2013-06-20 19:20:27

New students join CRD

  Several students from Yerevan State Unviersity who have been conducting their thesis work at the Cosmic Ray Division of the Yerevan Physics Institute have entered a new milestone in their career preparation. 

  

  Hripsime Mkrtchyan and Hasmik Rostomyan successfully finished their Master in Physics courses at the Yerevan State University.  Hripsime’s Master’s theses was titled “The Electrical structure of Thunderclouds and Initiation of the Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements (TGEs)”,  and Hasmik’s was “The Maximal Energy of Solar Acceleretors: Evidence from Space and Earth's Surface Measurements”.  Now they have applied for a job at the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of Yerevan Physics Insitute and will prepare for the Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration (TEPA 2013) international conference to be hold in Nor-Amberd, Armenia, Septemper 9-13.  They will also prepare for the YerPhI PhD program entrance examinations in November.  Hripsime and Hasmik  were the recipients of the Kirakos Vaporciyan Scholarship for CRD students at Yerevan State University this year.  Congratulations to Hripsime and Hasmik for their recent accomplishments and we wish them well in the coming years. 


 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Figure 1.From left to righ:  Hripsime Mkrtchyan and Hasmik Rostomyan: recent Master’s Degree recipients from YSU in Cosmic Ray Physics.

 

    Hayk Avagyan, graduated from the Mathematics Department of the Yerevan State University and started to work at the CRD.  His main topics of interest at the CRD will be the development of new algorithms for data analysis and the analysis and correlation of the Aragats Space Environmental Center data and other astroparticle physics experiments.


Figure 2. Hayk Avagyan: recnet graduate from YSU  and now working at the CRD

  

  On 1st  June Patrick Fasano, an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA, starts his internship at the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of Yerevan Physics Institute. With the support of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Patrick will work 10-weeks at the Cosmic Ray Division, assisting with upgrades and improvements to the Division's data storage and processing software, as well as learning about data analysis of Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements, a new discovered high energy phenomena in the terrestrial atmosphere. He will also work with CRD graduate students to make improvements to ADAS (Advanced data analysis system)  file servers to support archived file formats for reducing storage space.


  

Figure 3. Patrich Fasano: 2013 Summer Intern at CRD from the University of Notre Dame at CRD’s Nor Ambert research station.


  Thirteen of the CRD’s young scientists and staff received a performance based bonus from the Harutyun and Nadya Vaporciyan Family for their outstanding work and the resolve to conintue their excellence in Armenia.  “I have their picture on my mirror, and I look at them every day and I am so proud”, says Harutyun Vaporciyan when he speaks of these talented young people.

  All in all, we are satisfied with the progress of our students and our young and seasoned scientists who mentor our students”, says Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, the director of Yerevan Physics Insitute and the head of its Cosmic Ray Division.  We are also very grateful to the Vaporciyan family for supporting our young scientists and students with scholarships and prizes. 





Figure 4. The Harutyun and Nadya Vaporciyan bonus recipients: Front row left to right - Tigran Karapetyan , Hasmik Rostomyan , Narine Khachatryan, Mari Gasparyan , Bagrat Mailyan, Anoush Hakopyan , Artur Reymers; Back row left ot right - Karen Arakelyan , Ara Babayan, Levon Vanyan, Hayk Avagyan, Pavel Solakhyan, Hripsime Mkrtchyan