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Norik of Muran mares will help children in Šúr

nasa.univerzita@uniba.sk — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:50:00 +0100

The horses came from the Muránska planina plateau in Central Slovakia and are still getting used to their new home. Šúr is a unique location and the research station is surrounded by an original alder wetland forest, a Pannonian oak grove and grass salt marshes. There is a pond and other bodies of water, the area of which changes depending on the rainfall and the inflow of water from the Male Karpaty mountains. Norik of Muran is a rare original Slovak horse breed, developed for logging work in the mountains. The breed is very calm and patient which makes it suitable for hippotherapy. „They like to be pet, they let people to comb them and feed from the hand,“ says the station’s manager Marián Grančič, who is in daily contact with the animals. A new stall was built for the horses, as well as play elements used in the therapy and an electric fence. Soon, facilities for children and their parents and an educational trail will be added. In addition to hippotherapy, the horses will be used for educational purposes for all those who want to learn more about natural communication with horses, or just want to enjoy the beauty of the Šúr reserve on horseback. „This activity stimulates the cooperation and joint projects of natural scientists (biological and environmental aspects), medical practitioners (hippotherapy) and teachers (special pedagogy). Our intention is create a link between the increasingly consumer-oriented world of people with the world of animals, which offers a return to the original qualities and values,“ explains the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Peter Fedor. In addition to helping children, the horses assist in preserving valuable biodiversity through grazing. For centuries, people from the surrounding villages kept horses, cows and goats in Šúr, thus preserving its unique plant set-up. However, in recent decades, livestock farming in the surrounding villages disappeared. The deterioration of the nature reserve led to an effort to restore the grazing tradition. The part of the reserve adjacent to the research station, which is under the administration of the Bratislava Regional Conservation Association, has steppe cows grazing on it and the Faculty of Natural Sciences uses two cuddly goats to graze its land in addition to the horses – Miša the billy goat and Lily the goat doe. The entire area of the Šúr research station has not seen major investments in decades, but that is gradually changing. With the financial help of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the faculty is planning to renovate the accommodation facilities for students who perform field practice, as well as other buildings which will serve biologists, environmentalists and other experts of the faculty who carry out their research here. The main objectives of the project of the Faculty of Sciences supported by The Prince Albert II Foundation: · support the protection of the gene pool of the rare national breed of the Norik of Muran · restore traditional land use (pasture), which maintains valuable biodiversity · use horses in hippotherapy · support environmental education

What is hippotherapy?

Hippotherapy is a treatment method that involves the horse as an assistant in physical and mental treatment and development of a patient. ‘Teaching and psychological riding’ develops, among other things, cognitive functions (memory, attention, thinking, spatial orientation...), and positively affects emotional experience or behaviour. It is suitable for people with autism spectrum disorders, sensory disabilities, mental disabilities, Down's syndrome, delayed development, speech and communication disorders, and for the long-term sick. Contact with a horse also has a beneficial effect on healthy children and adults.

Barbora Tancerová

Pressure, matter & computer

Roman.Martonak@fmph.uniba.sk — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:35:00 +0100

How computer helps us to reveal the secrets of matter under high pressure - prof. Martoňák (Faculty...

[Translate to English:] OBNOVENÝ INŠTITÚT ŠTUDENTSKÝCH POMOCNÝCH VEDECKÝCH SÍL NA FAKULTE

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:19:00 +0200

[Translate to English:] V pondelok 13. marca 2023 dekan fakulty pán docent Burda odovzdal siedmim študentom fakulty dekréty, ktorými ich vymenoval za študentské pomocné vedecké sily. Fakulta tak obnovila tento v minulosti osvedčený a prínosný inštitút, ktorý umožňuje študentom zapojiť sa do vedeckého výskumu realizovaného na fakulte a získať poznatky a zručnosti, ktoré vedec potrebuje. V príhovore pred odovzdaním dekrétov pán dekan zdôraznil, že fakulta bude dbať na to, aby študenti vykonávali také činnosti, ktoré im umožnia odborne rásť. Podľa internej úpravy poslaním študentskej pomocnej vedeckej sily je podieľať sa na čiastkových úlohách vo vedeckom výskume realizovanom určenou katedrou alebo určeným ústavom PraF UK pod vedením zamestnanca PraF UK. Zapojenie môže mať rôzne formy, napríklad môže ísť o vyhľadávanie zdrojov (literatúra, judikatúra), ich sústreďovanie, štúdium, kompiláciu poznatkov z nich vyplývajúcich a nadväzujúcu analýzu, zhromažďovanie, spracovanie a predbežnú interpretáciu dát v rámci empirického výskumu, pomoc pri administrácii grantových úloh, pri spracúvaní žiadostí o granty, pri organizovaní vedeckých konferencií a iných vedeckých a odborných podujatí, účasť na vedeckých konferenciách a iných vedeckých a odborných podujatiach a na stretnutiach výskumných tímov, ale samozrejme aj o realizáciu vlastného parciálneho výskumu a spracovanie jeho výsledkov do podoby práce ŠVOČ, vedeckého alebo odborného článku. Keďže činnosť študentských pomocných vedeckých síl je súčasťou projektu ŠVOČ, vymenovaní kolegovia boli zapísaní aj na príslušné výberové predmety k ŠVOČ. Vymenované študentské pomocné vedecké sily k včerajšiemu dňu sú: Bc. Filip Loffay, ktorý na katedre občianskeho práva pod vedením pani doktorky Rakovej bude skúmať najmä problematiku transidentity pri maloletých a etické a právne aspekty spojené s informovaným súhlasom, právne postavenie zraniteľných osôb a otázku plynutia času v súkromnom práve. Alex Želinský na katedre trestného práva, kriminológie a kriminalistiky svoj výskum realizovaný pod vedením pána profesora Čentéša zameria najmä na analýzu právnej úpravy a rozhodovacej činnosti súdov vo vzťahu k zločineckej skupine a právnej úpravy a limitov využívania inštitútu spolupracujúcej osoby. Bc. Maximilián Kiko bude pôsobiť ako študentská pomocná vedecká sila na tej istej katedre pod vedením pána doktora Mihálika. Oblasťou jeho zamerania bude najmä problematika umelej inteligencie a trestnej zodpovednosti; ohrozovania pod vplyvom návykovej látky v súvislosti s prevádzkou elektrických kolobežiek; následkov zámeny právoplatne odsúdenej osoby v trestnom procese pri trestných činoch vyžadujúcich predchádzajúce postihnutie páchateľa a (ne)dostatkov právnej úpravy a aplikačnej praxe pri trestnom čine úverového podvodu. Alžbeta Šimeková pod vedením pána profesora Strémyho z katedry trestného práva, kriminológie a kriminalistiky bude skúmať problematiku restoratívnej justície so zameraním na komparáciu nerovnosti trestných sadzieb v kontraste s dôležitosťou práv a právom chránených záujmov z pohľadu trestnej politiky štátu, a to vrátane tvorby námetov de lege ferenda. Daniel Richter bude štvrtou zo študentských pomocných vedeckých síl na katedre trestného práva, kriminológie a kriminalistiky. Pod vedením pána docenta Burdu bude realizovať výskum v rámci oblasti ustanovenia § 363 a nasl. Trestného poriadku a úvah de lege ferenda, prípadne otázok týkajúcich sa zefektívnenia priebehu prípravného konania. Stela Košťálová bude na Ústave práva informačných technológií a práva duševného vlastníctva pod vedením pána docenta Andraška bude zameriavať svoj výskum na problematiku právnych otázok týkajúcich sa technológií a ich následného vplyvu na ľudské práva. Bc. Jasmína Rebeka Paráková pod vedením dr. Mesarčíka bude pôsobiť na tom istom ústave fakulty, kde sa bude podieľať na výskume v oblasti práva a umelej inteligencie, špecificky pre projekt „Právo a umelá inteligencia“. Tento semester určite nejde o posledné vymenované študentské pomocné vedecké sily. Odovzdanie dekrétov ďalším kolegom sa pripravuje a návrhy na vymenovanie môžu učitelia, ktorí majú záujem študenta viesť, stále podávať. Veríme, že študentské pomocné vedecké sily sa nielen veľa naučia, ale že budú aj svojim vedúcim skutočnou pomocou a že ich pôsobenie bude vzájomne obohacujúce. Spýtali sme sa študentov prečo ste sa rozhodli pridať sa k pomocným silám vedeckého výskumu a čomu sa budete venovať? "Rozhodla som sa pridať k pomocným silám vedeckého výskumu, pretože ma veľmi zaujala téma, o ktorej sa začína výskum na Ústave práva informačných technológií a práva duševného vlastníctva, ktorou je Právo a umelá inteligencia. Vzhľadom k tomu, že v súčasnosti je táto téma stále viac diskutovaná, zaujíma ma pohľad z právneho odboru, a to ako je možné regulovať niečo také, ako je umelá intelgencia. Je to niečo, čo sa neustále mení a rýchlo vyvíja. Taktiež som zvedavá, ako prebieha výskum v právnom odbore, pretože je jednoduchšie si predstaviť výskum v medicínskom odbore alebo prírodovedeckom ako v právnom. Veľmi sa teším, že prišla fakulta s touto možnosťou a že sa môžem aj takto zapojiť a rozširovať svoje vedomosti." Bc. Jasmína Rebeka Paráková "Chcel som pôsobiť ako študentská vedecká pomocná sila najmä z toho dôvodu, že som sa v práve naozaj našiel a myslím si, že je dôležité sa snažiť pracovať na svojej špecializácii, čo najskôr, ako to ide. A myslím si, že ŠVPS je vhodná pozícia, ako pracovať jednak na právnej vede, ale aj naraziť na konkrétne aplikačné úskalia. Preto ma lákalo venovať sa konkrétne trestnému právu viacej. Vo svojej vedeckej práci sa chcem primárne venovať ustanoveniu 363 Trestného poriadku, nakoľko si už píšem prácu ŠVOČ na túto tému. Plánujem sa podieľať aj na akejkoľvek téme, na ktorej sa podieľa môj školiteľ, pretože trestné právo je veľmi komplexné a napokon naozaj zaujímavé právne odvetvie." Daniel Richter "Zaujala ma možnosť podieľať sa na právnom výskume priamo na Fakulte a predstavuje to pre mňa spôsob ako možno prispieť k preskúmaniu hraníc, ktoré nastavuje súčasná legislatíva a reflektovať jej nedostatky najmä v oblasti rýchlo vyvíjajúcich sa technológií. Tento novozavedený inštitút umožní študentom hlbšie sa venovať právnym otázkam, ktoré v konečnom dôsledku môžu posunúť právnu vedu. V rámci výskumu sa budem primárne venovať skúmaniu právnych otázok, ktoré sa dotýkajú vplyvu nových technológií na ľudské práva a v rámci toho vypracovávať právne analýzy a pomáhať v činnostiach, ktoré prislúchajú k výskumu, na čo sa veľmi teším, lebo budem môcť priamo participovať na výskume." Stela Košťálová Ján Škrobák Predseda Rady ŠVOČ na PraF UK

Mathematics has many faces but everything eventually fits together like a puzzle

nasa.univerzita@uniba.sk — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:18:00 +0100

You are a laureate of the formal sciences category in the L'Oréal – UNESCO For Women in Science program. What does this award mean to you and how do you view it? Receiving the award was, of course, a great pleasure and I am very grateful for it. I am glad that this talent program specifically supports young female researchers, who are still underrepresented in technical sciences. Why did you sign up to the competition? I learned about the project from our dean while I was still on parental leave. It was already coming to an end, so I saw joining this program as a possible restart of my career. And also as an opportunity to bring my work closer to the public and to attract new students to mathematics. Have you received any other awards? Which of them make you the most proud? I have only been doing research for a relatively short time and the L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science award is my first major award. At the beginning of my career, I was greatly encouraged to do research by winning the prize of the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz for an excellent dissertation. Did you know from early on that mathematics was what you wanted to do in the future? I remember that I liked logical problems and puzzles even as a child and math at school was one of my favourite subjects. However, I only decided to study mathematics in the graduation year of my secondary school. Until then, I considered studying foreign languages or medicine. What led me to choose the study at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Comenius University was curiosity, I think. I didn't know what was in store for me and I had no idea that research in mathematics would become my profession. In your research you focus on mathematical models of the flow of fluids, liquids and gases that occurs in many natural phenomena and engineering applications. Could you tell us more about this area and what practical applications your research has? I work specifically on Navier-Stokes equations that model the flow of fluids. They have a very wide range of practical applications, from meteorology to car aerodynamics, medicine and astrophysics. It is a system of partial differential equations, whose solutions are functions describing the changes in density, velocity and total energy of the fluid in time and space. However, in general, we cannot find their analytical solution, and we therefore need suitable numerical methods that allow us to design computer algorithms which generate an approximate calculation. To make sure that these simulations do not rely solely on a numerical method which provides a solution that is only apparently correct, we must verify its correctness and accuracy with a mathematical proof of the convergence of the approximate solutions and, and we must estimate the error. These theoretical results are then used in applied research, where experts deal with practical problems from real life.

Dr. Hana Šmitala Mizerová
studied mathematical analysis at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University Bratislava, continued her doctoral studies in mathematics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and Waseda University in Tokyo as part of a three-year scholarship awarded by the German DFG agency. She also worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 2021, she obtained the qualification of independent researcher (VKS IIa). She currently works at the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Mathematics of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics. Her field includes numerical analysis of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations that describe fluid flow.

Dr. Hana Šmitala Mizerová

studied mathematical analysis at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University Bratislava, continued her doctoral studies in mathematics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and Waseda University in Tokyo as part of a three-year scholarship awarded by the German DFG agency. She also worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 2021, she obtained the qualification of independent researcher (VKS IIa). She currently works at the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Mathematics of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics. Her field includes numerical analysis of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations that describe fluid flow.

What is your role in this research? My role is to design and analyse numerical methods that are used to solve problems involving the flow of liquids and gases. Ocean surface motion requires a different approach than does airflow around the wing of an aeroplane. Me and my colleagues study which methods are effective and stable for a specific problem, and try to find out whether the sequence of solutions they provide converges; which solution is the limit of this sequence, or what error a numerical calculation produces. How long have you been doing research? I started researching Navier-Stokes equations and fluid flow back in 2009 while writing my bachelor's thesis. I then continued to study this area in my diploma thesis and my dissertation. In recent years, I had the opportunity to collaborate on the design of a new approach in the numerical analysis of compressible fluids. We would like to expand this approach to include models that take into account the interaction of the fluid with its surroundings, i.e. the influence of the external environment, such as an external heat source. Imagine a pipe in which the fluid flows periodically, i.e. so that inflow at one end is the same as outflow at the other. Our recent theoretical results of numerical solutions can be applied to such situations. Our next goal is to see if these results remain valid if, for example, the fluid begins to flow into the pipe faster or the pipe heats up due to solar radiation. What do you enjoy most about working as a research mathematician? What I enjoy the most about mathematics is that it offers many possibilities of describing and exploring the world around us. To me, it is fascinating how numerical calculations and theoretical proofs show the precision with which mathematics reflects the laws of physics. Mathematics is diverse and in a sense it gives the freedom to choose one's own research career. On the other hand, it often requires working in your free time. This, however, is compensated by the satisfaction of solving a problem and seeing everything fit together like a puzzle. Have you ever encountered any gender-based prejudice or misunderstandings on the part of your colleagues? I personally have not encountered or witnessed any prejudice even though men still dominate the field of mathematics. Research work should not be judged by the author’s gender, but by its contribution to society. What would you say to budding female researchers who want to pursue mathematics like you? It is indispensable to like your work and be driven by curiosity and the desire to discover. I want to give them encouragement: don't be afraid to embark on a research career, even if you may not yet know what awaits you. In the beginning it is also important to have a good mentor to show you the possibilities and guide your first steps. Radka Rosenbergová

Seminar of Graph Theory - Roman Nedela (16.3.2023)

Martin.Skoviera@fmph.uniba.sk — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:25:00 +0100

Roman Nedela (Mathematical Institute SAS Bratislava):
Covers and semicovers between graphs: Who is stronger? Abstract:
A graph A is called stronger than a graph B if every simple graph that covers A also covers B. This notion was defined and found useful for NP-hardness reductions for disconnected graphs. Kratochvil conjectured that if $A$ has no semi-edges, then $A$ is stronger than $B$ if and only if $A$ covers $B$. We prove this conjecture for cubic one-vertex graphs, and we also justify it for all cubic graphs $A$ with at most 4 vertices. (Joint work with J. Kratochvil) More information

The Guest Lecture - Relation of Adaptation Between Company and the Environment

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:04:00 +0100

As part of FMCU's international cooperation with foreign universities, we invite you to a guest lecture by Prof. Marco Valeri (Niccolo’ Cusano University, Roma, Italy) on the topic of Relation of Adaptation Between Company and the Environment.

The guest lecture will take place on March 22, 2023, from 14:00 to 15:20 in room no. 12 (main building).

The lecture will take place for the Erasmus students of the course Organisational Cultures (European features), but all students and teachers interested in this topic can participate. The lecture will be in English.

More information:
doc. PhDr. Lukáš Copuš, PhD. (Department of Management; lukas.copus@fm.uniba.sk)

Future priests will study in Nitra for two to three years

pr@uniba.sk — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:23:00 +0100

The auditorium, dining room, chapel, all of the windows and the external facade of the building were renovated earlier. Soon, existing accommodation facilities will undergo a renovation and new ones will be added, and teacher’s offices at departments and classrooms will be also be modernised. All utilities in the building will be replaced. The inner quadrum of the building will either be renovated or completely glazed, and a lift will be installed. The renovation is fully financed by the Archdiocese of Bratislava which owns the building. The faculty educates future priests who live in the Priest Seminary and are expected to find placement in the Archdioceses of Bratislava and Trnava, but its students also include lay people and monks. From September 2023, their full-time study will moved to the Priest Seminary of St. Gorazd in Nitra. Due to this joining of the forces, the faculty will require smaller numbers of pedagogues. Bratislava will later only host doctoral students, but will also be dedicated to an expanding study of religious education and additional pedagogical studies. These students will use the rooms of the faculty’s library. The management of the faculty remains in the capital.

Doctoral colloquium - Andrej Baláž (13.3.2023)

Damas.Gruska@fmph.uniba.sk — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:20:00 +0100

Andrej Baláž:
Compressed self-indexes for pangenomic datasets
Abstract:
Recent advancements in sequencing technologies brought a steep decrease in the acquisition price and a rapid increase in the growth of the size of novel genomic datasets. This growth and the shifting paradigm of jointly analysing all the related sequences, also called pangenomics, demand new data structures and algorithms for efficient processing. We will present several data structures, also called self-indexes, which form the basic building blocks of fundamental bioinformatics algorithms, such as read alignment. Due to the immense sizes of the pangenomic datasets, these self-indexes have to be compressed while remaining time-efficient to be practical. Therefore, we will show two compression techniques, tunnelling and r-indexing, and highlight our contributions to the compressed self-indexes in the form of a space-efficient construction algorithm and pattern-matching algorithm.

Guest IBM lecture: Employer Branding

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:22:00 +0100

As part of FMCU's cooperation with practice, we invite you to a guest lecture by IBM on the topic: "Employer Branding".

The guest lecture will take place on April 18, 2023, from 1:20 PM to 2:40 PM in room no. 3. The speaker will be Matúš Mazán, who works at IBM as an Employer Branding Specialist. The lecture will take place within the course International Marketing, but all students and teachers interested in this topic can participate. The lecture will be in English.

More information:
prof. Mgr. Dagmar Cagáňová, PhD. (teacher of the course International Marketing; Department of Marketing FMCU; dagmar.caganova@fm.uniba.sk)
doc. PhDr. Lukáš Copuš, PhD. (IBM University Ambassador for FMUK; Department of Management FMCU; lukas.copus@fm.uniba.sk)