MONDAY 16/11/2026
| 10:00–10:20 | Director’s Welcome – Workshop Kickoff |
| 10:20–12:00 | 1st Topic: Modelling Complex Systems Vagelis Harmandaris – Multi-scale Modeling and AI Methods for Complex Molecular Systems Evangelia Kalligiannaki – Statistical inference approaches for stochastic differential equations and applications Grigorios Fournodavlos – Modeling the Big Bang: A cosmic blender Stavros Komineas – Topological solitons in condensed matter Nikolaos Efremidis – Optical thermodynamics: From basic principles to optical pressure and thermalization Dimitrios Sfyris – ΤΒΑ |
| 12:00–12:30 | Coffee Break |
| 12:30–14:00 | 2nd Topic: Mathematics for Society, Health and the Environment Nektarios Chrysoulakis – Funding the RSLab’s research across the domains of Environment, Data, and Scientific Discovery Zina Mitraka – CLMS-Cities: Copernicus responds to EU Cities Mission Angeliki Xenaki – Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Ocean Applications Emmanuel Skarsoulis – Modelling of problems and field applications in underwater acoustics Aggeliki Doxa – Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity and Climate-Smart Conservation Planning George Alexandrakis – Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence for Coastal Zone Observation and decision support |
| 14:00–15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00–16:00 | Panel 1: The Future of IACM: Strategy, Needs and Prospects |
TUESDAY 17/11/2026
| 10:00–11:40 | 3rd Topic: Data, AI and Scientific Discovery Charalambos Makridakis – Generative models and scientific computing Yiannis Kamarianakis – Predictive Modeling with Spatio-Temporal and High-Dimensional Data Ioannis Tsamardinos – From automating predictive to automating causal modeling Georgios Arampatzis – The role of IACM in the HORIZON project TURING (Trustworthy Unified Robust Intelligent Generative Systems) Georgia Gregoriou – Analyzing discrete and continuous neural signals to understand cognition at the micro- and mesoscopic scale Panos Sapountzis – Recurrent neural networks as models of higher-order brain regions Nasos Gerontopoulos – Looking Ahead: Rethinking How Language Models Learn, Predict, and Reason |
| 11:40–12:10 | Coffee Break |
| 12:10–13:50 | 4rth Topic: Computational Methods at Scale Emmanuil Georgoulis – Large scale adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for transient problems Costas Smaragdakis – A deep implicit-explicit minimizing movement method for partial integro-differential equations, with application to option pricing in jump-diffusion models Yannis Pantazis – Harnessing Foundation Models via Transfer Learning in Protein Engineering, Biodiversity Monitoring and Medicinal Chemistry Yannis Papaharilaou – ΤΒΑ |
| 13:50–14:50 | Lunch |
| 14:50–15:50 | Panel 2: Major Interdisciplinary Initiatives |
| 15:50–16:15 | Conclusions – Workshop Closing |