You are cordially invited to the inaugural symposium of the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies (HIAS) on July 8, 2022 at the Eugenides Foundation in Athens, Greece.

The HIAS mission is to build scientific bridges between scientists of the diaspora and colleagues in Greece in STEM-related fields.

This symposium will explore themes and actions for creating and strengthening these bridges. We hope for your active participations and input for further developing HIAS plans.

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Symposium Program

8:30 – 9:00 – Registration

9:00 – 9.30 – Opening

Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of the Hellenic Republic
Greetings statement, to be read by the organizers

Greeting

George J. Tsunis, U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic

Introduction

Petros Koumoutsakos, Harvard University, HIAS Board Chair

• Focused Sessions
  (30 min. Keynote Talk, followed by 1 hour Panel Discussion)

9:30 – 11:00 – Engineering and Science Education

Keynote

Yiannis Yortsos, University of Southern California

Confirmed Panelists

Margarita Chli, ETH Zurich

Apostolis Dimitropoulos, Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs

Pericles Mitkas, Hellenic Authority of Higher Education

Fotis Sotiropoulos, Virginia Commonwealth University

Coordinators

Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University

Daphne Manoussaki, Technical University of Crete

11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 – Energy and Climate – Environment and the Sea

Keynote

Anna Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan

Confirmed Panelists

Michael Caramanis, Boston University

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California, Irvine

Alexander Mitsos, Aachen University

Athanasios Nenes, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Themistoklis Sapsis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Coordinators

Demetri Psaltis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Michael S. Triantafyllou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 – Artificial Intelligence and Computing

Keynote

Joseph Sifakis, CNRS, EPFL

Confirmed Panelists

Constantia Alexandrou , Cyprus University

Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University

Petros Maragos, National Technical University of Athens

Timos Sellis, “Athena”​ Research and Innovation Center

Coordinators

Lydia Kavraki, Rice University

Theodora Varvarigou, National Technical University of Athens

16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Greece

Keynote

Albert Bourla, CEO Pfizer

Nektarios Tavernarakis, FORTH, University of Crete

Confirmed Panelists

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Harvard University

Yannis Ioannidis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Vassilis Papakonstantinou, MIT Enterprise Forum

Nikos Paragios, Université Paris-Saclay

Coordinators

Dimitris Bertsimas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zurich

18:00 – Closing Remarks

Andreas G. Boudouvis, National Technical University of Athens