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The Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology will start the academic year as originally planned, i.e. on Monday 16 September 2024. The faculty campus is located outside the areas of Brno that are currently affected by the flood. Classes will be held in full from the first day of the semester.

However, due to the extraordinary flood situation in the Czech Republic, absences will be excused during the week of 16-20 September for students who will not be able to attend compulsory classes due to the floods. If the situation permits, students should enter their request in the BUT IS under the module Administrative procedures and application - requests for registration of obstacles to study. Apologies will be made according to your home address, so unless you are volunteering to help out, there is no need to provide any supporting documents. To speed up the processing of the application you can add a web link describing the situation in the locality. Any substitutions for excused lessons will then be dealt with on an individual basis.

We are continuing to monitor the situation. Keep up-to-date on faculty communication channels, especially web and email. We wish you all much strength and safe handling of the situation for you and your loved ones.

We cordially invite you to a public professorial lecture: High Performance Computing in Personalized Ultrasound Medicine. It will take place on Friday, May 3, at 11 a.m. in lecture room E 104 and is part of the professorial proceedings.

This lecture will take you on an engaging journey from humble beginnings, a simple MATLAB code snippet simulating a 1D acoustic pulse propagation through an infinite, homogeneous, lossless medium, to the heights of sophistication with a comprehensive software package which performs complex ultrasound treatment planning calculations for personalized transcranial neurostimulation and photoacoustic breast imaging, harnessing the power of high-performance computing centers and cloud environments.

More about Jiri Jaros and his professorial lecture here.

Truck drivers have a poor view of their immediate surroundings - blind spots cover not only the area in front of and behind the truck, but also the sides. So from July 2024, European Commission regulations require trucks and buses to have safety sensors that can detect motorcyclists, cyclists or other vulnerable road users. This will be ensured by innovative laser sensors and nano-radars, on which experts from FIT BUT have collaborated.

A child hiding behind the back of a vehicle or a cyclist riding next to a turning truck - new lidar sensor and nano-radar technologies can help drivers detect these dangerous situations. Within the framework of two projects of the TACR, experts from FIT BUT developed them together with the company Valeo, which specialises in research, development and production of assistance systems and systems for autonomous driving.

More in this article.