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JOURNAL CLUB ON AI

  • With great enthusiasm and excitement, we launch the Journal Club on AI at FORTH.
  • Our Journal Club aims to cultivate a collaborative environment centered on AI, a transformative field that lies at the core of our work and reshapes the world in profound ways.
  • Our goal is to foster open dialogue and embrace diverse viewpoints, uniting researchers from various areas to form a vibrant community that drives innovation and expands our shared knowledge and understanding.

TIME & LOCATION

Time:12:00, Every other Friday
Location:“Vassilios Dougalis” Meeting Room, Former ENISA Building                                                                                                        

NEXT PRESENTERS

21/11/2025 The Double Descent and Grokking Phenomena
28/11/2025 Causal transportability without graphs, Sofia Triantafillou
12/12/2025 From biology to AI: Dendrites as the next frontier in neural network design, Spyros Chavlis                                       
09/01/2026 TBA                                                                              
23/01/2026 Human-Centered 3D Vision: Faces, Hands, Bodies, and Skull, Anastasios Roussos
06/02/2026 TBA                                                                              
20/02/2026 TBA                                                                              
06/03/2026 TBA                                                                              
20/03/2026 TBA                                                                              

PREVIOUS PRESENTERS

04/10/2024 Six families of deep generative models, Yannis Pantazis
18/10/2024 Six families of deep generative models (cont.), Yannis Pantazis
01/11/2024 Accessible AI, Easily locally available State-of-the-Art Methods for VLMs, LLMs, Image, Voice and Music Synthesis, (odp file), Ammar Qammaz
15/11/2024 Deep Learning for Inverse Imaging Problem, Gregory Tsagkatakis
29/11/2024 Statistical Models for Spatial, Spatiotemporal and 4D data, Yiannis Kamarianakis
13/12/2024 From Expectation Maximization to CMA-ES: A Unified View of Optimization, Georgios Arampatzis
14/02/2025 Engineering Novel Biomedical Systems Based On Porous Collagen-based Scaffolds, Dimitris Tzeranis
07/03/2025 The evolution of hand and body pose estimation methods using visual input, Iason Oikonomidis
21/03/2025 Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Mean-Field Games for Robust Generative Modeling, Markos Katsoulakis
16/05/2025 Brain orchestra in resting-state: Identifying communication modules from the functional architecture of area V1, Maria Papadopouli
17/10/2025 Understanding Machine Learning through Mathematics: The Role of the Loss Functional, Charalampos Makridakis
31/10/2025 How LLMs Reason
14/11/2025 The Double Descent and Grokking Phenomena

PHOTOS

Welcome Pantazis
Pantazis Qammaz
Qammaz Qammaz
Tsagkatakis Tsagkatakis
Kamarianakis Kamarianakis
Arampatzis Arampatzis
Tzeranis Tzeranis
Oikonomidis Oikonomidis
Katsoulakis Katsoulakis
Papadopouli Papadopouli
Makridakis Makridakis
IACM-FORTH
 

Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Ν. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, GR 70013, Heraklion, Crete