CyI Events - 2025
The following list details CyI events during 2025. Click the links for more information about each event.
| Date & Time | Type | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 December 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Boolean Circuits: Recent Advances and Open Questions | Alexander Kulikov, Researcher, JetBrains |
| 10 December 2025 Starts: 18:30 |
Premiere Screening | View the web page for more information | |
| 9 December 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Augmented University Real-time Assistant (AURA): Current Status, Challenges, and the Road Ahead | Dr. Samer Saab Jr., Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Lebanese American University (LAU) |
| 9 December 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Seminar | Scalable Graph Algorithms for AI and Data Science: Vertex Splitting, Cluster Editing, and Structure Discovery | Dr. Faisal N. Abu-Khzam, Professor of Computer Science & Assistant Dean for Research Collaboration and Partnerships, Lebanese American University (LAU) |
| 27 - 28 November 2025 Starts: 09:00 |
Workshop | The Principles and Applications of C, N, O and H Stable Isotopes in (Paleo)ecological and Archaeological Studies | Prof. Steven Bouillon, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 24 - 25 November 2025 All day |
Workshop | SESAME Workshop: User Community Building Workshop in Synchrotron Radiation Techniques Available for Cypriot Academic and Industrial Users at SESAME | View the web page for more information |
| 25 November 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Webinar | Optimizing Desalination under Continental Drying Conditions Through a Water–Energy–Food–Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus Approach in the Mediterranean | View the web page for more information |
| 25 November 2025 Starts: 09:00 |
Naming Event | A. G. Leventis Naming Event | View the web page for more information |
| 19 November 2025 Starts: 18:00 |
Public Lecture | Climate Change and the Marine Environment: Global and Regional Challenges | Dr Aristomenis P. Karageorgis, Director and President of the Board, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) |
| 19 November 2025 Starts 10:30 |
Hackathon | QUEST Hackathon 2025 | View the web page for more information |
| 19 November 2025 Starts: 09:00 |
General Assembly | DARIAH-EU General Assembly & National Coordinators Committee 2025 | View the web page for more information |
| 18 November 2025 Starts 08:45 |
Workshop | Quantum Computing & HPC: Building a Quantum-ready Cyprus | View the web page for more information |
| 4 November 2025 Starts: 15:00 |
Seminar | The Hala Sultan Tekke Hinterland Survey Project: Five Years of Landscape Archaeology in the Larnaca Area, Cyprus | Prof. Ralf Vandam, Landscape Archaeologist, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel (VUB), Belgium |
| 3 November 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Seminar | Quantum Sensing with Many-body Systems: A Quantum Simulation Perspective | Dr. Saubhik Sarkar, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) |
| 30 October 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Training Event | Exploring Materials Properties with HPC: Hands-on DFT and Quantum Espresso | View the web page for more information |
| 24 October 2025 Starts: 15:00 |
Seminar | Studying Babylonian Rock Inscriptions: Historical Questions and Methodological Challenges | Prof. Rocío Da Riva, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona |
| 24 October 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Quantum Optimization for Combinatorial Problems - A Simple Tour via QAOA, Hybrids, and What Works Today | Dr. Kostas Blekos, Associate Research Scientist, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 20 October 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Cryptography in the Quantum Era: Entangling Number Theory | Dr Eleni Agathocleous, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 13 - 14 October 2025 Starts: 09:00 |
Workshop | Radiogenic Isotopes: from Geology to Archaeometry | Prof. Patrick Degryse, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium; ERA Chair, The Cyprus Institute |
| 9 October 2025 Starts: 10:15 |
Round Table Discussion | Colour Matters: Colours and Colourful materials in New Kingdom Egypt | More information coming soon |
| 3 October 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | From Rapid Prototyping to System Optimization: Design and Analysis of Data-Intensive Applications on the Edge-Cloud Continuum | Dr. Moysis Symeonides, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Internet Computing (LInC), University of Cyprus (Computer Science Department) |
| 30 September 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Workshop | An Introduction into GIS for Mapping of Geochemical Data for Archaeology | Mr Frank Stremke, Archaeologist and documentation expert, Germany |
| 19 September 2025 Starts: 12:00 |
Seminar | Neural Methods for 3D World Understanding | Dr. Melinos Averkiou, Associate Research Professor & Group Leader of the Visual Computing Group, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus |
| 17 September 2025 Starts: 15:00 |
Seminar | Chalcolithic Erimi Pamboula: Something Old, Something New | Prof. Giorgos Vavouranakis, Dept. History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) |
| 12 September 2025 Starts: 12:00 |
Seminar | Algorithms at Scale: Theory, Practice, and Applications | Dr. Solon P. Pissis, Senior Researcher, Networks & Optimization group, CWI, Amsterdam; Visiting Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam |
| 10 September 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Training Event | A Practical Guide to LLM Deployment and RAG Systems | Dr. Christodoulos Stylianou, Research Engineer, CyI; Dr. Nikolaos Bakas, Senior Data Scientist, GRNET; Marios Constantinou, Research Software Engineer, CyI |
| 9 September 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Friend or Foe? | Prof. Sokratis Katsikas, Norewgian University of Science and Technology, Director, Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors |
| 3 September 2025 Starts 10:00 |
Seminar | Using Developmental Growth Patterns in Teeth to Improve the Resolution of Isotopic Analyses: a Case Study of Wild Boar Feasting in Early Neolithic Asiab, Western Iran | Dr Petra Vaiglova, Lecturer in Archaeological Science, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University |
| 2 September 2025 Starts: 09:00 |
Training Workshop | Fundamental Statistics for Isotope Analyses | Dr Petra Vaiglova, Lecturer in Archaeological Science, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University |
| 23 July 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Training Event | Building AI Agents: A Hands-On Tutorial | Dr Valeria Filippou, Research Engineer & Mr Marios Constantinou, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 16 July 2025 Starts: 18:30 |
Public Lecture | State-of-the-art Image-Guided Therapies for Colorectal Liver Metastases: The Evolution of Interventional Oncology through Advanced Technologies | View the web page for more information |
| 24 June 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Why High Performance Computing for Weather and Climate: ESiWACE Center of Excellence | Mario C. Acosta, Leading Researcher, Barcelona Supercomputing Center; Professor, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| 20 June 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Training Event | Towards Interpretable, Controllable, and Efficient AI | View the web page for more information |
| 13 June 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
MoU Signing Cermony |
MoU Signing Ceremony Between The Cyprus Institute and the Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO |
View the web page for more information |
| 11 June 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Training Event | Introduction to High-Performance Computing with Python | Dr Christodoulos Stylianou, Research Engineer, & Dr Giannis Koutsou, Associate Professor, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 29 May 2025 Starts: 18:00 |
Public Lecture | The 2025 Hubert Curien Memorial Lecture Advances in Medicine do not Necessarily Translate Into Better Health |
Prof. Alain Fischer, Emeritus Professor, Collège de France, Paris |
| 19 May 2025 Starts 18:00 |
Public Lecture / Δημόσια Διάλεξη | Κλιματική Μεταβολή και Μαθησιακή Ικανότητα: Πώς οι Υψηλές Θερμοκρασίες Μειώνουν Δραματικά την Ικανότητα Μάθησης | Καθηγητής Ματθαίος Σανταμούρης, Anita Lawrence Professor Αρχιτεκτονικής Υψηλών Επιδόσεων, Πανεπιστήμιο της Νέας Νότιας Ουαλίας, Αυστραλία & Πρόεδρος του Επιστημονικού Συμβουλίου του Ερευνητικού Κέντρου του Ινστιτούτου Κύπρου για την Ενέργεια, το Περιβάλλον και τους Υδάτινους Πόρους |
| 13 May 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Deep Learning-Enhanced Multi-Scale Simulation Approaches for Complex Molecular Systems | Dr Eleftherios Christofi, Postdoctoral Fellow, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 30 April 2025 Starts 10:00 |
Training Event | Generative AI – What It Is, How to Use It, and What to Watch Out For | Dr Christodoulos Stylianou, Research Engineer, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 10 April 2025 Starts: 15:00 |
Seminar | Scientific Analysis of Islamic Plant-ash Glass in the Eastern Silk Roads | Dr Qin-Qin Lü, Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research & St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge |
| 9 April 2025 Starts: 18:00 |
Public Lecture | Πέντε γυναίκες-πρότυπα καταρρίπτουν τα στερεότυπα και φωτίζουν το μέλλον της επιστήμης | Visit the website for more information |
| 9 April 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Colloquium | The Long Search for New Physics | Dr Simone Bacchio, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 8 April 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | HPC and Big Data Technologies for Global Challenges | Prof. Harald Köstler, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 4 - 5 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00 |
Fair | The Cyprus Institute sCYence Fair 2025 | Visit the website for more information |
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28 - 29 March 2025 |
Workshop | SEABORD Project Workshop: Maintaining the Past - Reuse and Adaptation in the Making of Ottoman Fortresses | View the web page for more information |
| 5 March 2025 Starts: 12:30 |
Seminar | CY-MATHS-IN: Virtual Materials Testing Using Stochastic 3D Models for Material Microstructures | Dr. Orkun Furat, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Institute of Stochastics, Ulm University, Germany |
| 28 February 2025 Starts: 10:00 |
Public Forum | 1st Public Forum organized by the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Nicosia ‘Citizens’ Engagement in preserving Cultural Heritage’ | View the web page for more information |
| 26 February 2025 Starts: 17:00 |
Workshop | Heritage at Risk and Digital Responses | View the web page for more information |
| 18 February 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | How the ChEESE CoE is Developing HPC-based Software and Services to Address Natural Hazards | Prof. Arnau Folch, Research Professor, Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN) Institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) |
| 17 February 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Dendritic Contributions to Learning in Biological and Artificial Networks | Dr. Panayiota Poirazi, Research Director and Head of the Dendrites Lab, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) |
| 13 February 2025 Starts: 15:00 |
Seminar | CY-MATHS-IN: For What the Bell Tolls | Prof. David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) |
| 4 February 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Training Event | Towards Exascale Physically-based Computational Hydrology | Daniel Caviedes-Voullieme, Team Leader, Simulation and Data Laboratory for Terrestrial Systems, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (Forschungszentrum Jülich) |
| 29 January 2025 Starts: 09:00 |
Workshop | Government Day Event: "AI Technologies for Public Services and Governance" (AI4serv-gov) | View the web page for more information |
| 24 January 2025 Starts: 18:30 |
Exhibition | “Unseen Gaze – The Hidden Portrait under Titian’s Ecce Homo” | View the web page for more information |
| 22 January 2025 Starts: 17:00 |
Public Lecture | Public Session: "The Future of Education with AI" at Strovolos Old Municipality Library Keynote lecture: "GenAI can be a Personalised Tutor for Every Student - How to Get There" |
Keynote Speaker: Dr Constantine Dovrolis, Professor and Director, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 21 January 2025 Starts: 09:15 |
Public Presentation | The Cyprus Institute appoints ERA Chair in One Archaeological Science | View the web page for more information |
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13 - 14 January 2025 |
Conference | 1st Conference of the Cyprus Advanced Materials Network | View the web page for more information |
| 14 January 2025 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Neural Nets Do Not Need To Be A Black Box: The Recent Mathematics Of Deep Learning | Prof. Constantine Dovrolis, Director, Center for Computational Science and Technology (CaSToRC), The Cyprus Institute; Professor, School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 14 January 2025 Starts 09:15 |
Conference | Information Technologies for Smart Agriculture, Experiences and Good Practices of Their Implementation from Greece and Israel | Register here |
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