The team members of the project ERC-CZ MORE (2012-2017) cordially invite you to the conference Modeling, analysis and computing in nonlinear PDEs. We expect the conference to be an event facilitating transfer of ideas and cross-fertilisation between various scientific disciplines ranging from continuum thermodynamic through mathematical analysis and numerical approximation of partial differential equations to matrix analysis and computations. Our idea is to bring together renowned researchers who otherwise rarely meet at conferences.

In the event, the results achieved so far within the framework of the project will be presented. We also aim to discuss the conceptual questions and ideas we percieve to be of importance with respect to the goals of the project. Even more importantly, several renowned scientists outside the project team will deliver lectures on subjects related to the project.

The conference is organized as an activity of the Nečas Center for Mathematical Modeling.

The program of the conference will consist primarily of the lectures presented by the invited speakers, members of the research team of the project MORE, and members of the Advisory board. There will be a limited number of contributed oral presentations and a poster session. The deadline for registration and submission of abstracts is June 15, 2014.

We are looking forward to see you in Liblice,
Josef Málek, Eduard Feireisl, Zdeněk Strakoš, and Endre Süli

The next Nečas seminar on continuum mechanics (Monday 14th April 2014) will give us the opportunity to celebrate eightieth birthday of professor Jan Kratochvíl. The lectures will be given by some of his frequent collaborators. Details can be found in the attached leaflet.

Zdeněk Strakoš, professor of numerical mathematics at Charles University in Prague, has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He was recognized for “advances in numerical linear algebra, especially iterative methods”.

Professor Strakoš is currently teaching course Matrix and Iterative Methods I that is a compulsory part of the mathematical modelling curriculum. Zdeněk Strakoš is also one of the leaders of the MORE (Implicitly constituted material models: from theory through model reduction to efficient numerical methods) project. We are very happy that we have a chance to work with Zdeněk, and we are very proud that he also participates in education in our study programme. Congratulations!

The Paris-Est University has been offering, for three years now, master-level grants in mathematics and computer science through the Labex Bezout. These grants are aimed at strong students currently in training outside of France and with minimal skill in French (intensive french training can be set up). The grants amount to 1200 euros per month, over 10 months, and fund the second year of the master degree. Since 2011, about twenty students, from all over the world, have been supported by this program and most of them are now pursuing PhDs in France or in their home countries.

For September 2014, 6 grants will be awarded. All practical informations are available from the Labex website: http://www.univ-paris-est.fr/fr/international-master-in-mathematics-and-computer-science-bezout-master/

APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 25TH.

You can contact Cyril Nicaud (Cyril.Nicaud@univ-mlv.fr) for further information.

Open doors day on 15.4.2014 at Ricardo Prague s.r.o.

More info in czech on attached leaflet.

Didier Henrion and M. Hromcik (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech republic) are looking for a PhD student who will participate in research project Polynomial optimization for systems control with aerospace applications.

The PhD position is funded by a grant of the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), with a monthly salary of approximately 20000 CZK after taxes. The applicant is expected to reside in Prague, and travel occasionally to Toulouse. Interested candidates are advised to send a detailed curriculum vitae and a motivation letter to Didier Henrion, http://homepages.laas.fr/henrion.

Professor Zdeněk Strakoš has written a short note on the newly established initiative Stichting Euroean Service Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation (EU-MATHS-IN). If you are interested in what is the mission and the goals of the initiative, please read the note published in ICIAM Newsletter.

Many of you have just started to write bachelor or master thesis. At this point you should be sure about the scientific content of your thesis. But maybe you are thinking of how to actually write your thesis and present your ideas. Here are some useful hints.

• The thesis layout is specified by Faculty of Mathematics and Physics rules, please follow them. You can even download a LaTeX template for the thesis. Check also webpages maintained by the supervisor of the study programme “Mathematics”.
• Do not even think of writing the thesis using other document preparation system than LaTeX. LaTeX is the document preparation system for typesetting mathematics. End of story.
• Learn how to use citation databases such as Web of Science and MathSciNet. Learn how to export the data from these databases to BibTeX and how to use them in LaTeX.
• Get familiar with some useful macro packages in LaTeX. In particular amsmath package is extremely useful. User’s guide is available here.
• Avoid writing your own LaTeX macros! Your are not the first person writing a scientific text. Many high quality macro packages for typesetting things such as tensors, commutative diagrams, chemical equations and so on are already available. Do not waste your time by reinventing the wheel.
• All scientists are in fact professional writers and storytellers. Get familiar with elements of style for scientific writing. Read at least Elements of Style for Writing Scientific Journal Articles, which is a document prepared by Elsevier publishing house. Maybe you think that the ability to write a stylistically good scientific text is a matter of talent and can not be improved. This is not true. It is a skill as any other and it can be improved by training and practice. The top universities really do bother how their students write and speak, see for example book Writing Science (Oxford University Press) and Science Research Writing: For Non-Native Speakers of English (Imperial College Press).
• Do not forget to backup your work! Your hard disk drive is certainly going to fail one week before the thesis submission deadline.
• Talk to your supervisor even about non-scientific issues (thesis outline, layout, language).

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 interests are in the area of biomechanics and mechanobiology.

For further information please see webpages (http://www.summerschool.tugraz.at/) of the school.

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.