Yerevan /Mediamax/. Upon the initiative of Armenian astrophysicist Garik Israyelyan, the 2nd STARMUS Science Festival will be held on the Canary Islands on September 22-27, 2014.
The first STARMUS International Festival was held on the Tenerife Island in 2011. It was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight to the universe and it became a bright science and music event. In 2011 STARMUS hosted world-famous scientists, Nobel Prize winners and world-known spacemen such as Neil Armstrong, Richard Dawkins, Alexei Leonov, Vladimir Krikalev and many others.
Within the Festival, Queen guitarist Brian May and Tangerine Dream gave a joint concert.
The website of “Nauchnaya Rossia” reads that head of Moscow State University Victor Sadovnichiy and President of the Government of Canary Islands Paulino Rivero signed a cooperation agreement between Moscow State University and Institute of Astrophysics on Canary Islands last week. The signing ceremony was held within the event devoted to the presentation of the 2nd STARMUS Festival.
Garik Israyelyan and legendary spaceman, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Leonov who took part in 2011 Festival made speeches at the presentation
You can find more detailed information on the festival at: http://www.starmus.com/.
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