Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

The eighteenth Eduard Čech Lecture: Ramamohan Paturi (University of California, San Diego)

This representative lecture is delivered on Monday, May 16, 2022, at 10 am, in the blue lecture room of the Institute of Mathematics. The lecture will also be streamed live via Zoom and YouTube. For abstract see the invitation below.
The distinguished Eduard Čech Lectures held to commemorate one of the most eminent Czech mathematicians and a founder of the Institute are directed to a general mathematical audience. All interested colleagues are cordially welcome.
Professor Ramamohan Paturi is the fifth Eduard Čech Distinguished Visitor. The eighteenth Eduard Čech Lecture is a part of his research programme at the Institute of Mathematics.

Invitation to the Eduard Čech Lecture

Michal Hrbek received the Czech Mathematical Society Prize

The president of the Czech Mathematical Society, Prof Luboš Pick, awarded Dr Michal Hrbek the Czech Mathematical Society Prize for Young Researchers during the ceremony at the Conference of Czech Mathematicians in Ostrava on April 5, 2022.
The aim of the prize is to support undergraduate and graduate students and younger researchers in their interest in theoretical and applied mathematics. The Czech Mathematical Society Prize is awarded once in four years to at most four researchers or teams for papers or collections of research papers in theoretical or applied mathematics published or accepted for publishing in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings within the last four years.

Jaroslav Kurzweil passed away

With sorrow, we announce that professor Jaroslav Kurzweil passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2022, at the age of 95. Professor Kurzweil was the first director of the Institute of Mathematics after the Velvet Revolution and then its emeritus researcher. He was one of the outstanding representatives of Czechoslovak mathematics, who significantly contributed to the development of Czech and world mathematics as a pioneer of the theory of generalized integration and a leading figure in the qualitative theory of differential equations. He was recognized even outside of the mathematical community as a person of firm principles and clear opinions. We will miss this excellent colleague, kind and good man. Honour his memory!

Obituary in Czech

Obituary in English

Help for refugees

- Neuron Endowment Fund and IOCB Tech financially support young Ukrainian scientists who seek refuge in the Czech Republic. Institute of Mathematics welcomes this initiative and is ready to cooperate for project implementations.
- Offers of European Research Centres on Mathematics (ERCOM) to mathematicians fleeing from the recent war
- Refugee facilities administration of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
- Assistance portal of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (Czech and Ukrainian)
- Stand with Ukraine
- Help for Ukraine, web portal of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Science for Ukraine, job offers in science and research

Podpora Ukrajině / Support of Ukraine

Matematický ústav AV ČR odsuzuje agresi Ruské federace proti Ukrajině, plně se ztotožňuje s prohlášením Akademie věd ČR o podpoře Ukrajiny a vyzývá k okamžitému ukončení bojů a zahájení mírových jednání.
Matematický ústav se dále ztotožňuje s výzvou ukrajinských matematiků (k dispozici také níže). Výzva uvádí sedm konkrétních bodů, jak Ukrajinu podpořit, včetně odkazu na petici vyzývající NATO k ochraně vzdušného prostoru Ukrajiny.
Dále vítá statečné iniciativy ruských kolegů, kteří proti válce otevřeně protestují. Zaznamenali jsme otevřený dopis ruských matematiků prezidentu Putinovi (původní verze ze dne 28.2.2022), otevřený dopis vědeckých novinářů (původní verze ze dne 24.2.2022) a prohlášení studentů a pracovníků Lomonosovy univerzity.
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Institute of Mathematics condemns the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, fully endorses the statement of the Czech Academy of Sciences supporting Ukraine, and calls for instant termination of fights and opening of peace negotiations.
Institute of Mathematics further endorses the Appeal from Ukrainian mathematicians (available below). The appeal lists seven specific points on how to support Ukraine, including a reference to a petition calling on NATO to protect Ukraine's airspace.
The Institute also welcomes the brave initiatives of Russian colleagues who openly protest against the war. We are aware of the open letter from Russian mathematicians to President Putin (original version from February 28, 2022), the open letter from scientific journalists (original version from February 24, 2022) and the statement by students and academic staff of Lomonosov University.

Appeal from Ukrainian mathematicians

Open letter from Russian mathematicians to Putin

ICM 2022 moved on-line

Many mathematical societies around the world condemned the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine and in this context questioned the holding of ICM 2022 in St. Petersburg in July this year. The Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has decided that:

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2022 will take place as a fully virtual event, hosted outside Russia but following the original time schedule planned for Saint Petersburg.
Participation in the virtual ICM event will be free of charge.
The IMU General Assembly (GA) will take place as an in-person event outside Russia.
A prize ceremony will be held the day after the IMU GA, at the same venue as the IMU GA, for the awarding of the 2022 IMU prizes.
The dates for the ICM and the GA will remain unaltered.

Statement of the Czech Mathematical Society and the Czech National Committee for Mathematics

Statement of the Executive Board of the European Mathematical Society on ICM 2022 in Russia

The Czech Academy of Sciences supports scientists in Ukraine

Interview with Jakub Šístek about supercomputers

The reporter of the Czech Academy of Sciences made an interesting interview on supercomputers with Jakub Šístek, member of the Department of Constructive Methods of Mathematical Analysis. In the interview Jakub is giving an idea what is a supercomputer, how it is designed and what it is used for. The interview is accompanied by a presentation from the popularization series Science not misrepresented. The interview and presentation are in Czech.

Presentation

What is a vortex? A successful grant project

The exact mathematical and physical answer to the question “What is a vortex?” is subject of research for several decades. The research was subject of the successful project Advanced flow-field analysis led by Ing. Václav Kolář, CSc., from the Institute of Hydrodynamics CAS and Ing. Jakub Šístek, Ph.D., from the Institute of Mathematics CAS. The Czech Science Foundation funded the project in the years 2018-2020 and listed it among the selected successful projects of the Czech researchers.

Czech Science Foundation about the project

Project webpage

Academic Award – Praemium Academiae for Šárka Nečasová

Academic Award – Praemium Academiae is a programme running since 2007 in the Czech Academy of Sciences. It is a rigorously selective tool for financial and moral support of scientific excellence at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, which aims to assist outstanding scientific personalities who are researchers at the top international level and create conditions for them in which they can better develop their potential for the Academy of Sciences and all the sciences. Up to four grants with generous support are awarded each year for a period of six years. Šárka Nečasová will use the support for the research focused on mathematical analysis of models in fluid mechanics and dynamics of solids. Problems of this type occur naturally in industrial applications, biomedicine (blood flow) and environmental sciences (oceanography, meteorology).
This is already the third Praemium Academiae awarded to a researcher from the Institute of Mathematics. The previous two were Eduard Feireisl (2007) and Martin Markl (2018).

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Institute of Mathematics received the HR Excellence in Research award

On October 5, 2021, the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences received the HR Excellence in Research award. European Commission provided the Institute with this prestigious award after a thorough assessment by independent reviewers. The award reflects the Institute's commitment to continuously improve human resource policies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers, notably the commitment of fair and transparent recruitment and appraisal procedures. The Institute is now listed on the EURAXESS portal among the HR Acknowledged Institutions and the HR Award logo will decorate the Institute's vacations advertised at the EURAXESS job portal. The Institute can now use the HR Excellence in Research award to promote its stimulating and favourable work environment.

The seventeenth Eduard Čech Lecture: Prof. Antonín Novotný (Université de Toulon)

Some elements of mathematical analysis of compressible flows

This representative lecture was delivered on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at 2 p.m., via Zoom. Video recording is available on YouTube.
The distinguished Eduard Čech Lectures held to commemorate one of the most eminent Czech mathematicians and founder of the Institute are directed to a general mathematical audience.
Professor Antonín Novotný is the fourth Eduard Čech Distinguished Visitor. The seventeenth Eduard Čech Lecture was a part of his research programme at the Institute of Mathematics.

Invitation to the Eduard Čech Lecture

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