• February 12
  
• Tomáš Kalvoda defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "A resonant Effect for a periodically time-dependent singular flux tube and homogeneous magnetic field" written under supervision of Pavel Šťovíček. Congratulations!
• January 29
  
• Václav Potoček defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Optical implementation of quantum walks" written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!

2012

• December 3
  To further enrich this fall prize spree, the Siemens Prize 2012 for the most important result of fundamental research was awarded to Aurel Gábris, Craig Hamilton, Václav Potoček, Martin Štefaňák, and Igor Jex for the work entitled "A 2D quantum walk simulation of two particle dynamics". Congratulations!
• November 20
  Antonín Hoskovec was awarded the Preciosa Prize for his master thesis. Congratulations!
• November 20
  Michal Jex was awarded the Siemens Prize 2012 for his master thesis. Congratulations!
• November 8
  Igor Jex together with Jaroslav Novotný and Gernot Alber from TU Darmstadt were awarded the First Degree Prize of the Rector of Czech Technical University. The Second Degree Prize went to Jiří Tolar and Goce Chadzitaskos together with Petr Šulc and Miroslav Korbelář. Petr Siegl was awarded First Degree Prize for the doctoral thesis. Congratulations to all!
• November 5
  David Krejčiřík defended today with flying colors the DSc degree. Congratulations!
• November 5
  Petr Siegl and Štěpán Starosta were awarded Josef Hlávka Prize. Congratulations!
• May 28
  We have been pleased to learn that Václav Potoček was awarded third prize in the Milan Odehnal Prize competition. Congratulations!
• April 26
  
• Štěpán Starosta defended today at the Czech Technical University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Rauzy graph automorphisms and their applications" written under supervision of Edita Pelantová. Congratulations!
• April 2
  The Doppler Institute has passed through the official evaluation aiming at conclusion of the goverment grant LC06002 whch supported our activity in the last six years. In the final public session the evaluation panel gave us the highest mark, "excellent results of international class";. We welcome this appreciation and we reaffirm our intention to strive further under the new conditions for new interesting results.
• March 9
  A paper on A 2D quantum walk simulation from our quantum information group appeared in Science. Congratulations! Note that even one of the main Czech newspapers paid attention.

2011

• November 3
  Martin Štefaňák was awarded Rector Prize for his PhD thesis entitled "Interference phenomena in quantum information" defended last year. Congratulations!
• September 26
  
• Jiří Lipovský defended today at the Charles University in Prague a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum graphs and their generalizations" written under supervision of Pavel Exner. Congratulations!
• September 20
  Petr Siegl defended today at the Universite Denis Diderot (Paris 7) a PhD thesis entitled "Systemes quantiques non-hermitiens, representations indecomposantes et quantification par etats coherents" written under supervision of Jean-Pierre Gazeau and Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
• September 16
  The conference WORDS 2011 ended today successfully in Prague.
• August 25
  The three institutions involved in the Doppler Institute signed an agreement by which they committed themselves to maintain DI as a common research center and to support it in the ways and by the means they have. We wholeheartedly appreciate this attitude, so different from what the Czech Science Foundation managed to demonstrate. Doppler Institute will live!
• June 7
  We have been informed by this letter that our application to the Czech Science Foundation for support of the Doppler Institute next period was turned down on formal grounds. Readers, at least those able to read Czech, can appreciate the way in which the internationally competitive scientific projects are treated in this country. We can only say that we will not let die the project of two-decade history as a result of a bureaucratic ruling, the rationality of which can be easily challenged, and the Doppler Institute will keep functioning further with the means we will be able to find!
• April 3
  Diana Barseghyan who got her PhD at the Moscow State University joined us for a postdoc position.
• March 24
  Stanislav Vymětal defended today at the Czech Technical University a PhD thesis entitled "Purification protocols in quantum information" written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
• March 20
  The immediately following eights meeting on the Analytic and algebraic methods in physics, this time devoted to "Words, numeration and automata", ended in Villa Lanna..
• March 17
  The seventh meeting on the Analytic and algebraic methods in physics opened in Villa Lanna..
• March 4
  Pavel Exner, DI Scientific Director, was elected Vicepresident of the European Research Council .

2010

• December 31
  Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and visitors for the New Year 2011, an extra tear granted to our center. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Karel Klouda, Martin Štefaňák, Petr Vytřas, and Petr Novotný. We had again one big task this year, organization of the QMath11 - Mathematical Results in Quantum Physics conference in Hradec Kralove, and thanks go to all who contributed to this goal.
• November 30
  Martin Štefaňák, Tamás Kiss, and Igor Jex were awarded the First Prize by the Rector of Czech Technical University for "a collection of works studying quantum random walks from the viewpoint of Polya numbers". Congratulations!
• November 18
  Good news: the ministery announced that Doppler Institute financial support is extended till the end of 2011.
• September 13
  Pavel Exner, DI Scientific Director, was elected member of Academia Europaea.
• September 6
  The series continues: the conference QMath11 - Mathematical Results in Quantum Physics opened today in Hradec Kralove.
• August 30
  The workshop Mathematical aspects of the physics with non-self-adjoint operators supported by the European Science Foundation opened today in Villa Lanna in Prague.
• July 30
  The Follow-up meeting organized to conclude the "Analysis on Graphs and its Applications" programme of the Newton Institute in Cambridge ended today. The participation of the Doppler Institute, both form the financial and programme point of view, was loudly appreciated.
• June 25
  Martin Štefaňák got the third prize in this year contest for the Milan Odehnal Prize. Congratulations!
• June 24
  The workshop Orbit functions ended up successfully today in Decin.
• June 14
  Martin Štefaňák defended today at the Czech Technical University a PhD thesis entitled "Interference phenomena in quantum information" written under supervision of Igor Jex. Congratulations!
• May 5
  After a thorough preparation, Petr Vytřas defended today at the Czech Technical University a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum systems with magnetic field and point interactions" written under supervision of Pavel Šťovíček. Congratulations!
• May 1
  Severín Pošta passed successfully his habilitation "Quantum deformations of orthogonal Lie algebras and their representations" at the Czech Technical University. Congratulations!
• March 16
  Gerry Boland who got his PhD at the University College of Dublin joined us for a postdoc position.
• January 12
  With a great sorrow we announce that Pierre Duclos, a good friend and a coauthor of some of us passed away today just before he could present the talk he announced at the Quantum Circle seminar. He enriched our lives in many ways and his remarkable personality will be always in our memories.
• January 6
  Petr Novotný defended today at the Czech Technical University a PhD thesis entitled "Graded contractions of Lie algebra sl(3,C)" written under supervision of Jiří Tolar. Congratulations!

2009

• December 31
  Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and visitors for the New Year 2010. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Hynek Bíla, Matěj Tušek and Ondřej Turek. It seems that we were successful with our main task this year, organization of the 16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics, and thanks go to all who contributed to this goal! The next year will be the last one in the current life of the Doppler Institute and we should enjoy it.
• December 11
  Ondřej Turek defended today at the Czech Technical University a PhD thesis entitled "Schroedinger operators on metric graphs" written under supervision of Pavel Exner and Pierre Duclos. Congratulations!
• December 10
  Matěj Tušek defended today at the Czech Technical University a PhD thesis entitled "Non-Euclidean geometries in quantum mechanics, quantum plannar models" written under supervision of Pavel Šťovíček. Congratulations!
• December 8
  The second edition of the monograph Hilbert Space Operators in Quantum Physics, revised and extended, was awarded the First Prize of Czech Technical University Rector.Congratulations!
• December 3
  L'ubomíra Balková and Hynek Bíla were given honorary mentions in the contest for the Václav Votruba Prize. Congratulations to both of them!
• November 13
  A student workshop under the title PhD Days will take place on November 13 and 20 in the DI premises in Trojanova St.
• August 31
  Rafaelle Carlone is leaving us us heading for a new position. Good luck!
• August 10
  Hector Hernandez-Coronado from Mexico City joined us for a one-year postdoc position.
• August 8
  16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics, or in short ICMP09, ended today in Prague. It was an enterprise to which all the power of the Doppler Institute was concentrate in recent month and we are glad that the meeing was by all accounts successful. Thanks to all who contributed to this result!
• May 11
  Hynek Bíla defended today at the Charles University a PhD thesis entitled "Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in quantum physics" written under supervision of Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
• March 30
  Takuya Mine from Kyoto joined us for a year as a DI Visiting Professor.
• March 24
  The one-day conference Quantization day 2 (AAMP IV) dedicated to the forthcoming 70th birthday of Jiří Tolar was held in Masarykova kolej.
• March 20
  Raouf Dridi left us heading for a new position in France. Good luck!
• January 6
  A new postdoc: Bernhard Burgstaller who defended a PhD at the Johannes Keppler University in Linz in 2003 joined us starting a one-year position.

2008

• December 31
  Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and visitors for the New Year 2009. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Peter Baláži, L'ubomíra Balková, Martin Fraas, and Pavel Hejčík. The coming year is a challenge for the Doppler Institute because it will host a big event, the 16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics. Let us wish that this responsible task and the whole year be happy and successful for all of us!
• December 8
  Pavel Exner, DI Scientific Director, was elected President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics for the 2009-2011 term.
• November 27
  The workshop Physics of social systems opened in Hradec Kralove.
• November 26
  Martin Fraas was given a honorary mention in the contest for the Václav Votruba Prize. Congratulations!
• November 25
  At the Czech Technical University Council meeting several Doppler Institute results were distiguished. Igor Jex together with Vojtěch Košťák and G.M. Nikopoulos were awarded 2nd Class Rector Science Prize for the paper Perfect state transfer in network of arbitrary topology and coupling configuration, see DI06-039. Furthermore, Jiří Hrivnák and Milena Svobodová were awarded Rector Prizes for an outstanding PhD theses. Congratulations to all of them!
• October 21
  The microconference A canonical realization (AAMP IV) dedicated to the forthcoming 70th birthday of Miloslav Havlíček was held in Vila Lanna.
• October 14
  Denis Borisov who spent a year and a half with us defended today in Ufa a thesis for his DSc degree, based in part on the work which he did in the DI. Congratulations!
• October 14
  Igor Jex gave an interview about quantum optics to the Leonardo channel of Czech Radio.
• September 1
  Two other postdocs finished their stay in the Doppler Institute. Claudio Cacciapuoti left for another postdoc position in Bonn, and Mark Harmer for a not yet specified position in Australia. Good luck, guys!
• August 21
  Our expatriate student Pavel Hejčík defended today at the Kochi University of Technology a PhD thesis entitled "Properties of simple quantum graphs", his supervisor there was Taksu Cheon. Congratulations!
• August 16
  The summer school and workshop Algebraic structures ended successfully in Telč.
• June 26
  Junhua Chen left us heading for a new carreer in China. Good luck!
• June 25
  One more PhD successfully finished: Martin Fraas defended today a thesis entitled "Models of quantum systems with strong singular interactions" prepared under the supervision of Pavel Exner. Congratulations!
• May 30
  The conference Journees de Numeration taking place in the Department of Mathematics of the CTU ended successfully.
• May 23
  We have two new PhD graduates. L'ubomíra Balková defended today a thesis entitled "Beta-integers and quasicrystals"; she was supervized by Zuzana Masáková from CTU and Jean-Pierre Gazeau from Universite Paris 7. Earlier, on March 14, Peter Baláži defended a thesis under the title "Three interval exchange transformation" prepared under the supervision of Edita Pelantová. Congratulations to both!
• May 19
  The web page of workshop on Modern trend in quantum optics and quantum information was amended with slides of the talks and photos from the meeting.
• May 1
  The workshop on Modern trend in quantum optics and quantum information began in Masarykova kolej.
• April 1
  Pavel Winternitz is joining us for two months as a DI Visiting Professor.
• March 3
  One more new postdoc: Angela Mestra who defended a PhD recently at University of Coimbra joined us starting a one-year position.
• March 1
  Proceedings of the last-year microconference Analytic and algebraic methods in physics III (Prague, June 19, 2007) were published as a special issue of SIGMA edited by Miloslav Znojil.
• February 26
  Rafaelle Carlone who defended a PhD recently at "Federico II" University of Naples joined us starting a one-year postdoc position.
• February 12
  Thomas Brougham who defended a PhD recently at Strathclyde University in Glasgow joined us starting a one-year postdoc position.
• February 1
  Alfred M. Grundland joined us for two months as a DI Visiting Professor.
• January 26
  The 17th Student Winter School on mathematical physics ended in Polubny.

2007

• December 31
  Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and visitors for the New Year 2008. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Ondřej Lev, Hynek Lavička, Jaroslav Novotný, Milena Svobodová, and Jiří Hrivnák. Let the coming year be happy and successful for all of us!
• November 30
  The Václav Votruba Prize 2007 was awarded to Miroslav Ježek for the thesis Quantum measurement and reconstruction with applications in optics. Congratulations!
• November 17
  After half a year with us, Andrea Mantile left for a new position in Rennes. Good luck!
• November 1
  
• Michael Krbek from Brno joined us for two months as a postdoc.
• October 15
  
• Jiří Patera joined us for two months as a DI Visiting Professor.
• September 19
  Junhua Chen who defended a PhD in St Louis this spring and then returned briefly to China joined us starting a one-year postdoc position.
• September 18
  Denis Kochan from Bratislava joined us again, this time for three months.
• September 1
  After more then a year with us, Tamas Fulop left for a new position in Hungary. Good luck!
• July 16
  The international workshop on Pseudo Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics began at the City University of London.
• June 8
  The advanced school Symmetries in Physics: Modern Trends began in Hotel Krystal.
• June 1
  One more one-year postdoc position filled, Claudio Cacciapuoti joined us this week.
• May 19
  One-week spring school and workshop on Combinatorics on Words started in Herbertov.
• May 17
  The third one-day meeting on the Analytic and algebraic methods in physics will be organized on June 19 in Villa Lanna..
• May 2
  Andrea Mantile joined us from Neapol starting a one-year postdoc position.
• April 2
  Jan Kubieniec from Jagiellonian University in Cracow joined us on a one-year postdoc position.
• April 1
  This time sad news: a frequent visitor of DI, a coauthor of some of us and a friend of many more, Vladimir Geyler, passed away today in Cambridge, a month before his 64th birthday. Memories of this good man and excellent scientist will be long with us.
• March 31
  Vít Jakubský left us for a postdoc position in Santiago de Chile. Good luck!
• February 9
  Two one-day meetings under the common title Analytic and algebraic methods in physics will be organized on February 20 and April 3 in Villa Lanna.
• February 2
  Mark Harmer came from Canberra to join us on a one-year postdoc position.
• January 9
  The DI annual report was discussed and approved by the DI Council.

2006

• December 31
  Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and visitors for the New Year 2007. Let it be happy and successful for all of us!
• December 7-8
  Another workshop of the DI under the title Spectra, Algorithms and Data Analysis II
  is organized in collaboration with University of Zielona Gora and University of Wroclaw in Hradec Králové
• December 5
  Igor Jex published in the Prometheus Publishing a small book titled "Ludwig Boltzmann - the first among the atomists" (in Czech). Congratulations!
• December 1
  The Václav Votruba Prize 2006 was awarded to Michal Malinský for the thesis Quark and lepton masses and mixing in supersymmetric grand unified theories. Congratulations!
• November 9
  A student workshop under the title PhD Days will take place on November 10 and 24 in the DI premises in Trojanova St.
• November 3
  The International Association of Mathematical Physics announced the decision about the site of its next congress in the summer of 2009: in a competition with Shanghai and Sofia, Prague was chosen. This an important event for the whole Czech mathematics and physics community, and the Doppler Institute is going to play a central role in it; its members will take part in the ICMP Local Organizing Committee headed by Pavel Exner.
• October 29
  Sylwia Kondej joined us for four months on a sabbatical leave from the University of Zielona Gora.
• October 25
  Vít Jakubský defended a PhD thesis "Pseudo-Hermitian Quantum mechanics" prepared under the supervision of Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
• October 2
  Denis Kochan from Komensky University in Bratislava joined us for two months.
• September 25
  Petr Ambrož defended at Universite Paris 7 a PhD thesis "Arithmetical and Combinatorial Properties of Non-standard Numeration Systems" prepared under a common supervision of Christiane Frougny and Edita Pelantová. Congratulations!
• September 15
  Igor Jex together with Erika Andersson from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, won a two-year project "Networks for quantum information" supported by the Royal Society. Congratulations!
• September 14
  The conference Operator Theory in Quantum Physics just ended in Prague. It was a busy and inspirative meeting. During the conference the DI Council met informally.
• August 23
  It was a pleasure to see that the results of Petr Šeba and Milan Krbálek on Mexican buses were quoted in the plenary talk of Percy Deift at this-year International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid as one of the core examples of universality associated with random matrix ensembles.
• August 14
  Tamas Fulop joined us at the end of July us being given a one-year postdoc position in DI.
• June 20
  Several young colleagues joined taking temporary postdoc positions. We hope that more will follow soon.
• March 30
  Zuzana Masáková passed successfully her habilitation at the Czech Technical University with the thesis "Arithmetic and combinatorial properties of beta-integers". Congratulations!
• March 17
  DI Council elected its officers: Ari Laptev became Council chair and Pavel Středa vicechair. Pavel Exner is ex officio the second vicechair.
• February 28 - March 1
  A workshop of the "new" Doppler Institute under the title Spectra, Algorithms and Data Analysis
  is organized in collaboration with University of Zielona Gora in Hradec Králové