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January 2016

Chapter Advisor - Dr. Gagik Buniatyan

Chapter president up to 31 December, 2015–Hakob Hakobyan

Yerevan State University &

National Academy of Sciences

SPIE Student Chapter

ID – 3487995

Activity Report (2015)

Activity Report of Yerevan State Uni. & NAS SPIE Student Chapter: Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2015

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Contents of REPORT

Current Members ............................................................................................................................................................. 3

Seminars .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Visit to the ANEL Research laboratory ........................................................................................................................... 5

The Big World of Physics ................................................................................................................................................ 6

Visited foreign research institutes ................................................................................................................................... 7

Participation of our members in conferences .................................................................................................................. 8

Publications of our chapter’s members .......................................................................................................................... 11

3rd International Symposium ......................................................................................................................................... 12

“Optics and its Applications” .................................................................................................................................. 12

New Year party in Friends pub ...................................................................................................................................... 13

Plans of future chapter activities .................................................................................................................................... 14

Financial Information .................................................................................................................................................... 15


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Current Members

Elected officers starting with 1 January, 2016

List of Current Student Chapter Members 1. Sergey Amirkhanyan

2. Razmik Aramyan

3. Vardan Avetisyan

4. Anna Ayvazyan

5. Feya Ayvazyan

6. Davit Baghdasaryan

7. Arevik Chalyan

8. Astghik Chalyan

9. Artak Gevorgyan

10. Narine Gevorgyan

11. Hayk Ghaltaghchyan

12. Ani Grigoryan

13. Naira Grigoryan

14. Hakob Hakobyan

15. Tatevik Hovhannisyan

16. Hayk Ishkhanyan

17. Narek Karapetyan

18. Meruzhan Kerobyan

19. Davit Khachatryan

20. Tigran Kotanjyan

21. Vardazar Kotanjyan

22. Astghik Kuzanyan

23. Karapet Manukyan

24. Andranik Martirosyan

25. Tatevik Mkrtchyan

26. Petros Petrosyan

27. Harutyun Sahakyan

28. Hasmik Sahakyan

29. Hrach Toneyan

30. Tatevik Vardanyan

Chapter Vice-President:

Davit Baghdasaryan [email protected]

Chapter President:

Astghik Chalyan [email protected]

Chapter Secretary:

Petros Petrosyan [email protected]

Chapter Treasurer:

Vardan Avetisyan [email protected]


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Seminars We organized the series of seminars with eminent foreign and Armenian scientists during

2015, in order to make Optics and Photonics more popular, to make science more

interesting and to answer actual questions that arise for students. Seminars were

conducted by popular lecturers from scientific and industrial centers of Armenia and other

countries, and our chapter members. As always the topics of seminars included various fields of science,

optics, astrophysics. Some seminars were unique and were met very enthusiastic and attracted participants

of various specialties.

1. Prof. Alexandre Soares Leal Nuclear Technology Development Center (CDTN),

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

“New Applications of Research Nuclear

Reactor TRIGA IPR-R1 Mark 1”

2. YSU&NAS SPIE student chapter member Hrach Toneyan

“Nonlinear- dispersive similariton

for ultrafast photonics ”


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Visit to the ANEL Research laboratory

We organized lab tour to the ANEL Research

Laboratory for bachelor, master and PhD Students from

Yerevan State University, Institute for Physical Research of

NAS RA and Russian- Armenian (Slavonic) University of

Armenia. The program was aimed to give an opportunity to

students to learn more about experimental culture and

technique. These events are motivating and inspiring

students to improve their knowledge on physics and get

acquainted with the research of ANEL more closely.

Officially the ANEL (Armenian National

Engineering Laboratories) was founded on September 2,

2013 by Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), RA

Government, United States Agency for International

Development (USAID) and State Engineering University of

Armenia.

The main goal of the Project is to meet the demand of the

engineering industry in quality specialists and graduates

educated on up-to-date technological base to confront the

employee shortage and to increase value-added and

innovativeness of Armenian high tech businesses, thus

increasing their international competitiveness.


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The Big World of Physics

This activity becomes traditional which includes work with schoolchildren, to make Optics more interesting

and popular for them. Traditionally we were taking them to excursions to various University laboratories,

this year we have organized several activities.

1. “Physics is for all” At September 18-19 at Goris together with OSA Armenia chapter and IREX’s "Project Smile"

we’ve organized a class named “Physics is for all”. There was participating about 50 pupils and they

were shown to how interesting is physics and what would happen if there was no physics.


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2. “Public Moon Watching”

Together with OSA Armenia chapter and Student Scientific Society of Yerevan State University

we’ve organized a public moon watching day. A telescope was put in near the Republic Square in

Yerevan and people could come and watch to the moon.

Visited foreign research institutes

1. University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

2. FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany

3. GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

4. Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

5. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

6. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

7. Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

8. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

9. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

10. Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France


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Participation of our members in conferences 1. ICTP Preparatory School: Light: a Bridge between Earth and Space, 2-6 February, 2015, Trieste,

Italy

2. ICTP Winter College on Optics: Light: a Bridge between Earth and Space, 9-20 February,

2015,Trieste, Italy

3. Student Annual Conference of RAU, 4-6 May, 2015,Yerevan, Armenia

4. Laser Physics Conference 2015, 6-9 October 2015, Ashtarak, Armenia

5. SPIE.FOCUS Armenia: 3rd

International Symposium “Optics and its Applications”, 1-5 October,

2015, Yerevan-Ashtarak, Armenia

6. DigiTex Expo, 2-4 October, Yerevan, Armenia

7. Single Photon Workshop 2015, 13-17 July, 2015, Geneva, Switzerland

8. European Conference SPIE Optics and Optoelectronics 2015, 13-16 April, 2015, Prague, Czech

Republic

9. Developments in Optics and Communications (DOC Riga) 8-10 April 2015, Riga, Latvia.

10. The 51 Winter School of Theoretical Physics "Irreversible dynamics: nonlinear, nonlocal and non-

Markovian manifestations", 9 - 14 February 2015, Ladek Zdroj, Poland

11. The Helmholtz International Summer School "Dense Matter 2015" , 29 June - 11 July, 2015,

Dubna, Russia

12. The 15th International Conference "Strangeness in Quark Matter" (SQM-2015), 6 - 11 July,

2015, Dubna, Russia

13. CERN Summer Student Program, 29 June – 21 August, 2015, Switzerland-France

ICTP Winter College, Trieste, Italy


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Developments in Optics and Communications, Riga, Latvia

Single Photon Workshop 2015,

Geneva, Switzerland European Conference SPIE Optics and Optoelectronics 2015,

Prague, Czech Republic


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Wroclaw University of Technology,

Poland

CERN Summer Student Program,

Switzerland-France


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Our grants and awards

Astghik Chalyan: 2nd

prize for Best Master Student of Armenia in IT field

Hrach Toneyan: Certificate for 2nd

place Best Oral Presentation at the

SPIE.FOCUS Armenia: 3rd

International Symposium on Optics & its Applications

(OPTICS-2015)

Our chapter member - Astghik Chalyan

with President of the Republic of Armenia

Publications of our chapter’s members 1. Armen Kuzanyan, Vahan Nikoghosyan, Astghik Kuzanyan, “CeB6 Sensor for Thermoelectric

Single-Photon Detector” Sensors & Transducers, Vol.191, Issue 8, August 2015, pp 57-62.

2. Armen Kuzanyan, Vahan Nikoghosyan, Astghik Kuzanyan, “Modeling of kinetic processes in

thermoelectric single photon detectors” Proc. SPIE 9504, Photon Counting Applications 2015,

95040O (May 6, 2015).

3. Hayk H. Adamyan, Janos A. Bergou, Narine T. Gevorgyan, and Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan, "Strong

squeezing in periodically modulated optical parametric oscillators", Phys. Rev. A 92, 053818

(2015). 4. D. B. Hayrapetyan, A. V. Chalyan, E. M. Kazaryan, and H. A. Sarkisyan, “Direct Interband Light

Absorption in Conical Quantum Dot,” Journal of Nanomaterials, vol. 2015, Article ID 915742, 6

pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/915742.

5. D. B. Hayrapetyan, E. M. Kazaryan, T. V. Kotanjyan, H. K. Tevosyan, “Light absorption of

cylindrical quantum dot with Morse potential in the presence of parallel electrical and magnetic

fields”, Proc. SPIE 9519, Nanotechnology VII, 951919 (June 1, 2015).

6. D.A. Baghdasaryan, D.B. Hayrapetyan, E.M. Kazaryan, “Prolate spheroidal quantum dot:

Electronic states, direct interband light absorption and electron dipole moment”, Physica B:

Condensed Matter, Volume 479, 15 December 2015, Pages 85–89.

7. Davit Baghdasaryan, David B. Hayrapetyan, Eduard M. Kazaryan, “Oblate spheroidal quantum

dot: electronic states, direct interband light absorption and pressure dependence”, The European

Physical Journal B, 2015, Volume 88, Number 9.


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SPIE.FOCUS Armenia:

3rd International Symposium

“Optics and its Applications” October 1-5, 2015

Yerevan, Armenia

Dedicated to the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies http://www.rau.am/optics2015/

Sponsors:


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New Year party in Friends pub

Best wishes for 2016!!!

Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year!!!


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Plans of future chapter activities

1. Our chapter will organize:

2. Our Chapter will participate as co-organizer in

3. Our Chapter will participate as co-organizer in "Physics and We" school for High-School students

4. We will continue the project “The Big world of Physics”.

5. We will continue organizing seminars with leading scientists and PhD students.

6. We are going to organize experimental classes for young students, and during these classes we are

planning to conduct theoretical and experimental lectures concerning topics, photonics and

electronics.

7. We have planned several lab tours for students to the leading educational and industrial centers

of Armenia.

8. We will organize our traditional open-air chapter meeting.

4th

International Symposium

“Optics & its Applications”

OPTICS-2016 July 25-28, 2016

Yerevan - Ashtarak, Armenia

http://www.rau.am/optics2016/

3

rd International Advanced School on

Frontiers in Optics & Photonics (FOP-2016)

29 February - 12 March, 2016

Yerevan-Ashtarak, Armenia

Dedicated to the 10th

Anniversary of

SPIE Armenian Student Chapter

http://ipr.sci.am/fop2016/

"Physics and We"

February 3-5, 2016

Yerevan, Armenia http://spie.am/


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Financial Information SPIE Activity Grant $ 900

LT - PYRKAL $100

RAU $100

IPR $50

Beginning balance: $ 1150

Snacks and beverages during lectures, seminars and

meetings: $ 100

The Big world of Physics (transport, equipment, snacks) $250

Symposium Optics & its Applications: Printing posters for the

symposium and Awards for best students presentations $300

Registration & Hosting of the chapter web page: $100

Christmas party: $200

Support for students for participation in conferences: $200

$1150

Ending balance: $ 0

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