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Bridge to innovations and some our results

CESAER Seminar October 13th, 2016

Do you know that…

• Modern contact lenses were invented by the Czech chemist, Otto Wichterle?

• The word robot has Czech origin. It was introduced in 1920 by the Czech writer Karel Capek in his drama R.U.R..

• Christian Doppler began work at the Prague Polytechnic (now the Czech Technical University), where he received an appointment in 1841. A year later, at the age of 38, Doppler gave a lecture to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and subsequently published his most notable work, Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterneund einiger anderer Gestirnedes Himmels, where he postulated his principle .

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTSof the Czech Technical University in PragueSome relevant data rank 135

• technical university established in baroque time (1707)• QS World University Rankings 2016/2017 rank 501-550• US News and World Report 2016 rank 399• Engineering and Technology rank 170• Civil and Structural Engineering rank 51-100• 21+ 000 students Bc. + MSc.+ PhD. (3 568 international students ≈ 17%)• 176 (in Czech) and 70 (in other languages) study programmes

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTSof the Czech Technical University in PragueEuropean Research Council grants and Horizon 2020

2 European Research Council Grants• Artificial Intelligence for Large-Scale Computer-Assisted Reasoning

in Physical and Engineering Sciences, Dr. Josef Urban, contact: jiri.vyskocil@ciirc.cvut.cz

• Evolving Language Ecosystems, prof. Jan Vitek, contact: http://janvitek.org/ or tvrdik@fit.cvut.cz

34 Horizon 2020 Grants

1. The new StyLit software can generate realistic hand drawings

http://www.nerdcore.de/2016/06/17/stylit-artistic-style-transfer-for-3d-

objects/

http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/publications/2016/fiser-tog-stylitDoc. Daniel Sykorae-mail: sykora@fel.cvut.cz phone: +420 224 357 501

1. The new StyLit software can generate realistic hand drawings

A new tool for automated 3D image stylization, StyLit, has beendeveloped by doc. Daniel Sýkora´s team. It can faithfullyreproduce artist´s style, creating a realistic synthetic painting. Theunique software is more sophisticated than any currently availablecommercial tool.

http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/publications/2016/fiser-tog-stylitDoc. Daniel Sykorae-mail: sykora@fel.cv.cz phone: +420 224 357 501

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ex4pogilA

http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/publications/2016/fiser-tog-stylit

2. Invention: Rolling fluid turbine

https://www.epo.org/learning-events/european-inventor/finalists/2016/sedlacek.html

Doc. Miroslav Sedlaceke-mail: sedlacek@fsv.cvut.cz phone: +420 224 354 532

2. Invention: Rolling fluid turbine

A bladeless turbine developed by Ing. Miroslav Sedláček and marketed since 2015, promises to change how water current istransformed into electrical power, expanding application ofhydropower technology to a myriad of previously untappedsources, including ocean tides and small brooks.

Doc. Miroslav Sedlaceke-mail: sedlacek@fsv.cvut.cz phone: +420 224 354 532

• Patent number: EP2171260• Ing, Miroslav Sedláček was among 3 finalist for the European

Inventor Award 2016

3. Biomechanics of human voice – human Vocal Folds Prosthesis

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705816303204

Prof. Tomas Vampolae-mail: tomas.vampola@fs.cvut.cz phone: +420 224 357 244

3. Biomechanics of human voice – human Vocal Folds Prosthesis

• The voice source is modelled by self-excited oscillations of vocal folds caused by air-flow coming from lungs, as well as acoustic pressure modified by frequency-modal properties of the human vocal tract during phonation of vowels.

• The research team was awarded by the Grant Agency.

• They continue in their research towards a vocalfolds prothesis.

4. Unique cloud chamber to CERN

https://www.nebulo.cz/en/

Ondrej Zbytek

e-mail: zbytekond@fel.cvut.cz

4. Unique cloud chamber to CERN

The unique device makes radioactivity visible to naked eye. It has bee produced under the framework of the Nebula start-up by students Ondřej Zbytek and Ondřej Svoboda from the Faculty ofElectrical Engineering, along with Valery Mezentsev from theUniversity of Economics. CERN had ordered production for thedevice from the students and it is now on display at theMicrocosm exhibition in Geneva.

e-mail: zbytekond@fel.cvut.cz

https://www.nebulo.cz/en/

Unique research facilities of CTU

1. Regional Underground Research Centre JOSEF, the facility was repeatedly chosen as venues for training courses for young experts from all over the world by the International Atomic Energy Agency

http://ceg.fsv.cvut.cz

2. Training reactor VR-1, Open Access to Large Research Infrastructures

http://reactorvr1.eu/index_e.php

3. Tokamak GOLEM is a small-class tokamak of circular cross-section, which can be remotely operated via Internet access.

http://golem.fjfi.cvut.cz

Unique research facilities of CTU

4. Sensors and Magnetics Laboratory

www.1url.cz/O4UF

5. Satellite laser ranging station, close Helwan, a suburb of Egyptian capital city Cairo, is the cooperative lab of the astronomical department of National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Egypt and the department of physical electronics of Czech Technical University in Prague

www.1url.cz/74UR

6. Van de Graaff accelerator: light ion beams and quasi-monochromatic fast neutrons

http://aladdin.utef.cvut.cz/projekty/VdG/

New building of the CIIRC under construction - official opening in January 2017

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