Lectures

Lecture
22.07.2025
U-Net: Mathematical Foundations of Sparse Feature Learning and Quantitative Analysis of Hallucination in Image Processing
Speaker: Dr. Jianfei Li
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Lecture
09.05.2025
Invisible Histories, Visible Effects: Ghost Lineages and the Study of Gene Flow
Speaker: Dr Damien de Vienne, CNRS Researcher, LBBE, France
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Lecture
09.04.2025
Securing Health Data in the European Health Data Space: Privacy through Federated Learning and Synthetic Data Generation.
Speaker: Andrei Kazlouski
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Lecture
07.04.2025
Life Inc. - From Algorithms and Innovation to Human Enhancement and Care of the Self: Theofanis Tasis discusses with Andreas Stavropoulos
Speaker: Prof. Theofanis Tasis, Andreas Stavropoulos
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2025 Lectures
  • Neurosymbolic AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
    Speaker : Dr. Sotirios Batsakis
    Date : 01.04.2025
    Time : 11.00 to 12.30
    Location : Seminar room 'Stelios Orphanoudakis' @ FORTH central building, 1st floor
    Host : Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis, Director, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Vice-President, FORTH Head, Information Systems Laboratory, ICS

Past Lectures

  • 3D Gaussian Splatting: Past, Present and Future
    Speaker : George Drettakis, Senior Researcher, Inria, Team Leader GRAPHDECO , Inria Centre d'Université Côte d'Azur, Sophia-Antipolis, France
    Date : 26.09.2024
    Location : “Stelios Orphanoudakis” Meeting Room (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas)
    Host : Prof. Yannis Tzitzikas
  • Robot motion planning in crowded environments
    Speaker : Prof. Luigi Palopoli, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento
    Date : 02.07.2024
    Location : Vassilis Dougalis Room – FORTH, Science and Technology Park of Crete, ground floor
    Host : Prof. Antonis Argyros
  • Diffusion Generative AI Images for Science
    Speaker : David Donoho, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University
    Date : 17.05.2024
    Location : Fotakis Seminar Room - FORTH, Main Building, 1st floor
    Host : Jean-Luc Starck and Panagiotis Tsakalides
  • Systems research in the era of AI
    Speaker : Prof. Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University, http://www.stanford.edu/~kozyraki
    Date : 09.02.2024
    Location : East Campus Amphitheater (CARV building), FORTH
    Host : Angelos Bilas, Manolis Katevenis
  • From deep network mysteries to physics
    Speaker : Stéphane Mallat Professor, Collège de France https://www.di.ens.fr/~mallat/mallat.html
    Date : 15.09.2023
    Location : Seminar Room 1 - FORTH, Main Building, 1st floor
    Host : Jean-Luc Starck and Panagiotis Tsakalides
  • What HPC means in Astrophysics and how to love it
    Speaker : Luca Tornatore, Permanent Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF - Trieste, Italy)
    Date : 08.09.2023
    Location : East Campus Amphitheater (ENISA/CARV building)
    Host : M. Marazakis
  • Query answering over the polymorphic web of data
    Speaker : Cosimo Gregucci
    Date : 24.07.2023
    Location : Αίθουσα Παγιατάκης
    Host : Γιώργος Φλουρής, Ερευνητής Β', Εργαστήριο Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων, Ινστιτούτο ΠΛηροφορικής - ΙΤΕ
  • Image Denoising - Not What You Think
    Speaker : Michael Elad, Professor of Computer Science, Technion, Israel
    Date : 20.07.2023
    Location : Payatakes Seminar Room - FORTH, Main Building, 1st floor
    Host : Jean-Luc Starck and Panagiotis Tsakalides
  • Learning-Augmented Mechanism Design
    Speaker : Vasilis Gkatzelis Associate Professor of Computer Science, College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University
    Date : 17.07.2023
    Location : SEMINAR ROOM 'STELIOS ORPHANOUDAKIS' MAIN BUILDING, FORTH
    Host : Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis Director, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Vice-President, FORTH Head, Information Systems Laboratory, ICS
  • Venture Capital for Deep Tech Startups
    Speaker : Dr Alex Eleftheriadis
    Date : 10.07.2023
    Location : Meeting Room/Auditorium 119 “KEEK” Building (ground floor)
    Host : Maria Papadopouli, Prof of Computer Science, University of Crete and FORTH
  • Quantum Software Engineering: Dawn of a New Research Area
    Speaker : Johanna Barzen, Frank Leymann
    Date : 23.06.2023
    Location : A. Saitakis Room, STEP-C, 1st floor
    Host : Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis Director, Institute of Computer Science Vice Chair, Board of Directors Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
  • Resilient Robotic Autonomy: Methods and Systems
    Speaker : Dr. Kostas Alexis, Professor Dept of Engineering Cybernetics NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology O.S.
    Date : 22.06.2023
    Location : STEP C “KEEK” Building - Meeting Room/Auditorium 119 – Ground Floor
    Host : Prof. Panos Trahanias, CVRL/ICS
  • A Case for Intra-Rack Resource Disaggregation in HPC
    Speaker : Dr. George Michelogiannakis, Research Scientist Applied Mathematics & Computational Research Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Date : 09.12.2022
    Location : Amphitheater of East Campus, FORTH
    Host : Vassilis Papaefstathiou, CARV, ICS FORTH
  • Enforcing GDPR Using Data Traceability
    Speaker : Elisavet Koziri, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
    Date : 31.10.2022
    Location : Seminar Room "Stelios Orphanoudakis", FORTH
    Host : Prof. Markatos Evangelos
  • Challenges in JSON Schema Data Modeling
    Speaker : Stefanie Scherzinger, Prof. at the University of Passau
    Date : 06.07.2022
    Location : SEMINAR ROOM STELIOS ORPHANOUDAKIS, FORTH
    Host : Haridimos Kondylakis
  • Affect and Consequences in L2 Vehicle Driving
    Speaker : Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis, Computational Physiology Laboratory, University of Houston
    Date : 23.06.2022
    Location : Seminar Room 1, FORTH main building
    Host : Prof. Antonis Argyros
  • Brain-Inspired Computing
    Speaker : Dr Angeliki Pantazi, IBM Research-Zurich
    Date : 11.05.2022
    Location : Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87907105809
    Host : Prof. Maria Papadopouli
  • Argument Technology & Argument Mining
    Speaker : Prof. Chris Reed, University of Dundee, Scotland
    Date : 25.11.2019
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis ICS FORTH, Director
  • Retrofitting Security, Module by Module
    Speaker : Dr. Nikos Vasilakis, post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Date : 30.10.2019
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Sotiris Ioannidis
  • Evolution of Automated Close-Range Photogrammetry
    Speaker : Prof. Clive Fraser, Dept. of Infrastructure Engineering University of Melbourne, Australia
    Date : 04.10.2019
    Location : Seminar Room 1, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Dr. Maria Pateraki
  • The Business Architecture Approach: An Overview
    Speaker : Prof. Pierre Hadaya School of Management, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
    Date : 31.07.2019
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis
  • Quantum Computing: A Brief Introduction
    Speaker : Johanna Barzen, Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart
    Date : 25.06.2019
    Location : Αίθουσα 1, ΙΤΕ, Ηράκλειο
    Host : Καθ. Δημήτρης Πλεξουσάκης
  • Physical layer security in delay constrained applications
    Speaker : Dr. Arsenia Chorti Associate Professor Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l' Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA), France
    Date : 23.05.2019
    Location : Seminar Room 1, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. P. Tsakalides
  • Introduction to Graph Signal Processing
    Speaker : Professor Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology, ΙΕΕΕ Fellow, Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
    Date : 31.01.2019
    Location : Seminar Room 1, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. P. Tsakalides
  • Scalable Graph Processing with PGX
    Speaker : Vasileios Trigonakis
    Date : 04.05.2018
    Location : Technology Park - Room 211 2nd floor A-STEPC
    Host : Prof. Panagiota Fatourou
  • Mining Tools for Large-Scale Networks
    Speaker : Charalampos Tsourakakis, Assistant Professor at Boston University
    Date : 10.04.2018
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Polyvios Pratikakis
  • Programming models and heterogeneity in HPC
    Speaker : Antonio J. Peña, Sr. Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Computer Sciences Department
    Date : 21.11.2017
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Manolis Marazakis, CARV
  • Network Layer Optimization for 5G networks
    Speaker : Dr. Nikolaos Sapountzis, University of Florida, USA / Eurecom, France
    Date : 15.09.2017
    Location : "A. Payatakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Pavlos Sermpezis
  • Introduction to the new concept of age of information
    Speaker : Prof. Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA
    Date : 02.08.2017
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Στέφανος Παπαδάκης, TNL, ICS FORTH
  • Value Transfer from Research to Industry
    Speaker : Dr. Masami Akamine Toshiba Research and Development Center
    Date : 27.07.2017
    Location : "A. Payatakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Dimitris Plexousakis, Director, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
  • Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications
    Speaker : Prof. Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
    Date : 04.07.2017
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. Plexousakis Dimitris, Director of ICS-FORTH
  • Image analysis of the human cornea
    Speaker : Prof. Alfredo Ruggeri, University of Padova
    Date : 26.06.2017
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Zabulis Xenophon
  • Medical Technology Transfer from the Academic Lab to the Real World
    Speaker : Prof. Nikolaos Stergiopulos Professor and Director Laboratory of Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Technology Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
    Date : 09.03.2017
    Location : FORTH Main Auditorium “G. Liannis”
    Host : Panos Tsakalides (ICS) and Spiros Anastasiadis (IESL)
  • Efficient OpenMP support on platforms with limited resources
    Speaker : Dr. Vassilios V. Dimakopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina
    Date : 08.09.2016
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. Panagiota Fatourou
  • Knuth, McIlroy, and you go to a party!
    Speaker : Nikos Vasilakis, Ph.D. candidate in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania
    Date : 16.05.2016
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Sotiris Ioannidis
  • Dynamics & Control of Robots Moving on Earth & Space
    Speaker : Dr. Evangelos Papadopoulos, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering National Technical University of Athens
    Date : 18.12.2015
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. Trahanias, Panos
  • How to Search Encrypted Data
    Speaker : Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou ECE and UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park
    Date : 30.07.2014
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. Yannis Tollis
  • How about *some* control-flow integrity?
    Speaker : Georgios Portokalidis, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology
    Date : 24.07.2014
    Location : Seminar Room 1, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Elias Athanasopoulos
  • Managing Big Graphs and their Evolution
    Speaker : Prof. Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina
    Date : 04.07.2014
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Irini Fundulaki, Kostas Stefanidis
  • The constant battle for power-efficient computing
    Speaker : Dr George Michelogiannakis. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
    Date : 06.06.2014
    Location : Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : G Kalokerinos
  • Three inverse problems in acoustics
    Speaker : Dr. Nikolaos Stefanakis
    Date : 18.02.2014
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Athanasios Mouchtaris
  • (Exascale) Data Movement
    Speaker : Bruce Jacob, Keystone Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland (USA); and Visiting Professor, Università di Siena (Italy)
    Date : 02.12.2013
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Manolis Katevenis
  • Sensor hints for sensornet routing
    Speaker : Dr. Chamath Keppitiyagama (SICS, Sweden)
    Date : 26.11.2013
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Maria Papadopouli
  • CIDOC CRM and Geoinformation
    Speaker : Gerald Hiebel
    Date : 19.02.2013
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : M Doerr
  • Cyclic division algebra based space-time codes
    Speaker : Dr. Camilla Hollanti Assistant Professor Dept. of Mathematics and System Analysis Aalto University, Finland
    Date : 13.02.2013
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH
    Host : A. Chorti
  • One Step Closer to Applied Physical Layer Security
    Speaker : Dr. Arsenia Chorti Marie Curie IOF Fellow, FORTH-ICS Visiting Researcher, Princeton University
    Date : 18.01.2013
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH
    Host : Panagiotis Tsakalides
  • Optimizing Energy Systems using Dynamic Programming
    Speaker : Prof. Christos S. Ioakimidis (University of Deusto/DeustoTech, Energy Unit, Bilbao, Spain)
    Date : 11.10.2012
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Y Stylianou
  • Managing Contextual Preferences
    Speaker : Kostas Stefanidis
    Date : 24.09.2012
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Vassilis Christophides
  • Rhythm and beat similarity in music
    Speaker : Andre Holzapfel
    Date : 03.09.2012
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Y.Stylianou
  • Speech Technology in Toshiba
    Speaker : Masami Akamine, PhD.<br> Senior Fellow, Toshiba Research and Development Center<br> <a href='mailto:masa.akamine@toshiba.co.jp' target='_blank'>masa.akamine@toshiba.co.jp</a>
    Date : 19.06.2012
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Yannis Stylianou
  • Motion Planning for Physical Systems
    Speaker : Lydia E. Kavraki<br> Rice University
    Date : 15.06.2012
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Panos Trahanias
  • Practical Physical Layer Security Paradigms
    Speaker : Dr. Arsenia Chorti, Marie Curie IOF Fellow, FORTH-ICS, Visiting Researcher, Princeton University
    Date : 06.03.2012
    Location : Room 1, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Panagiotis Tsakalides
  • Odyssey Venture Partners
    Speaker : Thanasis Kalekos
    Date : 03.02.2012
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Manolis Katevenis
  • How to share your brain
    Speaker : Dimitris Achlioptas, Full Professor National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Computer Science
    Date : 07.10.2011
    Location : Seminar room I - FORTH
    Host : Youla Faturu, CARV, ICS- FORTH
  • More Intuitive Performance Analysis
    Speaker : Dr Martin Schultz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
    Date : 21.09.2011
    Location : Seminar Room G100, ICS FORTH
    Host : Angelos Bilas
  • Turning Academic Research to a Successful High Tech Company
    Speaker : Spiros Xanthos, COO, Pattern Insight - <a href='http://patterninsight.com'>http://patterninsight.com/</a>
    Date : 28.06.2011
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Manolis Katevenis
  • Managing Provenance for Reproducibility and Beyond
    Speaker : Juliana Freire, <a href='http://www.cs.utah.edu/~juliana'>http://www.cs.utah.edu/~juliana</a>
    Date : 22.06.2011
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Martin Doerr, Irini Fundulaki, Yannis Tzitzikas, ISL / ICS-FORTH
  • Scheduling for Fun and Profit
    Speaker : <a href='http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~labrinid'>Alexandros Labrinidis</a>, University of Pittsburgh
    Date : 07.06.2011
    Location : Seminar Room 1, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Prof. Euaggelos Markatos
  • The Distributed Media Plays System
    Speaker : Dr. Ozgur Tamer, Post-doctoral researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    Date : 26.01.2011
    Location : Seminar Room I, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Tsakalides, Panagiotis
  • Type-inference in type-based static verification
    Speaker : Dimitris Vitiniotis, Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge
    Date : 17.09.2010
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Polyvios Pratikakis
  • Speech-to-speech translation
    Speaker : Dr. Panayiotis Georgiou, Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
    Date : 13.07.2010
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Tsakalides, Panagiotis
  • Masked OFDM Dirty Paper Encryption
    Speaker : Dr. Arsenia Chorti, Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University, UK
    Date : 12.07.2010
    Location : "Alkiviades C. Payatakes" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Tsakalides, Panagiotis
  • Contention management in Transactional Memory
    Speaker : Alessia Milani, Laboratorie d' Informatique de Paris 6, UPMC
    Date : 18.06.2010
    Location : Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : P. Fatourou
  • New Challenges for IT-Security Research in ICT
    Speaker : Dr. Udo Helmbrecht,President of the Federal Office for Information Security, Bonn, Germany
    Date : 07.08.2009
    Location : FORTH Amphitheater "Giorgos Lianis", Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Prof. C. Stephanidis
  • The Complexity of the Nash Equilibrium
    Speaker : Constantinos Daskalakis, Incoming faculty at MIT
    Date : 27.07.2009
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete
    Host : M. Papadopouli
  • Architectural Support for Software Security
    Speaker : Assistant Prof. Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University
    Date : 20.07.2009
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : M. Katevenis / D. Nikolopoulos
  • Repairing Non-strict Dimensions in Data Warehouses
    Speaker : <b>Dr. Loreto Bravo,</b> Assistant Professor Departament of Informatics and Computer Science University of Concepcion, Chile
    Date : 10.04.2009
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Irini Fundulaki
  • Security for Wireless Networked Systems
    Speaker : Panos Papadimitratos, <i>EPFL</i>
    Date : 03.03.2009
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • Curated Databases
    Speaker : Peter Buneman,<i> University of Edinburgh</i>
    Date : 17.02.2009
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : V. Christophides
  • Elastic Buffer Networks-on-Chip
    Speaker : George Michelogiannakis
    Date : 10.09.2008
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
  • Physical Layer Authentication
    Speaker : Prof. John S. Baras, <i>Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science Fischell Department of Bioengineering University of Maryland College Park</i>
    Date : 30.07.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Maria Papadopouli
  • Visual localization in large scale cluttered urban environments
    Speaker : Kostas Daniilidis,<i> Director of the interdisciplinary GRASP laboratory and Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania</i>
    Date : 30.07.2008
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. C. Stephanidis
  • Adaptive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
    Speaker : Kanna Rajan, <i>Principal Researcher for Autonomy Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing, California</i>
    Date : 15.07.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Yannis Tsamardinos
  • Quasi-Static Scheduling for Safe Futures
    Speaker : Suresh Jagannathan, <i>Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University</i>
    Date : 03.07.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : A. Bilas
  • High Performance Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics
    Speaker : Alexandros Stamatakis, <i>The Exelixis Lab, Teaching and Research Unit Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich </i>
    Date : 20.06.2008
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : A. Bilas
  • Challenges in future e-Health services
    Speaker : Prof. Jose Garcia Moro
    Date : 17.06.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Catherine Chronaki & Franco Chiarugi
  • COMPLEXITY AS A MUSIC CONTENT DESCRIPTOR
    Speaker : Dr. Sebastian Streich, <i>Centre for Advanced Science and Technology at Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, Japan</i>
    Date : 13.06.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. C. Stephanidis
  • Ten years in the evolution of the Internet ecosystem
    Speaker : Dr. Constantine Dovrolis,<i> Associate Professor at the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology</i>
    Date : 10.06.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • Cloud Computing
    Speaker : Frank Leymann, <i>Prof. U. of Stuttart</i>
    Date : 26.05.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Gr. Antoniou
  • User-Centric Data Management
    Speaker : Alexandros Labrinidis, <i>University of Pittsburgh</i>
    Date : 09.05.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • Shared Atomic Objects
    Speaker : Panagiota Fatourou
    Date : 28.03.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • Vision for Robotics - Towards Structure of Objects
    Speaker : Prof. Markus Vincze, <i>Automation and Control Institute, Technical University of Vienna, Austria</i>
    Date : 27.03.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Antonis Argyros
  • CDNs Content Outsourcing via Generalized Communities
    Speaker : Dimitrios Katsaros,<i> Department of Informatics, Aristotle University and Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly</i>
    Date : 20.03.2008
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • 3D Sound as a design tool in Human Computer Interaction
    Speaker : Georgios Marentakis,<i>Research Fellow CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music McGill University</i>
    Date : 21.02.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Prof. C. Stephanidis
  • Networking for the Future of Large-Scale Science: An ESnet Perspective
    Speaker : William E. Johnston,<i>ESnet Department Head and Senior Scientist Energy Sciences Network, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California</i>
    Date : 15.02.2008
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • OpenTor: Anonymity as a Commodity Service
    Speaker : Dr Angelos Stavrou,<i>Columbia University</i>
    Date : 17.07.2007
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • At the Frontiers of Physiology
    Speaker : Dr. Remo Bedini
    Date : 03.07.2007
    Location : STEP-C Seminar Room, Building B, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Franco Chiarugi
  • Programming the Future
    Speaker : Prof. Gul Agha, <i>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</i>
    Date : 15.06.2007
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : A. Bilas
  • Stochastic hybrid models for DNA replication
    Speaker : Prof. John Lygeros,<i>ETH Zurich</i>
    Date : 18.05.2007
    Location : "Meditarranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : <a href="http://www.ics.forth.gr/~tsakiris" target="_blank">D. Tsakiris</a>
  • Sparse Representation and Applications in Astronomy
    Speaker : Dr. Jean-Luc Starck,<i> Service d'Astrophysique CEA/Saclay, France</i>
    Date : 11.05.2007
    Location : "Meditarranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Panagiotis Tsakalides
  • Protecting XML data
    Speaker : Irini Fundulaki, <i>Technical Staff at the Network Data and Services Research Department of Bell Laboratories.</i>
    Date : 25.04.2007
    Location : "Meditarranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : G. Antoniou, V. Christophides
  • Improving the Reliability and Programmbility of Future Multiprocessor Systems
    Speaker : Babak Falsafi, <i>Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, and a Visiting Professor of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL.</i>
    Date : 12.04.2007
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Manolis Katevenis
  • Information in Greek
    Speaker : Leandros Tassiulas,<i>Professor in the Dept of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of Thessaly Greece.</i>
    Date : 26.10.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Μαρία Παπαδοπούλη
  • Multimodal Integration and Learning in Cognitive Technical Systems
    Speaker : Jianwei Zhang, <i>Professor and Director, Institute of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS) Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany.</i>
    Date : 20.10.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : K. Marias (BMI Lab), P. Trahanias / A. Argyros / M. Lourakis (CVRL Lab)
  • Short Course On Elements Of Network Information Theory
    Speaker : Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano,<i> Head of Group of Information and Communication Systems Instituto de Robotica.</i>
    Date : 20.09.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Professor P. Tsakalidis
  • Learning to divide and conquer
    Speaker : Dimitra Giannakopoulou,<i> NASA Ames Research Center</i>
    Date : 20.09.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Professor A. Bilas
  • Planet Scale Software Updates
    Speaker : Dr. Thomas Karagiannis,<i>Associate Researcher Microsoft Research at Cambridge.</i>
    Date : 25.07.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Prof. Maria Papadopouli, NetLab ICS-FORTH
  • Application Communities: A Collaborative Approach To Software Security
    Speaker : Angelos Keromytis,<i> Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, and Director of the Network Security Laboratory.</i>
    Date : 06.07.2006
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • Network-layer view of Cooperation
    Speaker : Prof. Anthony Ephremides,<i> <a href="http://www.ee.umd.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Electrical Engineering</a> (<a href="http://www.isr.umd.edu/ISR/HP.htm" target="_blank">Institute for Systems Research</a>), <a href="http://www.umcp.umd.edu/" target="_blank">University of Maryland at College Park.</a></i>
    Date : 21.06.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
  • Presentation of current R&D activities
    Speaker : Prof. Georgios Giannakis,<i> ADC Chair in Wireless Communications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota.</i>
    Date : 07.06.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
  • Distributed Cooperation in Dynamically Changing Groups
    Speaker : Chryssis Georgiou, <i>Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus.</i>
    Date : 07.06.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • Top-K Query Processing Techniques for Distributed Environments
    Speaker : Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, <i>Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus.</i>
    Date : 07.06.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • Achievements of SPIIRAS in Human Computer Interaction Area
    Speaker : Dr. Andrey Ronzhin, <i>Speech Informatics Group of St. Petersburg Institute for informatics and automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS),<a href="http://www.spiiras.nw.ru/" target="_blank">http://www.spiiras.nw.ru/</a></i>
    Date : 06.06.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Y.Stylianou
  • Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources
    Speaker : Michail Petropoulos,<i> Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY).</i>
    Date : 05.06.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : V. Christophides
  • Visual localization and registration without matching
    Speaker : Kostas Daniilidis, <i>Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, at the University of Pennsylvania.</i>
    Date : 11.05.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Prof. Constantine Stephanidis
  • Performance Evaluation of Parallel Input/Output Systems
    Speaker : Prof. Dr. habil. Thomas Ludwig, <i>Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg, Institut fuer Informatik, Heidelberg, Germany,<a href="http://pvs.informatik.uni-heidelberg.de/" target="_blank">http://pvs.informatik.uni-heidelberg.de/</a></i>
    Date : 18.04.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Angelos Bilas
  • QoS in ad hoc networks
    Speaker : Khaldoun Al Agha, <i>Full Professor at the Praxis Xi Univ.</i>
    Date : 13.04.2006
    Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Maria Papadopouli
  • Ambient Intelligence, Smart Environments and the Disappearing Computer
    Speaker : Dr. rer.nat Dr. phil. Norbert A. Streitz, <i>Senior Scientist and Strategic Advisor, AMBIENTE - Smart Environments of the Future Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany.</i>
    Date : 06.04.2006
    Location : "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Prof. C. Stephanidis Director ICS-FORTH
  • Network Measurements in the Dark: Characterizing the Unknown
    Speaker : Thomas Karagiannis,<i> University of California, Riverside, Department of Computer Science & Engineering.</i>
    Date : 27.02.2006
    Location : Seminar Room 1, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete.
    Host : Maria Papadopouli, Telecommunications and Network Lab
  • XML Document Management
    Speaker : Airi Salminen,<i> Professor, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland,<a href="http://www.cs.jyu.fi/%7Eairi/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.jyu.fi/~airi/</a></i>
    Date : 16.11.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
  • One-Way monitoring without clock synchonization
    Speaker : Prof. Augusto Ciuffoletti, <i>University of Pisa,<a href="http://www.di.unipi.it/%7Eaugusto" target="_blank">http://www.di.unipi.it/~augusto/ </a></i>
    Date : 26.10.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • Service and resource discovery using p2p
    Speaker : Mika Pennanen, <i>VTT Information Technology, Finland</i>
    Date : 18.10.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Euaggelos Markatos
  • An Overview of High Speed System Interfaces
    Speaker : Dr. STEFANOS SIDIROPOULOS,<i> Chief Technical and Chief Executive Officer, Aeluros Inc.</i>
    Date : 29.09.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Manolis Katevenis
  • Specification and Composition of XML Subtree Queries
    Speaker : Irini Fundulaki,<li>Technical Staff at the Network Data and Services Research Department of Bell Laboratories</li>
    Date : 16.09.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Vassilis Christophides
  • P2P: More than Just (Illegal) File-Sharing Systems
    Speaker : Mema Roussopoulou
    Date : 29.07.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Prof. <a href="http://www.ics.forth.gr/%7Emarkatos/">Evangelos Markatos</a> DCS Lab, FORTH
  • Content Delivery for Streaming Media
    Speaker : Leonidas Kontothanassis
    Date : 28.07.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Prof. <a href="http://www.ics.forth.gr/%7Emarkatos/">Evangelos Markatos</a> DCS Lab, FORTH
  • Buffer Sizing for Congested Internet Links
    Speaker : Constantinos Dovrolis, <i>Assistant Professor at the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology</i>
    Date : 11.07.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Prof. <a href="http://www.ics.forth.gr/%7Emarkatos/">Evangelos Markatos</a> DCS Lab, FORTH
  • On the Predictability of Large Transfer TCP Throughput
    Speaker : Constantinos Dovrolis, <i>Assistant Professor at the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology</i>
    Date : 08.07.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Prof. <a href="http://www.ics.forth.gr/%7Emarkatos/">Evangelos Markatos</a> DCS Lab, FORTH
  • End-to-end Estimation of the Available Bandwidth Variation Range
    Speaker : Constantinos Dovrolis, <i>Assistant Professor at the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology</i>
    Date : 04.07.2005
    Location : Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room - FORTH
    Host : Prof. <a href="http://www.ics.forth.gr/%7Emarkatos/">Evangelos Markatos</a> DCS Lab, FORTH