The summer school organized by Graz University of Technology will take place in Graz on September 8-12, 2014. The Summer School is addressed to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in biomedical engineering, (bio)physics, mechanical and civil engineering, applied mathematics, physiology and materials science and more senior scientists and engineers (including some from relevant industries) whose …

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SIAM Student Chapter at Charles University in Prague organizes a workshop on applied mathematics. The workshop will be held on March, 20-22, 2014 in Prague. Program of the workshop and further information can be found at workshop webpages.

Martin Kružík is coorganizing a workshop on relaxation, homogenization and dimensional reduction in hyperelasticity. The workshop will take place at Université Paris-Nord on March 25-27, 2014. For futher information please see webpages of the workshop.

Date Event Comment 11th — 12th March 2014 AIME@CZ Czech workshop on applied mathematics in engineering The workshop, organized by Didier Henrion, Josef Málek, Tomáš Pajdla, Zdeněk Strakoš and Miroslav Tůma aims at reporting recent achievements in applied mathematics in engineering on the Czech scene. It is a follow-up of a series of previous similar …

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Since 2010 Nadační fond na podporu vědy NEURON (NEURON Endowment Fund to Support Science) provides grants for scientists working in the Czech Republic. In 2012 NEURON junior research grant was awarded to Miroslav Bulíček for research concerning regularity of solutions to partial differential equations. The meeting Regularity theory for elliptic and parabolic systems and problems …

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IRW (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen) Heidelberg is organizing a one week course on DUNE (The Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment). DUNE is a software framework for the numerical solution of partial differential equations with grid-based methods. If you are interested, please register at http://conan.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/dune-workshop/.

Teams lead by Jaroslav Hron and Martin Řehoř succeeded in the grant competion on computer time in the national supercomputing facility IT4Innovations. Team lead by Jaroslav Hron got 100 000 core hours for project “Blood flow simulation in a patient specific geometry”, Martin Řehoř and his team got 50 000 core hours for project “Flows …

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On Wednesday, 4th December, Martin Kružík will give his habilitation lecture “Relaxation in the calculus of variation”. You are all invited. See the invitation for details.

On Thursday 28th November Faculty of Mathematics and Physics organizes Open day. During the Open day you can get a lot of information on studying at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, you can also meet face to face representatives of various study programs (including mathematical modeling), and, last but not least you can attend some …

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SEMINAR ON GEODYNAMICS (for more details see http://geo.mff.cuni.cz/seminarGeod.htm) On 13.11.2013 presents: 14:00 Miroslav Kuchta (Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo): Eikonal equation on unstructured meshes 15:40 Mikael Mortensen (Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo): FEniCS and its application in biomedical computing