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Sergej Čelikovský received SICE 2011 Award for Outstanding Paper
Sergej Čelikovský received SICE 2011 Award for Outstanding Paper - 31.12.2011
Sergej Čelikovský received SICE 2011 Award for Outstanding Paper published in Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers. This paper proposes and analyzes a successive approximation method for obtaining center manifolds with application to output regulation problem. Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) http://www.sice.jp/english/ is the recognized international society founded in Japan.
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NIPS Workshop Decision Making with Multiple Imperfect Decision Makers - 16.12.2011

more info: www.utia.cz/NIPSHome

You are invited to participate in the NIPS Workshop DECISION MAKING WITH MULTIPLE IMPERFECT DECISION MAKERS in conjunction with the 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, which is the premier scientific meeting on neural computation.

2011 Award of Outstanding Statistical Application - 29.09.2011

The 2011 Outstanding Statistical Application Award of American Statistical Association has been presented to Miroslav Kárný and his co-authors A. Raftery (University of Washington) and P. Ettler (Compureg s.r.o.). This award recognises "extending Bayesian methods for model uncertainty to temporally evolving systems and showing how these ideas can be successfully applied to solving a challenging problem in a continuous manufacturing system."

2011 Frank Wilcoxon Prize has been given to Adrian Raftery, Miroslav Kárný, and Pavel Ettler. - 28.09.2011

Miroslav Kárný and his co-authors A.Raftery (University of Washington) and P.Ettler (Compureg s.r.o.) were selected to receive the Frank Wilcoxon Prize for their paper: “Online prediction under model uncertainty via dynamic model averaging: application to a cold rolling mill” that appeared in the February 2010 issue of Technometrics. The Wilcoxon Prize is given to the best practical application paper appearing in the previous year's Technometrics.

Milan Mareš
Prof. Milan Mareš passed away - 29.07.2011
With regret we have to announce that Prof. Milan Mareš, our colleague and a former director of the Institute, passed away suddenly on July 25, 2011. His death came as an unexpected and heavy loss. We will miss him as a great scientist and as a dear colleague and friend.
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