Joint seminars of the NPI
The joint seminars of the Nuclear Physics Institute are reserved for subjects extending the scope of interests of one department (mainly seminars of the important guests, reviews on NPI groups and the outstanding results, usually in English).
Next seminar:
29. 1. 2026
Charles Hervoches, Ph.D. (DNIM NPI): Probing structure-property relationships in energy materials using advanced diffraction techniques
Abstract:
Accurate, non‑destructive structure determination is essential for rationally engineering energy materials. In this seminar we survey state‑of‑the‑art diffraction techniques—X‑ray, neutron, synchrotron, TEM, PDF, and EXAFS—alongside complementary computational modeling, and illustrate their application to three systems: Bi‑based oxide‑ion conductors, proton‑conducting La₅.₆WO₁₂‑δ, and the magnetic–electric (ME) A₄M₂O₉ family. Together, these studies demonstrate that bridging long‑range order with local dynamic disorder—achieved only through complementary diffraction techniques and theory—provides the critical structure–property map needed to design next‑generation ionic conductors and magnetoelectric devices.
Archive of seminars:
2026
- 22. 1. 2026
Prof. RNDr. Svatopluk Civiš, DrSc., J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences:
The origin of water on Earth
2025
- 11. 12. 2025
RNDr. Jan Borovička, Ph.D., DNIM NPI:
From neutrons to arsenic and new mushroom species - 20. 11. 2025
Mgr. Robert Filgas, Ph.D., IEAP CTU Prague:
Radiation monitors for space application - 6. 11. 2025
Ing. Jakub Vícha, Ph.D., Department of astroparticle physics, FZU CAS:
Do we hear heavy-metal of cosmic rays at the highest energies - 23. 10. 2025
Dr. Raffaele Del Grande, FNSPE CTU Prague:
Femtoscopy for interactions at the LHC - 16. 10. 2025
Prof. Ing. Igor Jex, DrSc., FNSPE CTU Prague:
Quantum simulations and computing using light - 25. 9. 2025
RNDr. Petr Chaloupka, Ph.D., FNSPE CTU Prague & DHIP NPI:
Exploring baryon-rich QCD matter with CBM at FAIR - 8. 9. 2025
Stefanus Harjo, J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency:
Neutron Engineering Materials Diffractometer TAKUMI in J-PARC - 29. 6. 2025
Mgr. Vladimír Šauli, Ph.D., DTP NPI:
Quarkonia and Lorentz invariant picture of heavy (and light) quarks confinement - 19. 6. 2025
Ing. Monika Robotková, DHIP NPI:
Jet substructure measurements elucidating partonic evolution in p+p collisions at RHIC - 22. 5. 2025
prof. Alan Cooper, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia:
Cosmic Radiation and the Earth’s Magnetic Field: A History of Environmental and Archaeological Transitions - 15. 5. 2025
prof. RNDr. Jan Kvasil, DrSc., Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, FMP Charles University:
Toroidal, compressional, scissor, breathing and other collective excitations in nuclei - 24. 4. 2025
prof. Ing. Ondřej Lebeda, Ph.D., DRP NPI:
Cyclotron radionuclides for medicine and physics - 10. 4. 2025
Mgr. Antonín Opíchal, DHIP NPI:
Overview of Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry of Superheavy Elements: Instrumentation, Challenges, and Future Perspectives - 13. 3. 2025
Doc. Michal Šumbera, CSc., DSc., DHIP NPI:
Cosmology from Strong Interactions - 6. 3. 2025
prof. Nena Galanidou, Dept. of History & Archaeology, University of Crete, Greece:
Dating the Paleolithic record of Greece: research challenges and perspectives - 20. 2. 2025
RNDr. Jaroslav Zálešák, Ph.D., Institute of Physics, CAS:
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment - 6. 2. 2025
Ing. Přemysl Beran, Ph.D., DNIM NPI:
ESS – a new type of spallation neutron source for scientific research - 23. 1. 2025
Prof. Jiří Chýla, CSc., Institute of Physics, CAS:
Knowledge born of despair - 16. 1. 2025
Vladimir Lotoreichik, Ph.D., DSc., DTP NPI:
Asymptotic analysis of Dirac operators on thin domains and with small inclusions
2024
- 12. 12. 2024
Mgr. Jiří Šneberger, DRD NPI, Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Faculty of Science UK, Museum of West Bohemia:
Bioarchaeology – a multidisciplinary approach to the reconstruction of the life and death of past populations - 25. 11. 2024
Alexander Turbiner, ICN-UNAM, Mexico and Stony Brook University, US:
Helium atom and helium-like ions - where we are today - 20. 11. 2024
Gergely Farkas, DNIM NPI:
Line profile analysis of single crystals using 3D diffraction data - 14. 11. 2024
Dalibor Skoupil, DTP NPI:
Model selection in electromagnetic production of kaons - 24. 10 , 2024
V. Weinzettl, IPP CAS:
The COMPASS Upgrade tokamak – an advanced research project in the context of current progress in thermonuclear fusion - 10. 10. 2024
Gabriele Maria Grittani, ELI Beamlines:
GeV radiation sources based on laser wakefield acceleration at ELI Beamlines user facility - 26. 9. 2024
Jiří Šneberger, DRD NPI, IA CAS, Faculty of Science UK, Museum of West Bohemia:
Bioarchaeology – a multidisciplinary approach to the reconstruction of the life and death of past populations - 26. 9. 2024
Jarmila Bíšková, DRD NPI & DAM, Masaryk University:
Reservoirs in bone collagen as a significant factor affecting radiocarbon dating in archaeology - 19. 9. 2024
Martin Ansorge, DNR NPI:
Collimated beams of fast neutrons and on-beam nuclear data measurements with CLID system at U-120M facility
- 27. 6. 2024
Adéla Jagerová, DNP:
Nanostructuring of crystalline semiconductors with energetic ion beams for novel optical functional materials - 20. 6. 2024
Zuzana Golec Mírová, DRD NPI:
Centralization and decentralization processes of the 14th‒4th century BC in Moravia
& Kristýna Hošková, DRD NPI:
Modern phytolith analysis: development of possible solutions for (paleo-)ecological problems - 12.6.2024
Roman Pasechnik, Lund University:
Glueball dark matter - 30. 5. 2024
František Knapp, FMP CUNI:
Collective vibrations and giant resonances in atomic nuclei
- 16. 5. 2024
Tomáš Matlocha, DA NPI:
Enhanced beam extraction system at the U-120M cyclotron
- 18. 4. 2024
Veronika Brychová, DRD NPI:
History written in pores – compound specific radiocarbon analysis of archaeological pottery
- 4. 4. 2024
Mgr. Vladimír Strunga, DNS:
Radiation effects in organic phases of uranium-bearing mineralizations
- 21. 3. 2024
Karel Šafařík, FNSPE CTU in Prague:
Ultrasoft photon production - 13. 3. 2024
Jiří Hošek, IEAP CTU and CAS:
Electroweak gauge model with ultimately calculable quark and lepton masses and with theory-enforced astro-particle physics sector
(At be beginning of this seminar Jiří Hošek was awarded a diploma of emeritus researcher.) - 3. 3. 2024 - 10.00
Jitka Kufnerová, DRD NPI:
Science versus wildlife crime - 29. 2. 2024
Robert Líčeník, NPI:
Jet physics at STAR
& Artem Kotliarov, NPI:
Search for jet quenching effects in high multiplicity pp collisions with ALICE - 8. 2. 2024
Iurii Karpenko, Ph.D., FNSPE CTU in Prague:
Collective dynamics in heavy-ion collisions
2023
- Thursday, December 14, 2023 - 10.00
P. Cejnar (FMP CU, Prague)
Quantum entanglement and Bell inequalities – reflections of the 2022 Nobel Prize - Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 10.00
B. Bergmann (IEAP CTU in Prague)
The MoEDAL-MAPP experiment – Recent results and upgrade plans - Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - 10.00
L. Contessi (IJCab-CNRS, Paris-Orsay)
Many-body systems around universality - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 10.00
S. Valenta (FMP CU, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics)
Measurement of neutron-induced reactions using n_TOF @ CERN - Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 10.00
O. Ogorodnikova (NPI, Department of Nuclear Reactions)
Materials under extreme conditions - Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 10.00
M. Šefčík (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
KATRIN experiment operation and its results - Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10.00
D. Zákoucký (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
Experimental Tests of the Standard Model of Weak Interactions
(presentation slides in pdf here) - Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 10.00
D. Adamová (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid: A little bit of history, current challenges in the preparations for HL-LHC and the contribution of the Czech Tier-2 computing center to the overall WLCG performance - Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 10.00
D. Denisova (NPI, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Electroproduction of nuclei - Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10.30
B. Schaefer (Physics Department of Lehigh University, USA)
Three Short Pieces: On Baryon Number Conservation, Hard Process Associated Deuteron Production, and a Development in Time of Flight Particle Identification - Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 10.00
M. Schäfer (NPI, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Scattering of few nucleons in NLO Pionless Effective Field Theory - n-d, n-3H, n-3He, and n-4He elastic scattering - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 10.00
D. Koliadko (NPI, Department of Nuclear Reactions)
High Priority Request List cross section measurements: 7Li(d,x)3H/7Be and 39K(n,p)39Ar
A. Isakov (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
Inclusive production of b jets in collisions of p–Pb and pp in ALICE - Friday, February 24, 2023 - 10.00
I. Horváth (NPI, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Lattice QCD as a Discovery Tool - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 10.00
R. Garba (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
The use of cosmogenic nuclides in archaeology and geosciences - Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 10.00
A. Prozorov (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
Neutral meson flow and yield in AgAg@1.58 AGev at HADES
2022
- Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 10:15
O. Romanenko (NPI, Department of Neutron Physics)
The Time of Flight Channel and the new Dual Ion Microbeam facility as a tool for in-situ analysis at the Ruder Boskovic Institute - Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 10:00
M. Macko (Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, CTU in Prague)
How can we study neutrino physics without neutrinos? - Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 10:00
J. Chýla (Institute of Physics CAS)
Higgs boson at 10: tribute to Peter Higgs - Thursday, September 8, 2022 - 10:15
P. Malinský (NPI, Department of Neutron Physics)
„Ježek“ - soustava Si-PIPS detektorů pro RBS-kanálování s celkovým prostorovým úhlem 680 mSr - Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 10:00
L. Chlad (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
HADES Time-of-Flight detektor - modernizace a kalibrace - Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 10:00
Peter C. Bruns (NPI, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Chiral symmetry constraints and their importance for hadron physics - Thursday, November 28, 2019 - 10:00
J. Kučera (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
Project Ramses and its development in ÚJF
- Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - 9:30
T. Matlocha (NPI, Department of Accelerators)
Optimalizace parametrů testovacího stendu iontového zdroje medicinálního cyklotronu
- Monday, September 9, 2019 - 10:00
A. Turbiner (ICN-UNAM, Mexico and Stony Brook University, USA)
Choreography in Physics
- Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:00
M. Schäfer (NPI, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Pionless EFT theory revealing the onset of ΛΛ hypernuclear binding - Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 10:00
J. Hrtánková (NPI, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Microscopic model for K- absorption on two nucleons in nuclear matter - Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 10:00
prof. Carlos A. Bertulani (Texas University)
Neutron skins, pigmy resonances and neutron stars - Thursday, April 25, 2019, 9:15
Petr Chudoba (NPI, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy)
Elektromagnetický kalorimetr ECAL@HADES – instalace a spouštění - Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 10.00
P. Kundrát (NPI, Department of Radiation Dosimetry)
Modelling radiation effects at subcellular and cellular levels - Friday, December 7, 2018 - 10.30
P. I. Zarubin (JINR, Dubna, Russia)
News report on application of nuclear track emulsion - Thursday, March 15, 2018 - 10.30
You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
From Little Bang to Mini Bang: The universe's primordial soup owing at the LHC - Friday, March 9, 2018 - 10.30
A. Cvetinovic (INFN - LNS, Catania)
The Trojan Horse method and the electron screening puzzle - Thursday, February 22, 2018 - 10.30
M. Sumbera (Nuclear Spectroscopy Deptm.)
Quark-gluon plasma: the fastest rotating fluid
