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Academic bulletin 02/2005
SUMMARY
EVENT OF THE MONTH
When the Earth Quakes
An undersea earthquake on 26th December 2004 unleashed giant tsunami waves that crashed into the coasts of south and southeast Asia. The earthquake is considered to be the biggest earthquake in the last 100 years. The media reported on the causes and results of this cataclysm. Very frequently they obtained data and information from the Geophysical Institute, ASCR, which monitored the earthquake centred near Sumatra.
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Theory into Practice
The Grant Agency of the ASCR regularly presents the results of supported grant projects. Only projects which got underway in 2004 were awarded totalling about 67 million Czech crowns.
The Lost Heritage and Art Market
It is impossible to estimate the value of cultural assets looted from this country in the period from 1933 to 1948. Increasingly more art is being identified and returned to families from museums and private collections. The Documentation Centre of Property Transfers of Cultural Assets of WW II Victims, a division of the Institute of Contemporary History of the ASCR, prepared series of lectures specifying the problems involved.
EDUCATION
Matching Universities in America, Western Europe and the Czech Republic
Free extension of the presentation Matching Universities in America, Western Europe and the Czech Republic was discussed during a panel discussion on the establishment of education and research at the 10th plenary session of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic May 24th–25th, 2004.
NEWS FROM THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL
Report on the 55th 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 198th and 199th sessions of the Czech Government’s Research and Development Council.
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology
The society is among the oldest of its kind in the world, established in 1928. František Patočka (1904–1985) was was founder of the society.
AWARDS
The Praemium Bohemiae Award for the Second time
Pharmaceutical chemist Antonín Holý was awarded "The Czech Nobel Prize" for the year 2004.