Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics

The Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics at the A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) conducts research focused on nonlinear problems in cosmology, the large-scale structure of the Universe, chaotic dynamics of gravitational systems, the study of dynamical system behavior, and data analysis using machine learning algorithms.

The Center has participated in the LARES satellite mission (Italian Space Agency, European Space Agency), within the framework of which high-precision tests of General Relativity were carried out. It has also contributed to high-precision tests of the invariance of the speed of light (Kennedy–Thorndike test) performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble.

Collaborations

The Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics maintains extensive international collaborations. Its most active partnerships include:

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA (observational cosmology)
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia (theoretical cosmology)
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France (galaxy clusters, supernovae)
Sapienza University of Rome and University of Salento, Italy (LARES mission, galactic halos)
Laboratory of Astrophysics, Lausanne, Switzerland (astrophysical data processing, gravitational lensing)

Career and education opportunities

Experimental Physics Division

AANL Experimental Physics Division (EPD) has a long lasting tradition of research in the field of high energy experimental physics in a wide range of topics since the operation of Yerevan electron synchrotron (ARUS) with energy of up to 6 GeV in 1967
Matinyan Center for Theoretical Physics

Theoretical physics has been and remains one of the most developed natural sciences in Armenia. During the Soviet years Division for Theoretical Physics of Yerevan Physics Institute was the center of theoretical physics in Armenia leaded by its founder long-time head, professor Sergey Matinyan.
Division for Quantum Technologies

The AANL Division for Quantum Technologies was established in 2022. The division members are engaged in theoretical calculations of quantum technologies. Their research findings are published in popular scientific journals.
Cosmic Ray Division

The Cosmic Ray Division (CRD), together with its unique high-mountain scientific stations, collaborates with many international organizations, and is the founder of the European SEVAN (Space Environment Viewing and Analysis Network) detector network.
Computational Physics and IT Division

Computational Physics and Information Technologies Division functions in two main directions: computational physics and data analysis (as scientific activity), development and maintenance of computing and network resources (as software and technical activity).
Applied Physics Research Division

The Applied Physics Research Division conducts research in the field of materials science. One of the target directions of the Division is the study of the impact of radiation (electron, proton beams) on physical, optical and biological properties of matter.
Isotopes Research and Production Division

The Isotopes Research and Production Department was established in 2010. The department is engaged with creation and development of technologies to produce radioactive isotopes for medical purposes and with handling of production process itself.