Scaling Up: Advanced Placement Incentive Program

2 May 2024 11:30 AM

This paper explores the success of scaling up of state programs. I study the two phases of staggered rollout of the Advanced Placement (AP) Incentives Programs in Texas which aimed to increase AP utilization....

Reversing the Reversal? A Systematic Reassessment and Meta Analysis of Wellbeing Research

Research Seminar

2 May 2024 2:00 PM

Fierce debate over the feasibility of cardinally measuring utility – or ‘wellbeing’ – with surveys has recently resurfaced. Several prominent papers claimed that when interpreting survey data as strictly...

Probing the Dynamics and Interactions of Disordered Proteins with Single-molecule Spectroscopy: From Disordered Complexes to Phase Separation (Seminar Series | MUNI)

2 May 2024 4:00 PM

BEN SCHULER

Benefiční koncert skupiny Dej Nám Akord – DNA Brno

4 May 2024 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Basic principles of simulation-based education

6 May 2024 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Essentially Heterogeneous: The Consequences of Teen Childbearing on Ecuadorian Mothers and Children

6 May 2024 11:30 AM

I use deviations from the expected age at menarche to estimate the marginal treatment effects (MTEs) of teen childbearing on schooling and labor outcomes for Ecuadorian mothers and schooling and health...

From Antarctic to Mars: Studying Mars from the field to remote sensing data

6 May 2024 1:00 PM

Miguel Angel de Pablo

Lecture: Paris 2024 – The best Paralympic Games Ever (Faculty of Sports Studies MU | MUNI SPORT)

7 May 2024 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Lecturer: Tania Lima Bastos, University of Porto

Financial incentives and COVID-19 vaccinations: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer program

Research Seminar

7 May 2024 2:00 PM

This paper investigates the effects of a nation-wide conditional cash transfer program aimed to increase COVID-19 vaccination in Slovakia. Due to relatively low vaccination rates and overcrowding of hospitals...

Opening: Lucie Vobr Jestřabíková, Let It Burn

8 May 2024 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

The exhibition will present a series of porcelain vases whose concept is a reaction to traditional onion sets. Such sets usually become domestic shrines of design, enclosed in showcases instead of practical...

The exhibition: Lucie Vobr Jestřabíková, Let It Burn

9 May 2024 8:00 AM – 12 Jun 2024 6:00 PM

The exhibition will present a series of porcelain vases whose concept is a reaction to traditional onion sets. Such sets usually become domestic shrines of design, enclosed in showcases instead of practical...

Parental Leave and Discrimination on the Labor Market

Research Seminar

9 May 2024 2:00 PM

Ion Channels as an Inspiration for Synthetic Chemists (Seminar Series | MUNI)

9 May 2024 4:00 PM

DIRK TRAUNER

The lesson has been moved to the Autumn semester 2024

Brno Majáles

11 May 2024 12:00 PM

The traditional grand celebration of the student community will open its gates on May 11th at the Brno Exhibition Center.

STARMUS Bratislava

12–17 May 2024

The STARMUS festival is a festival of science, art and music and will take place for the first time in Central Europe from 12.5. until May 17, 2024, in Bratislava. The academic partner of the festival...

Základní škola ultrazvuku u dětí

13 May 2024 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Inflační perioda: Stylizovaná fakta, příčiny a lekce z pohledu centrálního bankéře

Public Lectures

13 May 2024 10:00 AM

Nedávná inflační vlna zvedla inflaci vysoko nad cíle centrální bank. Bývalé transformující se ekonomiky měly (ne)překvapivě vyšší růst cenové hladiny než ostatní země EU. Co stálo za nedávnou inflační...

An Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis with R and BUGS I.

13 May 2024 1:00 PM

Pablo-Emilio Verde

An Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis with R and BUGS II.

14 May 2024 8:00 AM

Pablo-Emilio Verde

125th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Otakar Borůvka

15 May 2024 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Ceremonial gathering with the participation of representatives of the Czech government and parliament, the city of Brno, the South Moravian Region and representatives of Czech and foreign universities...