On the last Friday in September, Researchers' Night attracted more than 1,400 physics enthusiasts of all ages to the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Patrik Čechvala, a postdoctoral researcher in the MSCA COFUND Physics for Future program, represented the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences at this year's national finale of the international contest FameLab.
Tereza Roesel ze Sekce optiky získala druhé místo a Cenu diváků v národním kole prestižní soutěže Falling Walls Lab v Praze se svým projektem Breaking the Wall of Single-Molecule Detection („Prolomení bariéry detekce jednotlivých molekul“).
An informal atmosphere, networking across departments and scientific groups, and the chance to learn about new projects. This is the annual summer event, HR Coffee & Talk. During the event, employees can explore a wide range of topics – from the European Charter for Researchers and professional development opportunities to involvement in PR and science outreach, as well as grant support, and Open Science.
For the ninth time, we met science enthusiasts from schools and the general public at the Czech Academy of Sciences' Science Fair, the largest popular science event in the Czech Republic. At the FZU exhibition, people could play sunrays in the photovoltaic tent, see the spectrum of visible light with their own eyes, build molecules from Lego, read new physics-themed comics and short stories, and also see a real magnetic sputtering machine, observe the martensitic transformation of alloys under a microscope, and other important physical instruments and phenomena.
Altermagnets and magnonics have both made the headlines repeatedly last year. Miina Leiviskä, a MSCA COFUND Physics for Future fellowship postdoc at the Institute of Physics of the CAS, blends these topics that have so recently upturned the world of physics. Are they at the core of future computing, or is it not so simple?
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The Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences organizes the Physics Photography 2025 competition, which this year is thematically dedicated to "wealth". The deadline for submissions is October 14, 2025. The photography competition will conclude with an awards ceremony and an exhibition of the winning and selected photographs at the Na Slovance complex during the Open Days at the Czech Academy of Sciences Week (November 3–9, 2025).
This year, we mark the tenth anniversary of International Women and Girls in Science Day with the life story of our colleague Evgenia Chitrova, head of the Rare-Earth and Actinide Science Research Group in the Department of Magnetic Measurements and Materials. Her story is the perfect proof that encounters with science and an indomitable curiosity shape a lifelong commitment to scientific work.
