The National Technical Library in cooperation with the Czech Technical University and Instutute of Chemical Technology in Prague cosponsored the international conference Knowledge, Research and Education on September 8-9, 2011. Research metrics was the topic of this meeting. Organizers sought to draw attention to the often controversial mechanisms for evaluating the results of research and their subsequent impact on its continued financing and institutional support. The conference brought together university dignitaries, senior members of the faculties, library staff and representatives of the publishing industry for the purpose of facilitating discussion of research trends and policies that inform their respective fields of interest shared by all. One of the key lectures was given by the co-Director of CERGE-EI Štěpán Jurajda. He reviewed currend evidence of the productivity of Czech science (by field) based on bibliometric data, pointed to typical mistakes made in recent evaluation exercises and analyses, illustrated these by using examples typically drawn from social sciences, and offered a few tentative bibliometric facts. and Luděk Svoboda.
Zpráva referuje o jubilejním dvacátém "Mnichovském setkání bohemistů: Fóru pro výzkum Česka" (Münchner Bohemisten-Treffen: Forum für Tschechien-Forschung), které se odehrálo 4. března 2016. Toto fórum každoročně organizuje tamní bohemistické centrum Collegium Carolinum a jeho hlavním smyslem je umožnit vzájemné osobní setkávání bohemistů z různých zemí a z různých oborů a poskytnout prostor k bezprostřední prezentaci jejich výsledků, k informování o chystaných akcích a projektech a k výměně názorů na řadu profesních otázek., This is a report on the twentieth anniversary Meeting of Bohemists, which took place on 4 March 2016. This forum is held annually by the Collegium Carolinum, a Munich-based centre of Bohemian Studies. The main aim of the meeting is to enable experts on Bohemia from various countries and fields to gather at a forum where they can present their research results and exchange information on coming events, new projects, and other matters related to their profession., Zdenko Maršálek., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
The 5th European Conference on Neutron Scattering was held in Prague in July 17-22, 2011. It was organized on behalf on the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague and the Nuclear Physics Institute of the ASCR. Neutron scattering brought together scientists from many disciplines. In the tradition of ECNS conferences, all aspects of the technique and the application of neutron scattering were discussed. and Petr Lukáš, Vladimír Sechovský.