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The Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) is a public non-university research institution which administratively falls under the Czech Academy of Sciences. UTIA conducts fundamental and applied research in computer science, signal and image processing, pattern recognition, system science, and control theory. In addition to its research activities, UTIA is engaged in undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate education. It also publishes the journal Kybernetika and acts as a certified forensic expert institution. UTIA consists of eight scientific departments, computer centre, library, facility maintenance department and business administration department. UTIA is managed by the Director and the Board.

Pod Vodárenskou věží 4
CZ-182 00, Prague 8
Czech Republic

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Best research paper in Energy Economics 2013
Institute of Energy Economics, Faculty of Finance and Accounting, University of Economics in Prague awarded work of Krenar Avdulaj and Jozef Barunik "Are benefits from oil-stock diversification gone? A new evidence from dynamic copulas and high frequency data." with a "Best research paper in Energy Economics 2013" prize.
Dny otevřených dveří
Dny otevřených dveří v Ústavu teorie informace a automatizace AV ČR, v. v. i.

Místo konání: Pod Vodárenskou věží 4, Praha 8
Datum a doba otevření: 7. a 8. listopadu, 10 - 15 hod.
Kontakt: Dr. Ing. Lubomír Soukup, tel.: 266 052 551, e-mail: soukup@utia.cas.cz

L. Bakule' s article is recognized as one of the Top 25 papers published in Annual Reviews in Control in 2012
The article Decentralized control and communication by L. Bakule is recognized by ScienceDirect as one of the Top 25 papers published in Annual Reviews in Control in 2012. Congratulations!
ECML Workshop on Scalable Decision Making: Uncertainty, Imperfection, Deliberation

An international workshop in conjunction with

the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2013)

Scalable Decision Making: Uncertainty, Imperfection, Deliberation (SCALE)

September 23, 2013, Prague

Ladislav Kristoufek - 1 st place in PhD students competition
Ladislav Kristoufek was awarded by the 1st place in PhD students competition for his research paper "Mixed-correlated ARFIMA processes for power-law cross-correlations" at the 31st International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Economics 2013 in Jihlava, Czech Republic
ManyVal 2013

ManyVal is a series of international workshops on the logical and algebraic aspects of many-valued reasoning. The aim of the workshops is to gather both established and young researchers sharing an interest for a specific topic. Accordingly, each edition has a sharp focus. The attendance is limited in order to facilitate close and informal interaction. There are no parallel sessions. Contributed talks are allocated ample time.

Ocenění za významný příspěvek na mezinárodní konferenci CAIP 2013
Jan Kotera, Ph.D. student na oddělení zpracování obrazu, spolu s Filipem Šroubkem a Peyman Milanfarem získali ocenění (outstanding contribution) za příspěvek "Blind deconvolution using alternating maximum a posteriori estimation with heavy-tailed priors" na mezinárodní konferenci 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2013) v Yorku, Velká Británie.
Outstanding Contribution Award for Jan Kotera et al.
Jan Kotera, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Image Processing, received an award for outstanding contribution at the 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2013) held in York, UK, for the paper "Blind deconvolution using alternating maximum a posteriori estimation with heavy-tailed priors" co-authored by Filip Sroubek and Peyman Milanfar.
The Otto Wichterle Award for Babak Mahdian
The President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR granted The Otto Wichterle Award for 2013 to promising young scientists of the ASCR. Ing. Babak Mahdian, Ph.D. from Department of Image Processing of the Institute of Information Theory and Automation was awarded.
Prémie O. Wichterleho pro Babaka Mahdiana
Předseda Akademie věd ČR, na základě návrhu poroty pro udělování Prémie Otto Wichterleho mladým vědeckým pracovníkům v AV ČR, udělil Prémii Otto Wichterleho v roce 2013 Ing. Babaku Mahdianovi, PhD. z oddělení Zpracování obrazové informace. UTIA AV ČR.
University of Ballarat Adjunct Professorship for Jiří Outrata
Doc. Ing. Jiří Outrata, DrSc. has been awarded a University of Ballarat Adjunct Professorship, School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering, Australia.
Winter school of MTR, 2013

The Winter School of Department of Decision-Making Theory is a popular meeting point of students and researchers from the department and other colaborating researchers from several Czech institutions as well as guests from abroad. It is held in the UTIA's chalet. The program of the 2013nd edition of the MTR Winter School will consist mainly of tutorial talks given by participants.

9.2. - 14.2. 2013, Krušné hory, Mariánská.

Cena za nejlepší práci z oblasti energetické ekonomie v roce 2012
Institut energetické ekonomie při Fakultě financí a účetnictví VŠE ocenil práci Ladislava Krištoufka, Karla Jandy a Davida Zilbermana: Correlations between biofuels and related commodities before and during the food crisis: A taxonomy perspective a udělil jim Cenu za nejlepší práci z oblasti energetické ekonomie v roce 2012.
Radek Hofman was awarded by the Czech Radiation Protection Society's Award

Czech Radiation Protection Society awarded prize for the best work of young authors in the field of protection against ionizing radiation to Ing. Radek Hofman, Ph.D. from AS department of the Institute of Information Theory and Automation for his PhD thesis.

Dny otevřených dveří

Místo konání: Pod Vodárenskou věží 4, Praha 8
Datum a doba otevření: 8. a 9. listopadu, 10 - 15 hod.
Kontakt: Dr. Ing. Lubomír Soukup, tel.: 266 052 551, e-mail: soukup@utia.cas.cz

Tomáš Kroupa was awarded the ASCR Prize

President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic awarded

Ing. Tomáš Kroupa, Ph.D.

the Prize of the Academy for young research workers of the age limit 35 for outstanding scientific research accomplishment.

Martina Hofmanová was awarded a L'Oréal-Unesco fellowship "Pour les Femmes et la Science"

Martina Hofmanová was awarded a L'Oréal-Unesco fellowship "Pour les Femmes et la Science" of EUR 15.000 on October 8th, 2012 in Paris, aimed to support excellent and talented women active in scientific research.

Martina Hofmanová is a PhD student at UTIA AV ČR, v.v.i. and at ENS Cachan antenne de Bretagne, Rennes, working in the field of stochastic partial differential equations in hydrology and petrol chemistry.

WUPES'12 - 9th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing.
A series of Workshops on Uncertainty Processing (WUPES) has been held in the Czech Republic every third year since 1988. Like the previous meetings the forthcoming Workshop will foster creative intellectual activities and the exchange of ideas in an informal atmosphere. Therefore we will keep the number of participants limited (~40). The conference will be held in the beautiful spa town Mariánské Lázně and it is organized in colaboration of MTR department and Faculty of Management, University of Economics, Prague.
Measure Concentration Minischool

organized by F. Matúš

Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague Room 25, UTIA AVCR, Pod Vodárenskou věží 4, 18000 Praha 8

Innovation Award for Cyril Hὅschl
Cyril Hὅschl, a Ph.D. student in Dept. of Image Processing, was awarded the Innovation Award given by The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics. The award was presented to him at the 24th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics held in Baden-Baden, Germany, 2012.