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  • India Joins Cosmic Ray Division's SEVAN Network

    PRESS RELEASE
    May 23, 2007
    Anahid Yeremian
    P.O. Box 655, Menlo Park, CA 94026
    <mailto:[email protected]>anahi [email protected]
    (650) 926 - 4444

    India Joins Cosmic Ray Division's SEVAN Network

    Last week India joined SEVAN, the world wide Space Environmental Viewing
    and Analysis Network, led by the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of Yerevan
    Physics Institute. At a May 19 meeting of the International Heliophysical
    Year-07 conference in Bad Honnef, Germany which established cooperation
    among the IHY-07 participants, CRD's head Prof. Ashot Chilingarian and
    Prof. Saumitra Mukherjee of the School of Environmental Sciences of
    Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi signed a memorandum of
    understanding for their cooperation.

    SEVAN will consist of portable, state-of-the-art space weather detectors
    designed by the CRD scientists in Armenia which will be placed in countries
    around the earth's circumference for an extensive program of space weather
    observation, analysis, and forecasting. The most technical and sensitive
    parts of the detectors will be built in Armenia. The mechanical framework
    and heavy support components will be built and assembled in the host
    countries. The collected data will flow via the internet to the control
    center in Yerevan. Prof. Ashot Chilingarian is the author and Principal
    Investigator of the project. SEVAN detectors will also be placed in
    several secondary schools in Armenia and Artsakh for a broad coverage of
    the region and to allow students to participate is this research.

    SEVAN was named the Observatory of the Week, and Professor Chilingarian was
    named the Personality of the Week, in IHY07's weekly newsletter. The IHY07
    article may be viewed at:
    <http://ihy2007.org/newsroom/weekly_070508. shtml>http://ihy2007.org/newsroom/weekly_070508 .shtml


    Last week in Bad Honnef a second CRD proposal to the IHY committee,
    "Research of Highest Energy Solar Cosmic Rays", was approved. The details
    of this cooperative effort will be worked out in the coming months.

    For more information about the Cosmic Ray Division and the Diaspora
    partnership visit
    <http://www.crdfriends.org/>http://www .crdfriends.org
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