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LATEST NEWS
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. * * * 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." * * * 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. * * * 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 * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. March 2012 - APS announcement about Prof. Ashot Chilingarian's election as an APS Fellow. American Physical Society Forum on International Physics - Spring 2012 Newsletter 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. 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. 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! 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.
March 2011, The 24-th Solar Activity Cycle Produced the First Violent Blast.
Aragats and SEVAN Monitors Took Excellent Data.
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 September 2009, CRD Delegation at the Balkan, Black and Caspian Sea Regional conference on Heliophysical Phenomena and the Earth Environment.
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 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. 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. * * * 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. * * * 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 * * * 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. * * * March 25 2007, Armenian-Iranian
pianist, Raphael Minaskanian, in Concert as a Tribute to the CRD in San
Francisco * * * September
2006, CRD's DVIN was the model project for UN's World
Summit on Information Society.
* * * 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. * * * January 2006, CRD has
lead on * * * September
26-30 2005, CRD to host Solar Extreme Events - 2005 international symposium
in Armenia
* * * June 2005, CRD wins the Mashtots-1600 All Armenia competition for
best content in the e-science category. * * * March
2005, NASA Includes Armenia’s Cosmic Ray Stations on its Observatory List
* * * CRD scientists
close the summer of 2004 with an impressive presence at international
conferences
* * * September 2004, SCACRD-Canada
joins the family of CRD supporters * * * March 2004, CRD signed a
Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with the European Sapce Agency (ESA) * * * 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) * * * 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
* * * November 2 2003,Sydney Opera
Soloist, Arax Mansourian, in Concert as a Tribute to the CRD. San Francisco * * * 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 – * * * January, 2003 Professor
Chilingarian’s article on Gene Expression Analysis is the 7-th most
downloaded article from Mathematical Biosciences Journal in 2002. * * * December 2002, Republic of Armenia
commemorative stamp of the CRD * * * November, 2002 CRD establishes the
Aragats Space Environmental Center in Armenia * * * October 20, 21, 23 2002, Famous
Artists, Violinist Ani Kavafian in concert with Pianist Sahan Arzruni in San
Francisco, Fresno, and Los Angeles. * * * 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. * * * 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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