The Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz has admitted five new members. Among them is Pavel Jungwirth, a physical chemist at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a member and, from 2020 to 2022, president of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic.
It is with deep sorrow that we received the news that on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, Prof. RNDr. Ivan Hirsch, CSc. (born 1946), a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, passed away at the age of 79.
Jaroslav Nešetřil, together with French mathematician Patrice Ossona de Mendez, has been awarded the 2025 Nerode Prize by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). They laid the foundations for a significant area of structural graph theory, known as Sparsity.
On Wednesday, May 21, an interdisciplinary meeting connecting mathematics, physics, artificial intelligence, and art took place in the refectory of the Professional House of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University. The recording of the lectures by Marc Mézard, Lenka Zdeborová, and Annie Cohen-Solal is now available.
The Council of the Learned Society expresses its solidarity with and support for universities in the United States that uphold academic freedom. It also voices concern over the restriction of funding for important programs in the fields of medicine and human rights.
The Council of the Learned Society expresses its support for Serbian students and university representatives who are facing intimidation and attacks on academic freedom.
The Council of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic expresses its support for Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression and appeals to the Czech political representation to take the necessary steps, together with its European partners, to strengthen Ukraine's defense capabilities and to ensure the security of the entire European continent.
It is a successor of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences. Its main aim is to promote the free practice of science in all of its manifestations, inspire the desire for knowledge and joy thereof, spread scientific findings amongst the public, and champion improvement in the levels of education and creative, rational and personally responsible social environment in the Czech Republic.
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