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The Hála Lectures

To honour the memory of Professor Eduard Hála, the institute’s management decided in 1999 to hold an annual commemorative Hála Lecture, to which distinguished world experts in the fields studied at the ICPF are invited to speak.

Who Was Eduard Hála

Prof. Eduard Hála (1919 – 1989) was an outstanding physical chemist, world-
renowned in particular for his fundamental work in the field of liquid
vapour equilibria, an excellent teacher and a distinguished figure known not only at
the Academy of Sciences but throughout the global chemical
engineering community. He contributed significantly to the development of the field of phase equilibria
on a worldwide scale. He was a professor of physical chemistry at UCT
in Prague and a full member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, deputy director
of the Institute of Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

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Lectures

  • 22nd lecture (7 September 2021) An Introduction to Source Apportionment, Prof. Philip K. Hopke, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Clarkson University, New York, USA.
  • 21st lecture (2 November 2019) Ab Initio Prediction to Phase Diagrams: a Critical Review of the Alternative Pathways, Prof. Andreas Klamt, COSMOlogic GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany.
  • 20th lecture (14 November 2018) NMR Metabolomics, Prof. Claudio Luchinat, Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Italy.
  • 19th lecture (19 October 2017) Atomic Layer Deposition: Principle and Applications, Dr. Ing. Jan Macák, Center of Materials and Nanotechnologies (CEMNAT), Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.
  • 18th lecture (8 September 2016) Enhancing Sustainable Catalytic Processes with Ionic Liquids, Prof. Paul J. Dyson, Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 17th lecture (16 April 2015) Novel Membranes for Improved Separations, Prof. Richard D. Noble, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
  • 16th lecture (10 November 2014) Process to Separate Enantiomers, Prof. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany.
  • 15th lecture (4 November 2013) Ionic Liquids – from Structure to Application, Dr. Christopher Hardacre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
  • 14th lecture (3 October 2012) Energy Today and Tomorrow: Politics vs. the Common Sense of Science and Technology, Prof. Jaroslav Šesták, New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
  • 13th lecture (15 September 2011) Reliability of Methods for Assessing the Safety of Chemical Processes, Prof. Ludvík Hub, Safety Consulting Institute in Staad, Switzerland.
  • 12th lecture (2 September 2010) Chemical and Process Engineering Facing the Challenges of Contemporary Civilization, Prof. Ryszard Pohorecki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.
  • 11th lecture (5 June 2009) Penta- and Hexacoordinate Silicon Compounds: a Remarkably Flexible Molecular System, Prof. Daniel Kost, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  • 10th lecture (10 October 2008) ​„Soft Material“ Surface Engineering: from Flexible to Gradient Surfaces, Prof. Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, USA. On this occasion, a bust of Prof. E. Hála was unveiled in the ICPF lobby.
  • 9th lecture (6 August 2007) Development of Efficient Multiphoton Processes and their Application to the Studies of Short-lived Intermediates, Prof. Akihiro Ouchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba, Japan.
  • 8th lecture (3 November 2006) Trends in the Research and Training of Technical Intelligentsia with a Focus on Chemical Engineers, Prof. Vladimír Báleš, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • 7th lecture (4 November 2005) In the Frame Globalization and Sustainability: Evolution of Chemical and Process Engineering – Progression from Commodities to New Specialties and Active Material Chemistry, Prof. Jean-Claude Charpentier, President of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE), Department of Chemical Engineering LSGC/ENSIC/ INPL, Nancy-University, Nancy, France.
  • 6th lecture (6 January 2005) Reactivity, Stored Energy, and Dislocations in Solid Reacting Systems, Prof. Vladimír Hlaváček, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
  • 5th lecture (20 February 2004) Economy, Ecology and Thermodynamics, Prof. Jakob de Swaan Arons, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
  • 4th lecture (20 January 2003) Macroscopic- and Microscopic-Level Thermodynamics: Partners in Chemical Engineering Progress, Prof. William R. Smith, University of Guelph, Canada.
  • 3rd lecture (2 November 2001) The Measurement of Symmetry and Chirality: Concept and Applications across Chemistry, Prof. David Avnir, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • 2nd lecture (10 November 2000) Membrane Fuel Cell Systems: A Challenge for Chemical Engineers, Prof. Gerhart Eigenberger, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 1st lecture (8 October 1999) (on the occasion of what would have been Prof. E. Hála’s eightieth birthday) Remembering Eduard Hála, Prof. Arnošt Reiser, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn NY, USA.