This international conference took place in Prague on 25-30 July, 2011. Its main goal was to contribute to uncovering possible phenomenological ("quantum thermodynamic") laws governing the behavior of mesoscopic systems and also to provide better understanding and insight into recent problems of the foundations, relying on theoretical and experimental methods of condensed matter physics and quantum optics. Special attention was given to the dynamics of mesoscopic open systems and their relevance to problems of measurement of non-equilibrium quantum systems, thermal and quantum fluctuations, dissipation, noise, physics of quantum information and biological systems, in terms of both theory and experiment. Additional topics included biophysics, gravitation and cosmology. FQMT'11 was a follow-up to two previous conferences held in Prague 2004 and 2008. and Václav Špička.
Výzkum, jehož cílem je ovládnout termojadernou fúzi jako nový zdroj energie, se skládá z mnoha tematických okruhů. Po dlouhá léta byla na prvním místě fyzika plazmatu; s blížící se realizací fúzních zařízení bylo ale třeba intenzivně pracovat i v dalších oblastech (diagnostika, řízení a sběr dat, materiály, magnety a elektrické zdroje atd.). Každé dva roky se proto koná mezinárodní „Symposium on Fusion Technology - SOFT“. Zatímco v roce 2014 se uskutečnilo ve španělském San Sebastianu, v příštím roce jej v České republice zorganizují Ústav fyziky plazmatu AV ČR a Centrum výzkumu Řež. and Milan Řípa.
The Czech Academy of the Sciences arranged on February 20 a Round Table that took place at the Academy´s Conference Center Liblice on the topic Framework association for state assistance in research, development and innovations. The European committee set the rules that define the schedule of public support, program notification and announcing public events in research and development, in evaluaation of research intension and in setting cooperation with research organizations and companies. and Jindřich Babický.
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.