Department of Theoretical Physics

Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics Group
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Karen Hovhannisyan
Email: kavahox AT gmail DOT com
Address: Department of Theoretical Physics Yerevan Physics Institute, Alikhanyan Brothers street 2, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia

PhD student at Yerevan Physics Institute

Biography 

		2010-now	PhD student at Yerevan Physics Institute
		

		2008-2010	Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University,
				Masters Degree with honor diploma.
				”Best student-2009” award of YSU
		

		2004-2008	Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University, Bachelors degree with honor diploma
		

		2002-2004	Yerevan Central Physico-Mathematical high school (highest possible grades)
				Bronze medal in the 35th International Physics Olympiad, Pohang, Korea, July 15-23, 2004
				First prize in the RA astronomy olympiad (2004)
				Diploma of the physico-mathematical olympiad of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (2004)
				Certificate of merit in the RA physics olympiad (2004)
				Second prize in the Yerevan astronomy olympiad (2004)
				Second prize in the Yerevan physics olympiad (2003)
				Third prize in the RA physics olympiad (2003)

Teaching experience 

		Fall 2009	 YSU - Selected topics on quantum mechanics

Grants and Scholarships 

		2008-Now	Volkswagenstiftung Grant ”Quantum Thermodynamics: Energy and information flow at nanoscale.”
		

		2007-2008	Gurgen S. Sahakyan Memorial Scholarship
		

		2007		First class prize of the president of the Republic of Armenia in the ”Best bachelor” nomination
		

		2007		Scholarship Grant Award of the Fund for Armenian Relief of America

Conferances and Schools 

		1. 	School on New Trends in Quantum Dynamics and Quantum Entanglement, 14.02.2011 - 18.02.2011, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
		

		2. 	International Symposium on Quantum Thermodynamics: Energy and Information Flow at the Nano-Scale, 13.09.2010
			17.09.2010, Stuttgart, Germany, title of my talk: ”Optimal refrigerator” (eng)
		

		3. 	International Workshop on Modern Problems in Optics and Photonics, 27.08.2009 - 02.09.2009, Yerevan, Armenia,
			title of my talk: ”Copying elements of density matrix” (eng)
		

		4. 	VIIth Winter school on Theoretical Physics (Intro. to Theory of Nanostructures), 25.01.2009 - 05.02.2009, JINR, Dubna, Russia

Publications 

		1.	K.V. Hovhannisyan, A.E. Allahverdyan, Thermodynamics of enhanced heat transfer: 
			a model study, J. Stat. Mech.(2010) P06010
		
		
		2.	A. E. Allahverdyan, K. Hovhannisyan and G. Mahler, Phys. Rev. E 81,	051129 (2010).
				Optimal refrigerator
		

		3.	A. E. Allahverdyan and K. Hovhannisyan, Phys. Rev. A 81, 012312	(2010).
				Transferring elements of density matrix
		

		4. 	K.V. Hovhannisyan, Copying elements of density matrix, in Modern Problems in Optics and Photonics Proceedings
			of the International Workshop (held at YSU and IPR of NAS), 27 August - 2 Septemer 2009, Yerevan, Armenia, ed.
			by G.Y. Kryuchkyan, A.V. Papoyan and D.A. Antonosyan, p. 10-13 (Lusabats publishing house, 2010)
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