Tentative Program
21 June 2016
Invited and Regular Talks
22 June 2016
Talks By Elias's Students
23 June 2016
Talks By Elias’s Teachers and Friends
24 June 2016
Social Activities
8:30-9:00
XENIA HOTEL, PORTARIA
Discovering Survival Hydrodynamics through Stochastic Optimization and Learning
We seek to understand the interplay of hydrodynamics and behavioural traits in single and multiple swimmers. To this effect we perform simulations using a hierarchy of swimmer models, ranging from simple... Read More
Petros Koumoutsakos
Design and Implementation of an Integrated Product Traceability System based on RFID Technology: A Case Study
In this paper we outline the design and implementation of a product traceability system based on RFID technology, which is developed as a proof of concept for monitoring and control... Read More
Apostolos Xenakis
Applying Levenberg Marquardt Algorithm in Feedforward Neural Network Models for Predicting Crime in Public Management
Artificial intelligence applications have been tremendously increased in various science fields, the last decades, with the development of new machine learning techniques and algorithms and of new artificial neural network... Read More
Georgios Kouziokas
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
Developmental Engineering: A Pedagogy of Humans and Artifacts
Understanding of the fundamental ontogenic nature of the relation between humans and machines-artifacts has implications for engineering pedagogy in general and for its P-12 educational antecedents in particular. Drawing on, developmental theories,... Read More
Demetra Evangelou
Flexible Application Programming/Deployment and Soft Actuation in WSN-based Smart Environments
Wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) are a key component of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, and will play an increasingly important role in the next generation of computer-based systems. This... Read More
Spyros Lalis
An Alternative Algorithm for Bulk-loading xBR+-trees
Nowadays, applications and systems using spatial information and embedding spatial database capabilities (e.g. location based services) are becoming more common and continuously evolving. Spatial indexes play a crucial role in... Read More
George Roumelis
Recent Developments in Power Flow and Stability Modeling
Power flow and stability analysis have been used for decades, for analyzing both the traditional electric power grids and the new reformed grid infrastructure the so-called smart grids. Recently, both... Read More
Dimitris Zimeris
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
On the optimal solution of the “saddle point problem”
The “saddle point problem” is of great interest because of its many applications in Science, Technology, Economics, etc. So, its effective solution is most imperative. In this talk the optimal... Read More
Apostolos Hadjidimos
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Reliability and Energy-efficiency optimizations using Significance-Based Computing
Manufacturing process variability at low geometries and energy dissipation are the most challenging problems in the design of future computing systems. Currently, manufacturers go to great lengths to guarantee fault-free... Read More
Nikolaos Bellas
A high-order incompressible Navier-Stokes solver coupled with a parallel multigrid pressure correction technique for GPUs
A parallel multigrid pressure correction scheme is developed for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for computing architectures with accelerators. The discrete pressure Poisson equation is solved with... Read More
Emmanuel Mathioudakis
Building an Efficient Micro-Server Ecosystem by Exceeding the Energy / Performance Scaling Envelope.
The number of intelligent Internet-connected devices is constantly growing and will soon be in the orders of tens of billions, forming the Internet of Things (IoT). The aggregate data exchange... Read More
Christos D. Antonopoulos
Mobile robots in bio-production systems
Robotic applications have outgrown the structured industrial environments and moved also to semi-structured environments, such as hospitals and storage facilities, urban transportation, and agricultural environments. These environments require robots with advanced... Read More
Dionysis Bochtis
Performance of Some hp-Adaptive Strategies for 3D Elliptic Problems
The hp version of the finite element method (hp-FEM) combined with adaptive mesh refinement is a particularly efficient method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) because it can achieve an... Read More
William Mitchell
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
Intelligent climate management for sustainable greenhouse eco-systems
According to Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the next 20 years world food production must increase by 50%, while 80% of that increase must come from intensification. Modern agriculture is... Read More
Constantinos Kittas
An expert irrigation system based on could computing
In countries with scarce water resources where irrigation of farmland accounts for more than 70% of water use, the competition for this resource is intensifying and will continue so as... Read More
Nikolaos Katsoulas
13:30-14:30
Lunch
A Personal Journey through Scientific Computing
How Scientific Computing started? How it has been evolved? Where it stands now? Where it will be in the near future? What machines have been used? How it influenced the... Read More
Manolis Vavalis
PDE option pricing with variable correlations
Correlation between financial quantities plays an important role in pricing financial derivatives. Existing popular models assume that correlation either is constant, or exhibits some deterministic behaviour. However, market observations suggest that correlation is a more... Read More
Christina Christara
Towards Exascale Parallel Mesh Generation and Real-Time Medical Image Computing
In this talk we will present a new approach for guaranteed quality extreme-scale parallel mesh generation and its broader impact to real-time medical image computing. First, we will present a telescopic... Read More
Nikos Chrisochoides
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:00
TBA
Sanjiva Weerawarana
Computational Methods and Applications
The talk aims to present few of my past steps on scientific computations. My very first work was on the formulation, analysis and implementation of iterative ADI methods for the... Read More
Panagiota Tsompanopoulou
Serious games as learning tools for building basic skills in school education
Over the past decade there is a renewed emphasis on the development of basic learning skills, such as literacy as well as science, technology, and math (STEM). Furthermore, there is a... Read More
Hariklia Tsalapatas
09:00-09:30
XENIA HOTEL, PORTARIA
The early years at Portaria
George Segklias
Father Anthony
Elias as a University student
Apostolos Hadjidimos
The early years at Purdue and Patras
Ronald F. Boisvert
Efstratios Gallopoulos
William Mitchell
11:30-12:00
Coffee Break
Elias as a citizen and beyond
Apostolos Papadoulis
Creating and steering a University Department
Athanasios Loukas
Nikolaos Aravas
Lefteris Tsoukalas
George Petrakos
13:00-13:30
XENIA HOTEL, PORTARIA
CERTH, IRETETH
Iakovos Vassalos
Yiannis Koutedakis
Constantinos Kittas
Georgia Pahlitzanakis
Nikolaos Aravas
An internal informer
Odyssia Houstis Dudic
21:30-24:00
Banquet
Social Activities
Visit to archaeological museum and sites. Short tour to Pelion villages. More information to come soon…