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April 4, 2017 - Russian Science Foundation Supports a Research Project Proposed by Russian and Armenian Scientists

Russian and Armenian scientists cooperated to submit a project to the competition sponsored by the Russian Science Foundation. The foundation sponsored the best projects. The winners were announced at the end of March 2017. The project "Comprehensive Research of High-Energy Particles Sources and Powerful Ultra-High Frequency Radiation" proposed by Russian and Armenian scientists was among the winners. This project will be carried out at CR's Mt. Aragats research center.

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February 28, 2017 -Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of Yerevan Physics Institute Developing the Armenian Network for Geophysical Monitoring and Forecasting

The comprehensive monitoring and prediction of potentially dangerous processes in the magnetosphere, atmosphere and ecosystem of the Earth are important for evaluating various risks in nature and economy. In 2016 CRD of YerPhI started a project called "Armenian Network for Geophysical Monitoring and Forecastin" with its main go "to expand and upgrade an integrated network of particle detectors, add field meters and lightning detectors in strategic locations for wider geophysical research, establish forecasting services about the dangerous consequences of space weather and thunderstorms, and assure continuous operation of the outstretched networks of detectors for the early recognition of various anomalous phenomena in the earth's atmosphere and in near-earth space."

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February 20, 2017 -Muon Flux Monitoring in Underground Laboratory in Armenian Salt Mine

Muons are unstable subatomic particles of the same class as an electron, but 200 times more massive. They make up much of the cosmic radiation reaching the earth's surface. Understanding muons is very important as, they are very useful probes for a number of important experiments. The Avan salt mines in Armenia provide a great laboratory to study these important particles.

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February 20, 2017 -Cosmic Rays and Radiation Events in the Atmosphere (CRREAT), a New European Structural Funds Research Project in the Czech Republic

Prof. Chilingarian is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the CRREAT project in the Czeck Republic. The project in the Czech Republic includes becoming a node in the SEVAN network of detectors established and managed by the CRD. This cooperation opens doors for Armenia in EU's largest scientific innovation program called Horizon 2020

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December, 2016 - CRD PhD Student and Team Place Among the Top 15 Finalists at the Climate Launch Pad 2016 Competition in Talin, Estonia

Hripsime Mkrthyan, a PhD student at the CRD, and her teammates placed among the 15 finalists out of 88 projects submitted to a competition called Climate Launch Pad 2016, held in Taline Estonia.

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November, 2016 -Best YerPhI Publications

Yerevan Physics Institute held a competition on best publications by Institute scientists to encourage everyone to publish their research results in refereed scientific journals.Publishing is very important for scientists. The common phrase is "publish or perish". More important is how often other scientific publications reference your work. CRD's scientific publications are among the highest referenced publications in the scientific community.

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October, 2016 -Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration (TEPA 2016) conference, which took place from October 3 through 7 at CRD's Nor Ambert International Conference Center.

Scientists and student from 10 nations gathered to discuss this hot topic originally introduced and is currently led by the scientists of the Cosmic Ray Division of Yerevan Physics Institute. TEPA is an annual international conference with an international organizing committee and held in Armenia.

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April, 2016 - Super events of April 20 shed new light on atmospheric physics.

New precise particle sensors and electric and magnetic field meters aide the CRD physicists to measure tens of parameters including radio frequency electromagnetic waves and ultraviolet and infrared emissions from atmospheric discharges. April is a great month to make these measurements because it is rich with thunderstorms, which sometimes damage CRD’s instruments. There is a constant battle to cycle between measuring, repairing the instrumentation, and measuring again, but data is helping to more clearly understand thunder and lightening storms.

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February, 2016 - Lecture series for Masters students expands to countries outside Armenia's boarders.

The primary goal of the Master's program at CRD’s parent institute, the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI), is to expose students to complex research topics from laboratories around the world. Lectures are delivered by respected experts in various fields both from Armenia and other countries. Lecturers bring broad, international expertise while also spend a few days interacting with the students one on one and advising them on their individual topics of research. Topics include the fundamentals of experimental physics, research methods, and data analysis. As of this month Prof. Ashot Chilingarian has expanded this series to include students from universities in other countries via videoconferencing. These are universities which have added high energy atmospheric physics to their curriculum.

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October 2015 -Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration (TEPA 2015) conference, which took place from October 5 through 9 at CRD's Nor Ambert International Conference Center.

Scientists and student from 7 nations gathered to discuss this hot topic. This area of research was originally introduced and is currently led by the scientists of the Cosmic Ray Division of Yerevan Physics Institute.
Young CRD scientists have already made important discoveries and contributions to this field of study.

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June 2015 - Lightening initiation, Electron acceleration and Atmospheric Discharges (LEAD) international conference, a great success in Armenia.

Scientists from around the world were at CRD Nor Ambert International Conference Center in Armenia from June 9 to 12, to exchange their most recent findings about Lightening and Thunderstorm interactions in the atmosphere. The conference program included reports from famous scientists around the world as well as young scientists from CRD.

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March 2014 - Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) scientific publications are of highest quality.

Scientific experiments and discoveries are reported in scientific papers which are pear reviewed and printed in relevant scientific journals. When other scientists write about their experiments and discoveries they reference published papers that either inspired them, or affirm their results, or precede the success of their own theories and experiments. In the world of science we have a saying “Publish or perish” indicating the high importance of publishing our scientific work in reputable journals. The quality of our work is measured by how often others reference our publications in their own papers.

In 2014 Yerevan Physics Institute scientists published 230 high quality scientific papers about their experiments and discoveries in refereed journals, more than any other scientific institute or university in Armenia. YerPhI’s articles were referenced 7700 times in 2014 in papers by other scientists from all over the world. This is a very impressive scorecard demonstrating the high quality of science conducted at YerPhI and its Cosmic Ray Division. YerPhI is consistently at the top of the international ladder on quality publications enjoying the company of organizations from much more affluent countries like the USA, Germany, Japan and others.

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March 2014 - Armenia Joins the Word-wide Lightening Location Network

CRD joined the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), which is managed by the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. The Armenian stations fill a crucial void as there are no other stations for thousands of kilometers to the east or west; the nearest station to the southwest being in Tel-Aviv.

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November 2013 – Armenian scientific papers sited more times per paper than papers from any other Country.

According to the World List of Best in Publishing and Citations, Armenia ranks number 64 for number of published papers in 2012, with 1058 papers in international refereed journals. USA is number one with 537,308 papers.
However, Armenia is number one in the number of times per paper on average other authors have referenced the Armenian papers in theirs, with a ratio of 2 citations per paper. USA comes in at 22 with less than one citation per paper on average. This is a measure of the importance of the scientific work conducted in Armenia. What is even more impressive for CRD is that 75% of the papers Armenian published in international journals come from the Yerevan Physics Institute, CRD’s parent organization.

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September 2013 – CRD head and Yerevan Physics Institute Director, Prof. Ashot Chilingarian is also one of the Associate Editors of the international Space Weather Space Climate Journal.

Scientific Journal need expert editors who are able to ascertain the quality of the scientific work expressed in the publications submitted to the journal. Each article is independently reviewed by at least two expert reviewers after which the editorial staff must make a decision whether to print the article or not based on the recommendations of the reviewers and their own assessment. The editorial staff has the final say. It is a great achievement to be invited to serve on such a prestigious board.

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September 2013 – (TEPA – 2013) Successful Conference in Armenia

The Terrestrial Elementary Particle Acceleration (TEPA-2013) attracted scientists from around the word to CRD’s Nor Ambert research station and conference center. Representatives from NASA, European Space Agency, Japan Atomic commission, Max Plan Institute in Germany, Universities from USA, Russia and around the world went to Armenia to present their work and to hear about others’ work on the subject. CRD young scientists had the opportunity to rub shoulders with the giants as well as forge friendships with other young scientists from around the world with whom they will be exchanging information for decades to come.

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June 2013 - CRD Student Milestones

Two CRD students complete their Masters Degree in Physics at the Yerevan State University and are now applying for the PhD program at the Cosmic Ray Division at YerPhI. One student completed his Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Yerevan State University and will be working at CRD full time and one student intern from University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA will the summer at the CRD learning about Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements - a new area of physics where CRD leads the world. Look for the press release coming soon.

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March 2012 - APS announcement about Prof. Ashot Chilingarian's election as an APS Fellow.

American Physical Society Forum on International Physics - Spring 2012 Newsletter

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February 2012 - The International Space Weather Initiative Report to the UN includes Armenia as a Leader.

The International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) currently has 15 instrument array projects in deployment or under development. These are located in 101 countries and coordinated by scientists from Armenia, France, Japan, Switzerland and the United States,”, states the ISWI steering committee’s report to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Forty-ninth session held in Vienna, Austria on February 6 – 17, 2012. Professor Ashot Chilingarian (director of Yerevan Physics Institute and head of its Cosmic Ray Division) is one of the 17 elite international scientists from around the world that comprise the International Space Weather Initiative Committee. The ISWI committee held its annual meeting in Vienna during this time on February 14 and 15 to prepare the report for the UN session, to review progress and discuss future plans.

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February 2012 - The International Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics Invitation to Armenia.

Armenia has been very active in the Solar Terestrial Physics research area with lots of young researches active and making their presence known with excellent publications. Armenian scientists have also been contributing enormously to the physics of the Sun-Earth system by creating observing facilities and data analysis tools, and are recognized internationally. For this reason, I invite Armenia to become an official member of the Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)”. Says Nat Gopalswamy, the president of SCOSTEP, an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science (ICSU), in a letter to Dr. Samvel Harutyunyan, the chairman of the Armenian State Committee of Science.

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December 2011, PROF CHILINGARIAN WAS ELECTED AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY FELLOW.

Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, the director of Yerevan Physics Institute and the head of its cosmic ray division is named APS fellow this year.

The APS announcement reads as follows: "Ashot Chilingarian, Yerevan Physics Insitute: For bringing one of the world's largest facilities for monitoring different species of secondary cosmic rays located in Armenia to the International Space Weather initiative as a global warning system from violent space events. Nominated by: Forum on International Physics"

Congratulations to Prof. Chilingarian!

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December 2011, Prof. Chilingarian Invited to Report on the Research on Aragats at the Annual American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco. Dr. Bagrad Mailyan also to Present His Work.
Because of the ground breaking research conducted on Mt. Aragats the American Geophysical Union Conference committee has invited Prof. Chilingarian, to report on CRD’s research. Accompanying Chilingarian will be Dr. Bagrad Mailyan, one of the young scientists who recently received his PhD while conducting his research at the Cosmic Ray Division. At this same conference, Dr. Mailyan will present his work on the energy spectra of the gamma rays and the electric fields which accelerate the electrons within thunderclouds.

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March 2011, The 24-th Solar Activity Cycle Produced the First Violent Blast. Aragats and SEVAN Monitors Took Excellent Data.
The sun unleashed its strongest solar flare in nearly five years on Feb 15 2011, sending a massive wave of charged particles toward Earth. The Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), a huge cloud of charged particles, reached the Earth in approximately 3 days and triggered a sizeable geomagnetic storm and a deep Forbush decrease (Fd). Fd is a rapid decrease in the observed galactic cosmicray intensity following a CME arrival. Variety of the particle detectors of the Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC) in Armenia and the Space Environmental Viewing and Analysis Network (SEVAN), a worldwide network, registered the Fd in all details.

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September 2010, the Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration (TEPA-2010) conference was held from September 6 through 11, 2010 in the Nor Amberd international conference centre of Artem Alikhanyan National Laboratory (AANL), formerly known as Yerevan Physics Institute, in Armenia. The conference was organized by the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of AANL, Armenia and Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University, Russian Federation. The conference was sponsored by AANL, the international Committee On Space Research (COSPAR) and the Armenian State Science Committee. Forty scientists and students from USA, UK, Germany, Mexico, Russia and Armenia attended the conference

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September 2009, CRD Delegation at the Balkan, Black and Caspian Sea Regional conference on Heliophysical Phenomena and the Earth Environment.
On September 4-18, 2009 a delegation from the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) consisting of Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, YerPhi's director and head of its Cosmic Ray Division (CRD), with CRD scientists and engineers participated in the International conference on the Heliophysical Phenomena and the Earth Environment in Shibenik, Croatia. The regional meeting of Balkan, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea participants was held for the third time within the framework of the International Heliophysical Year, now being continued as the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI). This initiative is supported by NASA and the United Nation's Outer Space Office in Vienna, Austria.

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December 2008, SEVAN Detectors Deployed in Bulgaria and Croatia

Construction of the SEVAN (Space Environmental Viewing and Analysis Network) network has started within the framework of the International Heliophysical Year and United Nations Basic Space Science (UNBSS) program focusing on deployment of arrays of small inexpensive instruments around the world. The Cosmic Ray Division of the Alikhanyan Physics Institute donates scintillators, photomultipliers and Data Acquisition electronics to donor countries. The first four SEVAN modules operated at Aragats Space Environmental Center in Armenia, at altitudes 1000, 17000, 2000 and 3200 m in Yerevan and on the slopes of mountain. Aragats. Installation of the first SEVAN detector abroad was performed by the group of CRD experts in December 2008 in Croatia and Bulgaria. The first test demonstrated the high reliability of SEVAN detectors operation.

These units will be deployed at the universities and research centers of developing countries to perform survey and monitoring of the most dangerous space storms and to involve new generations of students and scientists in space research.

A further step towards creating world-wide network will be the development of databases and on-line data flow from remote detectors for mutual analysis and issuing alerts and forecasting on upcoming space storms. The potential recipients of particle detectors in this new initiative are Croatia, Slovakia, Costa Rica, Bulgaria, Indonesia, and India. When fully deployed the SEVAN network will provide reliable monitoring of the Sun by at least one detector 24 hours and by two detectors 18 hours every day.

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September 2008, International Workshop “Forecasting of Radiation and Geomagnetic Storms by Networks of Particle Detectors” Held in Armenia

From September 29 to October 3 the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of the Alikhanyan Physics Institute hosted the International Astroparticle Physics Symposium “Forecasting of the Radiation and Geomagnetic Storms by Networks of Particle Detectors (FORGES-2008)” at CRD’s International Conference Center, Nor Amberd, Armenia.  The focus of the Symposium was pointed on the Space Weather drivers and on possibilities of the networks of particle detectors measuring changing fluxes of neutral and charged particles to forewarn on upcoming severe radiation and geomagnetic storms. Radiation and geomagnetic storms can interfere with electronic systems on earth and damage satellites in space. Thus forecasting such events is extremely important.

The conference lasted a week. Approximately 40 scientists and students from Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Croatia, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, USA, Costa-Rica and Armenia attended the symposium. The conference met for six hours on each of the conference days, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for ongoing individual exchanges or outdoor activities.

The core activities of the conference were based on lectures by invited scientists, followed by 15 minute discussion periods. Participants listened to 8 invited lectures and 25 original Papers.

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September 2007, Lebedev-CRD International Cosmic Ray Workshop “ARAGATS-2007" Held in Nor-Amberd, Armenia

The International Cosmic Ray Workshop "ARAGATS-2007" organized by the Moscow Lebedev Physical Institute and the Yerevan Physics Institute was held September 9-13, 2007 in Nor-Amberd, Armenia. The Workshop focused on the cosmic ray and gamma ray data collection, analysis and interpretation relevant to the study of the knee energy region of the primary cosmic ray energy spectrum on data collected with the GAMMA and MAKET-ANI arrays on Mt. Aragats and other facilities located on mountain elevations as well as closer to sea level.

The numerous close discussions among the several research groups working in this area served an important ground on the way to resolving differences between them and aimed at better understanding of the knee origin. This Workshop was a logical successor to a very successful Workshop held in Kazakhstan at the Tien-Shan station in August, 2006.

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May 8 2007, SEVAN was named the Observatory of the Week, and Professor Chilingarian was named the Personality of the Week, in IHY07's weekly newsletter. The IHY07 article may be viewed at: http://http://ihy2007.org/newsroom/weekly_070508.shtml

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March 31 - April 3, 2007, CRD Hosted Workshop on Particle Networks for Space Weather Research

Rainer Hippler from Institut fuer Physik Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitaet Greifswald, Germany Erwin Flueckiger from Bern University, Switzerland Lev Dorman and Lev Pustilnik from Israel Cosmic Ray & Space Weather Center and Emilio Segre Observatory, Israel participated in the workshop.

The workshop included: Meeting CRD electronics group members; demonstration of new electronics to be used in the project; discussions; Visit to Yerevan Physics Institute, CRD headquarters, electronics lab, Space education Center. Meeting with CRD students and their short presentations, as well as discussion on the possible participation in FP7 program and on the on-line integration of data from surface and space born facilities.

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March 25 2007, Armenian-Iranian pianist, Raphael Minaskanian, in Concert as a Tribute to the CRD in San Francisco

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September 2006, CRD's DVIN was the model project for UN's World Summit on Information Society.


The UN World Summit on Information Society website displayed CRD’s Data Visualization Interactive Network (DVIN) project as its high standard for others to follow.   In the first WSIS competition in 2003, DVIN took first in the e-science category, out of 800 projects from 136 countries.  As a result, the president of Armenia was asked to make the presentation of the awards to Prof. Chilingarian for Armenia , and the other three finalists from Canada , China , and US.  The Award ceremony was in Geneva during the WSIS in the presence of 10,000 participants and many heads of state.

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March 2006, Armenia to Become the Full Member of the European COST 724 Action

Prof. Ashot Chilingarian represented CRD at the “Developing the scientific basis for monitoring and predicting Space Weather” meeting organized by the COST 724 managerial committee in Antalyа (Turkey) from March 27 to March 30. Armenia has been an associate member of the COST action since 2004. It was the first time that a country representative was invited to participate in the managerial committee meeting. 

At the meeting the chair of the managerial committee, Jean Lilensten, suggested that Armenia should become the full member of the action in order to actively participate in the creation of the European Space Weather site and to attend managerial committee meetings. It was settled that the financial obligations of Armenia would be clarified by Jean Lilensten in COST Brussels office in April.

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January 2006, CRD has lead on
SEVAN - Space Environment Viewing and Analysis Network
A Nine-country Network Endorsed by the UN/NASA/ESA consortium
in preparation for the International Heliophysical Year 2007 (IHY-07)
Detectors on the network are designed by CRD and will be made in Armenia
Network data acquisition and analysis methods will be managed by the CRD
Principal Investigator – Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, head of CRD

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September 26-30 2005, CRD to host Solar Extreme Events - 2005 international symposium in Armenia


Over 75 scientists from 11 countries will participate in the Solar Extreme Events 2005 conference in Armenia, organized by the Cosmic Ray Division of the Alikhanian Physicis Institute and sponsored by the international Commission On Space Research and the International Science and Technology Center. The local organizing committee and the international advisory committee are chaired by Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, head of the CRD. The program includes presentations by the participants, discussions about the sources of Space Weather and the detection and early warning of events with catastrophic consequences, and a tour of the extensive cosmic ray research facilities on Mt. Aragats. Among the distinguished participants, scientists from NASA, Stanford University and University of Delaware will comprise the US delegation. Several key international organizations list this conference on their calendar. Among them: NASA, Comission on Space Research, European Sapce Agency and others. For more details see http://crdlx5.yerphi.am

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June 2005, CRD wins the Mashtots-1600 All Armenia competition for best content in the e-science category.

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March 2005, NASA Includes Armenia’s Cosmic Ray Stations on its Observatory List


In preparation for the International Heliophysical Year (IHY – 2007), NASA has founded a collaboration of international spacecraft and observatories that conduct solar research. The first step of this collaboration is to display the participating observatories and their internet links on the NASA internet site. The Aragats Space Environmental Center of the Cosmic Ray Division of the Alikhanian Physics Institute in Armenia is number two on the NASA site. To see it please visit http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/~zarro/ihy/ , click on “VIEW Participating Observatories List” and scroll down to the second entry on the “Spacecraft and Observatory” list.

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CRD scientists close the summer of 2004 with an impressive presence at international conferences


CRD's head, Prof. Ashot Chilingarian and scientists Valeri Babayan, Hamlet Martirosyan, Vitali Ivanov, and Garegin Hosepian attended one or more of the following international conferences to present their state of the art research on galactic cosmic rays and space weather: International Symposium on Solar Extreme Events of Oct. - Nov. 2003, in Moscow, Commission On SPAce Research (COSPAR) July 2004, in Paris, European Cosmic Ray Symposium (ECRS) in August 2004, in Florence.

Here is an excerpt from a letter to Prof. Chilingarian from the executive director of COSPAR, "I would also like to take the opportunity of this letter to thank you, as Armenia's National Representative, for participating so actively in the Committee's activities. It is rare for new members to participate to the degree that you have, attending council meetings, ..., seeking COSPAR's assistance in obtaining European Union funding etc. Armenia's participation has added to the value of our Committee's work and has been remarked by our officers and certainly other national and international scientific union members.

We look forward to future close relations, to widening participation by Armenian scientists in the international space research community, and trust you will not hesitate to contact us concerning capacity building activities or other matters in which our collaboration may be of assistance" Dr. I. Revah, September 15, 2004

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September 2004, SCACRD-Canada joins the family of CRD supporters
We welcome SCACRD-Canada to our family. Please see the Support Committee and Press Release sections for more information.

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March 2004, CRD signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with the European Sapce Agency (ESA)

 
CRD and ESA have signed a memorandum of understanding for scientific cooperation in space weather forcasting research. CRD's strong participation in European scientific collaborations will be an important feather in Armenia's hat, when Armenia is considered for joining the EU.

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January 2004, CRD is accepted into the European Comission On Science and Technology (COST) Action 724 to establish a world-Wide Space Weather Alert Network (SWAN)
CRD's Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC) is a vital part of the Space Weather Alert Network because it fills a vital gap by virtue of its Geographic location, Ground based detectors that complement sattelite based detectors, its Scientific Expertise, and its Award winning Data Visualization Interactive Network (DVIN)

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December 2003, Armenia's Cosmic Ray Division received a World Summit Award for Best Conent in its Space Weather Forecasting Website, DVIN. The Award ceremony, attended by heads of states and UN officials, was in Geneva on Dec. 10, 2003. To see it, visit http://www.wsis-award.org
then click on WSA Best 03 on the left, then click on e-Science at the top.
Also visit the Press Releases section of this web site for more details.

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November 2 2003,Sydney Opera Soloist, Arax Mansourian, in Concert as a Tribute to the CRD. San Francisco

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April, 2003 The Space Weather Operations Division of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) has partnered with the CRD in Armenia on a proposal to the International Science and Technology Center –

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January, 2003 Professor Chilingarian’s article on Gene Expression Analysis is the 7-th most downloaded article from Mathematical Biosciences Journal in 2002.

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December 2002, Republic of Armenia commemorative stamp of the CRD

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November, 2002 CRD establishes the Aragats Space Environmental Center in Armenia

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October 20, 21, 23 2002, Famous Artists, Violinist Ani Kavafian in concert with Pianist Sahan Arzruni in San Francisco, Fresno, and Los Angeles.

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On April 17, 2002 CERN, the large Inter-European particle accelerator laboratory in Geneva Switzerland, donated $10,000 worth of electronic data acquisition equipment to the CRD in recognition of the vital and outstanding research CRD conducts towards unraveling the mysteries of the Universe by studying particles accelerated from the cosmos towards earth. The equipment became available when CERN shut down its current accelerator operation to upgrade their accelerator and related equipment for the next phase of research at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider. The electronic equipment donated by CERN was transported to the CRD by the United Armenia Fund air shipment free of charge. The Cosmic Ray Division in Armenia and the Support Committee for Armenia's Cosmic Ray Division extend their heartfelt gratitude to CERN and to UAF for their generosity.

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On April 8, 2002, The International Science and Technology Center has approved a small grant for Professor Chilingarian, the head of the Cosmic Ray division, to write a text book on Statistical Analysis. Congratulations to Prof. Chilingarian.

 

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