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15-minute presentation by Sargis Hayotsyan, followed by panel discussion.
Key questions: Governance challenges, risk assessment, infrastructure opportunities
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Key questions: Advanced Research in Computational Sciences & Artificial Intelligence (ARCS.ai) initiative; Plans, opportunities in the life sciences, A.I.’s interdisciplinary role.
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ASOF Conversations Video: Lord Darzi and Ara Nazarian
Moderated discussion based on comments/questions submitted during the break
Key questions: Education-industry pipeline, transnational collaborations, start-up ecosystem.
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Key questions: Quality assurance, the role of the teacher, technology in education, new law on higher education and science
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The Center for Ethics in Public Affairs (ETICA) at AUA, in partnership with the New York University Global Institute for Advanced Study, the Armenian Society of Fellows, and the AUA Turpanjian Institute of Social Sciences, is pleased to host an international conference on June 29-30.
The conference will explore foundational questions regarding the place, significance, and nature of national identity in a world facing a multitude of enduring and emerging challenges and uncertainties.
Registration for both the conference and the concert is mandatory. Please register using this link.
The conference kicks off in the evening of the 28th with a concert by pianist Kirill Gerstein. The sessions start the next morning, the 29th, and end on the 30th. The ASOF Arch Council panel on Cultural Heritage will be on the 30th, moderated by Gaianè Casnati.
The conference is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the other funders of this event. Neither the European Union nor the co-funders can be held responsible for them.
Co-Founder and CEO of Grittegen Therapeutics and Proone Labs, Advisor & Mentor of Entrepreneur programs at UC San Diego
Biophysics & Experimental Medicine (PhD & Postdoctoral Training) and Entrepreneurship, Innovations & Corporate Governance (MBA)
Distinguished Professor, Computer Science Department, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Artificial Intelligence, Computational vision, Computer Science
Chief Scientist at Yerevan State University (YSU); Chair Professor at University of Science and Tecnology of China (USTC); Professor Emeritus at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
Astroparticle Physics, Astrophysics
Senior Advisor Crisis, Fragility and Complexity
International development, state building, complex systems
Co-Founder, Member of Board, Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology
Applied Physics, Entrepreneurship, High-Tech
A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory
Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics
President/CEO at Dasaran EdTech Company & Koreez Educational Oscars
Education Technology, General Education
United Nations, Partnerships and Development Finance Adviser; Founding Board Member, Harvard Alumni Club of Armenia
Political Science; Internationals Affairs; Business Administration and Management; Conflict Resolution and Negotiations; Global Education leadership
Ambassador; “Participatory Democracy” NGO (Founding Director); Yerevan State University (lecturer in Global Challenges and Sustainable Development)
Political Sciences; International Relations; Sustainable Development; Cultural Heritage
Freimann Professor of Physics at Notre Dame, Professor of Chemistry
Astrophysics, Nuclear Chemistry, Nuclear Physics, Applications of Nuclear Physics of Isotopes
Deputy speaker of the parliament of the Republic of Armenia
Electrical Engineering, Policy Making, Government
Owner and Literary Agent at ARI Literary and Talent Agency, Founder and Director at ARI Literature Foundation
Literature, Publishing, Cultural Management
Director, Turpanjian Center for Policy, American University of Armenia
Modern Armenian and Caucasian History and post-Soviet Politics; Genocides and Ethnic Conflicts; Diasporas; Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey.
Director, Institute of Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA (IIAP)
Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge (FAMES), Research Affiliate, Woolf Institute, and Research Associate, St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish Civilisations, Judaeo-Arabic Studies, Armenian-Jewish Studies
Professor, Brown University
Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics
Member, District of Columbia Bar Association, BoT Eurasia Partnership Foundation, BoD Depi Ver NGO; Consultant, DT-Global; Fight Life Armenia; Advisor, Informed Parents Armenia; Facilitator, Alpha Course
International Development, Eastern Europe, Middle East; Second Track Diplomacy, Conflict resolution, Government, Partnership and Internship Programs
Educational Programs Lead at Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
General Education
Advisor to the Centre for Scientific Innovation and Education Foundation
Energy
Professor of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland and Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Norway
Philosophy
Lecturer at California State University Northridge, Armenian Studies Program
Education with emphasis on Educational Psychology
Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco
Cell biology
Former State Minister and Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh, Chairman of the "Artsakh Union" NGO
Founder and CEO of (CIPR) Center for Innovation Promotion and Research
Innovation Management, Magnetic Materials, Space Systems
Professor of Philosophy, New York University, Dir. of the Inst. of Philosophy and GIAS
Philosophy
Chair of Armenian Studies, University of Geneva
History, Armenian Studies
SIREH Scientific and Strategic Director, Europa Nostra Council member
Monuments preservation
Director of the Chair of Art History and Theory at Yerevan State University
Armenian Art of Middle Ages and Modern Period
co-founder and executive director of ITF, co-founder and the President of Information Technologies Education JSC
AI,Metaverse; Digital Humanities; Digital Media; ICT and Media Policies
Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Applied Physics, Nuclear Physics
Executive Director, Chhange (Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education) at Brookdale Community College
History, Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Science of Armenia
Boolean functions for cryptography, Universal Algebra, Ordered Structures, Lattice theory
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Civil Engineering
Professor, Tampere University, Finland, and CEO of Noiseless Imaging Ltd
Computational imaging & optics
Executive Vice President, ONCORD, Inc.
Medicine/Clinical Immunologist; Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Expert
Fellow, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
Political Science, History, Economics, Democracy, Imperialism/Colonialism, Human Rights, Governance/Policymaking, Higher Education
Dean of the Manoogian Simone College of Business and Economics American University of Armenia
Economics
Director, American University of Armenia Acopian Center for the Environment
Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences
Director of the Institute of A.L. Takhtajyan Botany NAS RA and Head of the Lichen Research and Conservation Group.
Lichenology and Mycology
President, ARMACAD
Entrepreneurship, General Education, Languages
National Center For Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Innovation Advisor, Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America
Technology and Entrepreneurship
St. John’s University
Open economy; Macroeconomic development, Post-socialist economics; Diaspora Studies
Judge at the Tribunal of the Ordinariate for Catholic Armenians in Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe
Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis
Modern and Contemporary Global Architecture and Art; Critical and (post)Colonial Theory
Professor, NUACA; Chair of Theory and History of Architecture and Heritage
Architecture, Cultural Heritage
Chairman at Higher Education and Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia
Associate Professor, Columbia University
Public Health, Maternal and Child Health
Managing Partner at Granatus Ventures, Managing Partner at Civitta AM
Business, Social Sciences
YSU Vice-rector for Development and Innovations/ Professor YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies, Chair of Arabic Studies
Organizational Development, Education Management/ Oriental Studies, Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies, Philology
Rector, Yerevan State University
Religious studies, Theology, History
CEO Hovnanian International, Founding Board Member Yerevan Biennial Arts Foundation, Founder and Creative Director Treasures of Armenia, Founding Director of the Former Armenian Tourism Development Agency
Art History
Academician-Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
CEO, ONCORD, Inc.
Medicine/Oncologist; Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Expert
Program coordinator and higher education expert at the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
High-Tech Executive, Entrepreneur, and Investor Founder of Alexandrea Winery
Electrical Engineering, High-Tech
Researcher, Scientific Research Center of Historical and Cultural Heritage
Architecture, Cultural heritage
Update on activities during 2025, priorities for 2026, new models of operations.