July 24, 2025

Present

• Ani Aprahamian
• Marie Baghramian
• Diane Barber
• Paul Boghossian
• Mark Chenian
• Areg Danagoulian
• Al Eisaian
• Lucineh Kassarjian (ED Armenia)
• Artak Melkonyan
• Ara Nazarian
• Mary Papazian
• Oshin Peroomian
• Vatche Sahakian (ED USA)
• Anoush Fraser Terjanian

Absent

• Gassia Apkarian
• Nina Hovnanian
• Nerses Yeritsyan

Meeting opened at 8:35 am PT

Meeting closed at 10:40 am PT

Regular updates

Membership

Financials

• Current balances
• Donations from May 16 to July 16

Call for Board members who are not set up on the recurring donation system to send their contributions soon. Please email Vatche.

Updates (60 minutes)

• Gregorian conference (Lucineh, Vatche): (5 minutes) - Vatche to meet with Italian parliament member visiting LA to develop relationship. Lucineh working with Ruben Ghazaryan to obtain the official invitation from the Italian Parliament and Vatican. Lucineh has shared the research pages about Armenian-Roman/Italian connections with board members.

• ASOF 2026 conference discussions (Lucineh)

  • Dilijan 2025 Survey Comments Summary
  • Location proposals - Lucineh to prepare location suggestions and potential hotel options in Armenia for next conference
  • Partnership and Recommendations from SHEEV (Lucineh): (5 minutes) ‣
  • Lucineh to add link to PM's Facebook speech to next meeting agenda - https://www.primeminister.am/en/press-release/item/2025/06/30/Nikol-Pashinyan-Real-Armenia/#photos[pp_gal_1]/2/

• Health Sciences and PM letter (Ara, Vatche): (5 minutes)

  • Conversations ongoing with potential local partners and on the possibility to reach out to the government.

• ARCS-ai (Vatche): (10 minutes)

  • Received first $50k from Armenia Fund towards the $175k commitment.

  • Lab setup at Engineering City is in progress.

  • Eight classes will launch in September:

    Mathematical methods in classical mechanics, Complex Analysis , Abstract Algebra , Mathematical Analysis I, Fundamentals of Optics, Signal/Image/Video Processing, Robot Control Systems, Differential Equations.

  • Discussions with Firebird initiated

• SIREH (Lucineh): (5 minutes)

  A special administrative group consisting of some of the board members will discuss SIREH’s further activities.