Sitola seminar (SitSem) was held from 9th to 11th September in former Jesuit college, now the University centre, in the beautiful town of Telč. The programme included several highly interesting blocks focussed on efficient and effective usage of computing resources, AI and Machine learning techniques for medical imagery and records processing, Containers and containerization of computational tasks and a panel on teaching online. Presentations from SitSem 2021 are available in here.

Hana Rudová was invited as a plenary speaker to the 12th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling. She will be talking about university course timetabling and a new International Timetabling Competition ITC 2019. The competition aims to motivate further research on complex university course timetabling problems coming from practice. One of the problems which will be solved in the competition comes from our Faculty of Informatics; others have been collected from institutions in North and South America, Asia and Africa using UniTime university timetabling system.

Our colleague Tereza Pařilová has received the Werner von Siemens Excelence Award for breaking the hurdles during the study. Tereza’s research includes assistive technologies for dyslexics and the influence of professional musical education on cognitive functions of the brain. Find more in Czech in the Masaryk University Online article on the topic and in the news!