Reports

Faculty of Civil Engineering opened the travelling exhibition “Enchantment of old maps” in its atrium on 1 March. Seven unique mapping works from map collections of five institutions are presented. The exhibition, which can be visited by 25 March, is composed by posters on the using of old maps for research purposes in the field of geodesy and cartography at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. This set of panels is supported by the Faculty of Civil Engineering, which has a long tradition of teaching cartography.

Shooting hard to reach areas of historic interiors - a task for members of the Multi-robot Systems Group, operating at the Department of Cybernetics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, that help conservationists using robotic drones. On 26 February, scientists together with the staff of the National Heritage Institute in Olomouc, have successfully captured the interior of the Sternberg parish building, using unmanned helicopters

Since 2012, the CTU ELSA Centre of student support with special needs carried out mapping of accessibility of individual faculties of the university. With the support of the Prague City Hall, this activity ended last year with the release of a new publication: Accessible CTU - Information on the accessibility of buildings CTU, for people with disabilities.

The Interactive light installation LINKY was switched on at the south side of the facade of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Dejvice on 25 February. The installation, created at the Institute of Intermedia, was designed by prof. Marian Karel and prominent glass artist and sculptor Josef Šafařík of Department of Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture, co-founder of the Institute of Lighting Design Jakub Hybler and director of Institute of Intermedia Roman Berka.

The 2nd Annual Conference on Small Nuclear Reactors (SMR) was held at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering on 11 February. It offered a profile of economic, technical and legislative conditions for the eventual construction of small nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic. The event was held under the auspices of the Minister of Industry and Trade, Ing. Jan Mládek, PhD.

The closing ceremony of the Inspireli Awards 2015 competition was held at the Art Restaurant Manes in Prague on 10 February. Its winner is Jakub Hoffmann of the Faculty of Architecture of CTU, who had captured the jury´s attention with his project for the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki.

Agreement on partnership in Research & Development between CTU and the project Future Forces Forum 2016 was signed on 2 February. Experts from CTU will get the opportunity to present their results at specialized conferences and also at the International Exhibition of Defence and Security, which will be held from 19 to 21 October 2016 at the PVA exhibition grounds at Letňany.

For his contribution to the development of discrete mathematics and for his support of basic research and internationalization of studies at CTU, prof. RNDr. Adalbert Rodl, PhD. was granted the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the rector prof. Petr Konvalinka at the ceremonial meeting of the Scientific Council of the Czech Technical University in the Bethlehem Chapel on 26 January. The honorary doctorate for outstanding scientific achievements in the fields of multimodal communication and knowledge systems, for long-term research collaboration in these fields including the exchange of students and researchers between CTU and Dutch universities, was also granted to prof. Leon J. M. Rothkrantz.

For nine years, Hospodářské noviny have been publishing the ranking of the best universities in the country, in which Faculty of Engineering is the traditional champion. This year, the best faculties ranked in their respective fields are the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering Faculty are among the successful ones as well. The evaluation was published on 21 January as the CTU faculties scored high in the ranked fields of engineering, computer science and architecture.

Czech Technical University in Prague has been presented at the first annual Fair of Prague´s public universities. It was held on 14 January at the University of Economics and visited by more than 3,500 secondary school students. The aim was to provide sufficient information to graduates so they can properly decide on the choice of their further studies.