1st IACM Retreat
November 16-17, 2026, V. Dougalis Room, Former ENISA Building
MONDAY 16/11/2026
| 10:00 | Director’s Welcome |
| 1st Research Theme: MODELLING COMPLEX SYSTEMS | |
| 10:20 | Vagelis Harmandaris – Multi-scale Modeling and AI Methods for Complex Molecular Systems |
| 10:35 | Evangelia Kalligiannaki – Statistical inference approaches for stochastic differential equations and applications |
| 10:50 | Grigorios Fournodavlos – Modeling the Big Bang: A cosmic blender |
| 11:05 | Stavros Komineas – Topological solitons in condensed matter |
| 11:20 | Nikolaos Efremidis – Optical thermodynamics: From basic principles to optical pressure and thermalization |
| 11:35 | Dimitrios Sfyris – Austenite-martensite phase transitions in high myosin morphogenetic problems |
| 12:00–12:30 | Coffee Break |
| 2nd Research Theme: MATHEMATICS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY | |
| 12:30 | Nektarios Chrysoulakis – Funding the RSLab’s research across the domains of Environment, Data, and Scientific Discovery |
| 12:45 | Zina Mitraka – CLMS-Cities: Copernicus responds to EU Cities Mission |
| 13:00 | Angeliki Xenaki – Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Ocean Applications |
| 13:15 | Emmanuel Skarsoulis – Modelling of problems and field applications in underwater acoustics |
| 13:30 | Aggeliki Doxa – Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity and Climate-Smart Conservation Planning |
| 13:45 | 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
| 3rd Research Theme: DATA, AI AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY | |
| 10:00 | Charalambos Makridakis – Generative models and scientific computing |
| 10:15 | Yiannis Kamarianakis – Predictive Modeling with Spatio-Temporal and High-Dimensional Data |
| 10:30 | Ioannis Tsamardinos – From automating predictive to automating causal modeling |
| 10:45 | Georgios Arampatzis – The role of IACM in the HORIZON project TURING (Trustworthy Unified Robust Intelligent Generative Systems) |
| 11:00 | Georgia Gregoriou – Analyzing discrete and continuous neural signals to understand cognition at the micro- and mesoscopic scale |
| 11:15 | Panos Sapountzis – Recurrent neural networks as models of higher-order brain regions |
| 11:30 | Nasos Gerontopoulos – Looking Ahead: Rethinking How Language Models Learn, Predict, and Reason |
| 11:40–12:10 | Coffee Break |
| 4rth Research Theme: COMPUTATIONAL METHODS AT SCALE | |
| 12:10 | Emmanuil Georgoulis – Large scale adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for transient problems |
| 12:25 | Costas Smaragdakis – A deep implicit-explicit minimizing movement method for partial integro-differential equations, with application to option pricing in jump-diffusion models |
| 12:40 | Yannis Pantazis – Harnessing Foundation Models via Transfer Learning in Protein Engineering, Biodiversity Monitoring and Medicinal Chemistry |
| 12:55 | Yannis Papaharilaou – ΤΒΑ |
| 13:50–14:50 | Lunch |
| 14:50–15:50 | Panel 2: MAJOR INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES |
| 15:50–16:15 | Conclusions – Workshop Closing |