Institute of Mathematics

The Academic Award – Praemium Academiae for Martin Markl

The President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prof. Eva Zažímalová presented the most prestigious Academic Award – Praemium Academiae 2018 to three researchers of the Academy's institutes. One of them was Dr. Martin Markl, member of the Department of Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics in the Institute of Mathematics. The Academic Award is a rigorously selective instrument for the financial and moral support of scientific excellence at the Czech Academy of Sciences. The most generous grant in the country providing a support for six years is intended to assist outstanding scientific figures who are the bearers of research at the top international level and create for them such conditions in which they can better develop their potential in the benefit of the Czech Academy of Sciences and all of Czech science. This is already the second Academic Award in the institute; the winner of the first one was E. Feireisl in 2007.

  A short video portrait of M. Markl

The fifteenth Eduard Čech Lecture: Prof. Vojtěch Rödl, Emory University, Atlanta

Quasi-Randomness and the Regularity Method in Hypergraph

Thursday, 6 December 2018 at 10:30 a.m., in the main lecture hall of the Institute of Mathematics CAS
For abstract see the invitation below. 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 Vojtěch Rödl is the second Eduard Čech Distinguished Visitor. The fifteenth Eduard Čech Lecture will be part of his research programme in the Institute of Mathematics.

  Invitation to the Eduard Čech Lecture

Jan Grebík received the Josef Hlávka Prize

On 16 November, the eve of the Students' Day of Fight for Freedom and Democracy, The Foundation of Josef, Marie and Zdeňka Hlávka is traditionally awarding the Josef Hlávka Prize for the best students of the Prague public universities and Brno Technical University and for young talented researchers in the Czech Academy of Sciences. Among this year's awardees was Jan Grebík, Ph.D. student of David Chodounský.

  Photogalery

Higher Structures – a new journal

M. Markl, together with M. Batanin and R. Kaufmann, founded the journal Higher Structures. It is an all-electronic, refereed journal on the theory of higher structures and its applications in the mathematical sciences. The journal publishes articles that make significant new contributions to mathematical science using higher structures, or that significantly advance our understanding of the foundational aspects of the theory of such structures. The scope of the journal includes: higher categories, operads and their generalisations, and applications of these to Algebra, Geometry, Topology, Combinatorics, Logic and Mathematical Physics.

Dny otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR | Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics CAS

Tradiční Dny otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR jsou součástí Týdne vědy a techniky Akademie věd ČR, nejrozsáhlejšího vědeckého festivalu v ČR pořádaného Akademií věd ČR ve spolupráci s dalšími institucemi ve dnech 5.–11. listopadu 2018. Široká veřejnost a především studenti středních škol mají možnost nahlédnout do pracoven, laboratoří a knihoven a poznat, jak se dělá věda. Badatelé z výzkumných pracovišť AV ČR připravují širokou nabídku exkurzí, přednášek, výstav a diskusních večerů, ve kterých představí své výzkumné projekty, předvedou nejmodernější vědecké přístroje a experimenty a přiblíží návštěvníkům nejnovější trendy v oblasti vědy. V Matematickém ústavu AV ČR se Dny otevřených dveří uskuteční na pražském pracovišti ve dnech 5.–9. listopadu 2018.
Traditional Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics CAS was held as part of the Week of Science and Technology, the most extensive scientific festival in the Czech Republic, organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with other institutions from 5th to 11th November 2018. The scientists from the research workplaces of the Academy of Sciences prepare a wide offer of lectures, presentations, panel discussions, seminars, excursions, exhibitions and discussion evenings, in which they present their research projects, the most modern scientific apparatuses and outline the latest trends in the areas of science in the Czech Republic and the world. The Prague departments in the Institute of Mathematics will be open to public from 5th to 9th November 2018.


  Nabídka přednášek v MÚ AV ČR | Lectures offered in the Institute of Mathematics
  Aktuální program přednášek | Current program of lectures

Michal Doucha received the Otto Wichterle Award for young researchers

President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prof. Eva Zažímalová awarded the Otto Wichterle Award for young researchers to Dr. Michal Doucha, member of the Department of Topology and Functional Analysis. The award has been established in 2002 to encourage and support young promising researchers in institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It is connected with a financial premium in the subsequent three years. Michal Doucha is one of 23 laureates in this year.

IMU Prizes and Awards 2018 for mathematical achievement

The 2018 IMU Prizes and Awards were presented during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians on August 1, 2018, at Riocentro Convention Center in Rio de Janeiro.
The Fields Medals were awarded to Caucher Birkar for the proof of the boundedness of Fano varieties and for contributions to the minimal model program, to Alessio Figalli for contributions to the theory of optimal transport and its applications in partial differential equations, metric geometry and probability, to Peter Scholze for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories, and to Akshay Venkatesh for his synthesis of analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology, and representation theory, which has resolved long-standing problems in areas such as the equidistribution of arithmetic objects.
Constantinos Daskalakis received the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize for transforming our understanding of the computational complexity of fundamental problems in markets, auctions, equilibria, and other economic structures, David L. Donoho received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for his fundamental contributions to the mathematical, statistical and computational analysis of important problems in signal processing, the Chern Medal was awarded to Masaki Kashiwara for his outstanding and foundational contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory sustained over a period of almost 50 years, and the Leelavati Prize was awarded to Ali Nesin for his outstanding contributions towards increasing public awareness of mathematics in Turkey, in particular for his tireless work in creating the "Mathematical Village" as an exceptional, peaceful place for education, research and the exploration of mathematics for anyone.

Dr. Ivan Hlaváček passed away

With a deep sorrow we inform that Ing. Ivan Hlaváček, DrSc., long term researcher in the Institute of Mathematics, passed away on 22 July 2018 at the age of 85. He was a renowned specialist in numerical analysis, theory of elastic and elasto-plastic bodies, optimization and problems with uncertain data.

  Funeral card

Research Assistant (PostDoc) position at Technische Universität Berlin

The successful candidate will perform research within the Einstein Visiting Fellowship Group of Professor Eduard Feireisl. Emphasize is put on functional analytic methods with possible applications in numerical analysis. For more information see the

  announcement.

Eduard Feireisl received the Honorary Bernard Bolzano Medal for Merits in Mathematical Sciences

President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prof. Eva Zažímalová awarded Eduard Feireisl the Honorary Bernard Bolzano Medal for Merits in Mathematical Sciences. The ceremony took place on 19th December 2017 in the Institute of Mathematics of the CAS during the international workshop Prague Compressible Meeting organized to celebrate Eduard's 60th birthday. Eduard Feireisl is one of the world leading specialists in mathematical theory of fluid mechanics whose ideas made a breakthrough in understanding the mechanism of compressible fluid flow. Since 2013 he has been the principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant MATHEF. He is among 7 world researchers supported in 2018 by the Einstein Foundation in Berlin.

Mathematics for Industry

The Seminar is organized in cooperation with Bobcat Doosan. The seminar will take a place in the Blue Hall of the IM CAS on December 11, 2018 from 13:30.


  Programme

Our long-term collaboration with Dr. Ivan Hlaváček

Friday, November 23, 2018, 9:00-12:00
 Organizers: Michal Křížek, Šárka Nečasová
 Place: Institute of Mathematics, Main Lecture Hall
 The goal of this special event is to commemorate work of the outstanding Czech applied mathematician and numerical analyst, Dr. Ivan Hlaváček, who passed away on July 22, 2018.


  Programme

Prague Summer School on Discrete Mathematics 2018

The second Prague Summer School on Discrete Mathematics was held in the week July 16-20. Three lecture courses for 42 participants from fourteen countries were delivered by Piotr Micek (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Aleksandar Nikolov (University of Toronto, Canada), and Péter Pál Pach (Budapest University of Technology, Hungary and University of Warwick, United Kingdom). These courses covered recent breakthrough results of the speakers. Piotr Micek talked on structural aspects of partially ordered set. Mathematical and computational aspects of combinatorial discrepancy were covered in the lectures by Aleksandar Nikolov. Péter Pál Pach focused on the so-called polynomial method. The highlight of his lectures was the cap set problem. This problem, which has been central for mathematics since the work of the Fields medailist Klaus Roth in the 1950's, was solved by Pach in collaboration with Ernie Croot, Vsevolod Lev, Jordan Ellenberg, and Dion Gijswijt only in 2016.
The school was organized by the Computer Science Institute of the Charles University and the Institute of Mathematics of the CAS, with a financial support from Charles University, the Czech Academy of Sciences and the RSJ Foundation. The next edition of the school will take place on the premises of the Institute of Mathematics of the CAS in 2020. More information about the school can be found at http://pssdm.math.cas.cz/.

Barbara and Jaroslav Zemánek Prize

The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences established the Barbara and Jaroslav Zemánek Prize supervised by the Barbara and Jaroslav Zemánek Fund. The prize is granted annually to a person younger than 35 years at the end of the year preceding the award of the prize, and it is granted for achievements in the fields in which Jaroslav Zemánek was active, i.e. functional analysis, with special emphasis on operator theory.
Jaroslav Zemánek (3. 9. 1946 – 18. 2. 2017) worked in the Institute of Mathematics CAS in 1969–1982. Among five members of the Prize Jury is Vladimír Müller from the Institute of Mathematics CAS.

Waves in Flows, Summer School 2018,
August 27 - August 31, Prague

Waves are one of the most distinct and most important phenomena in fluid mechanics. The aim of this summer school is to present a comprehensive series of lectures on various aspects of waves and their role in mathematical analysis and numerical simulation of different types of flows.

  Conference website

Prague Summer School on Discrete Mathematics

The Institute of Mathematics of the CAS and the Computer Science Institute of Charles University are organising Prague Summer School on Discrete Mathematics which will take place in Prague, July 16-20, 2018. Piotr Micek, Aleksandar Nikolov, and Peter Pal Pach will deliver three lecture courses.

Dvě přednášky o těžbě uranu v Čechách

Matematický ústav AV ČR je účastníkem projektu Doktorská škola pro vzdělávání v oblasti matematických metod a nástrojů v HPC Operačního programu Výzkum, vývoj a vzdělávání. V rámci tohoto projektu bude 8. a 15. března 2018 v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR přednášet Ing. Jiří Mužák, Ph.D., ze státního podniku DIAMO na téma Historie a současnost těžby uranu v Čechách a Aplikace numerických modelů při odstraňování následků těžby uranu. Bližší podrobnosti jsou v letáku níže. Všichni zájemci jsou srdečně zváni.


  Leták
  Historie a současnost těžby uranu v Čechách
  Aplikace numerických modelů při odstraňování následků těžby uranu

PhD positions within Einstein Visiting Fellow programme at TU Berlin

Two PhD scholarships are available in the framework of the Einstein Visiting Fellow programme at TU Berlin within the Collaborative Research Center ”Control of self-organizing nonlinear systems: Theoretical methods and concepts of application”. A successful candidate is supposed to work under the supervision of Eduard Feireisl on problems related to the mathematical theory of fluid mechanics. Basic knowledge of PDE’s and functional analysis, including the framework of Sobolev spaces and weak solutions is required.
The scholarship is granted for 3 years and amounts to about 1450 Euro per month (tax free, no insurances included) starting April 2018. The PhD student is supposed to settle at TU Berlin. For more information contact Eduard Feireisl ([email protected]) or Etienne Emmrich ([email protected]). Please, send your application together with a CV via e-mail to [email protected] not later than by March 4, 2018.

  Announcement