Emil Artin international conference launched at Yerevan State University

An international conference dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the famous scientist of armenian descent Emil Artin launched at Yerevan State University. Artin's contribution to the creation of a modern algebra is impossible to overestimate, and that was the cause why many prominent scientists gathered in Yerevan from all over the world. Various local and international structures, such as European Mathematical Society, International Mathematical Union, Research Mathematics Foundation, Emil Artin's Youth Prize Committee, University of Bergen, Armenian Mathematical Union,  Institute of Mathematics of Armenian Academy, Yerevan State University, Steklov Mathematical Institute, American University of Armenia. A week before the conference, the University hosted an international mathematical school where prominent scholars organized lectures for local and foreign students.