09/2004

Academic bulletin 09/2004

EDITORIAL
Election of the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Members of the Academy Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and establishment of Members of the Council for Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for period 2005–2009 is coming.

TOPIC OF THE MONTH
Critical theory of appreciatio
An interview with Axel Honneth. A. Honneth is a professor of social philosophy at the Goethe University, Frankfurt and a key representative of the critical theory of society.

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Culture of politics in the middle Europe in medieval times and early modern period
Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pardubice, East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice, Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Czech National Committee of Historiographers organized the conference about history of culture of politics in the middle Europe.

Strange Isotope effects
Professor Rudolph A. Marcus from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, visited the Czech Republic. Prof. Marcus was invited to 14th annual R. Brdicka Memorial Festive Lecture where he lectured about Strange Isotope Effects in Stratospheric Ozone and in the Earliest Minerals in the Solar Systém.

Czech proteomy conference
The first meeting of Czech proteomics was hold in the middle of June in Mělník.

Words and history in 2004
An international conference was organized by the Czech Language Institute ASCR. The conference was concentrated on evolution of the Czech, Slavonic, Baltic and also German languages and their relationships.

Plasma physics and technology
The 21st international symposium about high-temperature and low-temperature plasma was held in Prague at the end of June.

10 year anniversary of EuroMISE Center
International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004 in Prague was composed from International Medical Informatics Association conference three parallel symposiums and two workshops.

NEWS FROM THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL
Report on the 49th session of the Academic Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Summary of the 192nd session of the Czech Government’s Research and Development Council.

PORTRAITS FROM THE ARCHIVES
Karel Krejčí
100 years have passed since the birth of this expert in Polish language, literary history and legends of ancient Prague.

INTERVIEW
Mathematics – adventures of recognitio
Prof. Ivan Netuka, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, representative of Prague Harmonic Group has been awarded the B. Bolzano Medal.

CULTURE AND THE SOCIETY
Condensed Matter Divisio
Full scale of scientific results was presented at 20th General Conference of Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society in Prague.

ACADEMIA
Specialized books from Academia Publishing House

AWARDS to leading Czech and foreign scientists

RESUME

NEW BOOKS