05/2007

Academic bulletin 05/2007

RESUMÉ

EVENT OF THE MONTH
Academy Assembly
The Academy Assembly, top-ranking body of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, which is responsible for the highest priority decisions related to AS CR, convened its XXX meeting in Municipal House in Vinohrady on 26^th December 2006. The Assembly accepted, as usual, the final resolution.

TOPIC OF THE MONTH
Follow the Botanics to Korean Peninsula
The history of Czech-Korean botany co-operation has been covering nearly 20 years. Czech scientists helped to form multi-national team that brought together two distinctive publications: Forest Vegetation of Northeast Asia and Distribution and Phytocoenology of Selected Woody Species of North Korea. The official partner of the Academy of Sciences in Korea is KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation) that has already supported unique range of 2042 research projects.

INTERVIEW
About Unpredictability in Science
One of the best-known Czech scientists, theoretical astronomer Prof. Jan Palouš, a member of the Academy Council of the ASCR, continues his discourse in part two of an interview about differences between astronomy of the 19^th and the 21^st centuries, computer simulation of Space, about striking fact that the Sun is not a binary-star and the finiteness of Space.

SCIENCE NAD RESEARCH
What is REI about?
The text introduces the Council for European Integration (REI in Czech), whose main task is supporting participation of ASCR institutes and their research teams in European Framework Programmes.

Radiopharmaceutical preparation for Positron Emission Tomography in the Czech Republic
The PET-laboratory of the Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR, one of the first such workplaces in the world, completed research on the synthesis of extremely promising substance 3'-deoxy-3'-[¹⁸F], that has demonstrated great potential to replicate cancer tumors.

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Czech Chemical Society
The oldest and the largest Czech scientific society in the field of chemistry, the Czech Chemical Society (ČSCH), is a constituent member of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) and has a wide range of activities. The society’s web pages http://www.csch.cz and it’s journal pages http://chemicke-listy.vscht.cz/ offer more information.