New lecture — Numerical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations (NMMO538)

Dear students, you might have noted that Alexei Orozco has joined the Mathematical Institute. Alexei does research is numerical analysis, and starting from academic year 2025/2026 he offers a new lecture “Numerical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations” (NMMO538) covering fundamentals of this research field. All students interested in numerical mathematics are wholeheartedly welcome to attend the lecture.

Nečas Center Awards 2025 — call for applications open

Dear colleagues, please note that the call for Nečas Center Awards is open. See the email below.

Dear Members of UNCE MathMAC,

The competition for the Nečas Center Awards for 2025 has been opened.
The application deadline is June 11, 2025, at 12:00 CET. Details can be found here:
https://ncmm.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/ceny-necasova-centra/

Please encourage talented master’s students active in the following areas to apply:

  • Physical and engineering sciences → Professor Jan Kratochvíl Award
  • Numerical and computational mathematics → Professor Ivo Marek Award
  • Mathematical analysis of partial differential equations → Professor Jindřich Nečas Award

The award ceremony is planned for June 26 around noon.

Thank you.

Best wishes,
Josef

34th Mathematical Colloquium — Patrick E. Farrell

We are forwarding announcement regarding 34th Mathematical Colloquium.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Mathematical Colloquium will continue with its 34rd session on

Wednesday  March 12th, 2025, 16:00  in lecture hall K1

The speaker is   

   Patrick E. Farrell (University of Oxford) 

Title:  Predicting the future by solving equations

Abstract

Humans have sought to predict the future for as long as we have existed. One of the key ideas of the scientific revolution was that we can predict the future of physical systems by writing down the laws of physics as differential equations and solving them. Our capacity to do this has recently increased dramatically due to better computers, and better algorithms. This technology has quietly revolutionised industrial civilisation in countless ways, from predicting the weather a week in advance, to designing space planes without wind tunnels, and to understanding the gravitational waves detected by LIGO. In this lecture I will review this subject, discuss some of my own contributions, and mention some important open problems in the field.

PhD positions in Mathematics at GSSI – A.Y. 2025/2026

open call for 10 Ph.D. positions for the doctoral program in “Mathematics in Natural, Social and Life Sciences” at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila (Italy). Please find further details in the official call, available on this page <http://www.gssi.it/phd/>, or the related MathJobs post <https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/25996>.


The application deadline is January 10, 2025 (at 3 pm CET). Applications are submitted through the GSSI application portal <http://www.gssi.it/phd/>. The start date of the Ph.D. program is November 1, 2025.

For questions and general inquiries, please contact us at applications@gssi.it <mailto:applications@gssi.it>.

Christmas Party 2024

Milí kolegové a přátelé matematického modelování,

srdečně Vás zveme na tradiční Vánoční besídku oboru matematického modelování ve velice předvánočním čase – ve středu 18. 12. 2024 v posluchárně K1 (Sokolovská 83) od 19 hodin.

Můžete si zde pochutnat na guláši, drobném občerstvení nebo vínu a svařáku za doprovodu vánočních koled. Rádi bychom pozvali nejen studenty, absolventy a pedagogy spojené s tímto oborem, ale i jejich partnery/ky, přátele a všechny příznivce matematického modelování.

Nezapomeňte si svoje hudební nástroje!
Vánoční cukroví je vítáno!

Prosíme, dejte nám závazně vědět o Vaší účasti (prostřednictvím formuláře do 1.12.), ať můžeme zajistit dostatek občerstvení pro všechny a zbytečně neplýtváme.

Dear colleagues and friends of mathematical modeling,

we cordially invite you to the traditional Christmas party of mathematical modeling on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 in the auditorium K1 (Sokolovská 83) from 19:00. Here you can enjoy goulash, little snack or a mulled wine and sing Christmas carols. We would like to invite not only students, graduates
and teachers associated with this field, but also their partners, friends and all fans of mathematical modeling.

Do not forget your musical instruments!
Homemade Christmas cookies are welcome!

Please make a mandatory application (via form by December 1) so that we can ensure enough refreshments for everyone and not waste unnecessarily.