Basic Checkmate Techniques

The School of Sciences, UCLan Cyprus cordially invites you to a seminar titled:

"Basic Checkmate Techniques"

featuring a talk from a distinguished guest, Cyprus Chess Champion Vassilis Aristotelous.

"Basic Checkmate Techniques". Checkmate with two Rooks, checkmate with one Rook, checkmate with the Queen. Useful waiting moves. Avoid the stalemate.

"Sacrificial Play". Presentation of a Tal's game. Mikhail Tal, the greatest sacrificial chess player of all time gave us a lot of beautiful games to remember.

A simultaneous exhibition will follow where Cyprus Chess Champion Vassilis Aristotelous will play with up to ten opponents at the same time. Please bring your chessboard!

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Vassilis Aristotelous

Chess Trainer, Author, Columnist. Member of the Cyprus Chess National team (2014), six-time member of the Cyprus Chess Olympiad team, former Cyprus Chess Champion (2008), FIDE (World Chess Federation) Instructor, FIDE Arbiter.

Vassilis Aristotelous was born in 1956, in Nicosia. He studied Law and Economics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and later got a Master's degree in Information Systems Management at the University of Liverpool.

Vassilis has been into chess all his life. He learnt chess from a very young age and was immediately enchanted by the royal game. He represented Cyprus successfully in many international competitions like World Chess Olympiads, and Paneuropean championships.

He lives and works in Limassol. He is married with six children. The last few years he has taught chess to children and adults in different academies around Limassol. He is the author of two books on chess, "Chess One - A Complete Introduction to the Royal Game" and "Chess Two - Beyond the Basics of the Royal Game". He is writing the weekly page "Chess News" of "Politis" newspaper.

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When: Thursday, November 13th 20th, 2014 at 17:00-18:00

Where: Room CY006 (Ground floor), UCLan Cyprus, Pyla CY-7080

Hack Cyprus @ UCLan Cyprus

The School of Sciences, UCLan Cyprus cordially invites you to a presentation titled:

"Hack Cyprus"

by our guest, Elena Georgiou Strouthos, co-founder of the competition.

Here is how Elena describes the competition:

"Hack Cyprus was created by CEL, with a clear ambition in mind — putting Cyprus on the technology map. We think Cyprus is able to attract and produce world-class technologists, and we envision Cyprus being a prominent startup hub in Europe and the world. 

In this talk we will introduce hack{Cyprus} with the intention to inspire you and show you the amazing things computer scientists & engineers can create. We will show you that with the power of knowledge you gain nothing can stop you and that the world is at your fingertips, literally. Come join us and find out more. "

Bio: Elena is a software engineer & the co-founder of Cocoon Creations. She also an active member of Cypriot Enterprise Link and the lead person for Hack {Cyprus}. Before founding Cocoon Creations she worked for many years in the IT sector of the hospitality business. She is in love with technology, everything Apple, rock music, band t-shirts and her high heels.

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When: Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 at 15:00-15:30

Where: Room CY017 (Ground floor), UCLan Cyprus, Pyla CY-7080

Responsible Parent. Adolescence: Support at school and at home

The Psychology course of the School of Sciences organizes a seminar titled:

"Responsible Parent. Adolescence: Support at school and at home"

The Seminar will take place on April 12th, 2014 from 10:00 to 13:00. Attendance certificates will be given to all attendees.

The program (in Greek):

For more details, contact:

• Dr. Militsa Nikiforou (MNikiforou AT uclan DOT ac DOT uk)
• Dr. Kalypso Iordanou (KIordanou AT uclan DOT ac DOT uk)

Diamonds of Greek Mathematics

The School of Sciences, UCLan Cyprus cordially invites you to a seminar titled:

“Diamonds of Greek Mathematics”

featuring a talk from a distinguished guest, Professor Mihalis Lambrou of the University of Crete.

The talk will begin with an overview of Greek Mathematics and Mathematicians discussing where we get our information from, which are the surviving manuscripts, where these manuscripts can be found and how they reached our times.

The second part of the talk will contain a specimen of brilliant proofs from ancient Greek mathematics such as the calculation of the volume and surface area of a sphere by Archimedes and the determination of "sine of one degree" by Ptolemy.

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Mihalis Lambrou is Professor of Analysis in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Crete. He studied mathematics at Imperial College, London obtained a B.Sc. with first class honours and an M.Sc. with distinction. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1977 from King’s College, London under the supervision of J. A. Erdos. His research interests are in the areas of functional analysis and the history of Greek mathematics. 

Professor Lambrou has also spent considerable time in popularizing mathematics and has been involved with the secondary education. This includes the writing, translation and editing of several books, the training of secondary school teachers, the involvement with mathematical Olympiads and the teaching of gifted young students, as well as the delivery of public lectures and the writing of popularised articles.

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When: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 at 11:00-12:00

Where: Room CY108, UCLan Cyprus, Pyla CY-7080

Machines that Read, Learn, and Reason

The School of Sciences, UCLan Cyprus cordially invites you to a seminar titled:

“Machines that Read, Learn, and Reason”

with a guest talk from Assistant Professor Loizos Michael (Open University of Cyprus).

Abstract

In seeking to build intelligent machines, one could consider endowing them with functionality analogous to what is present in human cognition, such as the ability to learn through experiences, and the ability to reason with knowledge. The experiences through which humans learn knowledge are readily available through their sensors and as a result of the multifaceted and lengthy interaction with their environment. Until the development of machines able to equally easily roam and interact with their environment for extended periods of time, an alternative source of learning experiences would seem to be needed for machines. The Web can readily play the role of this alternative source, assuming that machines are able to process natural language text. We will present work towards developing machines designed to exploit Web-extracted experiences, aiming to learn what could be called websense knowledge. Knowledge of this type is not encoded explicitly in individual web-pages, but is consistent with information commonly found across web-pages. It could be argued that websense captures certain aspects of the actual human environment, and could form the basis for endowing machines with commonsense-like knowledge.

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Loizos Michael is an Assistant Professor at Open University of Cyprus, where he founded and directs the Computational Cognition Lab. He was educated at University of Cyprus, receiving a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a minor degree in Mathematics. He continued his education at Harvard University, where he received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. His research focuses on the principled study of cognitive processes associated with individual or collective intelligence — such as learning, reasoning, sensing, communication, cooperation — and how those are employed by humans and other organisms. Emphasis is placed on the development of computational models for various aspects of cognitive processes, and the analysis of the formal implications that such models have. This computational view of cognition is complemented by simulations, real-world experiments, and psychological studies, designed to validate the proposed models and to identify features thereof that warrant further study.

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When: Wednesday, February 19th, 2013 at 14:00-15:00

Where: Room CY115 (First floor), UCLan Cyprus, Pyla CY-7080