YerPhI Press Releases Archive

The Armenian GRID expands (Feb 5, 2010)

Memorandum of Understanding On the Creation and Development of National Armenian GRID Infrastructure This is to confirm that the Yerevan State University, State Engineering University of Armenia, Yerevan Physics Institute, the institute for Informatics and Automation ...
Report on the participation in the Management Committee Meeting of the COST Action ES0803... (Dec 6, 2009)

COST is one of the European Union (EU) most successful instruments of scientific projects' promotion on the European level. There are hundreds of COST projects in numerous fields of science with thousands researchers from all the European and non-European countries (unfortunately only 2 from Armenia)...
Report on participation in the Armenian high tech industry (ArmTech) Congress’ 09, Silicon Valley... (Dec 2, 2009)

1. On November 4 I was among the delegation accompanying the PM of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan in his visits to Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Berkley University. At SLAC Mr. Sargsyan met with Director of SLAC – Dr. Persis Drell, Associate Lab Director - Dr. Dale Knutson, Director of Accelerator...
Visit of YerPhI delegation to Zagreb and Athens (Sep 20, 2009)

On September 4-18 the YerPhI delegation (Chilingarian A., Mailyan B., Hovhannisyan A.) participated in the International conference on the Heliophysical Phenomena and Earth Environment in Shibenik, Croatia. The regional meeting of Balkanian-Black and Caspian sea was held for the third time within the framework...
Radiomeasurements to start at Aragats (Aug 24, 2009)

CRD continues to add new measurement techniques to the Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC) facilities. Among important heliospace and geospace parameters are solar flare correlated radiobursts. Along with monitoring of secondary cosmic ray fluxes and geomagnetic field disturbances, the radio patterns...
Magnetometric Measurements started in Armenia! (Jul 27, 2009)

Magnetometric station LEMI-417, commissioned by Lviv center of Space Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, was installed in Nor Amberd, 2000 m above sea level (the same type of station with added electrical field sensors will be installed at Aragats, 3200 above sea level in September). ...
Valery Nikoghosyan - 70 (Jul 26, 2009)

On July 26 is the 70 year anniversary of Valery Nikogosyan- Candidate of Technical Sciences, head of the Yerevan Physics Institute’s Accelerator Physics and Technical department. During 45 years of activities he has made a huge contribution in the institute’s accelerator physics and...
A.Chilingarian’s report on participation in the 31-st International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC),... (Jul 16, 2009)

759 delegates from 36 countries presented 389 oral and 541 poster presentations. The Armenian delegation included: Chilingarian Ashot, Martirosov Romen, Grabsky Varlen (on leave from Mexican High Energy Physics Institute), Mailyan Bagrat. 12 reports were presented: ...
The International Theoretical and Practical Conference “Innovative Way of Commonwealth Countries... (Jul 1, 2009)

The international theoretical and practical conference “The innovative way of Commonwealth countries development; Strategies and Perspectives” was held in Armenia from June 28 to July 4. The works presented at the conference reflect the results of interdisciplinary and comparative researches, where the...
Conference “Advanced Materials and Devices for Space Applications”, ISTC Thematic Workshop, May... (Jun 4, 2009)

The workshop held at the Yerevan Physics Institute, supported by ISTC and was devoted to review the advances in space environment, space factors modeling, test of materials and devices in space modeling equipment, work out of new materials for the use in space and radiation conditions. International...
The “Accelerators probing the fundamental physics”, GRAAL Collaboration workshop was held June... (Jun 3, 2009)

The objectives of the workshop were the accelerator experiments involving high precision measurements to probe the Lorentz invariance, the isotropy of the speed of light and related basic concepts. The results obtained at the GRAAL facility at European Synchrotron Research Facility in Grenoble on the Compton...
ISTC International Workshop Advanced X-ray Imaging, 16-18 June Tsakhkadzor, Armenia (Jun 19, 2009)

Representatives of eight scientific institutions of Armenia, France and Russia took part in the workshop organized by the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI), with the support of ISTC and the State Committee on the Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia. The presented reports and round...
Experts Visit the Future Nuclear Medicine Center in YerPhI (May 6, 2009)

May 6, members of the governmental commission and experts from Ion Beam Applications (IBA), a world leading producer of accelerators and services for the radiation diagnostics, visited YerPhI. Discussions were hold on the technical issues of Cyclotron to be purchased and installed in YerPhI, accelerator...
Alikhanyan prize for the best presentation at the Nor Amberd conference was presented to Bagrat... (May 5, 2009)

The Alikhanyan prize established for the young scientist having delivered the best presentation at the FORGES-2008 conference hold in Nor Amberd was awarded to Bagrat Mailyan on May 5 for his paper entitled: “Daily variation in intensity of different species of secondary cosmic rays as measured by the...
Jubilee of Aida Akopova (May 4, 2009)

On May 4 YerPhI veterans gathered at the director’s office to celebrate the jubilee of Aida Akopova: one of the oldest employees of YerPhI, the leader of the nuclear emulsion group. Figure 1. Aida Akopova, Tina Asatiani and Nina Demekhina Figure 2. Eric Mamidjanyan, Vitali Ivanov,...
Visit of the CNCP delegation to YerPhI (May 4, 2009)

On May 4th the delegation of the UK Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership (CNCP) programme visited YerPhI. The commercialization of scientific ideas and technologies is the core of CNCP’s strategy for creating secure, well- paid and satisfactory jobs for former nuclear weapons specialists. While...
The first LINK Sunday school held in Nor Amberd International Conference Center (May 25, 2009)

The International Institute of Management “Link” provides the Professional Certificate in management of the British Open University. The program started in 2003 and delivers three British Open University Business School programmes aimed at developing management in the CIS countries: • ...
Aragats Physicists Measure Energy Spectra of the Runaway electrons _ an important step to solve... (May 21, 2009)

A. Chilingarian, A.Daryan, L.Melkumyan The cosmic rays ionize enough of the atmosphere to be questioned as possible triggers of the thunderstorms. A mechanism proposed by A. Gurevich and his collaborators suggests that showers of energetic particles produced by high-energy cosmic rays in the...
New Members of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Apr 22, 2009)

At the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences held on April 22, 2009, new foreign members were nominated as academy members, among them former head of the YerPhI astrophysics group Prof. Felix Aharonian (Irish advanced studies center and Max Plank Institute, Heidelberg), Prof. Adrian Parsegian (NHI)...
YerPhI External Board started its work (Apr 20, 2009)

On April 20, 2009 the chair of the YerPhI external board academician of Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Oganissyan met with YerPhI scientists engaged in preparing reports for the board nominated by the RA government. Yuri Oganissyan explained what kind of documents should be prepared, how the meetings of the...
Visit of Brazilian Ambassador to YerPhI (Mar 6, 2009)

March 6, 2009, the ambassador of Brazil, her excellence Renate Still, Vice Consul, Press and Trade Attache of Brazilian Embassy, Mr. Hovsep N. Seferyan visited the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) to discuss the possibilities of scientific collaboration between YerPhI and Brazilian universities. Brazil is a...
Visit of Professor Kapitsa to Yerevan Physics Institute (Feb 13, 2009)

February 13, 2009, by invitation of YerPhI director Ashot Chilingarian, Prof. Sergei Kapitsa, the renowned Russian physicist and educator visited Yerevan Physics Institute. Professor Kapitsa is well known by his scientific research in area of accelerator physics, his multiyear lecturing in Moscow Physics...
A New Monument to Artem Alikhanian at Yerevan Physics Institute (Feb 12, 2009)

In a memorable ceremony the new monument to Arem Alikhanian was unveiled at the main square of the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI), on February 12, 2009. Artem Alikhanian is the founder and first director of Yerevan Physics institute, currently bearing his name. The 100 year anniversary of the...

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