Seminar Series

The NCC’s seminar series invites distinguished speakers to present their work on a diverse range of topics, informing the community of their research and the latest developments in computational methods used for research and innovation.

These take place at the premises of The Cyprus Institute, but can also be viewed online via Zoom. Some of these are also recorded and available for later viewing on YouTube. 

Upcoming Seminars

Past Seminars

Date: Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Speaker: Prof. George M. Spyrou, Bioinformatics ERA Chair, Professor & Head, Bioinformatics Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics (CING), Nicosia, Cyprus

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Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Speaker: Prof. Vasileios Vavourakis, University of Cyprus

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Date: Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Speaker: Prof. Manolis Koubarakis, Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Algorithms and Systems for the IoT Data Revolution

Date: Tuesday 12 September 2023

Speaker: Professor Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus

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Textual Inversion

Date: Friday 8 September 2023

Speaker: Professor Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Applications of Machine Learning in Studies of Galaxy Evolution

Date: Tuesday 25 July 2023

Speaker: Professor Andreas Efstathiou, Rector, European University Cyprus

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Neural Networks as Thermodynamic Physical Systems

Date: Tuesday 4 July 2023

Speaker: Assistant Professor Dimitris Giataganas, National Sun-yat Sen University, Taiwan

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A Novel Approach to the Inverse Problem

Date: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Speaker: Professor Costas Papanicolas, The Cyprus Institute, CEO CREF

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Sparse Training in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Date: Tuesday 06 June 2023

Speaker: Assistant Professor Elena Mocanu, University of Twente

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Sparse Training in Supervised and Unsupervised Deep Learning

Date: Tuesday 30 May 2023

Speaker: Professor Decebal Constantin Mocanu, University of Luxembourg

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Tensorization and Uncertainty Quantification in Deep Learning

Date: Tuesday 24 May 2023

Speaker: Dr. Yinchong Yang, Siemens

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Generating the Unseen and Explaining the Seen - ML for the Environmental and Agricultural Sciences

Date: Tuesday 25 April 2023

Speaker: Professor Ribana Roscher, University of Bonn

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Improving Decision Making with Machine Learning, Provably

Date: Tuesday 21 March 2023

Speaker: Dr. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

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