Freshmen Seminars

Additional Activities for freshmen students:

Introduction of the Department at the beginning of the first academic year
Excel Seminars (6 weeks * 2 hours) - More Information to be announced soon
Statistics Seminars aimed mostly at freshmen students. The Seminar Program for the 2023-24 academic year is this:

October 10th - Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis "Fight or Flight?"
October 24th - Panagiotis Besbeas: "Statistics in Life Sciences"
November 7th - Stavros Vakeroudis: "From Possibilities to Stochastic Models: A journey to randomness"
November 21st - Panagiotis Papastamoulis: "Sex, cigarettes, war and other statistics stories"
November 28st - Athanasios Yiannacopoulos
December 5th - Dimitris Karlis: "Sports Analytics: when Statistics met Sports (and they lived happily ever after)

The seminar schedule for the academic year 2024-2025 is as follows:
October 15: Panagiotis Tsiamirtzis: "Fight or Flight? - A computational approach to stress and its impact on modern human activity"
October 22: Panagiotis Papastamoulis: "Why should I fear the bomb when I can love it?"
October 29: Stavros Vakieroudis: "Mathematics meets Randomness"
November 5: Panagiotis Bespeas: "Statistics in the Life Sciences"
November 19: Xanthí Pendéli: "What Statistics won’t tell me and how to avoid wrong conclusions"
November 26: Dimitris Kárlis: "Billiards and Statistics: Combining Science and Hobby"
December 3: Athanasios Giannakopoulos: "Machine Learning and Mathematics: Elective Affinities"

Undergraduate Studies