The prestigious EMRS Fall Meeting took place in Warsaw on September 15–18, 2025. 
František Karlický gave a talk “Optical and excitonic properties in 2D materials and their van der Waals heterostructures using hybrid TD-DFT”. Jiří Kalmár presented “Unveiling the Magnetic and Optical Landscapes of Novel MXenes: An Ab Initio Approach”. Miroslav Kolos delivered a…
The prestigious 20th Central European Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry took place in Stará Lesná, High Tatras, Slovakia, on September 8–11, 2025. Barbora Vénosová gave a talk “Small dots, Big effects: How size and functional groups affect the electronic and optical properties of MXene Quantum Dots”.
Matúš Dubecký presented a poster “From Fermion Sign Structure…
Reproducibility of fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo across diverse community codes: The case of water–methane dimer Link here: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0272974 Abstract: Fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (FN-DMC) is a widely trusted many-body method for solving the Schrödinger equation, known for its reliable predictions of material and molecular properties. Furthermore, its excellent scalability with system complexity and near-perfect…
We are proud to share that Masoud Shahrokhi represented our team at the prestigious Psi-K 2025 conference, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 25–28 August 2025. Masoud presented his work entitled: “Transition-Metal Single Atoms Anchored on N- and P-Doped Triphenylene-Graphdiyne as High-Efficiency Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting and Oxygen Reduction” in the session on Catalysis, Electrochemistry, Surfaces, and Interfaces. His presentation highlighted how…
On Wednesday, August 27, 2025, two students of the bachelor Physics program successfully defended their final theses and passed their final state exams: Miss Kateřina Loučková, specializing in Biophysics, defended her thesis “Equilibrium composition and its effects on the properties of chromium and manganese based MXenes”, supervised by Dr. Michal Novotný. Miss Aneta Tůmová, specializing…
From July 7 to 12, 2025, the Goldschmidt 2025 conference took place in Prague, one of the world’s leading scientific events in geochemistry and environmental sciences. Our Nanostructure Physics Group was proudly represented by Miroslav Kolos, who delivered a talk titled: 
“Computational screening of MXene-based catalysts for chlorinated hydrocarbons removal”Abstract link Miroslav’s lecture was…
From July 7 to 11, 2025, the prestigious FisMat 2025 conference took place in Venice, Italy. As one of the most important Italian scientific events in condensed matter physics and materials science, it brought together leading researchers from across Europe. Our Nanostructure Physics Group was proudly represented by František Karlický and Jiří Kalmár, both of…
The VASP Workshop 2025, an internationally renowned meeting focused on advanced atomistic simulations using the Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP), took place in Rennes, France, from 30 June to 4 July 2025. Our Nanostructure Physics Group was represented by Miroslav Kolos and Jiří Kalmár, who participated in a series of lectures and hands-on sessions…
Matúš Dubecký (University of Ostrava) has become part of an elite international collaboration, which also includes our former student Roman Fanta (Stanford University / SLAC National Laboratory), together with Michal Bajdich (Stanford University / SLAC National Laboratory) and Prof. Luboš Mitaš (North Carolina State University). The team has achieved remarkable success by securing a prestigious award…
