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Artificial Intelligence
 
Data Science
 
Algorithms

Archimedes Summer School on Cryptography, Blockchains, and Game Theory

Dates
2024-07-18 11:04 - 2024-07-19 19:04
Venue
Archimedes 1 - Amphitheater

Tutorial Speakers

  • Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh and IOG
  • Nikos Leonardos, National Technical University of Athens
  • Vangelis Markakis, Athens University of Economics and Business and Archimedes/Athena RC
  • Vassilis Zikas, Purdue University

Program (tentative)

Thursday, July 18

9:30-10:00

Registration - Opening

10:00-12:00

Vassilis Zikas: Introduction to Blockchain - Proof of Work/Stake/Reputation

12:00-12:30

Coffee Break

12:30-13:30

Short talks / Open problems

13:30-15:00

Lunch Break

15:00-17:00

Vangelis Markakis: Game-Theoretic Aspects in Blockchain Systems

17:00-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-18:30

Discussion / Problem solving
   

Friday, July 19

10:00-12:00

Aggelos Kiayias: Resource Based Systems: Understanding the Blockchain's Value Proposition for Information Technology Services

12:00-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:00

Short talks / Open problems

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-17:30

Nikos Leonardos: the Bitcoin backbone, its security analysis, and its connection to consensus

17:30-17:45

Short Break

17:45-18:45

Discussion / Problem solving

18:45-19:00

Closing
   

Registration

There are no registration fees. However, participants should register for administrative purposes by filling the workshop's registration form no later than July 16. Due to space constraints, a limited number of seats are available.

Registration form

 

 

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Vision

To position Greece as a leading player in AI and Data Science

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Mission

To build an AI Excellence Hub in Greece where the international research community can connect, groundbreaking ideas can thrive, and the next generation of scientists emerges, shaping a brighter future for Greece and the world

 

Welcome to ARCHIMEDES, a vibrant research hub connecting the global AI and Data Science research community fostering groundbreaking research in Greece and beyond. Its dedicated core team, comprising lead researchers, affiliated researchers, Post-Docs, PhDs and interns, is committed to advancing basic and applied research in Artificial Intelligence and its supporting disciplines, including Algorithms, Statistics, Learning Theory, and Game Theory organized around 8 core research areas. By collaborating with Greek and Foreign Universities and Research Institutes, ARCHIMEDES disseminates its research findings fostering knowledge exchange and providing enriching opportunities for students. Leveraging AI to address real-world challenges, ARCHIMEDES promotes innovation within the Greek ecosystem and extends its societal impact. Established in January 2022, as a research unit of the Athena Research Center with support from the Committee Greece 2021, ARCHIMEDES is funded for its first four years by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

 
 

NEWS

 
BabyLM Challenge Award at EMNLP 2025 Workshop!

BabyLM Challenge Award at EMNLP 2025 Workshop!

17 November 2025

Researchers Despoina Kosmopoulou, Efthymios Georgiou, Vaggelis Dorovatas, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, and Alexandros Potamianos from Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, the University of Bern, Switzerland and the Institute of Language and Signal Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center, Greece, received the BabyLM Challenge Award (Strict track) for NLP tasks at "The First BabyLM Workshop: Accelerating Language Modeling Research with Cognitively Plausible Datasets", which took place in Suzhou, China, during the 30th Annual Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).

Two Best Paper Awards at BIBE 2025

Two Best Paper Awards at BIBE 2025

12 November 2025

Researchers from the Archimedes Unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece, together with researchers from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, Greece; Stelios M. Smirnakis, Associate Neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, USA; and Maria Papadopouli, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete, Greece, Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Crete, Greece and Lead Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, received two Best Paper Awards at the 25th annual IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2025), which took place on November 6-8, 2025 in Athens, Greece.

10 Papers Accepted at EMNLP 2025!

10 Papers Accepted at EMNLP 2025!

5 November 2025

The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is a major annual conference for researchers in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. It has been organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Data (SIGDAT) since 1996 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Archimedes Seminar by Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist of the Alan Turing Institute, UK

Archimedes Seminar by Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist of the Alan Turing Institute, UK

27 October 2025

On Friday 7 November, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he also holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, and Chief Scientist of the Alan Turing Institute, UK, will deliver an Archimedes Seminar on "Statistical Finite Element Methods."

Archimedes Talk by Alexandra Meliou on

Archimedes Talk by Alexandra Meliou on "Data Analysis and Manipulation through a Constrained Optimization Lens"

22 October 2025

On Tuesday 4 November, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Professor Alexandra Meliou, Professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, and a visiting researcher at the Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center, Greece, will deliver an Archimedes talk on "Data Analysis and Manipulation through a Constrained Optimization Lens."

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The project “ARCHIMEDES Unit: Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms” with code OPS 5154714 is implemented by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” and is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

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