Reports

On Thursday 14 December, the best CTU athletes for 2023 received their awards from the hands of CTU Rector Vojtěch Petráček and representatives of the Institute for Physical Education and Sport, Deputy Director Jaroslav Schmid and Zdeněk Valjent, who is responsible for sports representation.

On Tuesday, 12 December, the President of the Republic Petr Pavel and the Minister of Education Mikuláš Bek handed over the professorial decrees. Five people from CTU received them.

Even instruments from the laboratories of electrical engineers, robotics engineers and computer scientists can be turned into musical instruments. In their Christmas video, researchers from FEL CTU demonstrate this in an unconventional experiment by "tuning" their technology to the Christmas tune in the English carol We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

The Rector's Office of CTU hosted the presentation and opening ceremony of the Centre for Law, Finance and Technology (CeLFaT) of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of CTU in Prague on Friday 8 December 2023.

Some modern broadband technologies commonly used in online or mobile communications are less able to transmit female voices than male voices. The findings were made by the team of Professor Jan Holub, who heads the Department of Measurement at Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The researchers applied a different calculation method than is commonly used in current tests of transmission technologies. According to the research, the difference in the transmission quality of the female voice is significant. The study resulted in formulation of a technical recommendation by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

Prime Minister Petr Fiala awarded the Karel Kramář Medal for merit in the field of culture, respect for human rights and freedoms, building a free democratic society, journalism and science and research. Among the seventeen honoured personalities is Prof. Michal Pěchouček, director and co-founder of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague.

For the fourth time, future paramedics from Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague draw attention with the event "Donate blood!" - mass blood donation at the Kladno Regional Hospital on 12 December 2023 - on the irreplaceability of human blood and the shortage of donors.

Czech Technical University in Prague, together with Prague public universities associated in the Study in Prague consortium, has awarded an extraordinary scholarship of Prof. Miroslav Vlček to five foreign students. The award ceremony took place on 5 December 2023 at the Mayor's Residence on Mariánské náměstí square.

The JUNIOR STAR Grants, awarded in November 2023 by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ČR), are intended to promote excellence in budding outstanding scientists. Its basic research project, which is expected to have a significant scientific impact on a global scale. Ing. Lukáš Neumann, Ph.D. from the Department of Cybernetics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering can thus finance his research.

Two students from the FIT CTU were on the stage at the SHE STEM Award 2023 competition. Markéta Petrtýlová won the second place with her thesis E-learning Application for the Development of Cyber Security and Bc. Eliška Helikarová won the third place with her thesis Anonymity Analysis of the CTU Poll Application. A total of 40 students entered the competition and only 8 of them made it to the finals, which took place at CTU on 30 November 2023.