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Invited lecture: José M. Carcione – Jan 11 / 10:00
José Carcione is a senior geophysicist at the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) in Trieste. The subject of his studies is acoustic and electromagnetic numerical modeling, with applications to oil exploration and environmental geophysics....
Our scientists have received GACR Standard Grant Projects
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) announced the results of the Standard Projects tender. "It is extremely difficult to succeed in our tenders, which we have been running every year for almost 3 decades – this year only about one-fifth of the best proposals...
NEMO is dead, long live KRAKONOŠ!
After 14 years of reliable and problem-free service, the NEMO computing cluster ended its activity in November and went to "silicon heaven". It was used for numerically demanding calculations, especially in the areas of modelling the earth's hydromagnetic dynamo,...
Indonesia – Java earthquake, 21. 11.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 occurred on the island of Java, in Indonesia, on Monday November 21st at 07:21 AM Czech time (13:21 local time). Despite its moderate magnitude, the earthquake caused severe damage, claimed more than 40 casualties, and left several...