International Advanced Research Workshop

27 August - 2 September, 2009

Yerevan State University and the Institute for Physical Research of NAS, Armenia

TOPICS:

• Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials, Biophotonics
• Quantum Optics & Quantum Information
• Atomic Spectroscopy
• Optical Features of Quantum Nanostructures
• Modeling of Complex Systems

ORGANIZERS

Chairmen:

Gagik Kryuchkyan (YSU; IPR of NAS, Armenia)

Aram Papoyan (IPR of NAS, Armenia)

Heads of Project:

Diana Antonosyan (YSU, Armenia)

Nikolay Balasanyan (IPR, Armenia)

Coordinator:

Narine Gevorgyan (IPR of NAS, Armenia)

International Advisory & Program Committee:

• Vladimir Akulin, Laboratoire Aime Cotton CNRS, France
• Marcis Auzinsh, University of Latvia, Latvia
• Aranya Bhattacherjee, University of Delhi, India
• Dmitry Budker, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• Gagik Buniatyan, LT-PYRKAL cjsc, Armenia
• Maria Luisa Calvo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Richard De La Rue, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Gagik Gurzadyan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Victor Ivanov, JINR, Russia
• Eduard Kazaryan, Russian-Armenian University, Armenia
• Mishik Kazaryan, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Christoph Keitel, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Germany
• Sergei Kilin, B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, Belarus
• Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia, USA
• David Sarkisyan, Institute for Physical Research of NAS, Armenia
• Wolfgang Schleich,  University of Ulm, Germany
• Valery Tuchin, Saratov State University, Russia
• Aleksei Zheltikov, Moscow State University, Russia

There were more than 120 participants from Armenia, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, India, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan and Ukraine. There were 26 plenary, 41 oral talks and 30 poster presentations. The overwhelming majority of the participants were students and young scientists, which have talks with experienced scientists.

The program committee of the workshop elected 3 students for the best presentations. These students: Artur Davoyan (Australia), Elena Silaeva (Russia), Dariusz Lukaszewski (Poland), have been invested with certificates and awarded with the prize.

During the workshop have been developed international interactions and established important scientific contacts. Interesting talks helped to remain abreast of scientific developments in area of Quantum informatics, Laser physics, Photonic Crystals, Quantum Nanostructures and etc.