Cyprus Computational Science Symposium Agenda

Day 1

10:00 - 10:45 Introductions

Vice-Rector – UCY
Dean of Engineering School  – UCY
Stavros Kassinos – UCY
 
Welcome remarks
Constantine Dovrolis – CYI
Important milestones in the convergence of computational science and ML/AI over the last 10-15 years

10:45 - 11:45 - Keynote 1

Boris Bonev – NVIDIA
Next Generation Weather Forecasting with Geometric Neural Operators

11:45 - 12:45 - Session 1

Vasileios Vavourakis- UCY
Multiscale in silico models in cancer – from predictive modelling to surgical planning
Gregory Papagregoriou – BioBank
Digitalizing the Natural History of Rare Diseases: Longitudinal Machine Learning and Sub-Tissue Digital Twins for Precision Medicine applied in ADTKD-MUC1
Anna Onisiforou – UCY
Comparative Network Pharmacology Modeling for Prioritizing Approved Therapies Across Comorbid Diseases

12:45 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 - Session 2

George Spyrou – CING
A One Health Approach: Leveraging Systems Bioinformatics to Decode the Effects of Exposome Stressors on Human Health
Charalambos Chrysostomou – Eratosthenes COE
Scalable Earth Observation: Bridging Physical Constraints with Data-Driven Algorithms
Xenia Miscouridou – UCY
Statistical modelling of networks with dynamic overlapping communities

15:00 - 16:00 - Session 3

Dimokratis Grigoriades – UCY
Accelerating Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with AI/ML: Challenges
Herodotos Herodotou – CUT
Data-Driven Insights into Coastal Dynamics: Leveraging Neural Networks for Eutrophication Assessment
George Pallis – UCY
GLASSLab: Simulating Sustainability and Scalability of Geo-Distributed LLMs in Data Centers

16:00-16:30 - Coffee break

16:30 -17:30 - Session 4

Georgios Zittis – CYI
Downscaling of climate models: an overview of physics-based and data-driven methods
Marios Zacharias  – CYI
Ab Initio HPC Approaches to Electron-Phonon Coupling and Anharmonicity
TBA
TBA

17:30 - 18:30 - Keynote 2

 Awni Hannun – MLX/Apple Silicon
AI on Apple Silicon with MLX

Day 2

9:00 - 10:00 - Session 5

Panagiotis Kolios – UCY
Accelerating Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with AI/ML: Challenges
Loizos Michael – OUC
Unraveling the Induction-Instruction Entanglement
TBA
TBA

10:00 - 11:00 - Session 6

Haris Papadopoulos – Frederick University
How to Make Your Models Honest: Distribution-Free Coverage Guarantees for Scientific Computing
Dimitris Drikakis – UNIC
AI methods and associated uncertainty and explainability in flows, the environment and medicine
Sotirios Chatzis – UCY
Beyond Determinism: Variational Inference for Physics-Informed Probabilistic Modeling

11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30-12:00 - Invited Talk

Alex Cheema – EXO Labs platform
Title TBA

12:00-13:00 - Session 7

Vangelis Harmandaris – CYI
Physics-based & Data-driven Modeling of Complex Molecular Systems: A Journey Across Scales & Methods
Charalambos Konstantinou – UCY
Title TBA
Mohammad Hadi Sedaghat – UCY
 A Hybrid Immersed Boundary–Projection Framework for Multiphysics Simulation of Drug Transport in Airway Surface Liquid

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 - Open Discussion

How can the computational science and ML/AI research and education communities in Cyprus work more closely together?

17:30 - 18:30 - Keynote 3

Paris Perdikaris – University of Pennsylvania
Physics-Informed Neural Networks: From Over-hyped Promise to Turbulent Reality

12:00-13:00 - Session 8

Giannis Koutsou – CYI
Revealing the structure of matter using large scale simulations of the strong force
Savvas Karatsiolis – UCY
Decomposing Urban Heat Islands: A Hybrid Physics-Inspired and Data-Driven Modeling Framework

16:40-17:00 - Coffee Break / Wrap up