Fot two years now, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) and organized the project Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) in a Global Age: A Program for Research at the Museum of Modern Art. It aims at disseminationg knowledge and discussion of modern and contemporary art beyond the regions that are most heavily represented in the MoMA collections (i. e., Western Europe, North America, and Latin America). On 22-23 February 2011 the third seminar of the project was held in MoMA, with the title Multiple Modernities through the Lens of International Cubism. Between invited guests to give papers as the basis for discussion was also Vojtěch Lahoda of the Institute of Art History of the ASCR. and Vojtěch Lahoda.
This issue also brings an interview with Dr. Vilém Neděla, the head of Environmental Electron Microscopy of the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS on the Quanta 650 FEG scanning electron microscope (SEM), which is used for high-resolution imaging and semi-quantitative X-ray microanalysis of both conductive and non-conductive specimens at nanometer resolution. and Magdaléna Selingerová.
Pracovník Ústavu chemických procesů AV ČR Ing. Pavel Izák, Ph.D., DSc., obhájil před komisí Chemických věd disertaci „Separation of fluids by Non-porous Membranes“ a získal vědecký titul „doktor chemických věd“. Disertace se detailně zabývá separací kapalin, plynů a organických par přes neporézní polymerní membrány; zdůrazněn je případný aplikační potenciál iontových kapalin a vodní kondenzující membrány v praxi. and Pavel Izák.
Czech Scientists have received a four year research project (2011-2014), enabling them to continue in their research activities focused on slope stability and phenomena of the glacial lakes outburst flood in the majestic Cordillera Blanca in Peru. Previous research as well as the new project is supported by Peruvian colleagues from Autoridad Nacional Del Agua, Unidad de Glaciologia y Recursos Hidricos, Huaraz. The project will study four topics: spatial and temporal occurrence of landslides; stability calculations of dangerous slopes; GLOF extent modeling; and multi hazard maps preparation. and Jan Klineš, Vít Vilímek, Miroslava Benešová a Petr Bouška.
A meeting of the Visegrad Group of Academies was held in Třešť on September 23-24 and was hosted by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The Visegrad Group of Academies was initiated in March 2000 by the Slovak Academy of Sciences which organized the first meeting of the representatives of the V4 Academies in Bratislava. and Robert Zika.
Cancellor Angela Merkel visited on August, 25, 2016, the Czech Republic at the invitation of the Czech Premier Bohuslav Sobotka. One of the topics of their discussion were also modern technologies, expecially the industrial digitalization. After their meeting at the Office of the Government, Chancellor participate in a debate about Czech-German cooperation in the field of research and development, which was attended by representatives of enterprises and research facilities and where dshe met her former colleagues Professor Rudolf Zahradník and Zdeněk Havlas from the Institute of organic chemistry and biochemistry of the CAS., lsd., and Autor je podepsaný šifrou "lsd".