Programme of Colloquia for the Spring 2008 Semester

Programme for Spring 2008 with abstracts

19 February 2008: Doc. RNDr. Petr Hliněný, Ph.D., FIMU, Brno; On a surprising problem concerning the intersection number of a graph
26 February 2008: Docent Mgr. Tomáš Tyc, Ph.D., Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno; Metamaterials, invisibility and conformal mappings
4 March 2008: Mgr. Jan Obdržálek, PhD., Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Masaryk University, Brno; Gendarmes, a thief and graph theory
11 March 2008: Doc. Mgr. Jiří Damborský, Dr., Loschmidt Laboratories, Masaryk University, Brno; Structural Bioinformatics and Computer-Assisted Engineering of Proteins
18 March 2008: Prof. Ing. Pavel Zezula, CSc., Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Brno; Metric similarity search in theory and practice
25 March 2008: Ing. Přemysl Kršek, Ph.D., FIT VUT, Brno; 3D geometric modelling in medicine and its clinical applications
1 April 2008: Doc. RNDr. Jiří Sgall, DrSc., Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Approximation algorithms for scheduling
8 April 2008: RNDr. Libor Škarvada, FIMU, Brno; Polymorphic and dependent types
15 April 2008: Ing., Dipl.-Ing. Martin Drahanský, Ph.D., FIT VUT, Brno; Biometric systems
22 April 2008: Prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc., FIMU, Brno; Research evaluation, science policy – a problem specific to computer science or a general issue?
29 April 2008: RNDr. Věra Kůrková, DrSc., Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Neural network learning with generalisation capability as an inverse problem
6 May 2008: doc. RNDr. Viliam Geffert, CSc., Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University, Košice; The state hierarchy of finite automata
13 May 2008: Doc. RNDr. Václav Matyáš, M.Sc., Ph.D., Mgr. Petr Švenda, Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, Brno; Cryptographic protocols in sensor networks
20 May 2008: RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D., FIMU, Brno; From Pixels and Minds to Mathematical Knowledge in the Digital Library