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2025 Archimedes Geometry Day

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Dates
2025-07-15 09:30 - 14:30
Venue
Archimedes Amphitheatre, 1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center, Athens, Greece

 

2025 Archimedes Geometry Day

Chairs: Ioannis Emiris, Athena Research Center, Greece and NKUA and Panagiotis Kaklis, University of Strathclyde, IACM-FORTH and Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece


9.30 – 10.00:
Welcome - Coffee & Cookies will be available

10.00 – 10.05:
Opening Remarks
Ioannis Emiris, President of the Board of Directors and Director General, Athena Research Center, Greece and Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecoms, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

10.05 – 10.50:
Keynote Lecture - “Foundation Models for 3D / 4D Scene Understanding and Content Creation”
Leonidas J. Guibas, Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering (by courtesy) and Head of the Geometric Computation Group and Member of the Computer Graphics & Artificial Intelligence Laboratories at Stanford University, USA

10.50 – 11.00:
Discussion

11.00 – 11.15:
Lecture 1
- Deterministic Geometric Sampling with Machine-learning Applications
Konstantinos Tsakalidis, Asst. Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK and Affiliated Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

11.15 – 11.30:
Lecture 2 - Geometric Coverings for Subset Sum Problems
Vasilis Nakos, Asst. Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Affiliated Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

11.30 – 11.45:
Lecture 3 - SciML for Ship Hull Generation Using CNNs”
George Anagnostopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

11.45 – 12.00:
Lecture 4 ”Geometric Deep Learning: Theory & Applications in the Maritime Sector”
Dimitris Kaklis, Research & Development Engineer at Danaos Research Center, Greece and  Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

12.00 – 12.15:
Lecture 5Ship-Hull Generation via Geometric Transformation Learning”
Stamatis Stamatelopoulos, PhD student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

12.15 – 12.30:
Lecture 6 - “Gaussian Representation LearnIng for Space Partitioning”
Panagiotis Rigas, PhD student at  the Department of Informatics and Telecoms, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Academic scholar at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

12.30 – 12.45:
Lecture 7 - “Symmetry Aware Metanetworks”
Giannis Kalogeropoulos, PhD student at  the Department of Informatics and Telecoms, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greeceand Academic scholar at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

12.45 – 1.30:
Discussion & Conclusions

1.30 – 2.30:
Lunch (Catered) & Coffee will be available

 

 

Organizing & Scientific Committee

  • Ioannis Emiris, President of the Board of Directors and Director General, Athena Research Center, Greece and Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecoms, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
  • Panagiotis Kaklis, Reader at the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Distinguished Member at the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), FORTH, Greece and Affiliated Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

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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

 
6 Accepted Papers at ICLR 2026

6 Accepted Papers at ICLR 2026

The Archimedes research unit of the Athena Research Center in Greece has six papers accepted at this year's International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) gathering, including one oral presentation. The acceptance rate for posters was about 25,8% and about 1,1% for oral presentations.  Please bear in mind that ICLR, along with NeurIPS and ICML, is considered one of the three top-tier artificial intelligence and machine learning conferences in the world.

Former Archimedes Intern Receives the EETN Best Doctoral Thesis Award for 2025

Former Archimedes Intern Receives the EETN Best Doctoral Thesis Award for 2025

Georgios Papasotiropoulos, a former intern of the Archimedes unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece, received the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society's (EETN) Best Doctoral Thesis Award for the year 2025. His doctoral thesis was on "Algorithmic and Game-Theoretic Aspects of Computational Social Choice" and his supervisor was Vangelis Markakis, a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), Greece and a Lead Researcher at the Archimedes research unit in AI, Data Sciences, and Algorithms of the Athena Research Center in Athens, Greece.

Archimedes Seminar by Nikos Paragios on

Archimedes Seminar by Nikos Paragios on "Seeing the Invisible - Doing the Impossible: AI-powered diagnosis, treatment and beyond"

On Monday 16 February, 2026, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Professor Nikos Paragios, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Paris-Saclay, France, and Chief Executive and Technical Officer, TheraPanacea, Paris, France, will deliver an Archimedes Seminar on "Seeing the Invisible - Doing the Impossible: AI-powered diagnosis, treatment and beyond".

Τhe Ambassador of Australia to Greece visits Archimedes!

Τhe Ambassador of Australia to Greece visits Archimedes!

On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, the Ambassador of Australia to Greece, Mrs. Alison Duncan, visited the Archimedes Research Unit at the Athena Research Center in Greece and had a very productive meeting with Professor Timos Sellis, Director of the Archimedes Research Unit.

Archimedes AGT Afternoon Event (ΑAGTA) will take place on 4 February 2026 at Archimedes premises

Archimedes AGT Afternoon Event (ΑAGTA) will take place on 4 February 2026 at Archimedes premises

Archimedes AGT Afternoon Event (ΑAGTA) is a newly-established scientific event, focusing on Algorithmic Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence. The first AAGTA workshop will take place on 4 February 2026 at the Archimedes Amphitheatre at Archimedes Unit, Athena Reseach Center, Greece, and will feature two keynote speeches: one by Prof. Paul Goldberg of the University of Oxford, UK, and one by Prof. Christos Papadimitriou of Columbia University, USA and Archimedes Unit, Athena Reseach Center, Greece.

 
 

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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