The scientists of the Czech Republic take part in the research work on the following themes of the Topical plan for JINR research and international cooperation for the year 2017:

• Theoretical physics
  (cooperation on 5 themes);
• Elementary particle physics and relativistic nuclear physics
  (14 themes);
• Nuclear physics
  (5 themes);
• Condensed matter physics, radiation and radiobiological research
  (7 themes);
• Networks, computing, computing physics
  (2 themes);
• Educational program
  (1 theme).

Czech scientists in JINR are also acting as leaders or co-leaders of several scientific projects and themes.

The co-leader of the “Non-Accelerator Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics” theme (03-2-1100-2010/2015) is Dr. Alojz Kovalík. Dr. Kovalík is also a co-supervisor of the project GDH&SPASCHARM.

A Czech participant in the BECQUEREL project (leader P.I. Zarubin) is Věra Bradnová, the head of the LHEP group. The project involves e.g.: studies of fragmentation and multi-fragmentation processes, or search for manifestations of collective effects with photoemulsion nuclei at various energies.

The Vice-Director of JINR, Dr. Richard Lednický, is member of the Executive Committee of the NICA/MPD project at JINR. He is also a co-leader of the STAR group at JINR (collaboration with BNL, USA) and a member of the Executive Committee for the DIRAC collaboration.

A large group of scientists from the Czech Republic, headed by Prof. Miroslav Finger (Doctor of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), professor of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague, and a staff member of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna for many years), studies spin effects in hadron–nucleon and lepton–nucleon interactions within the scope of the theme “Study of polarization phenomena and spin effects at the JINR Nuclotron-M accelerator complex”, leader A.D. Kovalenko. Since 2002 extensive physics research has been carried out within the programme for the study of the proton, neutron, and deuteron structure and for precision hadron spectroscopy. Participation in the COMPASS project at CERN is still the main priority of the team headed by Prof. M. Finger. The work on further development of the СMS/LHC electromagnetic calorimetry continues as well. Regarding further cooperation between Czech universities and JINR, the team places its hopes on the JINR plans to implement the NICA–Nuclotron–M project embracing both relativistic nuclear physics research and spin experiments with polarized particles.

• Charles University
• Institute of Physics ASCR
• Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of ASCR
• Czech Technical University (CTU)
• Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of CTU
• Nuclear Research Institute of ASCR
• Nuclear Physics Institute of ASCR
• Institute of Biophysics of ASCR
• Institute of Scientific Instruments of ASCR
• Technical University of Liberec
• Silesian University in Opava
• University of Chemical Technology in Prague
• VAKUUM PRAHA Company
• Institute of Geology of ASCR

Since March 2014 the Plenipotentiary of the government of the Czech Republic in JINR is Jan Dobeš, the vice director of the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (NPI AS CR).

Jan Dobeš was born in 1944 in Zlín. He graduated from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FNSPE) of the Czech Technical University (CTU). His doctoral thesis “Diffraction Model for Direct Nuclear Reactions” was defended at the Charles University in Prague. His main scientific interests have been the theory of direct and pre­equilibrium nuclear reactions and the theory of nuclear structure – interacting boson model.

He has been member of many international scientific committees, e.g.: Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee; Steering Committee – European Fusion Development Agreement; Program Advisory Committee for nuclear physics, Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna; and others. During his scientific career he has also received several prestigious awards.

Jan Dobeš was director of the NPI AS CR for 12 years: 1998 ­ 2012. Since 2012 he has become the vice director of the aforementioned organization.

More about the Czech Plenipotentiary Jan Dobeš can be found on his personal webpage.

Plenipotentiary representative alternate

Docent Ivan Štekl, Director of the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of the Czech Technical University has been approved by the Minister of Education of the Czech Republic as the plenipotentiary representative alternate.

Docent Štekl was born in 1962 in Pardubice. He graduated from the FNSPE CTU with the diploma thesis: “Time base of laser radar”. At the FNSPE CTU, Ivan Štekl also defended his doctoral thesis titled: “Double beta decay of 48Ca”. He was habilitated to Docent in 2005 at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia for his work: “Shielding of neutrons and gamma-rays in experiments ATLAS a NEMO”.

Ivan Štekl is internationally recognized expert in the field of radiation shielding and low background technologies. He is a long-term collaborator of the JINR and he is also responsible for the Summer Schools and Practices for the Czech students.

Docent Štekl is author of more than 300 scientific publications with over 4000 citations. He has been investigator or principal investigator of many projects (Center of experimental nuclear astrophysics and nuclear physics; projects INGO: „Non-accelerator astroparticle physics in underground laboratories“; and others) and also a member of many scientific committees (e.g.: Committee for Large Research Infrastructures in the Czech Republic; or Energy Working Group, European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures).

Finance Committee representative

The representative of the Czech Republic in the Finance committee of the JINR is Stanislav Kulhánek from the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic. He holds this position since 2010 and he has been repeatedly re-elected as a chairman of this committee. Stanislav Kulhánek is also a member of the Committee for Collaboration of the Czech Republic with the JINR.

Professor Ivan Wilhelm, Rector Emeritus of the Charles University in Prague and former member of the Government Council for Research and Development, has been member of the JINR Scientific Council for many years.

Ivan Wilhelm was born in May 1942. He graduated from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University. He has become a professor of experimental physics in 1999 at the Charles University in Prague. From 2000 till 2006 he held the position of rector of the Charles University, and he was also elected chairman of the Czech Conference of Rectors.

Ivan Wilhelm is an Honorary Doctor of the University of Claude Bernard in Lyon and the Comenius University in Bratislava.

Professor Wilhelm works in the field of experimental nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. He is an author and a co-author of approximately hundred scientific publications. He has participated in numerous conferences and has been invited to give lectures at many Universities abroad. He is a member of many scientific committees, e.g.: Committee on coordination of the Czech Republic in CERN; Committee on coordination of the Czech Republic in JINR; Association of the European Universities and others. During his fruitful career, professor Wilhelm received many awards, e.g.: Award of Vatican – Pontiff Grigory the Great; Medal of the JINR Committee of Plenipotentiaries; or Award of Knights of the academic palms order of the French Republic.

Professor Stanislav Pospíšil, former director of the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of the Czech Technical University, has been elected to the JINR Scientific Council in the beginning of 2013.

Stanislav Pospíšil was born in 1942 in Přerov, Czech Republic. He graduated from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University. He defended his doctoral thesis in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics at the Charles University. In 2009, he has become the Professeur associé of the University of Montreal, Canada.

His main research activities have been: Neutron physics; Nuclear spectroscopy; Instrumentation for nuclear and sub-nuclear physics (strip and pixel detectors, radiation hardness of detectors); Non-accelerator astroparticle experiments; and many others. He is a member of many scientific and international committees, e.g.: Council of the NPI AS CR, Scientific Council of JINR, or IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. He is also an author or co-author of more than 300 publications and he is holding 4 technological patents.

Over the time, since the foundation of JINR, Czech national group has developed its inner traditions, forms of cooperation and interaction with other groups. The leaders of the national group, appointed by the Plenipotentiary, are playing an organizing role in the life of the national communities.

• 

  Alojz Kovalík
  Head of the national group of the Czech Republic, Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Deputy Director of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems.

• 

  +7 (49621) 6-58-95

• 

  kovalik@nusun.jinr.ru

• 

  Vratislav Chudoba
  Deputy head of the national group, Ph.D. Research Scientist of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions

• 

  +7 (49621) 6-43-80

• 

  chudoba@jinr.ru

The afore mentioned persons mediate contacts with the Plenipotentiary, Czech Embassy, Directorate and services of the JINR management. They also participate in solving issues connected with the stay of their colleagues-compatriots and members of their families in Russia, and help to organize their life and leisure. 24 Czech experts are employed in the Institute at the moment. Council of the national groups leaders periodically meets with the representatives of the Directorate to discuss the problems that interest the Czech employees.

• 1 January – Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State; New Year’s Day
• March/April – Good Friday
• March/April – Easter Monday
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 8 May – Liberation Day
• 5 July – Saints Cyril and Methodius Day
• 6 July – Jan Hus Day
• 28 September – St. Wenceslas Day (Czech Statehood Day)
• 28 October – Independent Czechoslovak State Day
• 17 November – Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day
• 24 December – Christmas Eve
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – St. Stephen’s Day (The Second Christmas Day)

• A two-day visit to JINR of a Czech delegation headed by Director of the NUVIA company Martin Pazur and Director of the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of the Czech Technical University Ivan Štekl was held on 10-11 May 2017
• 29-30 March 2016. After the successful holding of the JINR Days in the Czech Republic at the end of 2015 in Prague and Brno, a representative Czech delegation arrived in Dubna to pay a return visit.
• 22-23 October 2015. JINR Days in the Czech Republic. Day One – Prague. Day Two – Brno.
• From 14 to 18 September 2015 in Dubna the Forum on Development of Cooperation between JINR and Czech Academic and Scientific Institutions is being held.
• On 16-21 August 2015 the international school “Perspective methods of modern theoretical physics: the integrated and stochastic systems”, was successfully held in JINR, Dubna. It was organized by the Bogoliubov Laboratory of theoretical physics, the University Center of JINR, the Faculty of nuclear physics of the Prague state university within the DIAS–TH program.
• On 26 March 2015, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to RF Vladimír Remek participated in the festive events on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of foundation of JINR; Vladimir Remek is the first cosmonaut of Czechoslovakia and the first man in space, who is not a citizen of the USSR or the USA.
• The correspondent of the JINR weekly newspaper “Dubna: Science, Community, Progress” in Prague Antonín Janata sent a message that the Scientific Council of the Czech Technical University at the solemn session on 20 January 2015 awarded the title of “Honorary Doctor of Science” to JINR Vice-Director Richard Lednický.
• Jan Dobeš was elected as a new Plenipotentiary of the government of the Czech Republic in JINR on 21 March 2014.
• A delegation from the Czech Republic headed by Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Dalibor Štys visited JINR on 22-24 November 2013.
• The ceremonial events devoted to the 10th anniversary of foundation of the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of the Czech Technical University were held on 4-6 June 2012 in Prague.
• JINR Days in the Czech Republic is being held this week 29-31 May 2012 in Prague. A delegation from Dubna will present a photographic exhibition “The Czech Republic in JINR”, prepared by the JINR Scientific Information Department.
• Days of the Czech Republic in JINR will be started on 28 March 2012 at the JINR Club of scientists. JINR leaders, representatives of Czech ministries and agencies, the Czech Embassy in Moscow, heads of Czech companies, and scientific laboratories will take part in the opening ceremony.
  Materials of the event