https://www.fm.uniba.sk/ Najnovšie novinky sk https://www.fm.uniba.sk/fileadmin/tt_news_article.gif https://www.fm.uniba.sk/ Najnovšie novinky TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 31 Dec 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/news-detail/browse/6/back_to_page/aktuality-35/article/erasmus-welcome-week-september-2026/ Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava welcomes 154 new international Erasmus... Welcome Week welcomed new international students Welcome Week took place from 14 to 18 September 2026, bringing together incoming Erasmus students, international students from the National Scholarship Programme (NSP), and students arriving under university agreements. The programme began on Monday with a joint matriculation ceremony at the Rectorate of Comenius University Bratislava. The opening events also included a reception and a Slovak language course, which gave students an introduction to the language and an opportunity to meet other international students. Throughout the week, students attended information sessions at their respective faculties, where they received practical guidance on studying and living at Comenius University. The student organisation ESN also organised a tour of Bratislava and other group activities. This semester, the Faculty of Management welcomes 154 new international Erasmus students from partner universities in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Türkiye. The NSP students come mainly from Uzbekistan, as well as from Japan and Taiwan. The first days of activities were marked by a warm atmosphere, curiosity about the new surroundings and the pleasure of meeting fellow students from different countries. The connections and friendships formed during Welcome Week have given students a wonderful start to their time at the Faculty of Management. We hope our international students will feel at home here. Their presence will bring fresh energy and an international atmosphere to the faculty’s corridors and classrooms throughout the winter semester, along with many opportunities to get to know one another and work together.]]> [FM] Titulka - úzke novinky Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:14:00 +0200 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/research/research-projects-and-cooperation/international-projects/chemskills/ Our colleagues Michal Greguš and Vincent Karovič participated in the ChemSkills consortium meeting... [FM] Titulka - úzke novinky Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:01:00 +0200 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/news-detail/browse/6/back_to_page/aktuality-35/article/doktorandske-kolokvium-kai-marek-suppa-2892026/ Monday 28.9.2026 at 13:10, Lecture room I 9 Marek Šuppa:
AI Can Do Your PhD. So Why Are You Doing (NLP) Research?
Abstract:
No matter how you look at it, doing AI research has become weird in the past few months. Models can write code, run experiments, draft papers, argue with reviewers, review other papers to pay your dues, and even run the obligatory victory lap on social media when your work somehow gets accepted. Meanwhile, conferences drown in submissions and everyone is still told to publish more. It is tempting to blame AI but that misses the point: AI did not create the rat race, it just made running it much cheaper. Since my last PhD colloquium, I have, somewhat ironically, added a few more papers to the pile myself. In this talk, I’ll use that progress, and our recent work on Slovak and low-resource NLP, to ask some increasingly uncomfortable questions. If AI can automate most of the publication loop, are we still training researchers for the right job (or any real job, that is)? If systems can increasingly choose experiments, learn from the results, and improve how they do research, why does an academic career still look remarkably similar? And if research itself starts becoming a recursive self-improving loop, what exactly will we need career researchers for?  More information Youtube channel ]]> [FMFI] Prednášky a semináre [FMFI] Kalendár Damas.Gruska@fmph.uniba.sk Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:13:00 +0200 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/news-detail/browse/6/back_to_page/aktuality-35/article/univerzita-komenskeho-otvorila-108-akademicky-rok/ Bratislava, 21 September, 2026: Comenius University Bratislava (CU) today marked the opening of its... “The reality of death is inexorable and cruelly final. I realised how fortunate we are to live an ordinary life. How often we grumble and feel dissatisfied over things that do not matter at all. And how fortunate we are, as educators in the broadest sense of the word, to be able to influence young people’s lives,” the Rector emphasised. He also paid tribute to students whose lives had been cut short. “We owe a great deal to the memory of all the students who lost their lives during their studies,” Marek Števček said. He announced that CU would henceforth observe 2 October each year as an official day of remembrance for deceased students. He added that paying tribute cannot undo the tragedy of death, but can give it a more enduring place in the university community’s collective memory. The solemnity of the occasion was enhanced by a closing musical performance by recent CU graduate Michaela Čakváriová, who performed a selection of popular and original songs to guitar and piano accompaniment. CU is the only Slovak university to feature in most prestigious university rankings. Across its thirteen faculties in Bratislava, Martin and Nitra, it offers education at all levels of study (bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and PhD studies) through more than 800 study programmes in which it is authorised to confer the respective academic degrees.]]> [RUK] Titulka - úzke novinky pr@uniba.sk Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:47:00 +0200 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/news-detail/browse/6/back_to_page/aktuality-35/article/prednaska-prof-prof-gianfranco-pacchioni-6102026/ Tuesday 6.10.2026 at 14:00, Lecture room C prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Università di Milano-Bicocca):
From Open Science to the Monopoly of Knowledge: Is Academic Research Declining? Abstract: 
Scientific discoveries happen quietly, yet they often lead to radically transformative technologies. It is commonly thought that these discoveries take place in public research laboratories and universities, and indeed that was the case in the past, but things are changing. New players have emerged: Big Tech companies, aiming at a highly ambitious goal, the monopoly of knowledge. Thanks to enormous profits, Big Tech has been investing in research and development for years through the acquisition of start-ups and the creation of secret research laboratories staffed by outstanding, highly paid researchers with virtually unlimited resources. Big Tech has expanded its horizons toward technologies destined to revolutionize our tomorrow: quantum computing, cryptography, neuroscience, brain–machine interaction, satellite communications, space exploration, and above all health, genetics, and biotechnology, without, of course, forgetting artificial intelligence. All of this takes place beyond any form of public oversight. If we add to this the fact that a significant share of technological innovation comes from military research, secret by definition, two very different faces of contemporary science emerge. Public, open, and transparent academic science on the one hand; private, confidential, and inaccessible science on the other. In short, clear science and dark science. In this context, funding public research is no longer just a matter of competition between systems (public vs. private); it is fundamental to the defence of democracy and promote trust in science. Understanding this scenario is essential to ensure that science benefits everyone and helps reduce inequalities rather than increase them. On October 6 and 7, 2026, Prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni will be a guest of Comenius University in Bratislava. More information - prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni]]> [FMFI] Prednášky a semináre [FMFI] Kalendár [FiF] Titulka - podujatia - rubriky Peter.Babinec@fmph.uniba.sk Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:30:00 +0200 http://https://martinskybehmedikov.jlfuk.sk/en/ On Saturday, September 26, 2026, the 10th anniversary edition of the charitable event organized by... [JLF] Titulka - široké novinky Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:17:00 +0200 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/news-detail/browse/6/back_to_page/aktuality-35/article/prerusenie-vyucby-na-faf-uk-6/ The Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius university in Bratislava announces suspension of classes... [FaF] Titulka - široké novinky [FaF] Kalendár Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:59:00 +0200 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/news-detail/browse/6/back_to_page/aktuality-35/article/doktorandske-kolokvium-kai-lukas-radosky-2192026/ Monday 21.9.2026 at 13:10, Lecture room I 9 Lukáš Radoský:
Optimization and reuse in large software systems Abstract:
Software engineering is a discipline exploring how to create and maintain software effectively. It is an ever-evolving field always eager for new ideas where the rate of accepting new ideas is only matched by the rate they are discarded - be they programming frameworks, modelling approaches, or overall approaches to software development. We started our research years ago hoping to develop our initial idea of software models that combine visualisation with real-time execution, potentially leading to code generation. While the visualisation and real-time execution are still relevant to explore and we have successfully published in this area, code generation has been overtaken with advert of large language models. This being the case, we expanded our initial goals to also exploring usage of LLMs in software development. We have already managed to publish some results in various areas of software development, particularly in software documentation retrieval, reverse engineering, modelling, and testing. In relation to natural language usage in software artifacts such as software documentation, we also fell down the rabit hole of natural language processing, having yielded publications in the areas of sentiment analysis and semantic textual similarity. Right now, we are eyeing the exploration of the usage of metaheuristic and some deterministic algorithms for prompt engineering and ways to reduce UML diagram size when working with LLMs to reduce token consumption. More information Youtube channel ]]> [FMFI] Prednášky a semináre [FMFI] Kalendár Damas.Gruska@fmph.uniba.sk Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:54:00 +0200 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/news-detail/browse/6/back_to_page/aktuality-35/article/novy-rebricek-hodnoti-spolupracu-univerzit-psychologia-na-uk-je-na-320-mieste-uspela-aj-f/ Bratislava, 15 September 2026: Comenius University Bratislava (CU) has performed well in the first... index assesses the research environment across six pillars: international intensity, sustained partnership, partner-country diversity, partner reach, collaboration impact (measured through field-normalised citation impact) and network influence.The resulting score thus provides a faithful measure of an institution’s openness and engagement with the international research community. Other university rankings have also recently published their results. The prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, placed CU 1,058th. The same organisation, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, also publishes the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), in which CU ranks in the 401–500 band in both physics and psychology. *** Comenius University Bratislava is the only Slovak university to feature in all the major university rankings.

• QS World University Rankings 2027: 662nd.
• Round University Ranking 2025: 605th.
• Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) 2026: 748th, placing CU among the world’s top 3.6 per cent of universities.
• Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking: 1,058th.
• U.S. News 2026–2027 Best Global Universities Rankings: 801st overall and 274th in physics.
• SCImago: 3,327th.
• National Taiwan University Rankings (NTU Ranking): 838th overall and in the 351–400 band in physics.
• The Three University Missions (MosIUR) 2024: 257th.
• THE Impact Rankings: in the 601–800 band.
• THE World University Rankings: in the 1201–1500 band.
• World University Ranking RankPro: 181st.
• Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS): in the 401–500 band in both physics and psychology.
• QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026: in the 701–850 band in medicine and the 601–675 band in physics.
• QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026: joint 824th.
• University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) 2025–2026: 860th.
• Research Collaboration Index: 320th in psychology, 335th in physics and astronomy, and 420th in pharmacology, toxicology and pharmacy.

]]> [RUK] Titulka - úzke novinky [RUK] Tlačové správy pr@uniba.sk Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:24:00 +0200 https://www.fm.uniba.sk//en/news-detail/browse/6/back_to_page/aktuality-35/article/radionuklidove-stopovace-odhaluju-zmeny-v-tichom-oceane-sposobene-klimatickou-zmenou/ Studies of anthropogenic radionuclides in the Pacific Ocean and marginal seas provide new evidence... 3H, ¹⁴C, ⁹⁰Sr, ¹²⁹I, ¹³⁷Cs, and plutonium (Pu) isotopes provide particularly valuable tools for investigating these changes. Released into the marine environment mainly as a result of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing since 1945 (global fallout), these radionuclides can serve as sensitive, time-resolved tracers of processes occurring in the ocean. Their well-characterized input histories and, for some radionuclides, largely conservative behavior in seawater make them effective time markers for studying water mass formation, transport, and vertical exchange. Measurements of their distribution in seawater, bottom sediments, and marine organisms can therefore provide information on climate-driven modifications in ocean circulation and stratification. The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean basin on Earth, has been extensively sampled for anthropogenic radionuclides over several decades. This unique observational record makes it an important natural laboratory for investigating the impacts of climate change on the marine environment. For example, analyses of ³H and ¹³⁷Cs in seawater have documented multidecadal changes in upper-ocean ventilation and transport pathways, including changes associated with a slowing of ocean circulation. Plutonium isotopes provided complementary information on particle-mediated export and regeneration processes in the water column. Such observations helped to assess changes in marine biogeochemical processes and their potential implications for the efficiency of carbon storage through the ocean's biological pump. Plutonium isotope ratios measured in sediments from the Indonesian seas have provided evidence of a weakening of the transport of surface waters from the western tropical North Pacific through the Indonesian seas to the Indian Ocean. Taken together, radionuclide observations, circulation studies, and scavenging models present a picture broadly consistent with an ocean that is warming and becoming increasingly stratified in its upper layers. Stronger stratification can reduce vertical exchange and influence overturning circulation and connectivity between ocean basins, with potential consequences for the Global Meridional Overturning Circulation and the global redistribution of heat, carbon, nutrients, and other substances. The Japan Sea provides a particularly interesting example. Rising surface seawater temperatures observed in recent decades have been accompanied by reduced winter convection, subsurface temperature anomalies, and episodic marine heatwaves. Changes in cyclonic and anticyclonic eddy activity have also affected the recirculation of bottom waters toward the surface. These processes may have important consequences for marine ecosystems and fisheries. Radionuclide records from the South China Sea reflect variability associated with the Asian monsoon systems and El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, demonstrating the value of radionuclide tracers for studying interactions between the ocean and the climate system.    Long-term investigations of anthropogenic radionuclides have considerable potential to improve our understanding of present and future climate change impacts on the world ocean and adjacent seas. They provide independent, observation-based constraints on circulation changes that can be difficult to identify using physical measurements alone. Marine radionuclide datasets, including those stored in the International Atomic Energy Agency's Marine Radioactivity Information System (MARIS; https://maris.iaea.org), also provide valuable reference data for calibrating and validating Ocean General Circulation Models and Earth System Models used to investigate future climate scenarios. Further progress will require coordinated international high-resolution sampling programs covering the world's oceans, combined with advanced ultrasensitive analytical methods such as accelerator mass spectrometry and low-background gamma spectrometry. These techniques make it possible to analyze smaller samples of seawater, sediments, and corals while achieving higher-resolution radionuclide profiles. Particular attention should be given to the Southern Ocean because of its critical role in the global climate system and the relative scarcity of comprehensive radionuclide observations in this region. The results of these investigations have recently been published in Communications Earth & Environment (Nature Portfolio) and the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (Elsevier): Pavel P. Povinec, Katsumi Hirose, Gi-Hoon Hong, Xiaolin Hou, Yayoi Inomata, Jakub Kaizer, and Daisuke Tsumune. Anthropogenic radionuclides as tracers of climate change in the Pacific Ocean. Communications Earth & Environment 7 (2026), 427.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03639-0 P. P. Povinec, K. Hirose, G. H. Hong, X. Hou, Y. Inomata, J. Kaizer, D. Tsumune, and X. Zhao. Marine radionuclides in climate change studies: Pacific Ocean and marginal seas. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 298 (2026), 108022.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2026.108022 Figure descriptions:
Figure 1: The Global Meridional Overturning Circulation, sometimes referred to as the global ocean conveyor belt, is a large-scale circulation system connecting surface and deep waters across the world's ocean basins. Through the Southern Ocean, it links circulation in the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans and redistributes heat, carbon, freshwater, and nutrients. The circulation operates over timescales ranging from decades to millennia. Because its flow is slow and varies on multidecadal timescales, independent tracers such as anthropogenic radionuclides are valuable for constraining changes in its pathways and strength. Typical flow velocities are small (~1 cm/s), but the integrated volume of transported water is enormous and strongly influences regional climate, sea level, and marine ecosystems. Northward heat transport in the Atlantic, including the Gulf Stream system, contributes substantially to the relatively mild climate of northwestern Europe.
Figure 2: Distribution of ¹³⁷Cs across the South Pacific (30°S), Indian (20°S), and Atlantic (30°S) Oceans were obtained during the BEAGLE (Blue Ocean Global Expedition), providing the first mapping across the World Ocean. The Indian Ocean shows pronounced subsurface maxima at depths of approximately 100–200 m, particularly near 100°E and 55°E, which can be explained by transport of surface waters from the North Pacific through the Indonesian seas into the South Indian Ocean, where the subtropical gyre acts as a long-term reservoir of anthropogenic pollutants. The observations provide further information on connections between the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans within the broader Global Meridional Overturning Circulation.]]> [FMFI] Veda [FMFI] Titulka - úzke novinky Pavel.Povinec@fmph.uniba.sk Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:14:00 +0200