Beranových 667, 199 00 Prague 9

Teplická 492, 190 00 Prague 9

V Holešovičkách 2/747, 180 00 Prague 8

• N1, N2, N3 - Impakt Pavilion
• T1, T2 - Lecture Hall Building

Plynární 1096, 170 00 Prague 7-Holešovice

Tour of the observatory at Petřín with an English-language film screening.

For group transportation, please arrive at the Hotel Duo reception no later than 16:45. If you prefer to arrive on your own, be at Štefánik Observatory by 17:55.

Parallel program for czech-speaking participants

Lab tours at Troja Campus. In your application form, you may choose one of the sets of excursions listed below. Please arrive no later than 8:45 a.m. at the Troja Campus at the "T" auditorium.

Schedule of the excursions

Annotations of the excursions

Combined Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy (STM/AFM) is widely used for imaging surfaces with atomic resolution. We will discuss its capability of analyzing the structure and electronic properties of complex materials. The presented results will be linked with current needs in modern technologies, such as renewable energy and semiconductor applications.

Chemical reactions at solid/gas or solid/liquid interfaces determine the efficiency of many energy-related, chemical, or environmental technologies - fuel cells, electrolyzers, batteries, catalytical reactors, and pollution-abatement catalysts. Obtaining experimental evidence of the reactants, reaction intermediates, and the state of the supporting surface is, however, unexpectedly difficult. In this lab tour, we get acquainted with the elementary physicochemical techniques, allowing us to determine the chemical state, the crystalographic structure, and the morphology of the chemically active technological interfaces.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the original excursion (Superfluidity and Quantum Turbulence) needed to be replaced.

Space weather is currently in the spotlight, not only among the scientific community but also the general public, as our society heavily depends on technologies that can be easily damaged by space weather events. The excursion will begin with an introduction to our present knowledge of solar activity, the origin of the solar wind, and its propagation from the Sun to Earth. We will present different measurement techniques used for determining solar wind parameters and showcase examples of devices developed at our department for this purpose. Finally, we will discuss the possibilities of predicting hazardous space weather events.

A very simplified desktop model of Earth's system components (Sun, cloudiness, Earth's surface and albedo, ocean, and atmosphere), their interactions, and climate changes.

Our main projects include the ATLAS internal silicon strip detector (SCT) and its upgrade (ATLAS ITk), as well as collaborations on the DEPFET, BELLE, and BELLE II projects. We conduct research on radiation-hardened detectors and contribute to the preparation of the new ILC linear accelerator.

Our work covers physics experiments and their simulation, programming for testing and analyzing silicon strip and pixel detectors in particle physics, and operating a clean laboratory for laser tests and data acquisition. This spans from setting up automated laser tests at sub-micron precision and low temperatures (-20°C) to the discovery of new particles in CERN (Geneva) and KEK (Japan). Our expertise extends from weak signal readouts in our lab to large-scale computing simulations on the world's most powerful computational grids.

Today, most nanoparticles are synthesized chemically. This approach enables the production of nanoparticles from a wide variety of materials with diverse structures and properties. It also allows for the creation of heterogeneous nanoparticles, such as core@shell and dumbbell types.

However, a significant drawback of chemical synthesis is that nanoparticles are typically prepared in solution using stabilizing agents to prevent aggregation, which can compromise their final purity. Additionally, synthesizing nanoparticles from metals prone to rapid oxidation is challenging or even impossible with chemical methods.

A promising alternative is the vacuum-based synthesis of nanoparticles using purely physical methods. In our laboratory, we focus on the preparation of nanoparticles using low-pressure, low-temperature plasma. This technique relies on the spontaneous condensation of metal vapor in a working gas within a gas aggregation source of nanoparticles.

Using this method, we can produce nanoparticles from nearly any metal suitable for magnetron sputtering. Furthermore, it is possible to synthesize metal oxide, metal nitride, or even plasma polymer nanoparticles. Additionally, we can create heterogeneous nanoparticles with diverse structures.

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a non-destructive method for studying the structure and dynamics of matter with applications in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and materials science. NMR uses static and radio-frequency magnetic fields to induce resonance in atomic nuclei, providing high-resolution insight into chemical composition, local atomic structure and symmetry, and important physical interactions. In the NMR laboratory at Charles University, we study a wide range of systems, from solutions and liquids to magnetic solids.

The Laboratory of Elementary Processes in Plasmas studies the interactions of ions with molecules and electrons in interstellar plasmas. We operate several experimental facilities that allow us to conduct measurements at temperatures down to -260°C, typical of interstellar gas clouds. Our research employs ion traps and highly sensitive laser absorption spectroscopy techniques.

The accelerator serves as a tunable source of heavy charged particles—including protons, deuterons, alpha particles, and nitrogen nuclei—within the energy range of 200 keV to 2.5 MeV. It is also the only facility in the Czech Republic capable of generating fast mono-energetic neutrons with energies up to about 17 MeV.

The Van de Graaff accelerator laboratory is dedicated to both fundamental and applied research in experimental nuclear physics. While fundamental studies focus on reaction cross-section measurements to refine theoretical predictions, applied research includes radiation detector testing, material and surface analysis, and space-related experiments. Additionally, the laboratory plays an educational role, providing students with opportunities to engage in experimental projects.

Stanislav Fort

Stanislav Fort is a renowned expert in artificial intelligence, focusing on large language models and AI safety. He has contributed to the development of Claude at Anthropic, worked in teams such as Google Brain and Google DeepMind, and also served as an advisor to the Czech president on AI matters. He will tell us about how to create artificial intelligence that is robust against attacks, and how to use a physicist's way of thinking for research in (safety of) artificial intelligence.

The lecture will take place in N1 lecture hall in the Troja Campus.

During the panel discussion, several top scientists will share their personal experiences to give you an insight into life and work in science. Invitation to the discussion was accepted by

• doc. RNDr. Mirko Rokyta, CSc. | He serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, a mathematician, and a renowned university educator. Besides his academic career, he is also a keyboard player in the bands Asonance and Humbuk.
• RNDr. Tomáš Slanina, Ph.D. | He leads a junior research group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, focusing on redox photochemistry.
• Mgr. Petr Cígler, Ph.D. | He leads a junior research group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences specializing in synthetic nanochemistry.
• Ing. Květoslava Stejskalová, CSc. | A science communicator at the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry and a leading expert on Jaroslav Heyrovský himself. She has extensive experience with educational projects such as Nanoškola. Additionally, she is the editor-in-chief of CHEMAGAZÍN, a journal popular among chemists.
• doc. Ing. Pavel Jelínek, Ph.D. | He specializes in scanning probe microscopy, through which he reveals new or previously predicted phenomena at the scale of individual atoms and molecules. His calculations confirmed the possibility of chemical contrast in AFM microscopy. He conducts his research at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

The discussion will be hosted by Bc. Marek Jankola, a student at CUNI MFF and a long-time organizer of FYKOS, who enjoys thinking about statistical physics or going for a run.

The discussion will take place in the N1 lecture hall in the Troja Campus.

To harness nuclear energy by fission of heavy uranium nuclei and other actinides, an industrial chain of processes must be in operation. These processes are collectively called the nuclear fuel cycle, as the end of this chain can be linked back to its beginning, creating a partial loop. We will go through the individual steps of the current uranium fuel cycle and introduce several equations and relations that can be used to enhance the teaching of chemistry and physics.

The lecture will be held in Czech with slides in English. The remaining program for the teachers is, unfortunately, held entirely in Czech.

Parallel program for czech-speaking participants.

Analysis of competition problems with some of their authors. The program will take place in Troja Campus.

Come and meet the other participants and organizers after Fyziklani. The party will take place at Plynární 1096, Prague 7-Holešovice in Cross Club.

For transport from Problem Analysis, you can either walk to the venue or take bus number 201 to the Nádraží Holešovice stop.

This lecture is held in Czech.

The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) – Beamlines in Dolni Brezany, Czech Republic is the home of some of the most powerful lasers in the world. It is dedicated to performing research with terawatt and petawatt class lasers, which have peak powers from 1 thousand to 1 million times higher than that generated by a nuclear power plant and are shorter than one millionth of a millionth of a second. Under these extreme conditions we can generate short X-ray pulses and accelerate protons and electrons to near the speed of light. How do these lasers work and what do they look like? What can we use these accelerated particles and X-rays for? In this talk, we answer these questions and introduce the exciting research happening at this international research center here in the Czech Republic.

The lecture will take place in the Troja Campus.

This lecture is held in Czech.

Lightning discharges emit electromagnetic pulses, which propagate through the plasma medium as dispersed whistlers. Short duration trans-ionospheric whistlers have been detected for the first time at Jupiter by the Juno spacecraft. They not only constitute the largest existing database of Jovian lightning but they also provide us with inputs for investigation of the ionospheric plasma. Dispersion properties of new propagation modes of whistlers can be explained by peculiar properties of the mode structure and group velocity for extremely low plasma densities. The radio and plasma waves instrument on the newly launched JUICE interplanetary probe will be able to characterize wave propagation and mode structure of whistler-mode waves.

The lecture will take place in the Troja Campus.

Come to a lecture with experiments on the origin of light. Fun and spectacular experiments will guide you from the very birth of light in atoms to the moment a photon reaches our eye.

The science show will take place in lecture hall N1 in the Troja Campus.

After Saturday's scientific program, you will have the opportunity to chat with all the participants who will stay in Prague until Sunday at the buffet. The reception will be held in the Impakt Pavilion in the Troja Campus. The buffet will also serve as a closing ceremony for the entire program.