Events: Conferences, Symposia & Workshops

Archimedes Research Unit contributes to scientific exchange through events it organises, co-organises or supports, and through the participation of its researchers in organising and scientific committees. The events below bring together researchers, students and practitioners across AI and its supporting disciplines.

General AI

Symposium — Greeks in AI 2026. The symposium brought together Greek AI researchers and practitioners from around the world. Archimedes contributed through General Co-Chair Maria Vakalopoulou, organising committee members Kostas Daniilidis, Efstratios Gavves, Maria Papadopouli and Sotiris Tsaftaris, and advisory board member Timos Sellis.
- Archimedes Feast — An Evening with Archimedes (2026). Part of Greeks in AI 2026, the event took place at the Eugenides Foundation on 15 July 2026. It presented Archimedes’ vision and activities, researchers’ experiences and career development, connections with industry, and future directions. Christos Papadimitriou gave a keynote talk and then Archimedes students presented their research.
Workshop — 2025 Archimedes Computer Vision Day. Organised and hosted by Archimedes at its amphitheatre on 22 July 2025, the event brought together researchers working on visual understanding and generative AI. Following opening remarks by Kostas Daniilidis, talks by Dimitris Tzionas, Dimitris Samaras and Vicky Kalogeiton explored 3D human–object interactions, human gaze and efficient generative models.
Symposium — Greeks in AI 2025. Co-organised with Archimedes, the symposium connected the Greek AI community through research presentations, mentoring and discussions on collaboration between academia and industry. Archimedes Head Timos Sellis moderated the panel on the Greek AI ecosystem.
Workshop — Archimedes Collaborative Workshop (2025). Hosted by Archimedes at its amphitheatre on 4 June 2025, the workshop featured HSBC researchers Jeremy Kulcsar, Will Shoosmith and Giulio Giaconi. Talks covered distributed optimal transport, quantum-enhanced reinforcement learning, innovation in financial services and uncertainty modelling in Bayesian regression, encouraging exchange between academic and industrial research.
Conference — SETN 2024 — 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Archimedes contributed to the conference through the organisation and support of its Responsible Artificial Intelligence workshop (ReAI), with Evaggelia Pitoura and Danae Pla Karidi among the workshop organisers. Archimedes researcher Panayiotis Tsaparas also served on the conference programme committee.
Summer programme — Archimedes 2023 Summer Program. During June and July 2023, Archimedes brought together more than 45 junior and senior researchers for research exchanges, presentations and seminars. The programme included four thematic workshops spanning life sciences, computer vision, natural language processing and responsible AI.
- Workshop — One-day Workshop on Life Sciences. The workshop explored AI for life sciences, including neuroscience, digital pathology, multimodal medical learning and geometric deep learning.
- Workshop — One-day Workshop on Computer Vision. Topics included radiance fields, diffusion models for medical imaging, self-supervised and few-shot learning, and generative models for digital humans.
- Workshop — Two-day Workshop on Natural Language Processing. The programme combined talks and hands-on sessions on transformers and pretrained language models, multilingual and low-resource NLP, machine translation, privacy and fact-checking.
- Workshop — One-day Workshop on Responsible Artificial Intelligence. Discussions addressed fairness, privacy, transparency and trust, alongside misinformation generated by large language models and the risks of overreliance on AI.

Algorithms, complexity & foundations of AI

Workshop / Colloquium — ACAC 2026 — Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity. Supported by Archimedes, the workshop took place at the National Technical University of Athens on 25–26 August 2026. Archimedes researchers contributed to its organising committee and scientific programme, covering algorithms, computational complexity and related fields.
Conference — Quantum Algorithms and Optimization in Athens (2025). Co-organised by Archimedes, Athena Research Center and NCSR Demokritos, the conference took place at NCSR Demokritos in Athens on 15–17 December 2025. It brought together researchers in quantum algorithms, optimisation and quantum machine learning. Archimedes researchers Georgios Korpas and Antonios Varvitsiotis served on the organising committee.
Workshop / Colloquium — ACAC 2025 — Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity. Archimedes supported the workshop, held at the National Technical University of Athens on 25–26 August 2025. Its researchers contributed as organisers and speakers, supporting the exchange of recent and ongoing work in theoretical computer science.
Workshop — 2025 Archimedes Geometry Day. Organised by Archimedes and held at the Archimedes Amphitheatre in Marousi on 15 July 2025, the event explored connections between geometry and machine learning. Chaired by Ioannis Emiris and Panagiotis Kaklis, it featured a keynote by Leonidas Guibas and talks on geometric algorithms, 3D scene understanding, geometric deep learning and generative methods for ship design.
Colloquium — SIROCCO 2025 — 32nd International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity. Co-organised by Archimedes, the colloquium took place in Delphi, Greece, on 2–4 June 2025. It explored the relationship between structural knowledge, communication and computation in distributed systems, with Christos Papadimitriou among the keynote speakers.
Workshop — Archimedes Workshop on the Aspects of Clustering (2024). Hosted at Archimedes in September 2024, this workshop comprised a series of lectures by Archimedes-affiliated researcher Vaggos Chatziafratis. It covered clustering and hierarchical clustering, optimisation techniques, metric and non-metric embeddings, and open research questions.
Workshop / Colloquium — ACAC 2024 — Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity. Supported by Archimedes and held in August 2024, the workshop provided a forum for researchers to discuss preliminary findings and recent results in algorithms and computational complexity.
Workshop — Archimedes Workshop on the Foundations of Modern AI (2024). Organised by Archimedes at the National Technical University of Athens on 3–4 July 2024, the workshop brought together researchers in learning theory, optimisation, algorithmic game theory, and approximation and online algorithms. Its organising committee included Archimedes lead researchers.
Symposium & workshop — CG Week 2024 / 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). The programme included an Open Archimedes Workshop on 10 June 2024, featuring Constantinos Daskalakis on connections between online learning and game theory, chaired by Ioannis Emiris.
Workshop / Colloquium — ACAC 2023 — 18th Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity. Supported by Archimedes, the workshop brought together researchers in algorithms and complexity. Archimedes researchers Dimitris Fotakis, Evangelos Markakis, Aris Pagourtzis and Christos Tzamos served on the organising committee.

Game theory, economics & security

Workshop — Archimedes AGT Afternoon Event (AAGTA 2026). Hosted at the Archimedes Amphitheatre on 4 February 2026, this workshop focused on algorithmic game theory and AI. Its programme included keynote talks by Paul Goldberg and Christos Papadimitriou and presentations by Archimedes lead researchers.
Conference — GameSec 2025 — Conference on Game Theory and AI for Security. Supported by Archimedes, the 16th edition took place at the National Technical University of Athens on 13–15 October 2025. It explored how game theory and AI can address security, privacy and trust, with Archimedes researcher John S. Baras serving as a General Co-Chair.
Workshop — 2025 Archimedes Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory. Co-organised by Archimedes and the Athens University of Economics and Business, the workshop took place on 15–16 July 2025. Its organising and scientific committee comprised Archimedes lead researchers Georgios Amanatidis, Georgios Christodoulou, Dimitris Fotakis, Evangelos Markakis and Alkmini Sgouritsa.
Conference — ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2025). Held at Stanford University on 7–10 July 2025, the conference brought together research at the intersection of economics and computer science. Archimedes-affiliated researcher Vasilis Syrgkanis served as a Local Co-Chair, contributing to its organisation.
Workshop — WALE 2024 — Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics. Held in Kefalonia on 17–21 June 2024, WALE explored algorithms for economics and machine learning, including mechanism design, learning in games and trustworthy AI. Its organisers included Archimedes-affiliated researchers Katerina Sotiraki, Christos Tzamos and Manolis Zampetakis.
Workshop — WOALG 2023 — Workshop on Online Algorithms, Learning and Games. Organised by Archimedes on 12–14 July 2023, the workshop brought together researchers in algorithmic game theory, online algorithms and learning theory to discuss recent developments and connections between these fields. The final two days celebrated Elias Koutsoupias’ 60th birthday and his contributions to the field.

Neural networks & weight space learning

Workshop — NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Neural Network Artifacts as a New Data Modality. This forthcoming workshop explores neural network artifacts as data for model analysis, learning and reliability. Giorgos Bouritsas is listed on the organising committee with an Archimedes/Athena RC affiliation.
Workshop — ICLR 2025 Workshop on Weight Space Learning — Neural Network Weights as a New Data Modality. Held in Singapore on 27 April 2025, the workshop examined how neural network weights can be represented, analysed and generated. Giorgos Bouritsas, affiliated with Archimedes and the University of Athens, served on its organising committee.

AI hardware & edge ML

Tutorial — Low-Power Analog Hardware Classifier Architecture for ML Applications: From A to Z (IEEE ICM 2025). Presented by Dr. Vassilis Alimisis, this tutorial covered the design and implementation of energy-efficient analog classifiers for machine learning, from signal-processing fundamentals and circuit architectures to practical deployment. Applications included edge devices and biomedical wearables, with attention to power–performance trade-offs and hardware–software co-design.

Responsible AI & society

Public dialogue series — AI Dialogues 2025 at Methoni. Co-organised by Archimedes, the Friends of Methoni Castle Association and the Region of Peloponnese, the events took place in Methoni on 2 August and 20 September 2025. Talks and open discussions explored AI in medicine, biology and education, alongside its ethical challenges and wider impact on society.
Seminar — 20th Annual Ermoupolis Seminar on the Information Society and the Knowledge Economy (2025). Co-organised by Archimedes, the INFOSTRAG group of NTUA’s Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, and the Cyclades Chamber of Commerce, the seminar took place in Ermoupoli, Syros, on 10–13 July 2025. Its twentieth-anniversary edition brought together perspectives on information and communication technologies, the information society and the knowledge economy.
Conference — ACM FAccT 2025 — AI and Greece: Interdisciplinary Reflections from Past to Present. Supported by Archimedes and co-organised by Archimedes lead researcher Evaggelia Pitoura, this local keynote panel took place on 24 June 2025 at the Athens Conservatoire. It explored AI through historical, technical, ethical and social perspectives.
Workshop — ELLIS Workshop on Misinformation Detection (2025). Co-organised by Archimedes and ELLIS Unit Manchester, the workshop took place at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology on 16 June 2025. It examined how large language models can help detect misinformation while also enabling its creation, bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss detection methods and emerging challenges.
Workshop — ReAI 2024 — 1st Workshop on Responsible Artificial Intelligence. Supported by Archimedes and held at SETN 2024 on 12 September 2024, the workshop addressed fairness, transparency, privacy and the wider implications of AI. Archimedes researchers Evaggelia Pitoura and Danae Pla Karidi were among its organisers.

Biomedical imaging & AI for health

Shared task — ELCardioCC 2026 — Clinical Coding in Cardiology. This BioASQ shared task focused on automatically assigning ICD-10 codes to cardiology discharge letters, bringing together named entity recognition, entity linking, multi-label classification and explainable AI. Archimedes affiliated researcher Grigorios Tsoumakas was part of the organising team, connecting machine learning research with clinical language processing.
Workshop — AI in Imaging: Medical and Beyond (2024). Organised and hosted by Archimedes on 28 May 2024 at its amphitheatre, with hybrid attendance, the workshop explored generative models, multimodal computer vision, precision medicine and efficient adaptation of foundation models. Speakers included Dimitris Samaras, Vicky Kalogeiton, Maria Vakalopoulou and Stergios Christodoulidis.
Symposium — ISBI 2024 — IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. Supported by Archimedes and held in Athens on 27–30 May 2024, the symposium brought together the biomedical imaging community. Maria Vakalopoulou, listed with an Archimedes affiliation, served on the organising committee in an awards role.

Natural language processing & dialect resources

Workshop — DialRes-LREC 2026 — Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective. Held on 16 May 2026 alongside LREC in Palma de Mallorca, this workshop focused on creating, documenting and using dialectal language resources. It was endorsed by Archimedes, with Antonios Anastasopoulos, Stella Markantonatou, Angela Ralli, Stavros Bompolas and Vivian Stamou listed as organisers with Archimedes affiliations.
Workshop — UniDive WG1 Workshop on Dialect Varieties (2025). Co-organised by Archimedes and Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, the workshop took place at LMU’s Center for Information and Language Processing on 11–14 August 2025. Entitled “Standardization and variation for dialect varieties with Universal Dependencies as an application framework”, it focused on dialect variation and annotation using Universal Dependencies.
Conference — ICDL 2025-Ιnternational Conference on the Dialect of Lesbos. Co-organized by Archimedes and held in Mytilene, Lesvos, on 4–6 July 2025, the conference focused on the study, documentation, and preservation of the island’s dialect. Archimedes researchers also contributed to the scientific programme, presenting work on creating language resources for the development of language models in Lesbian Greek.
Workshop series — Modern Greek in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Resources and Tools (2025). Organised by Archimedes, this experiential workshop series was scheduled at Democritus University of Thrace on 6 May, the University of the Aegean in Rhodes on 19 May, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on 22 May, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on 14 June 2025. Designed for students and teaching staff in the humanities and social sciences with little or no prior technical experience, the workshops combined introductions to AI and language models with practical applications in speech transcription, text analysis, lexicography and translation.