Seminar for teachers of secondary schools
Our Laboratory of Optical Fibers is organizing a seminar for secondary school teachers which will focus on optical fibers and optical devices on Tuesday 6th ...
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Invitation to a lecture: Prof. Sajeev John
Prof. Sajeev John will give a lecture on Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals. The lecture will be held in English on Monday, July ...
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Prague Museum Night 2012
Our Laboratory of Optical Fibers took part in the Prague Museum Night 2012 on Saturday 9th June between 7 p.m. and 1 .a.m. at the ...
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Assoc. Prof. Jiří Homola, Ph.D., DSc. is the new Director of the Institute
Prof. Jiří Homola assumed the position of Director of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR, v.v.i. effective June 1, 2012.
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Ondřej Borovec won the gold medal
Ondřej Borovec brought home a gold medal from Houston, USA, from the prestigious global competition for young engineers and scientists, I-SWEEP.
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Assoc. Prof. Jiří Homola, Ph.D., DSc. elected SPIE Fellow
For achievements in optical biosensing, Assoc. Prof. Jiří Homola, Ph.D., DSc. was elected SPIE Fellow.
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The new Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences was elected
The new chairman of the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Ing. Jiří Čtyroký, DrSc. was elected on sixth October ...
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ÚFE cooperates on the OPERA project
[GTR50 measuring apparatus] During the measurement of the neutrino velocity within the OPERA experiment, the GTR50 measuring apparatus was used for the independent calibration of ...
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Jiří Homola, Ph.D., DSc. received the prestigious Academic Award
The prestigious Academic Prize - Praemium Academiae - was awarded on Thursday 30 June 2011 at the headquarters of the Czech Academy of Sciences by ...
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Hana Vaisocherová, Ph.D. received the prestigious L’Oréal scholarship
Hana Vaisocherová, Ph.D., a researcher at the Optical Sensors Department, was awarded one of three prestigious L'Oréal Scholarships for Women in Science for 2011 for ...
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Radan Slavik, PhD., DSc. received a special honorary mention
Radan Slavík, PhD, DSc. from the Photonics Section received a special honorary mention from the Chairman of the GACR for the project "Tunable active fibre ...
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50 years of lasers
16th May, 2010 marks an important anniversary - 50 years since Theodor Maiman lit up the first laser ever.
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A record-breaking experiment in transmitting precise time over the Internet
On 1 and 2 March 2010, in cooperation with CESNET, a Czech-Austrian experiment took place to compare the time of atomic clocks in Prague and ...
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Jiří Homola, Ph.D, DSc. received the INVENCE award, Kapsch a.s.
Within the 8th year of the Czech Head competition, the INVENCE, Kapsch a.s. prize was awarded to the head of the photonics section of the ...
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