The Festival of Science 2024 was held at the Brno Exhibition Centre from Friday 6 September to Sunday 8 September 2024. Around 10,000 visitors had the opportunity to see the attractive world of science, technology, and history. CEPLANT joined the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology with the showcase of plasma technology.
Around ten thousand visitors attended this year's Science & Technology Festival 2024. The event was organized by the Brno Observatory and Planetarium with the support of the Statutory City of Brno and the South Moravian Region.
The event on Facebook was followed by 6 400 people. Attendees filled out 2 300 cards. In totoal, 375 was the number of science animators and promoters.
CEPLANT joined all three physics departments of MU Faculty of Science and showed what physics and physics research are about to adults and kids. There were demonstrations of light polarization, magnetic materials, liquid nitrogen experiments, 3D electron microscope images, quizzes, water rocket launching, sun observation, virtual reality, demonstration of an electrical discharge, plasma treatment and the power of low pressure. You can already look forward to the next Science Festival from 5-7 September 2025.
The Plasma Nanotechnologies and Bioapplications Research Group is organizing the 4th workshop on October 20-23, 2025. The event significantly supports international scientific cooperation, presents the latest research results of the CEPLANT center, and offers an opportunity to establish new scientific collaborations across disciplines.
In September, the COLOSSE Summer School 2025 brought together many of our researchers from the Deposition of Thin Films and Nanostructures group and their colleagues to explore the modeling and simulation of solids, with a focus on molecular dynamics (MD) and density functional theory (DFT). Led by experts David Holec and Pavel Ondračka, the program featured lectures and invited talks by leading scientists in the field of computational materials science.
