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 - Guy Ourisson Building, Seminar Room (1st floor).
| Date | Type | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 January 2017 | Colloquium | The Genomics History of Aboriginal Australia | Dr Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas ERC Assistant Prof., Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern |
| 19 January 2017 | Seminar | Soils of Cyprus, Deriving a New Map From Legacy Data With Machine Learning | Corrado Camera Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute |
| 9 February 2017 | Seminar | Material analysis in Art and Cultural Heritage: Complex Examination of Historical Paintings | Svetlana Gasanova Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute |
| 13 February 2017 | Colloquium | Trace Elements and the Late Bronze Age Glass Industry | Prof. Thilo Rehren Professor of Archaeological Materials and Technology, UCL Institute of Archaeology , London |
| 16 February 2017 | Colloquium | Excavating Bronze Age Kirrha: Achievements and Perspectives of an Ongoing Project | Dr Raphael Orgeolet Member of the French School of Athens, Assistant Professor in Mediterranean Bronze Age Archaeology, Aix-Marseille Université |
| 2 March 2017 | Seminar | Biogeochemical Cycles of Organic Pollutants | Prof. Evripides Stephanou, Vice President for Research, The Cyprus Institute |
| 6 March 2017 | Colloquium | Worldwide Distributed Computing for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) | Dr. Ian Bird Project Leader of Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN |
| 9 March 2017 | Seminar |
Hydro-climatological Modeling for Cyprus Under the Framework of the H2020 BINGO Project |
George Zittis Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute |
| 16 March 2017 | Colloquium | Heterogeneous Catalysis for Clean Energy and Green Environment | Prof. Angelos Efstathiou Director, Heterogeneous Catalysis Lab, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Cyprus |
| 21 March 2017 | Public Lecture | Science and Europe 60 Years After the Treaties of Rome (Enrico Fermi Lecture Series) |
Prof. Massimo Inguscio President of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) |
| 22 March 2017 | Other Event | BeWater Science Society Cafe on Climate Change Adaptation | Elias Giannakis and Christos Zoumides Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute |
| 23 March 2017 | Colloquium | Biomedical Informatics: a Critical Component Towards Precision Medicine | Prof. Georgios Spyrou Bioinformatics ERA Chair and Head of the Bioinformatics Group, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics |
| 28 March 2017 | Other Event | Presentation of the Digital Library: Cypriot Medieval Coins: History & Culture | Dr Nikolas Bakirtzis Associate Professor - The Cyprus Institute, and Eleni Zapiti, Archaeologist |
| 30 March 2017 | Seminar | An introduction to Hadron Structure From Lattice QCD | Christos Kallidonis Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute |
| 6 April 2017 | Colloquium | Cyprus in Context: Researching and Re-assessing the Cambridge Cypriot Collections | Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou Cyprus Curator-Assistant Keeper, Dept. of Antiquities, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
| 20 April 2017 | Seminar | Aerosol Nanoparticles: From Air Quality and Climate Change to Novel Materials and Devices | George Biskos Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute |
| 24 April 2017 | Seminar | Tracing 3000 Years of Disease History: In Search of Evidence of Malaria in Bone and Dental Samples From Northern Africa, the Mediterranean, and Central Europe Using Innovative Technologies and an Interdisciplinary Approach | Dr Michelle Gamble Austrian Archaeological Instutute Dr Michaela Binder Austrian Archaeological Institute |
| 26 April 2017 | Seminar | Biomedical Research and Future Challenges | Zoe Cournia Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy Of Athens |
| 27 April 2017 | Public Lecture | Present and Future Searches on Archaeometallurgy of Sardinian Artifacts and Copper Provided by Cyprus (Enrico Fermi Lecture Series) |
Prof. Ettore Fiorini University of Milano Bicocca and Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei |
| 4 May 2017 | Colloquium | Intelligent Fault Diagnosis in Big Data Environments | Prof. Marios Polycarpou Director, KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus |
| 11 May 2017 | Colloquium | Advances in Concentrating Solar Thermal Research and Technology | Prof. Manuel J. Blanco ERA Chair in Solar Thermal Technologies for the Eastern Mediterranean, Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute. |
| 18 May 2017 | Colloquium | Predicting Peace: The Social Cohesion and Reconciliation Index (SCORE) as a Tool for Conflict Transformation | Dr Alexandros Lordos Research Director, Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development and Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative |
| 25 May 2017 | Colloquium | Soil Microstratigraphy: Understanding How Archaeological Sites Are Built | Dr Panagiotis Karkanas Director, Wiener Laboratory, American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
| 29 May 2017 | Other Event | Exhibition: ARCHӔOMUSICA | See Exhibition website for details |
| 8 June 2017 | Seminar | Assessment of Air Pollution Over EMME: Sources, Interaction and Feedback on Atmospheric Processes | Jonilda Kushta Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute |
| 15 June 2017 | Colloquium | A Tall Primer of the Archaeology of the Future | Lora Nicolaou Visiting Academic, Frederick University, School of Architecture, Nicosia |
| 22 June 2017 | Colloquium | The Commercialisation of Research Results Uncovered | Dr Anastasia Constantinou Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre (ENTICE), The Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM) |
| 25 June 2017 | Other Event | The Cyprus Institute Solar Car Challenge | See this page for rules and procedure details |
| 29 June 2017 | Colloquium | Maintenance Scheduling: From Optimal Control to Mixed-Integer Decision Making | Dr Vassilis S. Vassiliadis Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, and Riham Al Ismaili, PhD student |
| 6 July 2017 | Seminar | Lattice QCD Simulations With Physical Parameters | Jacob Finkenrath Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute |
| 6 - 16 November 2017 | Other Event | NESTER School 2017 | See NESTER website for details |
