Education
1966 - 1972: Student, Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia
1972 - 1975: Post-graduate student, Institute for Social and Economical Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, Russia

Academic degree
2000: DSc //Doctor of Science in Mathematics
Theme: “Algebraic multigrid preconditioners for finite element matrices”, Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Acad. Sci. of Armenia, Yerevan, 2000
Speciality: 05.13.05 - mathematical modelling, numerical methods and program complexes
1978: PhD// Candidate of Science in Mathematics
Theme: “Variational difference methods for solving two-dimensional linear parabolic equations”,
Computer Centre of the Siberian Branch of USSR Acad. Sci., Novosibirsk, Russia, 1978: Speciality: 01.01.07 - computational mathematics

Professional experience
1976 - 1980: Assistant, Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia
1980 - 2001: Docent, Faculty of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia
2001 - present: Head of the Chair of Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Faculty of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia

Academic courses
Numerical methods,
Numerical linear algebra,
Matrix abalysis,
Preconditioning methods,
Numerical solution of PDE ,
Finite difference and finite element methods

Scale of professional interests
Numerical Linear Algebra ,
Preconditioning Methods,
Numerical Solution of PDE ,
Finite Difference and Finite Element Methods

Participation in grant projects
NW0 (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
1993: No. 7.13.-016.
1996 - 1997: (Dutch-Russian Collaboration Program) No. 047.003.017
INTAS (International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union)
1995: No. 93-377
1995 - 1998: No. 93-377ex

Languages
Armenian and Russian - native, English - fluent

yuri.hakopian@ysu.am