Lectures and Research Seminars

A series of Research Seminars and lectures, conducted by distinguished scientists in various research disciplines and topics, is being organized by AIT and offered, free of charge, to AIT students as well as to all interested engineers and scientists. Research Seminars and Lectures, typically, take place every Monday or Friday, in AIT's premises.The list of distinguished lectures and research seminars conducted so far follows.

 

TITLE CONDUCTED BY DATE
Equalization of Mimo Broadcast Channels Prof. John G. Proakis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 26/05/08
Scenario-based Multi-core Design Methodology for Software Defined Radios Prof. Francky Catthoor 08/05/08
Information Extraction from Unknown Web Data Sources through Automatic Web Wrapper Generation using Clustering Techniques Dr. Nikolaos K. Papadakis, Chief Technology Officer, Converge ICT solutions and Services SA 14/04/08
Qualification and Quantification of the Flexible-Radio Concept Prof. Andreas Polydoros,
Department of Physics
University of Athens
31/03/08
Rfid Middleware Design for Enhancing Traceability in the Supply Chain Management Prof. Dr. Panos Dimitropoulos, University of Thessaly – Computer Engineering Department – Volos 17/03/08

 

“Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Risk Management – The WINSOC Approach” Prof. Gregory S. Yovanof, Associate Professor, AIT
 
03/03/08
"Fiber to the home - FTTH: architectures, technologies business and economic issues" Prof. Ioannis Tomkos, Associate Dean, AIT 18/02/08
Transmission Scheduling in Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Dynamic Programming Approach Dr. Spyridon Vassilaras, Assistant Professor, AIT 04/02/08
Research Traditions in Marketing Seminar Mr. George N. Hazapis,
MBA/MA, AIT
21/01/08

2007

Introducing the concept of real Dynamically Tunable and Transparent optical networks Dr. Dimitrios Klonidis, Ph.D., MSc, Research Scientist, AIT 26-11-07
“Knowledge is power”
The Safer Internet Action Plan & the Greek Safer Internet Awareness Node ‘SafeNetHomePlus’
Dr. Veronica Samara
Managing Director, Safer Interner Hellas
Head of the Greek Safer Internet Awareness Node "SafeNetHomePlus"
12-11-07
Exact Methods for Clustering Ensembles Coordination Dr.Ioannis T. Christou, Assistant Professor, AIT 29-10-07
Providing Incentives for Truthful Ratings’ Feedback in Electronic Environments Prof.George D. Stamoulis,
Athens University of Economics and Business
15-10-07

 

Multimedia Metadata: Standards, Research and Challenges Dr.Sofia Tsekeridou, Assistant Professor, AIT 01-10-07
Security Issues & Vulnerabilities in Cellular Systems Dr.Nikos Komninos,Research Scientist, AIT 30-04-07
A Short History of MIMO Prof. Aris Moustakas, Assistant Professor, University of Athens 23-04-07
Mutlipoint Videoconferencing with Scalable Video Coding Dr. Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Columbia University 2-04-07
Available-To-Promise: Coordination Mechanisms on the Customer Order Decoupling Point for Supply Chain Management Dr.Ioannis T. Christou, Assistant Professor, AIT
 
26-03-07
Content Based Multimedia Services: Intelligent Tools for Increasing Content Utilization and User’s Experiences Dr Nikolaos Doulamis, NTUA Research Associate 19-03-07
Destined to fail:Ethical Spillovers in the Vehicle Emissions Testing Market Prof. J. Lamar Pierce, Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategy Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. 13-03-07
Optimization of Wireless Sensor Networks Prof. Yannis Paschalidis,Center for Information and Systems Engineering and Department of Manufacturing Engineering Boston University 12-03-07
An Information Theoretic Approach for the Analysis of the Modern Computer & Communication Networking Environment Dr. Charalabos Skianis, Research Associate, Telecommunication Systems Laboratory, Centre for Technological Research, Crete. 05-03-07
New directions in Personal Networks and wireless Personal Area Networks Dr. Spyridon Vassilaras, Assistant Professor, AIT 26-02-07
Foundations of Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Type Systems and Pprogramming with Proofs Dr. Nikolaos S. Papaspyrou, National Technical University of Athens School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Software Engineering Laboratory 12-02-07
Challenges for “Moore’s Law” evolution in semiconductor technologies Prof. Alexis Birbas, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras 05-02-07
Broadband Wireless Access – The Case of WiMAX: Opportunities & Challenges Prof. Gregory Yovanof, Associate Professor, AIT 29-01-07
Watermarking Technologies for Copyright Protection of Content Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou, Assistant Professor, AIT 22-01-07
Future Optical Networks and Technologies Dimitris Klonidis, Research Scientist, AIT 15-01-07

2006

"e-Passports: How secure are they?" Prof. Tassos D. Dimitriou, Associate Professor, AIT 8-12-06
"Building Secure Network Applications" Nikos Komninos, Research Scientist, AIT 01-12-06
Support Vector Machines: A geometric point of view Prof. Sergios Theodoridis,
University of Athens, Greece
 
10-Nov-06
The ‘Wiki-Model’ for Collaborative Knowledge Management, and its application to the Autonomic & Grid Computing Group Nikolaos Dimakis, Researcher, AIT 03-Nov-06

 

Voice Activity Detection: Identifying the Presence of Speech within Audio Recordings Dr. Christos Boukis,
Research Scientist, Fall 2006
27-Oct-06
An ESPAR antenna for beamspace-MIMO systems using PSK modulation schemes Prof. Antonis Kalis, Research Seminar, Fall 2006 13-Oct-06

 

Q-factor modeling and monitoring: Enabling impairment constraint routing in mesh optical networks. Prof. Ioanni Tomkos, Associate Dean, Fall 2006 06-Oct-06
Pervasive Computing: Research Challenges and Prototype Applications developed in AIT Prof. John K.Soldatos
Research Seminar, Fall 2006
22-Sep-06
A 'Telescope' for Computer Science - The Future of Networking Research.
 
Dr. David Farber 18-Sep-06
Packet Reordering Effects on IPTV Spiro Spirou, Computer Enginner at Intracom Telecom. 15-Sep-06
Active Noise Control: An Indirect Approach for Noise Reduction Dr. Christos Boukis,
Research Scientist, Fall 2006
08-Sep-06
Where and Who?
Answers Using Video
Prof. Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis,
Research Seminar, Fall 2006
01-Sep-06
Software Engineering: The road to a rigorous software development education and practice Prof. Sotiris Skevoulis, Associate Professor and Chair, Computer Science Dept., Ivan G. Siedenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University, USA 29-May-06
3D beyond computer graphics: 3D communication, content creation, and navigation Dr. Kostas Daniilidis, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA 28-Apr-06
Secure Multipath Routing Algorithms Prof. Christos Douligeris, University of Pireaus 14-Apr-06
Interactive TV systems: Adding a speech interface Dr. Fotis Talatzis, Research Scientist, AIT 31-Mar-06
An Overview of Dereverberation Techniques Dr. Christos Boukis, Research Scientist, AIT 24-Mar-06
Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Computing: Vision and the CHIL Case Study Dr. John K. Soldatos, Assistant Professor, AIT 3-Mar-06
On the Performance of Virtual MIMO Systems Dr. Antonis Kalis, Assistant Professor, AIT 24-Feb-06
Quality of Service building blocks for efficient IP Next-Generation Networks design Dr. Evangelos Vayias, Consulting Engineer, Intracom Telecom 17-Feb-06
Signal Regeneration and Wavelength Conversion in WDM optical networks Dr. Stelios Sygletos, Research Scientist, AIT 10-Feb-06
Systems Dependability Dr. Sofoklis Efremidis, Assistant Professor, AIT 3-Feb-06
Grid Computing: Technology Overview and AIT’s EMPEROR Scheduler Dr. John K. Soldatos, Assistant Professor, AIT 27-Jan-06

2005

Broadband Access Technologies for Local Distribution Networks Dr. Nikolaos Zervos, President & CEO, Ellemedia Technologies, Ltd. 5-Dec-05
RFID Security & Privacy Issues Dr. Tassos Dimitriou, Assistant Professor, AIT 28-Nov-05
Challenges and Trends in the Design of Next Generation Wireless Systems and the Specification of a New Air Interface Dr. Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Labs, Wireless Research, Lucent Technologies 21-Nov-05
Active Noise Control Systems Dr. Christos Boukis, Research Scientist, AIT 14-Nov-05
Ubiquitous Computing: Middleware and a Prototype Service Dr. Lazaros C. Polymenakos, Associate Professor at AIT 7-Nov-05
Optical Switching Technologies and Routing Schemes for Telecommunications, Data and Grid Services Dr. Anna Tzanakaki , Assistant Professor, AIT 31-Oct-05
Broadband optical networks: state-of-the-art and research challenges Dr. Ioannis Tomkos, Professor, Associate Dean, AIT 24-Oct-05
Delta-Sigma Modulation: Modeling, Design and Applications Dr. Aristodimos Pnevmatikakis, Assistant Professor at AIT 17-Oct-05
Recent developments in optical packet switched networks Dr. Dimitrios Klonidis, Research Scientist, AIT 10-Oct-05
Management Solutions for QoS Support over the Entire Audio-Visual Service Distribution Chain Dr. George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean 3-Oct-05
Public Key Cryptography in Future Mobile Systems Dr. Nikos Komninos, Researcher, AIT 26-Sep-05
Load Balancing Issues in Super-peer-based Pub/Sub Digital Libraries Dr. Ioannis T. Christou, Assistant Professor, AIT 19-Sep-05
Vision-Based Human-Machine Interfaces Dr. Aristodimos Pnevmatikakis, Assistant Professor, AIT 12-Sep-05
Internet evolution - from man made to nature made rule in pervasive communication environments Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, President of CreateNet, Bruno Kessler Professor, University of Trento 9-Sep-05
Self healing systems: current views and future expectations Dr. Sofoklis Efremidis,
Assistant Professor, AIT
22-Apr-05
Robust overload response during traffic or network misbehavior is wireless ad-hoc network
(for handouts: leandros@uth.gr)
Dr. Leandros Tassiulas, Professor in the Dept. of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications, University of Thessaly 15-Apr-05
Technopreneurship in Europe:
Challenges and Opportunities for High-Tech Startups in the Wrong Side of the Atlantic
Dr. Sotiris Bantas, Vice President of Technology and co-founder of Helic S.A. 8-Apr-05
Design of Wireless Networks in a B3G Reconfigurable Radio Context Dr. Panagiotis P. Demestichas, Assistant Professor, Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems, University of Piraeus 1-Apr-05
The price of anarchy of congestion games Professor Elias Koutsoupias, Dept. of Computer Systems and Applications, University of Athens 18-Mar-05
Recent developments in the Telecommunications Regulatory Framework in EU and Greece Dr. Konstantinos A. Eleftherianos, Core Network & Regulatory issues Manager, OTE International 4-Mar-05
Congestion Games: Complexity and Algorithmic issues Prof. Paul Spirakis, Professor in Computer Engineering & Informatics Department of the University of Patras, Director of Research Academic CTI 25-Feb-05
Peer-to-Peer Publish/Subscribe Networks with Languages from Information Retrieval Dr. Manolis Koubarakis, Associate Professor, Director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete 18-Feb-05
Open Issues in Vulnerability Assesment and Intrusion Detection Methods and Systems Prof. Despina Polemi, Informatics Department, University of Pireaus 11-Feb-05
Circuit Partitioning Exploiting Coarse and Fine Grain Parallelism Dr. Ioannis Christou,
Assistant Professor at AIT
4-Feb-05
HyperClustering: from Digital Divide to GRID e-workspace Mr. Michalis Vafopoulos, Researcher, School of Business, Department of Business Administration, University of the Aegean 28-Jan-05
An Introduction to the Concept of Angular Entropy Dr. Antonis Kalis,
Assistant Professor at AIT
21-Jan-05
Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing Services: Challenges and Prototype Solutions developed by AIT Dr. John Soldatos,
Assistant Professor, AIT
14-Jan-05

2004

Alpha Stream Cipher Dr. Nikos Komninos,
Honorary Research Fellow, Lancaster University
6-Dec-04
Flow-Based Networking Dr. Christos Kolias,
Assistant Professor, AIT
29-Nov-04
Value-added services over next-generation Content Delivery Networks Mr. Sotiris Bithas,
New Technologies Dept., INTRACOM S.A
22-Nov-04
Internet Network Management: Evolution and Research Trends Dr. John Soldatos,
Assistant Professor, AIT
15-Nov-04
Computer Vision @ AIT: An Automatic Face Recognition System Dr. Aristodimos Pnevmatikakis,
Assistant Professor, AIT
8-Nov-04
Reusable Software Components for Human-Machine Interaction Dr. Lazaros Polymenakos,
Associate Professor at AIT
1-Nov-04
Cooperation Reinforcement in Clustered Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Dr. Spyros Vassilaras,
Researcher at AIT
25-Oct-04
Audio Signal Processing at AIT: Speaker Localization and Separation Systems Dr. Fotis Talantzis,
Researcher at AIT
18-Oct-04
Optical Infrastructures for Global Grid Networks Dr. Anna Tzanakaki,
Assistant Professor, AIT
11-Oct-04
Computer in the Human Interaction Loop Dr. Lazaros Polymenakos,
Associate Professor, AIT
4-Oct-04
Online Amnesic Approximation of Streaming Time Series Dr. Themis Palpanas,
PostDoctorate fellow at the University of California, Riverside
27-Sep-04
Lightweight Distributed Reasoning in Sensor Networks Prof. Leonidas Guibas,
Professor of Computer Science at Standford University
20-Sep-04
Modeling, Design and Applications Dr. Aristodimos Pnevmatikakis,
Assistant Professor at AIT
13-Sep-04
Communication schemes for large wireless networks under fading, node mobility, and delay constraints Dr. Stavros Toumpis,
Senior Researcher at the Vienna Telecommunications Research Center
9-Jul-04
Greek National Network Project-Case Studies Dr. George Kormentzas,
Aegean University
28-May-04
Modern Protocols and Internet Application-Hands on experience Dr. John Soldatos,
Researcher at AIT
28-May-04
Algorithms for multiple failure location and survivability in large IP/WDM networks Resilient Networks Prof. Patrick Thiran,
(EPFL)
10-May-04
Resilient Mesh Networks Dr. Biswanath Mukherjee,
University of California, Davis
10-May-04
Grid Computing: Technology Overview and Research Results on Host Resources Utilization and Management Dr. John Soldatos,
Researcher at AIT
30-Apr-04
Locating Multiple Obnoxious Facilities in the Plane Dr. Ioannis Giannikos,
Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, University of Patras
23-Apr-04
Robust estimation of buffer overflow probabilities in modern telecommunication networks Dr. Spyridon Vassilaras,
Researcher at AIT
2-Apr-04
Semantic Web: Potential, Challenges and Applications Dr. Thanassis Tiropanis,
Researcher at AIT
19-Mar-04
Some recent advances in the area of space-time wireless communications Dr. Constantinos Papadias,
Technical Manager Global Wireless Systems Research Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
5-Mar-04
Nonlinear Modeling of Dynamic Systems Prof. Vasilis Z. Marmarelis,
Professor of Biomedical & Electrical Engineering, Director of the Biomedical Simulations Resource, University of Southern California
27-Feb-04
Applying Smart Antennas in Sensor Networks Dr. Antonios Kalis,
Assistant Professor, AIT
20-Feb-04
Next-Generation Wireless Data/Media Networks; Power Control Principles and Architectures Prof. Nick Bambos,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Management Science, Stanford University
13-Feb-04
Face Recognition: Appearance-based linear projection methods Dr. Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis,
Researcher, AIT
6-Feb-04
Multiservice Optical Networks Dr. Thanos Papakiriakopoulos,
Account Manager in Cisco Hellas
30-Jan-04
Mobile Business: Technological pluralism, social assimilation, and growth Dr. Nikolaos A. Mylonopoulos,
Assistant Professor of Information Technology, ALBA
23-Jan-04
Information Transfer and Living Material Prof. Christos Halkias,
Dean, AIT
16-Jan-04
2003
Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems Dr. Frederica Darema 18-Dec-03
Concurrent Error Detection in Analog Integrated Circuits Dr. Yiorgos Makris,
Yale University
24-Nov-03
Applied Research in New Media and Mixed Reality Dr. Thanos Demiris,
INTRACOM
17-Nov-03
Sigma - Delta Modulation Dr. Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, AIT 10-Nov-03
Electromagnetic Band GAP (EBG) Structures for Wireless Communications Dr. Yiannis C. Vardaxoglou,
Professor of Wireless Communications, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
3-Nov-03
Retreat is Futile When You Want to Take Over the World Dr. Dimitris Thilikos,
Associate Prof., Dept. de Llenguatges I Systemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
27-Oct-03
Innovative Techniques that enable transparency and "seemless" capacity upgrade in optical networks Dr. Yiannis Zacharopoulos,
AIT
20-Oct-03
Near and Longer Term Architectural Designs for Network Topologies/OADMs/OXCs Dr. Anna Tzanakaki,
AIT
13-Oct-03
Dependability for Distributed Wireless Systems Dr. Rajeev Gandhi,
CMU
06-Oct-03
Successes and Challenges in Reasoning about Action Dr. Pavlos Peppas,
AIT
29-Sept-03
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: A Bottom -Up Approach Prof. Ozan Tonguz,
CMU
22-Sept-03
Algorithmic Design for Sensor Networks Prof. Leonidas J. Guibas,
Computer Science Department, Stanford University
15-Sept-03
Can Current Trends in Packet Switching Predict the Future? Dr. Christos Kolias,
Adjunct Faculty at the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California
08-Sept-03
An Overview of Some Resent Research Studies in the Area of Multiple Antenna Wireless Communication Systems Dr. Constantinos Papadias,
Technical Manager, Wireless Research Lab, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
1-Sept-03
Mathematical Systems Theory: Representative Technology Trends and Perspectives Lena Valavani,
Assoc. Professor, Dept of Aero-nautics and Astronautics at MIT, Visiting Professor, Dept of Informatics & Telecomms, University of Athens
21-Apr-03
How to prepare and make a Technical Presentation Philip Constantinou,
Director, Division of Information Transmission Systems & Material's Technology at NTUA, and President of the IEEE branch in Greece
14-Apr-03
Corporate Governance in the Global Market Nickolaos Travlos,
Dean of ALBA (The Kitty Kyriacopoulos Chair in Finance) Distinguished Research Fellow, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
7-Apr-03
Logic in Artificial Intelligence Dr. Pavlos Peppas,
Senior Research Scientist, AIT
31-Mar-03
Fault Location in Optical Networks Dr. Carmen Mas,
Research Scientist, AIT
17-Mar-03
Biomedical Informatics: The Next Frontier Michael Liebman,
Professor in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics.Director of Cancer Biology, Abramson Cancer Center University of Pennsylvania
3-Mar-03
Globalization, Technology and Humanities – Part II Christos C. Halkias,
Dean, AIT
17-Feb-03
Globalization, Technology and Humanities – Part I Christos C. Halkias,
Dean, AIT
10-Feb-03
Knowledge Economy - Ideas that shook the world Christos C. Halkias,
Dean, AIT
27-Jan-03
Information Society & the Knowledge Economy Christos C. Halkias,
Dean, AIT
20-Jan-03
2002
The world of Electromagnetics Vassilios Makios,
Professor of Electrical Eng., University of Patras
18-Nov-02
Dependable Middleware Systems: Past, Present, Future Priya Narasimhan,
Asst. Prof. of ECE & ISRI, Dept. Electrical & Computer Eng., Carnegie Mellon University
11-Nov-02
A Journey in the Information Age: Telecommunications Christos C. Halkias,
Dean, AIT
21-Oct-02
A Journey in the Information Age: Computers and Software Christos C. Halkias,
Dean, AIT
14-Oct-02
Game Theory and Complexity Pavlos Spirakis,
Professor CS Dept., Univ. of Patras and CTI Director
7-Oct-02
A Journey in the Information Age: Electronics Christos C. Halkias,
Dean, AIT
30-Sep-02
A journey in the Information Age: The Universe and Physics Christos C. Halkias,
Dean, AIT
23-Sep-02
Optical Communication Systems and Networks - An overview Ioannis Tomkos,
Associate Professor, AIT
9-Sep-02