Workshop: Digital Cultural Heritage Technologies with Applications at the Pre-Historic Settlement of Akrotiri-Thera

We organized a one-day workshop in Athens on Friday, September 25, 2009. The workshop was held at the NTUA Multimedia Amphitheater, located at NTUA Zografou campus Central Library building.

The topic has been digital technologies applied to cultural heritage applications, focused on Akrotiri, Thera. The workshop has featured talks by people working specifically on problems related to the Akrotiri-Thera excavation, as well as some invited talks by researchers active in other selected digital cultural heritage applications.

Apart from the project participants/collaborators, the following invited speakers have participated:

• Anthony G. Constantinides, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of Electrical & Elect. Engin., Imperial College and Honorary Professor of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
• Tim Weyrich, Assist. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University College London
• Theoharis Theoharis, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Athens

The workshop programme can be found at PENED-Thera_WorkshopProgramme.pdf.

Reaching the NTUA Zografou campus: The easiest way to reach the NTUA Zografou campus by public means of transportation is to first get to KATEHAKI metro station (blue metro line 3) and then take bus line 242 to the NTUA campus. The position of the NTUA Central Library building within the campus is marked in this map. For further directions please check at http://www.ntua.gr/map_en.html or contact George Papandreou.