Organizational
and Public Activity
·
Organization
and founding of the Armenian Astronomical Society
(ArAS), 1999-2001
·
Founding
of the Isaac Newton Institute (INI,
Chile) Armenian Branch, 2000
·
Secretary
of LOC of IAU Symp. #194 (Byurakan, Aug 1998)
·
SOC
member of the Colloquium on 2D Spectroscopy, held at SAO, Russia (2000)
·
Chairman
of LOC and SOC member of IAU
Col. #184 (Byurakan, June 2001)
·
SOC
member of the COST VO workshop, held in Sofia, Bulgaria (Apr 2005)
·
SOC
member of the IVOA
Interoperability Meeting and Small Projects Meeting, held in Moscow, Russia
(Sep 2006)
·
Chairman
of LOC and Co-Chairman of SOC of JENAM-2007 (Yerevan, Aug
2007)
·
Organization of Anania Shirakatsi’s 1400th
anniversary (2012)
·
Chairman
and member of LOC and SOC of a number of other meetings organized in
Byurakan in 1995-2009
·
Organization
of astronomical
summer schools in Byurakan (1995, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)
·
Organization
of astronomical Olympiads
in Byurakan (1995, 1999-2012)
·
Coordinator
of the International Year of
Astronomy (IYA-2009) in Armenia (2009) and Beyond-IYA (2010)
·
Creation
of a reference webpage
for all major international summer/winter schools in the world (2009)
·
Creation
of “Astronomy for Students” DVD, an
educational database for astronomy students (2010)
·
Creation
of “Astronomy for Schools” DVD, an
educational database for school astronomy (2012)
·
Organization
of scientific journalism affairs in Armenia (2010)
·
Co-organizer
(convener) of JENAM-2011 SpS on Virtual
Observatories, held in St. Petersburg, Russia (July 2011)
·
A
number of public lectures at the YSU and Yerevan schools with
physical-mathematical bias (2009-2011)
·
Organization
of ArAS popular lectures in Armenian schools initiated by Prof. Yervant Terzian (2012)
·
A
number of interviews to TV, radio, newspapers, and Internet sites on
astronomical events, problems of astronomy and science
·
Participation
in TV and radio programs on astronomy (Armenia, France, Australia)