* The Department was founded in 2000 (Presidential Enactment (P.E.) 83/2000) and operated as an autonomous Department of the School of Sciences of the University of the Aegean until the academic year 2012-2013. Under the P.E. 93/2013 (Article of the Newspaper of the Government (ANG) 131/τ.Α’/05.06.2013), it was merged with the Department of Mathematics and formed the track S.A.F.M of the Department of Mathematics. Under the law 4485/04.08.2017 (ANG 117/τ.Α’/04.08.2017) the Department will operate anew as an autonomous Department starting from the academic year 2018-2019 on 01/09/2018.

It is noted that in any circumstance the diplomas that were issued from the previous Department are equivalent and corresponding with respect to any consequence with the ones issued from the Department of Mathematics (Track S.A.F.M.) as with the ones that will be issued from the new Department.

In view of the above, the merger as well as the anew operation of the Department have not affected in any way the independence and the autonomy of the Department, have not deteriorated the programs of studies (undergraduate and graduate), whilst the graduates were obtaining and continue to obtain exactly the same diplomas, and as a consequence they maintain exactly the same professional rights.