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

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.

Prof. Milan Mareš passed away
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.
Award of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for prof. Michal Haindl et al.

The Award of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for outstanding results of major scientific importance in 2011 was received by a team of authors from the Institute of Information Theory and Automation. The team led by prof. Ing. Michal Haindl, DrSc. consisting of: Ing. J. Filip, Ph.D, Ing. J. Grim, CSc., RNDr. Vojtech Havlicek, Ph.D, and Ing. M. Hatka was awarded for the scientific outcome: Mathematical modeling of visual properties of surface materials.

Sergej Čelikovský promoted as the Full Professor
Mr. Sergej Čelikovský has been promoted by the President of the Czech Republic Mr. Václav Klaus to a professorship in Technical cybernetics. The ceremony occurred in the Carolinum’s pride on Friday, 24th June 2011
Ing. Petr Augusta
obhájil dne 22. 4. 2011 doktorskou práci "Spatially invariant systems: modelling, analysis and control via polynomial technique" na Fakultě elektrotechnické ČVUT a 21. 6. 2011 byl promován doktorem (Ph.D.).
Vyhlášení soutěže o nejlepší studentskou vědeckou práci z teoretické ekonomie a ekonometrie za rok 2011
http://ces.utia.cas.cz/competition.html
Ocenění za nejlepší studentskou vědeckou práci z teoretické ekonomie a ekonometrie 2011
PhDr. Jozef Baruník získal první místo v 17. ročníku Souteže o nejlepší studentskou vědeckou práci z teoretické ekonomie a ekonometrie 2011, pořádané Českou ekonometrickou společností, za práci "Decomposing volatility using wavelet-based realized variation". Dvě 3. místa, udělila porota za práce Ing. Petra Veverky "Infinite horizon maximum principle for the discounted control problem", a RNDr. Petra Zahradníka "Some interesting properties of the Cox–Ingersoll-Ross process". Všichni ocenění jsou zaměstnanci ÚTIA, AV ČR, oddělení Ekonometrie.
Differential Equations - Stochastic & Deterministic

Ivo Vrkoč will celebrate his eightieth birthday on June 10, 2011. On this occasion, Ivo’s former students and recent coauthors decided to organise a small colloquium devoted to some of the topics Ivo has contributed to significantly, namely the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations and stochastic analysis.

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Konference ICASSP 2011
Ve dnech 23. až 27. května 2011 proběhla poprvé v Praze vědecká konference "International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing" (ICASSP 2011) za účasti více jak 2100 odborníků ze 58 států světa. Akce byla pořádána vědeckou společností IEEE pod předsednictvím trojice zástupců České republiky, a to Petra Tichavského (ÚTIA AV ČR Praha), Jana Černockého (VUT v Brně) a Aleše Procházky (ÚPŘT FCHI VŠCHT Praha) se spoluúčastí pracovníků a studentů Ústavu počítačové a řídicí techniky FCHI VŠCHT Praha.
Prague hosts IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011. Prague Congress Centre, May 22-27, 2011.

ICASSP is the number one international conference for signal processing bringing together over 2000 participants and experts from industry and universities.