ArVO group teaching activities

Yerevan State University (YSU)

A.M. Mickaelian has been teaching several courses at the YSU Department of Physics, Chair of Astrophysics (at present, Chair of General Physics and Astrophysics) since 2001 (“Large-Scale Structure of the Universe and Cosmology”, “Astronomical Surveys, Databases and Virtual Observatories”, “Extragalactic Astronomy”, and “Modern Problems of Observational Astrophysics”).

Supervision of students at YSU and BAO

A.M. Mickaelian has been the supervisor of B.Sc. and M.Sc. students at the YSU, Ph.D. students and young astronomers at BAO: Lilit Hovhannisyan: M.Sc. diploma thesis at YSU in 2002, Gevorg Grigoryan: B.Sc. diploma thesis at YSU in 2006, Satenik Ghazaryan: B.Sc. Course work at YSU in 2006, Lena Sargsyan: M.Sc. diploma thesis at YSU in 2007, Lusine Sargsyan: Ph.D. thesis at BAO in 2010, Gohar Harutyunyan: M.Sc. diploma thesis at YSU in 2012, Parandzem Sinamyan: Ph.D. thesis at BAO expected in 2012, advisor of Ph.D. thesis at Institute of Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA Aram Knyazyan in 2009-2012. Supervision of research work (since 1996): Susanna Hakopian and Smbat Balayan (1996-2002), Parandzem Sinamyan (since 2004), Lusine Sargsyan (since 2002), Lilit Hovhannisyan (2001-2008), Ia Kochiashvili (Georgia; 2006-2008), Hayk Abrahamyan and Gurgen Paronyan (since 2010), and Gohar Harutyunyan (since 2011).

K.S. Gigoyan has been the supervisor of B.Sc. students at the YSU: Mary Tamazyan and Armine Hovhannisyan in 2008; M.Sc. thesis at the Armenian Pedagogical University: Marine Avtandilyan in 2009. Supervision of Ph.D. thesis and research work: Marine Avtandilyan (since 2009).

L.A. Sargsyan has been the supervisor of B.Sc. student at the YSU: Ashot Hovhannisyan: B.Sc. Course work at YSU in 2009.

Byurakan Summer Schools

We have organized all recent summer schools held in Byurakan (since 1995). We have now established a series of Byurakan International Summer Schools. They have been extremely successful both for Armenian and for dozens of foreign students. Altogether, 3 international and 3 local schools have been organized. One more international will be held in 2012. Due to our collaborations, we succeeded to invite a number of outstanding scientists as lecturers, such as Daniel Weedman (USA), Daniel Kunth (France), Robert Williams (USA), Dieter Engels (Germany), Massimo Turatto (Italy), Lutz Wisotzki (Germany), Lev Titarchuk (USA), Michel Dennefeld (France), and others. We (A.M. Mickaelian and L.A. Sargsyan) have also given a number of lectures at these schools.