Distinguished personalities presented guest lectures and led lively discussions with students and the public at CERGE-El (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute) during May and June. Alan Krueger. Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors and the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University lectured on Reasons for Confidence in the U.S. Economy. Christopher Sims, the 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics (together with Thomas Sargant) gave a lecture on Current Macroeconomics and Reality, in which they discussed the current economic crisis and its impact on academic economy. Harvard Professor Philippe Alto discussed two of his recent papers, Cyclical Fiscal Policy, Credit Constraints and Industry Growth and Monetary Policy Liquidity and Growth. and Jan Straka.
The Academy Assembly, the highest body of the ASCR responsible for the topmost priority decisions related to the ASCR, held its XXXVIII Meeting on April 21, 2011. Among invited guests were Alena Gajdůšková, 1st Vice-President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Stanislava Hronová and Vladimír Haasz, Vice-Chairpersons of the R&D Council and others. The main agenda item of this meeting was discussion the report of the Steering Committee of the Evaluation of Academy Institutes. Through the Committee's evaluation, the Academy Council is provided a full report of the research effectiveness of Academy Institutes. and Petr Ráb.
The tenth in a series of successful workshops dedicated to high energy astrophysics and supporting ground-based experiments (e.g., robotic telescopes) was held in Karlovy Vary on April 22-25. Originally, the IBWS (INTEGRAL/BART) workshops focused on the work of the High Energy Astrophysics Group at the Astronomical Institute of the ASCR and relevant international collaborators from the field, with extensive student participation. The workshops now promote regional collaboration in high-energy astrophysics emphasizing interface between satellite projects and ground-based experiments (also in robotic telescopes). and Martin Blažek.
Je tomu již 12 let, co se ze skromného setkání studentů z Astronomického ústavu AV ČR v Ondřejově stala tradiční konference s mezinárodní účastí. INTEGRAL & BART Workshop (IBWS 2015) se zpočátku jako hlavním tématem zabýval pozorováním gamma záblesků vesmírnou družicí Evropské kosmické agentury INTEGRAL, jejichž optické protějšky se snažil na Zemi detekovat robotický dalekohled BART. Zaměření se v astronomii ukázalo jako aktuální, a tak letos v Karlových Varech prezentovalo své příspěvky na 40 inženýrů, vědců a studentů z České republiky, Německa, Itálie, Maďarska a Španělska. and Martin Blažek.
The XXVIII International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG), a traditional conference with a remarkably long history, took place on 15 to 20 July 2007 in Prague. It explored not only the fundamentals of all kinds of plasmas and disarges, but also many applications such as plasma semiconductor processing, surface treatment and thin film technology, light sources and gaseous lasers, environmental protection and pollution control, sterilization and tissue engineering. and Milan Šimek.
The purpose of the workshop, which took place in 8-15 June 2008, was to train scientists to manage and exploit large EST datasets as well as compare whole genome sequences, with the aim of faciliting the application of genomic technologies to ticks and tickbornepathogens. The course provided an overview of the mehods used to sequence, assemble, and annotate tick borne disease related genomes and EST datasets. and Libor Grubhoffer.