Vladimír Karas

is Research Scientist and Professor of Astrophysics at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.
Over the past decade, Vladimir served as the Institute director.

Research & Teaching Science interests Research papers Magazine articles and translations Lecture notes and outlines Group seminars Meetings & Conferences James Webb Space Telescope: I-HOW Hands-On Workshop (Torun, 14-25 July 2025) Appearance and dynamics of accretion onto black holes (Prague, 5-9 November 2024) Galactic and extragalactic X-ray transients, theory and... (Warsaw, 9-11 September 2024) 31st Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (Prague, 12-16 September 2022) Cologne-Prague-Brno: Black-Hole Activity... (Brno, 1-3 June 2022) James Webb Space Telescope: Master Class (Prague, 3-5 March 2020) Probing Strong Gravity near Black Holes (Prague, 15-18 February 2010) Black Holes – From Stars to Galaxies (Prague, 21-25 August 2006). Proceedings!

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