CyI Events
The Cyprus Institute’s mission includes the promotion and dissemination of scientific knowledge through public lectures, colloquia, seminars and other events. These include the prestigious Hubert Curien and Enrico Fermi Lecture series, and feature prominent speakers from around the world.
Unless otherwise noted, all events are open to the public, are presented in English, and take place at The Cyprus Institute, Athalassa Campus. Please consult the list below for more details, including exact time and location.
Events Calendar
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Upcoming Events
| Date & Time | Type | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 November 2024 Starts: 18:00 |
Public Lecture | The “Insanity” of the Beginning of the Universe, Magic by Higgs Boson | Prof. Shoji Asai, Director General, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) |
| 25 - 27 November 2024 All day |
Symposium | Cyprus Meets Japan: A 3 Day Symposium at The Cyprus Institute | Visit the web page for more information |
| 28 November 2024 All day |
Open Day | QUEST Open Day | Visit the web page for more information |
| 29 November 2024 Starts: 10:00 |
Training Event | Supercomputing for All: Getting Started with HPC & AI Resources | Dr Simone Bacchio, Computational Scientist, Dr Christodoulos Stylianou, Research Engineer, The Cyprus Institute |
| 4 December 2024 Starts: 15:00 |
Colloquium | Thirteen Years That Changed China - 336-323 BCE - Alexander's Expansion into Asia | Prof. Alan Mark Pollard, Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK; Chair of the STARC Scientific Expert Panel |
| 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 |
Past Events
A list of CyI Events so far during 2024. Also, see our previous events in 2023 and other years using the links at the bottom of this page.
| Date & Time | Type | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 November 2024 Starts 10:00 |
Training Event | An introduction to Computational Modelling, Foundations of Deep Learning, and Quantum Computing | Prof. Constantine Dovrolis, Director, CaSToRC, Dr Myrianthi Hadjicharalambous, Scientific Coordinator, Dr Andreas Athenodorou, Associate Research Scientist, CaSToRC, Dr Kostas Blekos, Associate Research Scientist, The Cyprus Institute |
| 14 November 2024 Starts 09:00 |
Bootcamp | Digitisation of the Energy Sector: Tools and Trends for a Sustainable Future | Visit the web page for more information |
| 7 November 2024 Starts 10:00 |
Training Event | Large Scale Machine Learning for Visual and Multimodal Data | Mihalis Nicolaou, Associate Professor, Kyriaki Kylili, Associate Research Scientist, Marios Constantinou, Research Software Engineer, The Cyprus Institute |
| 5 November 2024 Starts: 16:00 |
Public Lecture | Halting the Extinction of the Emblematic Griffon Vulture in Cyprus (In memory of Dr Martin Hellicar) |
Mrs Melpo Apostolidou, Director, BirdLife Cyprus |
| 31 October 2024 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Efficient Computation through Tuned Approximation | Prof. David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) |
| 31 October 2024 Starts: 11:30 |
Seminar | From Geometric Computing to Geometric Learning | Prof. Ioannis Emiris, President and General Director, ATHENA Research Centre, Greece |
| 30 October 2024 Starts 13:00 |
Seminar | MultiXscale - a EuroHPC JU Center of Excellence | Professor Matej Praprotnik, Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Modeling, National Institute of Chemistry; Professor of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana |
| 30 October 2024 Starts: 11:00 |
Seminar | Machine Learning Approaches for Reverse Engineering Genome-scale Networks | Prof. Srinivas Aluru, Regents' Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| 24 October 2024 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Streamlining Calculations of Complex Electron-Phonon Interactions in Functional Materials | Dr Marios Zacharias, MSCA postdoctoral researcher at FOTON Institute, INSA, Rennes, France |
| 23 October 2024 10:00 - 15:00 |
Seminar and Networking Event | HPC for Research in Cyprus | Visit the web page for more information |
| 22 October 2024 Starts: 15:00 |
Seminar | Portable Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis and its Application for the Research on Archaeological Ceramics | Dr Markus Helfert, Head of the Ceramics Research Unit, Goethe University, Frankfurt |
| 18 October 2024 Starts: 14:30 |
Seminar | Ritual Faunal Deposits in Prehistoric Sanctuaries: Zooarchaeological Insights from the Gymnesic Islands (Western Mediterranean) | Dr Alejandro Valenzuela Oliver, Researcher, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, UIB-CSIC) |
| 16 - 18 October 2024 | Workshop | Young Researchers in Archaeometry | Visit the web page for more information |
| 17 October 2024 Starts: 18:00 |
Colloquium | The Prehistoric Roots of the Mediterranean Diet | Dr Juan José García-Granero, Senior Research Fellow, Spanish National Research Council |
| 10 - 14 October 2024 All day |
Hackathon | Hackathon - Hack for a Cause | Visit the web page for more information |
| 26 - 28 September 2024 All day |
International Conference | Climate Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East | Visit the conference website for more information |
| 27 September 2024 Starts: 12:00 |
Launch Event | TERRASAFE Public Launch Event | Visit the project website for more information |
| 20 September 2024 Starts: 12:00 |
Colloquium | Decoding the Past, Innovating the Future: Advanced Technologies in Archaeology and Material Science | Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 16 - 20 September 2024 Starts: 13:00 |
Workshop | Lattice Practices | Visit the web page for more information |
| 13 September 2024 Starts: 11:00 |
Training Event | Utilizing Containers in HPC Systems for Machine Learning Research | Dr Charalambos Chrysostomou, Associate Research Scientist & Mr Giorgos Kosta, Research Engineer, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 6 September 2024 Starts 10:00 |
Training Event | Introduction to Physics Informed Machine Learning | Eleftherios Christofi & Dr Andreas Demou, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute |
| 3 July 2024 Starts: 08:30 |
Workshop | Second EuroCC2 Industry Day | Visit the web page for more information |
| 2 July 2024 Starts 13:00 |
Seminar | Aurora - A Foundation Model of the Atmosphere | Assoc. Prof. Paris Perdikaris, University of Pennsylvania |
| 27 June 2024 | Virtual Workshop | Innovation in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques | Visit the web page for more information |
| 17, 18 & 21 June 2024 All day |
Bootcamp | The Cyprus Institute Innovation Bootcamp for TREATY | Visit the web page for more information |
| 19 & 20 June 2024 All day |
Summer School | PROTEAS Summer School: Solar Concentration Technologies and Hybridization | Visit the web page for more information |
| 17 June 2024 Starts: 18:30 |
Public Lecture | Old Masters at the Château de Chantilly: Past and Present of a World-Class Art Collection in France | Dr. Mathieu Deldicque, Chief Curator and Director of the Museum Condé, Château de Chantilly |
| 13 June 2024 Starts: 18:00 |
Graduation Ceremony | The Cyprus Institute 2024 Graduation Ceremony | Visit the web page for more information |
| 29 May 2024 Starts: 10:00 |
Training | Intermediate-level Programming for HPC Using Python – Joint Training event from NCC Cyprus & NCC Greece | Dr. Simone Bacchio, Prof. Giannis Koutsou, Dr. Nikos Bakas, The Cyprus Institute |
| 28 May 2024 Starts: 12:00 |
Seminar | Network Geometry | Assoc. Prof. Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Dept. Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology |
| 20 - 22 May 2024 08:30 - 17:00 |
Workshop | International Workshop: Computational Modelling of Molecular Systems: From Atoms to the In-silico Design of Materials | Visit the web page for more information |
| 15 - 18 May 2024 | Congress | 4th International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East | Visit the website for more information |
| 19 April 2024 Starts 10:00 |
Training | EuroCC2 Training Event: Accelerating Generative AI with PyTorch | Mr. Christodoulos Stylianou, Research Engineer; Dr Charalambos Chrysostomou, Associate Research Scientist (both of CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute) Mr Ivan Gentile, Data Scientist, IFAB (NCC Italy) |
| 17 April 2024 | Fair | sCYence Fair 2024 | Visit the website for more information |
| 11 April 2024 Starts: 12:30 |
Seminar | Synergetic Renewable Technologies for Power and Industry | Prof. Bassam Dally, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia |
| 4 April 2024 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Machine Learning Methods for Network Resource Allocation Problems | Prof. Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) |
| 27 March 2024 Starts: 12:00 |
Seminar | The Use of Machine Learning in Geophysical Problems | Dr Eric Verschuur, Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands |
| 19 March 2024 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Towards Engineering Trustworthy Learning-enabled Systems | Dr Simos Gerasimou, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK |
| 15 March 2024 09:00 - 16:00 |
Workshop | Nτόπια Φυλή Βοοειδών στην Κύπρο / The Past, Present and Future of the Cyprus Cattle Breed | Visit the web page for more information |
| 15 March 2024 09:30 - 13:30 |
Training | Introduction to Parallel Computing for Beginners | Visit the web page for more information |
| 13-15 March 2024 | Seminars | Seminar Series - Introduction to Quantum Computing | Visit the web page for more information |
| 6 March 2024 Starts: 15:00 |
Seminar | Shared and Multilayered Cities Around the Mediterranean - an Integrated Methodology for Historical Research | Prof. Renata Salvarani, Full professor of History of Christianity, Director of CeSHeT, European University of Rome |
| 28 February 2024 Starts: 18:00 |
Open Discussion | Η Πορεία της Κύπρου προς την Κλιματική Ουδετερότητα: Οφέλη και Προκλήσεις | Visit the web page for more information |
| 27 February 2024 Starts 13:00 |
Seminar | Empowering Collaboration: Introduction of the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia | Dr Hrachya Astsatryan, Leading Researcher, Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA |
| 15 February 2024 Starts 18:00 |
Public Lecture | The 2024 Ronald Ross Lecture Biological Invasions: Insights from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Assessment on Invasive Alien Species and Their Control |
Prof. Helen Roy MBE Hon. FRES, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and University of Exeter |
| 13 February 2024 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Seminar: Machine Learning for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | Dr Maria Chli, Reader in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Aston University; Director, Aston University Computer Science Industry Club |
| 6 February 2024 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Precision Medicine: A Personalized Systems Approach | Prof. George Mias, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University |
| 12 January 2024 Starts: 13:00 |
Seminar | Addressing the Problem of Data Sparsity with Generative Modelling | Dr George Vogiatzis, Reader, Computer Science, School of Science |
View our archive of events for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017.
Additional Info
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