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Zahra Alijani featured in the Expat Episodes podcast

Our colleague M.Sc. Zahra Alijani, PhD was featured in a new episode of Expat Episodes, a podcast produced by the Ostrava Expat Centre.

University of Ostrava Vice-Rector Martin Štěpnička to give a tutorial at IJCRS 2026 in Cádiz

Associate Professor Martin Štěpnička, Vice-Rector for Research and Artistic Activities at the University of Ostrava, will take part in the 12th International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, to be held from 26 to 29 May 2026 in Cádiz, Spain. As part of the conference programme, he will deliver a tutorial entitled „Fuzzy Relational Calculus as a Fundamental yet Powerful Concept“.

Martin Štěpnička to lecture at the European Summer School SFLA 2026 in Warsaw

Associate Professor Martin Štěpnička, Vice-Rector for Research and Artistic Activities at the University of Ostrava, will be one of the invited speakers at the EUSFLAT VII European Summer School on Fuzzy Logic and Applications – SFLA 2026. The summer school will take place from 6 to 10 July 2026 in Warsaw, Poland, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of the Warsaw University of Technology.

Lecture by Prof. Piotr Oprocha at the Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition

On 22 April 2026, the 33rd Annual Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition was held at the Faculty of Science of the University of Ostrava. The Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling served as a co-organizer of the event.

A scientist from IRAFM spoke in a public debate on fundamental social issues

The mission of scientists today lies not only in research and scholarly work, but also in making an active and meaningful contribution to public debate on major social issues.

International Success of UO Researchers

Researchers from the fuzzy institute, Petr Hurtík and Marek Vajgl, focusing on the artificial intelligence succeeded in two competitions organized by Signate and the Japanese ministry in 2020.