Following a longstanding tradition, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, in cooperation with Institutes of Information Theory and Automation and of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences, and Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University organized the Spring School on Variational Analysis VII. The spring school was held in Paseky nad Jizerou, in a chalet in the Krkonoše Mountains from May 19 to May 25, 2019.

Department of Signal processing has successfully presented recent results at the EW 2019 exhibition held in Nuremberg from 26 to 28 February 2019. Work related to ECSEL projects has been demonstrated at the TRENZ Electronics company booth. Detailed information can be found here.

Ing. Lubomír Bakule, CSc. byl jmenován emeritním pracovníkem ÚTIA AV ČR, za jeho přínos k rozvoji ústavu a vědního oboru Decentralizované řízení složitých systémů.

The conference Prague Stochastics 2019 continues a traditional series of international conferences on stochastics organized by the Institute of Information Theory and Automation in Prague since 1956.

The conference will consist of two workshops that will mostly take place in parallel, except for a possible joint afternoon with general audience talks on Wednesday. These workshops are as follows.

On January 7, 2019, the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) of the Czech Academy of Sciences celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. The celebration gathering was held in the Břevnov Monastery in Prague. The first part of the program consisted of six invited talks. Each talk was devoted to one consecutive decade in the history of UTIA, and given by one of the researchers who joined UTIA at the respective decade. The talks were followed by a ceremonial toast given by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Professor Eva Zažímalová.

Workshop on Stochastics Informatics and Decision Making  - well known as Alšovice according to the traditional venue of many of the first meetings - is an annual workshop organized by members of the department of Stochastic Informatics of the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences.