DEPUTY DIRECTOR - IACM

George Makrakis

Deputy Director of the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics

Currently, (since September 28, 2025) Prof. George Makrakis acts as the Director of IACM.

  • I am Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Crete.
    Also, I am a member and the Deputy Director of IACM-FORTH.

    Full CV

  • I am working on wave propagation problems, mainly with asymptotic methods. On the applied side I am interested for applications in underwater acoustics, geophysics and phase-space quantum mechanics.

  • Selected  Articles

    1. P.S.Theocaris and G.N. Makrakis, Caustics and quasi-conformality. A new method for the evaluation of stress singularities, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP), Vol. 40, pp. 410-424, 1989.

    2. T. Katsaounis, G.T. Kossioris and G.N. Makrakis, Computation of high-frequency fields near caustics, Mathematical Methods and Models in Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 1-30, 2001.

    3. M. Ikehata, G.N. Makrakis and G. Nakamura, Inverse boundary value problem in ocean acoustics, Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences, Vol. 24, pp. 1-8, 2001.

    4. S. Filippas and G.N. Makrakis, Semiclassical Wigner function and geometrical optics, SIAM Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, Vol. 1, No.4, pp.674-710, 2004.

    5. G.S. Piperakis, E.K. Skarsoulis and G.N. Makrakis, Rytov approximation of tomographic receptions in weakly range-dependent ocean environments, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 120, No. 1, pp. 120-134, 2006.

    6. S.Yu Dobrokhotov, G.N. Makrakis and V.E.Nazaiksinskii, Maslov's Canonical Operator, Hormander's Formula, and Localization of Berry-Balazs' Solution in the Theory of Wave Beams, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Vol. 180, No. 3, pp. 162-182, 2014.

    7. G.N. Makrakis (2014) Transmutation of non local boundary conditions in ocean acoustics, Applicable Analysis, Vol. 93, No. 6, pp. 1319-1326.

    8. GA Athanassoulis, GN Makrakis (2020), An Unusual Wave Equation Arising in Water-Wave Theory, Differential Equations, 49-56.

    9. PD Karageorge, GN Makrakis (2022) Asymptotic approximations for the phase space Schrödinger equation, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 55 (34), 345201.