Czech Republic

For further information related to Czech events, contact the Coordinator:
 Dr. Jaroslav Dittrich
Nuclear Physics Institute
ASCR
CZ - 250 89 Rez
tel: +420 220 941 147 • fax: +420 220 941 130
Email: dittrich@ujf.cas.cz
or
Prof. Stefan Zajac
Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists
Zitna 25
CZ - 117 10 Praha 1
tel: +420 2222 111 00 • fax: +420 222 211 638
Email: zajac@math.cas.cz

Useful links:
www.fzu.cz/varia/wyp2005

Events:

  • 4th International Conference of Physics Teaching in Enginering Education - PTEE:
    Contact person: Dr Jitka Brustlova (ptee@feec.vutbr.cz)
    Event place: Brno, Czech Republic
    Dates: 29 June - 1 July 2005
    Description: see http://fyzika.ufyz.feec.vutbr.cz/ptee

  • Physics Teachers' Inventions Fair 10:
    Contact person: Ludmila Maleckova (veletrh@kdf.mff.cuni.cz)
    Event place: Prague, Czech Republic
    Dates: 24 - 27 August 2005
    Description: see http://kdf.mff.cuni.cz/veletrh/2005/index_en.php

  • 15th Conference of Slovak and Czech Physicists, Kosice, Slovakia, September 5-8, 2005
    Contact person: Prof. Jaroslav Stanicek (stanicek@fmph.uniba.sk)
    Event place: Kosice, Slovakia
    Dates: 5 - 8 September 2005
    Description: see http://sfs.sav.sk/15kcsf.html (in Slovak only)

  • Symposion in Memory of George Placzek (1905-1955)
    Contact person: Jan Janik (honza@physics.muni.cz)
    Event place: Brno, Czech Republic
    Dates: 21 - 24 September 2005
    Description: see http://dumbell.physics.muni.cz/placzek/

  • Publication of (Czech language) books
    L. Eckertova: The ways of recognition in physics (Prometheus, Prague 2004), I. Kraus: The history of technical sciences and inventiones in the Czech lands (Academia, Prague 2004), C. Simane: The life among atoms (Nuclear Research Institute Rez, 2005). Czech translation of the book E. Schrˆdinger: What is the Life? (Vutium, Brno 2005)

  • Popular videocassette Accelerators and Detectors

  • Issue of the postage stamp with motive c=const
    Date: 25 May 2005

  • Various presentations in the information media (see http://gemma.ujf.cas.cz/~dittrich/wyp2005/media.html for the list)

  • Pupils' competitions For The Magician Pokuston's ("Experimenton's") Top Hat (11-14 years old pupils)
    Contact person: Julius Kolin (kamus@kamus.cz)
    Event place: final round Prague, Czech Republic
    Dates: September 2004 - 31 March 2005 (final round)
    Description: see www.kamus.cz/pokuston.html (in Czech only)

  • Secondary school students' competitions and For the best videorecord of a physical experiment (secondary school students)
    Contact person: Helena Sojkova (helena.sojkova@britishcouncil.cz)
    Dates: Application deadline 15 May 2005
    Description: see www.astro.cz/wyp2005

See national website for more details (www.fzu.cz/varia/wyp2005)