RA Academy of Sciences organizes summer school

ArmInfo. The National Academy of  Sciences of Armenia (NAS RA) organized a summer scientific school,  which was attended by students from a number of educational  institutions of Armenia. This was reported by the press service of  the NAS RA.

The opening of the school took place at the site of archaeological  excavations in Yeghegnadzor, under the leadership of the head of the  laboratory of evolutionary genomics of the Institute of Molecular  Biology of the NAS RA, Professor Levon Episkoposyan. It is worth  noting that scientists and volunteers from Germany also worked with  the Armenian scientific group.

According to the source, the closing of the summer scientific school  took place at the Byurakan Observatory named after Victor  Ambartsumyan of the NAS RA, where the participants got acquainted  with the work of large telescopes and visited the House-Museum of  Victor Ambartsumyan. The director of the observatory Areg Mikaelyan,  in turn, spoke about Armenia's achievements in the field of  astrophysics. It should be noted that the Russian Center for Science  and Culture "Russian House" in Yerevan provided support for the  summer scientific school.