FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY - HELLAS FORTH

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1 FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY - HELLAS FORTH 9 th FORTH RETREAT Killini, Olympia Riviera Resort October 9 th -10 th 2009 SCHEDULE

2 Friday October 9 th :00 9:30 Opening remarks 9:30 10:45 Presentations by the Institute Directors (Ι) Session Chair: Vladimiros Nikolakis ICE-HT Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Alkiviades Ch. Payatakes, Chairman of the Board of Directors Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes (ICE-HT), Costas Galiotis, Director Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (IMBB), Josef Papamatheakis, Acting Director Institute of Applied & Computational Mathematics (IACM), Vassilios Dougalis, Director Biomedical Research Institute (BRI), Theodore Fotsis, Director 10:45 11:00 Break 11:00 12:50 Session 1: Biosciences: Biomedicine, Tissue Mechanics, Bioinformatics Session Chair: Androniki Kretsovali IMBB 11:00 11:45 Plenary Speaker: Title (TBA) Kyriacos Zygourakis, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Univ. of Rice 11:50 How chromosome organization affects gene expression in normal and malignant cells. Charalambos Spilianakis. IMBB 12:05 Trailing along the chromatin-nuclear envelope interface. Spiros Georgatos IBE 12:20 Linking signalling with receptor trafficking. Carol Murphy IBE 12:35 Polymorphs of active pharmaceutical ingredients: research challenges and their importance for the pharmaceutical industry Christos C. Kontoyiannis, ICE-HT & Univ. Patras 13:00 14:15 Lunch 14:30 16:15 Session 1 (cont): Biosciences: Biomedicine, Tissue Mechanics, Bioinformatics Session Chair: Spiros Georgatos IBE 14:30 Analysis and Visualization of Brain Networks, Vaggelis Sakkalis, Vasilis Tsiaras and Ioannis Tollis IP 14:45 Ηigh-throughput and resolution biomolecular analysis at FORTH/ICE- HT

3 Maria Klapa, George. Voyiatzis, Spyros Yannopoulos ICE-HT 15:00 DNA damage: at the crossroad between cancer and aging George Garinis IMBB 15:15 Stress, mitochondria and ageing Nektarios Tavernarakis IMBB 15:30 Stem cell pluripotency and the future of biomedicine. Androniki Kretsovali IMBB 15:45 Application of Ultra-short Pulse Lasers for Materials Micro/Nanoprocessing and Diagnostics Emmanuel Stratakis IESL 16:00 Laser Based Fabrication of Micro/Nano 3D Structures for Tissue Engineering Applications Anthi Ranella IESL 16:15 16:45 Break 16:45 19:00 Session 2: Environmental, physiological and engineering flows: Computational models and measurements Session Chair: N. Kampanis ICM 16:45 17:30 Plenary Speaker: Climate change: Models, simulations and impacts on financials sectors (tourism, health) Andreas Matzarakis, Meteorological Institute, University of Freiburg 17:30 Climate change in Mediterranean with focus in Greece P. Nastos, ICM 17:45 Air pollution & climate change S. Pandis, ICE-HT & Univ. of Patras 18:00 Tsunami Simulation in the area of Rhodes E. Flouri ICM 18:15 18:40 Break 18:45 Coastal erosion in Greece caused by natural and human reasons S. Poulos ICM 19:00 Development of CFD Methodologies and Applications to Aeronautics and Biomechanics Ioannis Ekaterinaris ICM 19:15 Multiphase flows in heterogeneous porous media and applications to soil remediation technologies Ch. Tsakiroglou ICE-HT

4 19:30 20:30 FORTH Awards Session Chair: Applied or basic science Award - Prof. Dimitrios Vlassopoulos, Collaborating Faulty member of IESL (The award will be presented to him on 10/9). - Assist. Prof Thedore-Petros Rakitzis, Collaborating Faculty member of IESL Award for contribution to FORTH: Georgios Christodoulakis, Supervisor of FORTH s financial department Award for contribution to Central Administration - Paraskevaidi Maria - Giannadaki Irene Award for contribution to ICS - G. Grammenos - G. Georgalis 21:00 Dinner 09:30 20:30 Poster Session Ι. Saturday October 10 th :00 09:45 Presentations by the Institute Directors (ΙI) Session Chair: Maria Klapa, ICE-HT Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Costas Fotakis, Director Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Constantine Stephanidis, Director Institute of Mediterranean Studies (IMS), Christos Hadjiiosif,, Acting Director 09:45-10:00 Polymers: New challenges for a mature science Prof. Dimitrios Vlassopoulos IESL 10:05 10:50 Session 3: New Materials Nanotechnology for innovative applications Plenary Speaker: Title (TBA) Prof. Th. Kaxiras. Department of Physics, Harvard University 10:50-11:05 Break 11:05 12:35 Session 3: New Materials Nanotechnology for innovative applications Session Chair: A. Siokou ICE-HT 11:05 The effect of uniaxial strain on the Raman spectrum of graphene

5 G.Tsoukleri, K. Papagelis, J. Parthenios and C. Galiotis, ICE-HT 11:20 New High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membranes and their Fuel Cell Performance J.K. Kallitsis, S.G. Neophytides, ICE-HT & Univ. of Patras 11:35 Development of advanced multifunctional textiles G. Voyiatzis, ICE-HT 11:50 Epitaxial Nanostructures of III-Nitrides Semiconductors Eleftherios Iliopoulos, IESL 12:05 Polymeric Systems - from Synthesis to Hierarchical Structures Ulrich Jonas, IESL 12:20 Magnetically Responsive Photonic Nanocrystals Alexandros Lappas, IESL 12:35-12:50 «Technology transfer brokerage by Diktyo PRAXI/ HELP-FORWARD Network: Progress success stories - perspectives» V. Tsakalos, Diktyo PRAXI/ HELP-FORWARD Network 13:00 14:15 Lunch 14:30 16:15 Session 4: Smart Environments and Ambient Intelligence: Research Directions, Technologies and Applications Session Chair: Dimitris Tsakiris ICS 14:30 15:15 Plenary Speaker: Security and Privacy Challenges in Ubiquitous Human Monitoring Filia Makedon, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 15:15 Programme on Ambient Intelligence Constantine Stephanidis, ICS 15:30 Approach and initial results of the FORTH-ICS RTD Programme on Ambient Intelligence Antonis Argyros, ICS 15:45 Interactive Applications in the AmI Environments of ICS-FORTH Dimitris Grammenos, ICS 16:00 Human Body Localization and Pose Estimation based on a Camera Network Xenophon Zabulis, ICS 16:15 16:45 Break 16:45 18:30 Session 5: Technology in the Service of Art & Cultural Heritage

6 Management Session Chair: A. Lyberatos 16:45 17:30 Plenary Speaker: Technology in the Service of Art Th. Kalpaxis, Dept. of History and Archaeology, University of Crete 17:30 Digital treatment of unpublished information on the social history of Rethimno (first half of 20th century). (Research Program: History of the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan Cities, 18th-20th c.) Spyros Dimanopoulos, IMS 17:45 Web & Web_GIS applications in Archaeology and Culture Lena Kokkinaki, Giorgos Papadakis, Aris Kidonakis, Paraskevi Seferou & Apostolos Sarris, (Laboratory of Geophysical-Satellite Remote Sensing & Archaeo-environment). 18:00 Virtual Reconstruction of Monuments and Sites Spilios Theodoropoulos & Apostolos Sarris, Laboratory of Geophysical- Satellite Remote Sensing & Archaeo-environment. 18:15 THz Time-domain Spectroscopy and Imaging in Cultural Heritage Applications and Beyond Stelios Tzortzakis, IESL 18:30 A formal theory for reasoning about knowledge, action and time in dynamic and uncertain environments Theodore Patkos, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou, Ioannis Tsamardinos, IP 18:45 19:00 Break 19:00-19:30 Title (TBA) Dr A. Mitsos Session Chair: A. Lappas IESL 19:30 20:30 Discussion Session Chairs: Alkiviades Ch. Payatakes, Chairman of the Board of Directors Representative of Researchers 20:30 Final Remarks 21:00 Dinner 09:00 18:45 Poster Session ΙΙ.