December 13
A one day meeting was held at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Professor Václav Votruba birth. At its closing, the results of the year
Václav Votruba Prizecontest were announced.
November 2
Professor Miloslav Havlíček, founder of the Doppler Institute, becomes today octagenerian. Happy birthday!
November 1
After a successfull habilitation, Martin Štefaňák was promoted to day to associate professor. Congratulations!
October 19 Radek Novák defended today at L'Université de Nantes a PhD thesis entitled
"Mathematical analysis of quantum mechanics with non-self-adjoint operators" written under supervision of David Krejčiřík and
Xue Ping Wang. Congratulations!
February 16 Iva Bezděková defended today a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum walks with point spectrum" written under supervision
of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
2017
September 23 Igor Jex was elected Fellow of The Optical Society; the citation was "for contribution to the applications of optical network in quantum optics, in particular, for their use for quantum state measurement and in implementing quantum walks using the optical feedback loop."
March 24 Tomáš Vávra defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Arithmetical properties of Pisot units" written under supervision of Zuzana Masáková. Congratulations!
2016
November 24 Pavel Exner was awarded today Neuron Prize for outstanding contributions to science. Congratulations!
October 26 Michal Jex defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Strongly singular operators with interactions supported by curves and surfaces" written under supervision of Pavel Exner. Congratulations!
February 16 Pavel Bažant defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Error correction of quantum protocols" written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
2015
November 30 Lubomíra Balková obtained her habilitation and Zuzana Masáková qualifi ed for a full professor position. Double congratulations!
November 2 Pavel Exner obtained the fi rst degree Faculty Medal for leading
the Institute. Daniel Dombek obtained Antonín Svoboda Prize for best 2014 thesis in cybernetics and informatics; congratulations to him!
September 30 End of the Europen grant which allowed us to support, through the FNSPE branch in Decin postdoctoral positions of Lenka Háková, Stepan Manko, Alexander Minakov, and Satoshi Ohya. There is no doubt that it produced some interesting results.
June 18 Daniel Vašata defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Modelling of social systems" written under supervision of Petr Šeba. Congratulations!
2014
December 26 Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and visitors for the New Year 2015. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, František Štampach and Daniel Dombek, as well laureates of significant prizes, Václav Potoček and David Krejčiřík. Let it be a successful time for all of us!
September 11 Daniel Dombek defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Numeration systems with negative basis" written under supervision of Zuzana Masáková. Congratulations!
September 10 František Štampach defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Spectral analysis of Jacobi matrices and related problems" written under supervision of Pavel
Šťtovíček. Congratulations!
May 14
Another significant distinction for a Doppler Institute member: David Krejčiřík was awarded today the Neuron Prize. Congratulations!
January 19
Another Siemens Prize went to a Doppler Institute graduate; this time Václav Potoček received the third prize in the 2013 competition for the best PhD thesis. Congratulations!
January 15
The Czech Science Foundations posted reports on our Center of Excellence project. As you may see, one finds it excellent, two others are brief indeed, one finds the project very good but unfocused, while the last one dealt with us without compromises. Looking at these texts, one gets a clear idea about the way the proposals were evaluated; it is also worth noticing that all the reports are local, no opinion coming from outside borders of this country is mentioned.
2013
December 13
According to the list published today by the Czech Science Foundation our application for the Centre of Excellence was not successful. Being asked for referee reports, the Foundation president communicated that they will be published after being "properly anonymized". It will be certainly useful to see in which respect we have been found weaker than the successful competitors, but it will bot change the result.
As everybody knows, there is time for every purpose and fat years switch with lean years; those who are not willing to fight for their existence, have little chance. The main thing is to preserve the spirit of our community and good mutual communication in the quest for new interesting results.
November 30 Václav Votruba Prize, for the first time supported by the Czech Technical University, was awarded today to Jaroslav Trnka of Caltech, honourary mentions were given to Philipp Hauke and Václav Potoček who was just distinguished once more. Congratulations!
November 28 Václav Potoček was distuguished twice obtaining Rector Prize for his PhD thesis as well as Minister Prize. Congratulations!
November 8
Filip Studnička defended today at the University of Hradec Králové a PhD thesis entitled "Analysis of
biomedical signals acquired by ballistocardiographic mesurements" written under supervision of
February 12 Tomáš Kalvoda defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "A resonant effect for a periodically time-dependent singular flux tube and homogeneous magnetic field" written under supervision of Pavel
Štťovíček. Congratulations!
January 29 Václav Potoček defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Optical implementation of quantum walks" written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
2012
December 3
To further enrich this fall prize spree, the Siemens Prize 2012 for the most important result of fundamental research was awarded to Aurel Gábris,
Craig Hamilton, Václav Potoček,
Martin Štefaňák, and Igor Jex for the work entitled "A 2D quantum walk simulation of two particle dynamics". Congratulations!
November 20
Antonín Hoskovec was awarded the Preciosa Prize for his master thesis. Congratulations!
November 8 Igor Jex together with Jaroslav Novotný and Gernot Alber from TU Darmstadt were awarded the First Degree Prize of the Rector of Czech Technical University. The Second Degree Prize went to Jiří
Tolar and Goce
Chadzitaskos together with Petr Šulc and Miroslav Korbelář. Petr Siegl was awarded First Degree Prize for the doctoral thesis. Congratulations to all!
November 5 David Krejčiřík defended today with flying colors the DSc degree. Congratulations!
May 28
We have been pleased to learn that Václav Potoček was awarded third prize in the Milan Odehnal Prize competition. Congratulations!
April 26
Štěpán Starosta defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Rauzy graph automorphisms and their applications" written under supervision of Edita
Pelantová. Congratulations!
April 2
The Doppler Institute has passed through the official evaluation aiming at conclusion of the goverment grant LC06002 whch supported our activity in the last six years. In the final public session the evaluation panel gave us the highest mark, "excellent results of international class";. We welcome this appreciation and we reaffirm our intention to strive further under the new conditions for new interesting results.
March 9
A paper on A 2D quantum walk simulation from our quantum information group appeared in
Science. Congratulations! Note that even one of the main Czech newspapers paid attention.
2011
November 3 Martin Štefaňák was awarded Rector Prize for his PhD thesis entitled "Interference phenomena in quantum information"
defended last year. Congratulations!
September 26
Jiří Lipovský defended today at the Charles University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum graphs and their generalizations"
written under supervision of Pavel Exner. Congratulations!
September 20 Petr Siegl defended today at the Universite Denis Diderot (Paris 7) a PhD thesis entitled "Systemes quantiques non-hermitiens, representations indecomposantes et quantification par etats coherents"
written under supervision of Jean-Pierre Gazeau and Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
September 16 The conference WORDS 2011 ended today successfully in Prague.
August 25 The three institutions involved in the Doppler Institute signed an
agreement by which they committed themselves to maintain DI as a common research center and to support it in the ways and by the means they have. We wholeheartedly appreciate this attitude, so different from what the Czech Science Foundation managed to demonstrate. Doppler Institute will live!
June 7 We have been informed by this letter that our application to the Czech Science Foundation for support of the Doppler Institute next period was turned down on formal grounds. Readers, at least those able to read Czech, can appreciate the way in which the internationally competitive scientific projects are treated in this country. We can only say that we will not let die the project of two-decade history as a result of a bureaucratic ruling, the rationality of which can be easily challenged, and the Doppler Institute will keep functioning further with the means we will be able to find!
March 24 Stanislav Vymětal defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Purification protocols in quantum information"
written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
November 30 Martin Štefaňák, Tamás Kiss, and Igor Jex were awarded the First Prize by the Rector
of Czech Technical University for "a collection of works studying quantum random walks from
the viewpoint of Polya numbers". Congratulations!
November 18
Good news: the ministery announced that Doppler Institute financial support is extended till
the end of 2011.
July 30
The Follow-up meeting organized to conclude the
"Analysis on Graphs and its Applications" programme of the Newton Institute in Cambridge ended today. The participation of the Doppler Institute, both form the financial
and programme point of view, was loudly appreciated.
June 24
The workshop Orbit functions ended up successfully today in Decin.
June 14 Martin Štefaňák defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Interference phenomena in quantum information"
written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
May 5
After a thorough preparation, Petr Vytřas defended today at the
Czech Technical University a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum systems with magnetic field and point
interactions" written under supervision of Pavel Štťovíček. Congratulations!
May 1 Severín Pošta passed successfully his habilitation
"Quantum deformations of orthogonal Lie algebras and their representations" at the Czech Technical
University. Congratulations!
January 12 With a great sorrow we announce that Pierre Duclos,
a good friend and a coauthor of some of us passed away today just before he could present the talk he announced at
the Quantum Circle seminar. He enriched our lives in many ways
and his remarkable personality will be always in our memories.
December 31 Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2010. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Hynek Bíla,
Matěj Tušek and
Ondřej Turek. It seems that we were successful with our main task this year, organization of the
16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics, and thanks go to all who contributed to this goal! The next year will be the last one in the current life of the Doppler Institute and we should enjoy it.
December 11 Ondřej Turek defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Schroedinger operators on metric graphs"
written under supervision of Pavel Exner and
Pierre Duclos. Congratulations!
December 10 Matěj Tušek defended today at the Czech Technical
University a PhD thesis entitled "Non-Euclidean geometries in quantum mechanics,
quantum plannar models" written under supervision of Pavel
Štťovíček. Congratulations!
December 8
The second edition of the monograph Hilbert Space Operators in Quantum Physics, revised and extended, was awarded the First Prize of Czech Technical University Rector.Congratulations!
August 8 16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics,
or in short ICMP09, ended today in Prague. It was an enterprise to which all the
power of the Doppler Institute was concentrate in recent month and we are glad that the meeing was
by all accounts successful. Thanks to all who contributed to this result!
May 11 Hynek Bíla defended today at the Charles
University a PhD thesis entitled "Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in quantum physics"
written under supervision of Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
March 30 Takuya Mine from Kyoto joined us for a year as a DI Visiting Professor.
March 20 Raouf Dridi left us heading for a new position in France. Good luck!
January 6
A new postdoc: Bernhard Burgstaller
who defended a PhD at the Johannes Keppler University in Linz in 2003 joined us starting a
one-year position.
2008
December 31 Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2009. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Peter Baláži,
L'ubomíra Balková,
Martin Fraas, and Pavel Hejčík. The coming year is a challenge for the Doppler Institute because it will host a big event, the
16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics. Let us wish that this responsible task and the whole year be happy and successful for all of us!
November 25 At the Czech Technical University Council meeting several Doppler Institute results were distiguished. Igor Jex together with Vojtěch Košťák and G.M. Nikopoulos were awarded 2nd Class Rector Science Prize for the paper Perfect state transfer in network of arbitrary topology and coupling configuration, see DI06-039. Furthermore, Jiří Hrivnák and Milena Svobodová were awarded Rector Prizes for an outstanding PhD theses. Congratulations to all of them!
October 14 Denis Borisov who spent a year
and a half with us defended today in Ufa a thesis for his DSc degree, based in part on the work which he did in the DI. Congratulations!
October 14 Igor Jex gave an
interview about quantum optics to the Leonardo channel of Czech Radio.
September 1 Two other postdocs finished their stay in the Doppler Institute. Claudio Cacciapuoti left for another postdoc position in Bonn, and
Mark Harmer for a not yet specified position in Australia. Good luck, guys!
August 21
Our expatriate student Pavel Hejčík defended today at the Kochi University of Technology a PhD thesis entitled "Properties of simple quantum graphs", his supervisor there was Taksu Cheon. Congratulations!
August 16
The summer school and workshop Algebraic structures ended successfully in Telč.
June 26 Junhua Chen left us heading for a new carreer in China. Good luck!
June 25 One more PhD successfully finished: Martin Fraas defended today a thesis entitled "Models of quantum systems with strong singular interactions" prepared under the supervision of
Pavel Exner. Congratulations!
May 30
The conference Journees de Numeration taking place in the Department of Mathematics of the CTU ended successfully.
May 23 We have two new PhD graduates. L'ubomíra Balková defended today a thesis entitled "Beta-integers and quasicrystals"; she was supervized by Zuzana
Masáková from CTU and Jean-Pierre Gazeau from Universite Paris 7. Earlier, on March 14, Peter Baláži defended a thesis under the title "Three interval exchange transformation" prepared under the supervision of Edita Pelantová. Congratulations to both!
December 31 Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2008. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Ondřej Lev, Hynek Lavička, Jaroslav Novotný, Milena Svobodová, and Jiří Hrivnák.
Let the coming year be happy and successful for all of us!
November 30
The Václav Votruba Prize 2007 was awarded to Miroslav Ježek for the thesis Quantum measurement and reconstruction with applications in optics. Congratulations!
November 17
After half a year with us, Andrea Mantile left for a new position in Rennes. Good luck!
November 1
Michael Krbek from Brno joined us for two months as a postdoc.
October 15
Jiří Patera joined us for two months as a DI Visiting Professor.
September 19 Junhua Chen who defended a PhD in St Louis this spring and then returned briefly to China joined us starting a one-year postdoc position.
September 18 Denis Kochan from Bratislava joined us
again, this time for three months.
September 1
After more then a year with us, Tamas Fulop left for a new position in Hungary. Good luck!
April 1 This time sad news: a frequent visitor of DI, a coauthor of
some of us and a friend of many more, Vladimir Geyler, passed away today in
Cambridge, a month before his 64th birthday. Memories of this good man and excellent
scientist will be long with us.
March 31 Vít
Jakubský left us for a postdoc position in Santiago de Chile. Good luck!
February 9 Two one-day meetings under the common title Analytic and algebraic methods in physics will be organized on
February 20
and
April 3 in Villa Lanna.
January 9 The DI annual report was discussed and approved by the DI Council.
2006
December 31 Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2007. Let it be happy and successful for all of us!
December 7-8
Another workshop of the DI under the title Spectra, Algorithms and
Data Analysis II is organized in collaboration with University of Zielona Gora and University of Wroclaw in
Hradec Králové
December 1
The Václav Votruba Prize 2006 was awarded to Michal Malinský for the thesis Quark and lepton masses and mixing in supersymmetric grand unified theories. Congratulations!
November 9 A student workshop under the title PhD Days will take place on November 10 and 24 in the DI premises in Trojanova St.
November 3 The International Association of Mathematical Physics announced the decision about the site of its next congress in the summer of 2009: in a competition with Shanghai and Sofia, Prague was chosen. This an important event for the whole Czech mathematics and physics community, and the Doppler Institute is going to play a central role in it; its members will take part in the ICMP Local Organizing Committee headed by Pavel Exner.
October 29 Sylwia Kondej joined us for four months on a sabbatical leave from the University of Zielona Gora.
October 25 Vít
Jakubský defended a PhD thesis "Pseudo-Hermitian Quantum mechanics" prepared under the supervision of Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
October 2 Denis Kochan from Komensky University in Bratislava joined us for two months.
September 25 Petr Ambrož defended at Universite Paris 7 a PhD thesis "Arithmetical and Combinatorial Properties of Non-standard Numeration Systems" prepared under a common supervision of Christiane Frougny and Edita Pelantová. Congratulations!
September 15 Igor Jex together with Erika Andersson from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, won a two-year project "Networks for quantum information" supported by the Royal Society. Congratulations!
September 14 The conference Operator Theory in Quantum Physics just ended in Prague. It was a busy and inspirative meeting. During the conference the DI Council met informally.
June 20 Several young colleagues joined taking
temporary postdoc positions.
We hope that more will follow soon.
March 30 Zuzana
Masáková passed successfully her habilitation at the Czech Technical
University with the thesis
"Arithmetic and combinatorial properties of beta-integers".
Congratulations!
February 28 - March 1
A workshop of the "new" Doppler Institute under the titleSpectra, Algorithms and
Data Analysis is organized in collaboration with University of Zielona Gora in
Hradec Králové
