Awards
Photographs will be assessed in two ways:
- An independent jury will choose the winner (members of the jury panel will be listed on the website)
- By online vote at www.mff.cuni.cz/dod or http://fotofest.mff.cuni.cz.
The jury will select the photographs to be published in the official 2014 MFF UK calendar and will give the following category awards to the winning photographers present at the Open Day:
- Award in the category "Education and technological invention pay off"
- Award in the category "Extended senses and images of natural phenomena"
- Award in the category "Imagination has no limits"
- Award in the category "It's all about people" - Centrum FotoŠkoda award
- Award in the category "Magical beauty of glass" - Preciosa award
and also award through all categories:
- Junior Photographer Award (up to 16 years)
- MFF UK Dean's Award (for the academic community of MFF UK)
- Open Day Award (online voting)
There are valuable prizes for winners:
- large format prints of winning photographs for their authors
- tokens for photo-services, tokens for a good buy or free-printing photographs by FotoŠkoda Centre,
- tokens for photo-services, photopapers and digital multimedia player by AAron shop,
- complimentary tickets to iQ Park and Labyrint in Liberec,
- subscription to Czechoslovak Journal of Physics,
- AVAST licence,
- subscription to Digitální foto magazine
- software Zoner Photo Studio
- financial award of CZK 10,000 for the winners of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Dean's Prize
etc.
Contest categories
1) Education and technological invention pay off: applied mathematics, physics and computer science
Mathematics, physics and computer science that serve mankind. Science and technology around us. Technological progress. Science reaches beyond borders (telecommunications, satellites, measurement devices etc.). Explanation of principles in technological devices. Computers and robust systems. Mathematics, physics and computer science in daily life.
2) Extended senses and images of natural phenomena: mathematics, physics and computer science outside human influence.
"Physics" in nature (energy, time, light, temperature, forces and movement, space, state of matter, waves, lightning, rainbow, sunrise and sunset, night sky, volcanoes, water, fire, work with elements in any state, smoke, fog, rain, clouds, snow, ice, movement etc.). "Mathematical" structures in nature. Computer science where you least expect it. Innovative physical experiments and unusual phenomena.
3) Imagination has no limits: special techniques and methods
Computer graphics. 2D and 3D visualization, etc.
4) It's all about people: documentary and reportage
People in science, people engaged in scientific work. Documentary photographs from infotainment events and science shows. Life at the Faculty.
5) Magical beauty of glass
Unconventional view to daily use glass, glass pieces of art and physical effects.