Memorial Workshop Dedicated to 60th Anniversary of Levon Khachatrian

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YEREVAN, Armenia – On June 2-3, 2014, the American University of Armenia (AUA), in cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, organized a memorial workshop on extremal combinatorics, cryptography, and coding theory, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the esteemed mathematician Levon Khachatrian. The workshop was hosted by AUA and attended by participants from several countries including, the US, Russia, Canada, Hungary, and Armenia.

Professor Khachatrian started his academic career at the Institute for Problems of Informatics and Automation of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. From 1991 until the end of his short life in 2002, he worked at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, where Khachatrian’s talent flourished working with Professor Rudolf Ahlswede.

Professor Khachatrian’s most remarkable results include solutions to problems dating back over 40 years in extremal combinatorics, posed by the world famous mathematician Paul Erdos.

Invited speakers of the workshop were Gyula O. H. Katona, Renyi Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Zoltan Furedi, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.  In addition, a touching introduction and remembrance was delivered by Gurgen Khachatrian, Levon’s brother, who is a professor at AUA and the organizer of the workshop.

As an outcome of the event,  a special issue of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics dedicated to the memory of Levon Khachatrian will be published.

Founded in 1991, the American University of Armenia (AUA) is a private, independent university located in Yerevan, Armenia and affiliated with the University of California. AUA provides a global education in Armenia and the region, offering high-quality, graduate and undergraduate studies, encouraging civic engagement, and promoting public service and democratic values.

From left: workshop organizer and AUA professor Gurgen Khachatrian, AUA President Dr. Bruce M. Boghosian, invited speaker Professor Gyula O. H. Katona, Renyi Institute of Hungarian Academy of Science, and invited speaker Professor Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, with his wife Margaret.

Workshop participants in AUA’s Paramaz Avedisian Building.