University Partnership Heidelberg–Prague

Celebrating twenty-five years of successful cooperation   27th–29th April, 2015

Programme

Opening ceremony, 27th April 2015; Carolinum, Patriotic Hall

Time Speaker Event
17:00 Rectors and Vice-Rectors Opening greetings by the Rectors and Vice-Rectors
Conferring the Decree of Visiting Professor to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult Willi Jäger
17:30 Chaired by Prof. MUDr. Jan Škrha, DrSc., MBA (Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Charles University) Round Table about potentials and added value of the partnership (participation of the Heidelberg Rector Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel, Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse, Head of the Office of International Affairs Dr. H. Joachim Gerke, Partnership Coordinator Prof. Dr. Jadranka Gvozdanovic; Rector of Charles University in Prague Prof. MUDr. Tomáš Zima, DrSc., Vice-Rector for European Affairs Prof. PhDr. Lenka Rovná, CSc., Vice-Rector for Education doc. MUDr. Milena Králíčková, PhD., Vice-Rector for Research doc. RNDr. Jan Konvalinka, CSc.)
Evening Opening of the Exhibition „Jan Hus and Prague University“ followed by evening reception, Carolinun, Ground Floor

Colloquium, 28th April 2015; Carolinum, Small Auditorium, 2nd Floor

Time Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:30 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter-Christian Müller-Graff The Role of Fundamental Rights in the EU Federal Community of Law
9:30 - 10:00 JUDr. Ing. Jiří Zemánek, CSc. Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union
10:00 - 11:30 Panel Bridging Scales — challenges to mathematics and scientific computing in life sciences and material sciences
(Chaired by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult Willi Jäger, Prof. Josef Málek and Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans Georg Bock)
10:00 - 10:10 Prof. RNDr. Josef Málek, CSc., DSc. (Mathematical Institute, Prague) More than 25 years cooperation in mathematics: Analysis, numerics and computational sciences
10:10 - 11:00 Snapshots
Prof. RNDr. Miloslav Feistauer, DrSc., Dr. h.c. (Department of Numerical Mathematics, Prague) Wings in the wind — Interactions of fluids and solid structures
Dr. Martin Heida (PhD programme Heidelberg/Prague, now TU Dortmund) Keeping the feet on the ground — Reactive flow and transport in permafrost soil
Martin Řehoř (PhD programme Prague/Heidelberg) Producing float glass on computer — Mathematical modeling and numerical challenges
Dr. Petra Pustějovská (PhD programme Prague/Heidelberg, now TU Munich) Mathematics for joints — Synovial fluids and transport processes through membranes
Marek Netušil (PhD programme Prague/Heidelberg) Mathematical modeling of soft tissues
11:00 - 11:30 Discussion on new perspectives of Heidelberg-Prague cooperation (Prof. Peter Bastian, Prof. Willi Jäger (chair), Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans Georg Bock, Prof. Josef Málek, Vít Průša, Prof. Zdeněk Strakoš)
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 - 13:15 Panel Transculturality in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean
(Chaired by Prof. Peter Pavúk; Doc. Dr. Jana Mynářová)
Prof. Dr. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos Transculturality as a historical phenomenon and theoretical concept
Prof. Dr. Joseph Maran The study of early Mediterranean transculturality: Archaeological application
Dr. Maria Anastasiadou Processes of culture formation in the Aegean: Minoan versus Mycenaean Glyptic
Johannes Becker Landscape painting between Egypt and the Aegean
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Philipp Stockhammer A transcultural perspective on Aegean-type pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean
Sona Wirghová A transcultural perspective on material culture from Tiryns
Doc. Dr. Jana Mynářová Transculturality in the legal system of the Late Bronze Age Levant
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch break; Carolinum, Ground Floor
14:15 - 14:45 Mgr. Renata Landgráfová, Ph.D. Die Unterwelt eines Ägyptischen Priesters: Unterweltsbilder und Texte aus dem Grab des Iufaa in Abusir
14:45 - 15:15 Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedrich Quack Consulting the divine doctor. Invocations to Imhotep in the context of healing
15:15 - 15:45 Juliane Unger, M.A. 3000 years of backache - On the edition of Egyptian medical papyri using the example of Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.75+86
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Panel Glycobiological aspects of cancer
(Chaired by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kopitz, Prof. MUDr. Karel Smetana, DrSc.)
Prof. MUDr. Karel Smetana, DrSc. How to understand the intercellular crosstalk in cancer
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kopitz Glycans and glycan-binding proteins as functional markers in malignancy
17:00 - 17:15 Coffee break
17:15 - 18:00 Panel Added value of the University Partnership for research-oriented teaching
(Chaired by Vice-Rectors of the Universities of Heidelberg and Prague)

Heidelberg—Prague Workshop in Analysis and Numerics, 29th April 2015; Carolinum, Small Auditorium, 2nd Floor

The workshop is organized as an activity of Nečas Center for Mathematical Modeling. We thank to RSJ for its support in organising the workshop.

Time Speaker Title
Chairman: Zdeněk Dostál
8:30 - 9:00 Peter Bastian High-performance computing for porous media flows
9:05 - 9:35 Zdeněk Strakoš Operator preconditioning and matrix computations
9:40 - 10:10 Guido Kanschat Divergence conforming multigrid methods for coupled incompressible flow
10:15 - 10:45 coffee break
Chairman: Hans Georg Bock
10:45 - 11:15 Vít Průša Perspectives on using implicit type constitutive relations in the modelling of the behaviour of non-Newtonian fluids
11:20 - 11:50 Ekaterina Kostina Optimization methods for model validation
11:55 - 12:25 Jan Kuřátko, Stefan Ratschan Numerical optimization for finding error trajectories of hybrid dynamical systems
12:30 - 13:30 lunch
Chairman: Miroslav Bulíček
13:30 - 14:00 Hans Knüpfer Nucleation barriers for the austenite-to-martensite phase transition
14:05 - 14:35 Martin Kružík Minimization problems on orientation-preserving bi-Lipschitz maps
14:40 - 15:10 Matthias Maier Duality-based model adaptivity in context of multiscale methods
15:15 - 15:45 coffee break
Chairman: Willi Jäger
15:45 - 16:15 Ondřej Souček Modeling of porous flow with strong mechanical coupling in planetary applications
16:20 - 16:55 Yifan Yang Modelling and simulation of interactions of reactive flow with a solid structure leading to volume changes — Application to plaque formations in arteries
16:55 - 17:15 Jeremi Mizerski (Internatinal Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University fo Warsaw) MSO for the heart — Experiences and perspectives of modelling, simulation and optimization in surgery

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