I am an Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department of the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and an Associated Researcher at the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM) of FORTH.

Teaching — National Technical University of Athens

Fall Semester 2026—2027

Numerical Analysis I and Lab (with E. Georgoulis) — Αριθμητική Ανάλυση Ι και Εργαστήριο (με Ε. Γεωργούλη)

Introduction to Operational Research — Εισαγωγή στην Επιχειρησιακή Έρευνα

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Selected Recent Publications

My work spans both classical numerical methods and modern hybrid algorithms.

🚀 C. Smaragdakis: Learning Geometric-Aware Quadrature Rules for Functional Minimization. Numerical Algorithms, 2026. Download PDF

🚀 E. H. Georgoulis, A. Papapantoleon, C. Smaragdakis: A Deep Implicit-Explicit Minimizing Movement Method for Partial Integro-Differential Equations, with application to Option Pricing in Jump-Diffusion Models. Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul., 156 (109709), 1–16, 2026. Download PDF

🚀 G. Akrivis, C. G. Makridakis, C. Smaragdakis: Runge-Kutta Physics Informed Neural Networks: Formulation and Analysis. Numerische Mathematik, 2025. Download PDF

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Recent & Upcoming Events / Visits

🇬🇷 Jun 29–July 4, 2026 | 3rd Congress of Greek Mathematicians (TCGM-2026) — Athens, Greece. (Invited)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 May 29-June 4, 2026 | School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS), Heriot-Watt University (short visit) — Edinburgh, Scotland. Download the Presentation

🇳🇱 May 26–29, 2026 | Mathematics and Machines: Navigating the Transition from Brown to Sustainable Finance — Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands. (Invited)

🇬🇷 Dec 18–20, 2025 | 19th Panhellenic Conference on Mathematical Analysis (PCMA-2025) — Athens, Greece. (Invited)

🇬🇷 Sep 22–26, 2025 | 22nd Summer Meeting in Risk, Finance and Stochastics (RFS-2025) — Athens, Greece. (Invited)