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PROF. ASHOT CHILINGARIAN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS COMMEMORATED
http://asbarez.com/123989/prof-ashot-chilingarian%E2%80%99s-accomplishments-commemorated/
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
L. to r.: Dr. Razmik Mirzoyan from the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics
in Munich, Germany; Dr. Hartmut Gemmeke from the Forshchum Centrum
Physics Institute in Karlsruhe, Germany; Prof. Ashot Chilingarian,
director of the Yerevan Physics Institute; and Dr.
Johannes Knapp, astrophysicist from the University of Leeds in England
and DESY in Germany
YEREVAN--Within the international physics community significant
accomplishments of famous scientists are often recognized in symposiums
honoring them. On Tuesday, May 20, a symposium at the Nor Ambert
Cosmic Ray Research Station on Mt. Aragats commemorated Dr.
Ashot Chilingarian's decades of achievement. Dr. Ashot Chilingarian
is the director of the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) and head
of its Cosmic Ray Division (CRD).
Dr. Razmik Mirzoyan of the Max Planck Institute in Germany opened
the symposium and introduced Dr. Johannes Knapp, astrophysicist from
the University of Leeds in England and DESY in Germany. Dr. Knapp
chronicled Prof. Chilingarian's career from his first published paper
in 1975 to his appointment as head of the CRD in 1993 and, 11 years
later, to the directorship of the entire physics institute. Not only
did Dr. Knapp iterate many of Chilingarian's contributions in the
fields of physics, mathematics, and neural networks, but he stressed
Chilingarian's organizational ability and his support of bright young
Armenian students, some of whom were in the audience.
The next speaker, Dr. Hartmut Gemmeke, who recently retired from the
Forshchum Centrum physics institute in Karlsruhe, Germany, related
early collaborations with Prof. Chilingarian when he (Gemmeke) was a
post-doctoral scholar. He cited Chilingarian's contributions to space
weather research. He concluded with a couple of poems he authored
about Prof. Chilingarian's career.
Dr. Razmik Mirzoyan from the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics
in Munich, Germany concluded the talks with a description of the
development of Cherenkov Radiation telescopes and the contributions
Prof. Chilingarian has made to this technology. Mirzoyan is the
chairman of the MAGIC collaboration for a large telescope in the
Canary Islands.
Prof. Chilingarian has more than 380 scientific publications and has
won more than 20 research grants totaling more than 2.5M USD from
foundations such as the International Science and Technology Center
(ISTC), the International Technology and Science foundation (INTAS)
and other sources.
He is the author of the ANI (Analysis and Nonparametric Inference)
computer code library, which has been extensively used by the
international cosmic ray physics community during the last few
decades for multidimensional analysis of data from modern cosmic
ray detectors. He also introduced the "multidimensional nonlinear
cuts" method for analyzing data from the Atmospheric Cherenkov
Telescopes (ACT) and event-by-event analysis for Extensive Air Shower
experiments. The Data Visualization Interactive Network (DVIN) was
developed under his supervision. This project won a UN World Summit
on Information Society award in Geneva in 2003.
He is the founder of the Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC)
and the Space Environmental Viewing and Analysis Network (SEVAN),
multinational scientific collaborations let by Armenia. In turn Prof.
Chilingarian is Armenia's representative in other international
collaborations such as the world wide neutron detector network led
by Japan, The Space Weather Initiative led by NASA, the International
Commission on Space Research (COSPAR) and many others.
Other guests at the symposium and the subsequent dinner honoring Prof.
Ashot Chilingarian included Dr. Bruce Boghosian, a physicist from
Tufts University who is concluding his 4th year as president of the
American University of Armenia, Dr Michel Davudian from France and
the president and CEO of OZONE internet service company in the Shirak
Marz, and founders of the Support Committee for Armenia's Cosmic Ray
Division Anahid Yeremian and Joseph Dagdigian. Besides YerPhI staff
members, also in attendance were graduate students studying at CRD.
http://asbarez.com/123989/prof-ashot-chilingarian%E2%80%99s-accomplishments-commemorated/
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
L. to r.: Dr. Razmik Mirzoyan from the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics
in Munich, Germany; Dr. Hartmut Gemmeke from the Forshchum Centrum
Physics Institute in Karlsruhe, Germany; Prof. Ashot Chilingarian,
director of the Yerevan Physics Institute; and Dr.
Johannes Knapp, astrophysicist from the University of Leeds in England
and DESY in Germany
YEREVAN--Within the international physics community significant
accomplishments of famous scientists are often recognized in symposiums
honoring them. On Tuesday, May 20, a symposium at the Nor Ambert
Cosmic Ray Research Station on Mt. Aragats commemorated Dr.
Ashot Chilingarian's decades of achievement. Dr. Ashot Chilingarian
is the director of the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) and head
of its Cosmic Ray Division (CRD).
Dr. Razmik Mirzoyan of the Max Planck Institute in Germany opened
the symposium and introduced Dr. Johannes Knapp, astrophysicist from
the University of Leeds in England and DESY in Germany. Dr. Knapp
chronicled Prof. Chilingarian's career from his first published paper
in 1975 to his appointment as head of the CRD in 1993 and, 11 years
later, to the directorship of the entire physics institute. Not only
did Dr. Knapp iterate many of Chilingarian's contributions in the
fields of physics, mathematics, and neural networks, but he stressed
Chilingarian's organizational ability and his support of bright young
Armenian students, some of whom were in the audience.
The next speaker, Dr. Hartmut Gemmeke, who recently retired from the
Forshchum Centrum physics institute in Karlsruhe, Germany, related
early collaborations with Prof. Chilingarian when he (Gemmeke) was a
post-doctoral scholar. He cited Chilingarian's contributions to space
weather research. He concluded with a couple of poems he authored
about Prof. Chilingarian's career.
Dr. Razmik Mirzoyan from the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics
in Munich, Germany concluded the talks with a description of the
development of Cherenkov Radiation telescopes and the contributions
Prof. Chilingarian has made to this technology. Mirzoyan is the
chairman of the MAGIC collaboration for a large telescope in the
Canary Islands.
Prof. Chilingarian has more than 380 scientific publications and has
won more than 20 research grants totaling more than 2.5M USD from
foundations such as the International Science and Technology Center
(ISTC), the International Technology and Science foundation (INTAS)
and other sources.
He is the author of the ANI (Analysis and Nonparametric Inference)
computer code library, which has been extensively used by the
international cosmic ray physics community during the last few
decades for multidimensional analysis of data from modern cosmic
ray detectors. He also introduced the "multidimensional nonlinear
cuts" method for analyzing data from the Atmospheric Cherenkov
Telescopes (ACT) and event-by-event analysis for Extensive Air Shower
experiments. The Data Visualization Interactive Network (DVIN) was
developed under his supervision. This project won a UN World Summit
on Information Society award in Geneva in 2003.
He is the founder of the Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC)
and the Space Environmental Viewing and Analysis Network (SEVAN),
multinational scientific collaborations let by Armenia. In turn Prof.
Chilingarian is Armenia's representative in other international
collaborations such as the world wide neutron detector network led
by Japan, The Space Weather Initiative led by NASA, the International
Commission on Space Research (COSPAR) and many others.
Other guests at the symposium and the subsequent dinner honoring Prof.
Ashot Chilingarian included Dr. Bruce Boghosian, a physicist from
Tufts University who is concluding his 4th year as president of the
American University of Armenia, Dr Michel Davudian from France and
the president and CEO of OZONE internet service company in the Shirak
Marz, and founders of the Support Committee for Armenia's Cosmic Ray
Division Anahid Yeremian and Joseph Dagdigian. Besides YerPhI staff
members, also in attendance were graduate students studying at CRD.