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Under the Auspices of:Aristotle University (AUT), Michigan Tech (MTU), Texas A&M (TAMU),

Mississippi State (MSU), University of Belgrade (UoB),Moldova Academy of Sciences (ASM) and Municipality of Epanomi

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AUT MTUTAMU MSU

Epanomi

Summer School on

Multiscale MaterialMechanics

andEngineering Sciences

Curricula Interfacingand Innovation21-30/8/2010@Epanomi /

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Saturday, August 219:00 – 9:30 Welcome: Elias Aifantis, Despo Lialiou Vice-Rector Elect 9:30 – 12:30 Elias Aifantis/Material Mechanics,AUT/GR & MTU/US: Multiscale Material Mechanics: An Introduction12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 17:00 Doug Bammann/Material Mechanics,Mississipi State/US: Internal Variable �eory: An Introduction —————— Georgios Tsibidis, Applied Mathematics,FORTH/GR: Heat Transfer Mechanisms due to Interaction of Shortand Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers with Matter & Investigation of BindingMechanisms of Nuclear Proteins by using Reaction-di�usion Equations

Sunday, August 229:00 – 12:00 Alexey Romanov/Metal Physics - MaterialsScience, Io�e Physical - Technical Institute/RU: Defect �eoryAcross Scales: Dislocations & Disclinations12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 17:00 Georgios Dimitrakopulos/Solid StatePhysics - TEM, AUT/GR: Nanoscale Science of CompoundSemiconductors by Transmission Electron Microscopy and SimulationMethods: Towards Energy-e�cient Opto-electronic Emitters—————— Emmanuel Stratakis/Laser Physics - AFM,FORTH/GR: Biomimetic Arti�cial Micro/Nano Structured Surfacesfor Micro�uidic and Tissue Engineering Applications

Monday, August 239:00 – 12:00 Costas Siettos, Engineering Sciences - Simulations,NTUA/GR: Handling Complexity: Equation-Free MultiscaleComputations with Applications to Material Science,Epidemiology and Neuroscience12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 17:00 Lucia Russo/Chemistry - Nonlinear Science, National Research Council of Italy/IT: Model Reduction ofMultiscale Dynamical Systems and Inertial Manifold �eory—————— George Pavlos/Engineering Physics, DemokritusUniversity/GR: Complexity in Science and Civilization: An Introduction to the Complexity �eory

20:00 – 21:00 General Public Lecture—————— John Seiradakis/Astronomy and Mechanics, AUT/GR: �e Antikythera Mechanism - Calculator of the HellenisticPeriod

Tuesday, August 249:00 – 12:00 Valeriu Canter/Condensed Matter Physics,Moldova Academy of Sciences/MD: Plasmonics: Bridge BetweenNanoscale Electronics and Microscale Photonics12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 17:00 Traianos Yioultsis/Electrical Engineering,AUT/GR: Computational Methods in Electromagnetics and Photonics—————— Sotiris Sotiropoulos/Chemistry, AUT/GR:Introduction to Electrochemical Science and Technology:Microelectrodes in Electroanalysis and in Probing Chemical Reactivity

Wednesday, August 259:00 – 12:00 Dragoslav Sumarac/Civil Engineering, Universityof Belgrade/YU: Cyclic Plasticity with an Application to Very LowCycle Fatigue for Antiseismic Design12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 17:00 Epaminondas Sidiropoulos/Rural Engineering,AUT/GR: Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms in WaterManagement—————— Konstantinos Katsifarakis/Civil Engineering,AUT/GR: Flow Simulation and Optimal Management of GroundwaterResources: �e Balance Between Accuracy and ComputationalE�ciency

�ursday, August 269:00 – 12:00 Elias Aifantis/Material Mechanics,AUT/GR & MTU/US: Nanomechanics: Applications to EngineeringSciences—————— Alexey Romanov/Metal Physics - MaterialsScience, Io�e Physical - Technical Institute/RU: Nanomaterials: Applications to New Technologies—————— Valeriu Canter/Condensed Matter Physics,Moldova Academy of Sciences/MD: Nanophysics: Applications toNanothermoelectricity for �ermal Management of Devices andEnergy Conversion12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 17:00 Katerina Aifantis/Material Mechanics,AUT/GR & MTU/US: Nanomechanics: Applications to Energy Storageand Biomedicine—————— Anna Kolesnikova/Applied Physics, Institute ofProblems of Mechanical Engineering/RU: Nanoscale Elasticity:Solution to Bounady Value Problems

Friday, August 279:00 – 12:00 Epaminondas Sidiropoulos/Rural Engineering,AUTH/GR: Introduction to Genetic Algorithms and related Biologicallyinspired Methods12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 17:00 Avraam Konstantinidis/Material Mechanics,AUTH/GR: Wavelets, Neural Networks and Stochasticity in Mechanics—————— Vassilios Rothos/Mathematics, AUT/GR:Coherent Structure in Nonlinear Media: An Introduction

20:00 – 21:00 General Public Lecture—————— Stavros Baloyiannis/Medical School, AUT/GR: �e Contribution of Hellenic �ought �roughout theCenturies, from Ancient to Modern Times

Saturday, August 289:00 – 12:00 Georgios Grouios/Physical Education, AUT/GR:�e Imperfect Organism: On the Concept of FluctuatingAsymmetry and its Signi�cance in Humans, Non-Human LivingOrganisms and Plants 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 16:00 Maria Hatzistylianou/Medical School, AUT/GR:An Introduction to the Immune System with PotentialNanomedical Applications

Sunday, August 299:00 – 12:00 Petros Koidis/Dental School, AUT/GR:An Introduction to Applications of Materials Science & Mechanicsin Dentistry12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break14:00 – 16:00 Orestis Kalogirou/Physics, AUT/GR:Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles

Monday, August 309:00 – 12:00 Round Table / Closure - Future

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