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 5 - “Ship-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, Greece, and 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