Mission

• Address scientific and societal challenges of global significance through applied mathematics and advanced scientific computing, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, with focus areas spanning health, climate, energy, the environment, and other complex systems.
• Advance and disseminate knowledge arising from multidisciplinary research through workshops, summer schools, thematic programs and semesters, early-career initiatives, and other mechanisms that accelerate the exchange of ideas, foster cross-pollination among fields, facilitate the sharing of expertise and know-how, and enable the development of novel scientific methods.
• Catalyze international and interdisciplinary collaboration by bringing together mathematical innovation, scientific expertise, and emerging computational capabilities, including AI, to develop new approaches to complex scientific and societal problems.
• Educate and train the next generation of scientists, mathematicians, and computational researchers, equipping them with the interdisciplinary knowledge, methods, and tools required to address major scientific and societal challenges.
• Serve as a regional nexus for Greece, the Mediterranean, and Europe, and as a global hub for scientific collaboration, connecting leading universities, institutes, and centers of excellence through sustained partnerships that amplify scientific impact, expand intellectual exchange, and advance shared research priorities.

Our Actions

The Institute's programme is a three-pronged system rather than a calendar of separate events. Summer schools provide conceptual foundations and a shared vocabulary; thematic workshops use that vocabulary to explore frontier questions and form new collaborations; research visits then provide dedicated time for follow-up, especially for junior researchers whose home institutions may not offer ready access to the relevant international network. Each cycle informs the next — workshop organizers contribute advanced school lectures, exceptional school participants join later workshops, and the outcomes of research visits become topics for future programmes.

1. 1Train

   Train the next generation at modern mathematical interfaces

   Graduate students and early-career researchers gain rigorous foundations, computational fluency, mentorship, and access to international research networks. Residential summer schools are the principal training mechanism, and combine four tightly linked elements:

   • Coherent mini-courses. Internationally prominent scientists and emerging topical leaders teach sequences that move from foundations to current research frontiers, coordinating syllabi in advance so that a school functions as an integrated curriculum rather than a conference.
   • Hands-on laboratories. Small teams work on prepared problems involving models, proofs, algorithms, data, and simulation — from numerical bifurcation and continuation to stochastic simulation, reduced modelling, inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, neural operators, and topological methods.
   • Research translation studios. Participants from different backgrounds examine the same problem and make assumptions, state variables, observables, and evaluation criteria explicit, training the ability to move responsibly between theory, computation, and domain questions.
   • Mentoring and research formation. Poster sessions, research clinics, career conversations, lecturer office hours, and small-group mentoring help participants identify research questions, potential collaborators, and concrete next steps.

   By the end of a school, participants should be able to explain key mathematical ideas across subfield boundaries, use selected modern research tools, formulate a researchable question, and know whom in the cohort they might work with next.

   Residential schools, intended to run 10–12 days for roughly 45–60 trainees with 8–12 lecturers and mentors

2. 2Discover

   Create environments for interdisciplinary discovery

   Workshops join complementary mathematical communities around sharply formulated problems, with protected time for discussion and collaboration. The guiding principle is that a workshop should change the research conversation of its participants — by identifying a common abstraction, clarifying an obstacle, transferring a method across fields, or creating a team that keeps working after the meeting ends. Schedules are deliberately less dense than those of standard conferences:

   • A small number of longer framing lectures and research talks, chosen for their role in establishing common language or opening a frontier question.
   • Moderated problem sessions organized around two or three scientific questions announced in advance.
   • Cross-field translation sessions in which assumptions and methods are compared explicitly.
   • Early-career poster and short-talk sessions, with senior participants assigned as discussion respondents.
   • Protected collaboration blocks for teams to work, calculate, code, or plan follow-up projects.
   • A closing synthesis that records open questions, emerging collaborations, and concrete next steps.

   Two failure modes are avoided by design: broad topical labels filled with disconnected talks, and treating interdisciplinarity as the mere presence of several disciplines. Interdisciplinary programmes are instead built around translation tasks — which objects, assumptions, notions of evidence, and tools differ across communities, and what shared problem would benefit from combining them.

   Focused meetings, intended to run 4–5 days for roughly 35–45 participants

3. 3Sustain

   Convert interactions into durable scientific contacts

   A recurring weakness of event-based programmes is that promising conversations end when participants leave. A research-mobility component is therefore coupled tightly to the schools and workshops, turning them into the beginnings of fruitful collaborations rather than isolated events.

   • Focused research visits, typically from one to several weeks, supporting travel, lodging, and local research participation.
   • Visits that bring an international researcher to Samos, return an early-career participant to work with a workshop collaborator, or assemble a small team around a project that emerged from a programme.
   • A concise scientific plan for each visit: the question to be addressed, the people involved, why co-location matters, and the expected next step.
   • A substantial share of support directed to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other early-career scientists.

   Follow-up visits, return participation, shared materials, and small research teams are what carry a collaboration past its first encounter — and are also how results, new questions, and people feed back into future programmes.

   Research visits & mobility support

The objective is not volume for its own sake, but repeat contact at the moment when a collaboration is most likely to become real.

Research Themes

Programmes are broad in scope but keep a clear intellectual spine in applied and computational mathematics. Illustrative domains include:

• Mathematics of data, learning, inverse problems, and data-driven dynamical systems.
• Nonlinear dynamics, PDEs, multiscale analysis, model reduction, bifurcation, and coherent structures.
• Stochastic systems, rare events, uncertainty quantification, and probabilistic computation.
• Networks, topological methods, and geometry for complex systems.
• Mathematically rigorous questions arising from living systems, medicine, climate, and environmental dynamics.
• Nonlinear and quantum mathematical physics, quantum dynamics, and computational questions in many-body systems.

Participation and Open Resources

Participants are recruited internationally through open calls circulated via universities, professional societies, and partner institutions, with selection emphasising scientific promise and preparation. Travel and lodging support is allocated so that a lack of local resources does not prevent strong candidates from taking part, and calls are circulated deliberately in regions and institutions less well connected to major international research networks.

Selected lectures, tutorial materials, computational notebooks, problem sets, and curated workshop outputs are made openly available where scientifically appropriate and with the presenters' consent. The aim is not to broadcast everything: material whose value grows through dissemination is shared, while frontier discussions retain the privacy that preliminary ideas need.

People

Executive Committee

Advisory Board

Travel Information

Samos lies in the eastern Aegean, close to the Turkish coast. The island is reached by air through the airport near Pythagorio and by sea through the ports of Vathy (Samos Town) and Karlovassi. ACMII's activities are hosted across all three towns — the institute building in Pythagorio, auditoriums in Vathy, and lecture halls and dormitories in Karlovassi — so most visitors will travel between them at some point.

All routes Vathy – Pythagorio Vathy – Karlovassi Pythagorio – Karlovassi

From the airport: Pythagorio Vathy Karlovassi

The three towns and the airport, with the connecting roads.

• Route between towns
• Airport transfer
• Town
• Airport

Getting to Samos

Flight and ferry timetables change with the season and are often published only a few months ahead — always confirm current schedules with the airline or ferry operator before booking.

Getting Around the Island

Pythagorio, Vathy and Karlovassi form a triangle across the eastern two-thirds of Samos, linked by paved roads over hilly, often winding terrain.

Distances and drive times come from road routing over the actual network; route names link to Google Maps directions. Taxi figures are estimates based on Greece's regulated meter rates (€1.80 hire charge, €1.25/km on the out-of-town Tariff 2 that applies between towns, €4 minimum fare, plus roughly €4 for airport pick-ups and a small charge per large bag). Night journeys, waiting time, and pre-booked transfers cost more — confirm the fare with the driver before setting off.

Gallery

Samos

Pythagoreio — Institute Building

Vathi — Auditoriums & Workshop Venues

Karlovassi — Dorms & Lecture Halls

Funding

The Institute's programmes are made possible by the support of foundations and institutional partners, whose contributions allow ACMII to bring researchers to Samos, support the participation of graduate students and early-career scientists, and sustain collaborations after an event has ended.

Funders

• Foundation

  Bodossaki Foundation

  One of the largest privately owned public-benefit organizations in Greece, established in 1972 and independent of any political or religious institution. It funds, plans, and implements programmes across four strategic pillars: education, healthcare, the environment, and the empowerment of civil society.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of our funders. This list will grow as the Institute's programme expands.

Contact

For all enquiries about the Institute — scientific programme, visits, workshops, and collaboration — please contact the Executive Director.