the Universe can be full of traveling extraterrestrial life streams as low-complexity compressed bit strings at von Neumann automata network. He has shown that human genome and hence the terrestrial life possess low Kolmogorov complexity and hence the corresponding bit strings can be transmitted by Arecibo-type antenna to Galactic distances. Gurzadyan and Penrose discussed information panspermia within the Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, and the cosmic microwave background radiation transferring information from pre-Big Bang aeon to ours. He led a study with geneticists in Duke University introducing a new method to detect somatic mutations in genomic sequences, in proposing bath-quantum system viewpoint on the relation of thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time. Revealing the chronology of ancient world with astronomical dating Gurzadyan's collaboration with archaeologists on the Chronology of the ancient Near East and his analysis of the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa and of lunar eclipses of 3rd dynasty of Ur led to the introducing of the Ultra-Low chronology of the 2nd-millennium ancient Near East. He identified the Halley's comet depicted on ancient coins of Armenian king Tigranes the Great, I c. BC. as the earliest known image of that comet He revealed the observation of supernova SN 1054 (progenitor of Crab nebula) in Armenian medieval chronicle of Hetum (Hayton of Corycus) and Cronaca Rampona. Activities Member of Euroscience Governing Board (elected in 1998, reelected in 2002). Chair of organizing committees of workshops such as "Ergodic Concepts in Stellar Dynamics", Geneva, 1993; "The Chaotic Universe", Rome, 1999; "Fermi and Astrophysics", Rome-Pescara, 2001; IX Marcel Grossmann meeting, Rome 2000, chair of 'Chaos' Parallel sessions at Marcel Grossmann Meetings, Jerusalem, 1997, Rome, 2000, Rio de Janeiro, 2003, Berlin, 2006. Paris, 2009. Co-editor of International Journal of Modern Physics D (World Scientific, 2000-2010), of The European Physical Journal Plus (Springer) and of book series 'Advances in Astronomy and Astrophysics' (Taylor & Francis, UK). Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (UK). Speaker at XXII Solvay conference on physics, keynote speaker at IXth Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics on "The Large, The Small and the Human Mind", lecturer at Xth Brazilian School of Cosmology and Gravitation. References External links http://cosmo.yerphi.am/ https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AV%20G%20Gurzadyan https://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+Gurzadyan/0/1/0/all/0/1 http://www.icra.it/People/Gurzadyan.htm http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101210/full/news.2010.665.html#B1 1955 births Scientists from Yerevan Armenian physicists Living people