ArAS ANNUAL MEETINGS AND ASSOCIATED EVENTS

ArAS Annual Meetings are the most important ArAS activity. They gather most of the ArAS members and other astronomers to report and discuss scientific results obtained during a year, as well as discuss the ArAS affairs. The meetings are being organized typically in summer in the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO). All Armenian and other astronomers are invited to take part in them and present their recent results and/or reviews on their works. A few annual meetings were combined with other events held in Byurakan, like the Byurakan-Abastumani XIII Joint Colloquium in 2003 and the BAO 60^th Anniversary Meeting in 2006. ArAS VI Annual Meeting was a part of the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM) and was held in the Yerevan State University in August 2007.

The languages of the ArAS Annual Meetings are Armenian and English.

Year	Dates	Place	Title	Description	Dedication	Number of
						partic. count.	talks posters
2002	Jul 25	Byurakan Obs.	Achievements of the Armenian Astronomy	ArAS I Annual Meeting		16 1	10 -
2003	Jun 11-13	Byurakan Obs.		ArAS II Annual Meeting combined with XIII Joint Colloquium of the Byurakan and Abastumani Astrophysical Observatories	L.V. Mirzoyan's 80th anniversary
2004	Aug 30-31	Byurakan Obs.		ArAS III Annual Meeting		~45 5	24
2005	Aug 29-30	Byurakan Obs.		ArAS IV Annual Meeting		~45 3	15 -
2006	Sep 1-3	Byurakan Obs.	Active Universe	ArAS V Annual Meeting combined with International Conference	60th anniversary of BAO	~60 14	26
2007	Aug 20-25	Yerevan State Univ.	Our Non-Stable Universe	ArAS VI Annual Meeting combined with JENAM–2007 (Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting – 2007), also the EAS 15th annual meeting		256 31	236 116
2008	Sep 15-18	Byurakan Obs.	Evolution of Cosmic Objects through their Physical Activity	ArAS VII Annual Meeting combined with International Conference	V.A. Ambartsumian’s 100th anniversary	83 14	36 8
2009	Jul 6-8	Byurakan Obs.		ArAS VIII Annual Meeting		100	32