph.D., na 24. výroční konferenci, která se konala ve dnech 15.–16. 9. 2016 na Pedagogické fakultě Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích.

With a deep sorrow we inform that our colleague Dr. Emil Vitásek passed away on 28 August 2016 at the age of 85 years. Dr. Vitásek, a renown specialist in numerical mathematics, was one of those who connected their whole professional life with the Institute of Mathematics. He used to come regularly to the institute even many years after his retirement, taking part in the Seminar on Current Problems in Numerical Analysis and serving his colleagues in the Committee for Employee Care.
May he rest in peace.

During the opening ceremony of the 7th European Congress of Mathematics in Berlin, 12 prizes were awarded to outstanding mathematicians.
The 10 EMS prizes went to Sara Zahedi (KTH, Sweden), Mark Bravermann (Princeton University, USA), Vincent Calvez (ENS Lyon, France), Guido De Philippis (SISSA Trieste, Italy), Peter Scholze (University of Bonn, Germany), Peter Varjú (University of Cambridge, UK), Thomas Willwacher (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), James Maynard (Magdalen College Oxford, UK), Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHÉS, France), Geordie Williamson (MPI Bonn, Germany).
The Felix Klein Prize was awarded to Patrice Hauret (Michelin, France), and the Otto Neugebauer Prize went to Jeremy Gray (Open University, UK).

President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prof. Jiří Drahoš awarded the Otto Wichterle Award for young researchers to Dr. Jan Hladký, member of the Department of Mathematical Logic and Theoretical Computer Science. The award has been established in 2002 to encourage and support young promising researchers in institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It is connected with a financial premium in the subsequent three years. Jan Hladký is one of 21 laureates this year.

The Neuron Fund for Support of Science awarded Dr. Emil Jeřábek of the Department of Mathematical Logic and Theoretical computer Science the Neuron Award for Promising Young Scientists. The award is designated to acknowledge Czech scientists under the age of 40, who have achieved excellent scientific results, and to recognise their activities and promote their future progress.

The European Commission is gathering ideas on Mathematics for Excellence in Science in Horizon 2020 to inform the future work programme with innovative mathematical content. The potential of mathematics was already explored in a very successful online consultation which provided excellent food for thought for a workshop held in November 2014. The conclusions of that workshop were collected in a report.
The present consultation open to all mathematicians till 30 April offers an important chance to support the creation of a so far missing niche for mathematical research in the future work programmes in Horizon 2020.

Professor Eduard Feireisl received the prestigious Neuron Award for Contribution to Science awarded on 1st December 2015 by the Neuron Foundation for Support of Science. He is a worldwide renown specialist in mathematical theory of fluid dynamics whose expertise has been credited by the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant MATHEF. We are proud that after Miroslav Fiedler and Ivo Babuška this is already the third Neuron Award for a researcher who is or used to be member of the Institute of Mathematics CAS.

Photograph by Lukáš Bíba

With a deep sorrow we inform that Professor Miroslav Fiedler, researcher emeritus in the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and Honorary Member of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists passed away peacefully at his home in the morning of 20th November 2015.
Below is a link to the Memorial page with contributions of friends and colleagues. Further contributions are welcome. They should be sent to the address mathinst@math.cas.cz.