LIMU took part in the III All-Russian Acoustical Conference which was held in St. Petersburg from September 21 to 25, 2020. In total, 19 reports were presented by LIMU staff in various sessions.

In June 2020 the contest for the best scientific student work named after R.V. Khokhlov was held. According to the results of the contest Katia Ponomarchuk's master's thesis received a third-degree diploma, and Liuba Kotelnikova's bachelor's thesis got a first-degree diploma.

On 20th of March 2020 the project of LIMU student Shamil Asfandiiarov "Development of a compact device controlled by a smartphone for measuring the elasticity and tone of skeletal muscles" was granted under the "UMNIK" program of the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises. Congratulations!

From 23rd to 28th of August 2020, the XVII All-Russian School-Seminar "Wave Phenomena in Inhomogeneous Media" named after A.P. Sukhorukov ("Waves-2020") was held in a remote format. Two reports were presented from the LIMU lab at the school.

LIMU PhD student Suren Petrosyan and M.S. student Ekaterina Ponomarchuk received International Student Grants of 2019 from the Acoustical Society of America. Congratulations Suren and Ekaterina!

From 26th of February to 6th of March 2020 students of LIMU participated in the 19th International Scientific School on Nonlinear Waves. The School was held in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). LIMU members presented 2 posters.

On 22nd of January 2020, a few days before the Tatiana’s day, a graduation ceremony of laureates of rector scholarships of Moscow University for young researchers was held in the Imperial Hall of the Historical Building of Moscow State University. One hundred of the best young scientists of the university under the age of 33 years were selected by the academic councils of various faculties. Among them was Maria Karzova, a promising young researcher of the LIMU. Congratulations to Maria!

Ph.D. student of LIMU Pavel Rosnitskiy has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on December 12, 2019. The thesis was prepared under supervision of Dr. Vera Khokhlova. Congratulations to Dr. Rosnitskiy!

In summer and autumn, LIMU students were awarded a number of awards. Anna Kunturova, Lyubov Kotelnikova, Polina Pestova, Ekaterina Ponomarchuk, Anastasia Bobina, Shamil Asfandiyarov, and Anatoly Podyman received increased scholarships. Lyubov Kotelnikova and Polina Pestova were awarded the stipends named after famous scientists, A.N. Tikhonov and M.V. Lomonosov. In addition, Anna Kontorova and Polina Pestova received Student internships from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation.

Machinist of LIMU Valery Rozhkov became the winner of the photo contest “My favorite dacha”, conducted by the trade union committee of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. We congratulate Valery and wish him new achievements!

From 14th to 18th of October 2019 LIMU team participated in the XXXII session of Russian Acoustical Society (http://rao.akin.ru/deyatelnost-obshchestva/xxxii-sessiya-rao ). The conference was held in Acoustical Institute (Moscow, Russia). LIMU members presented 14 talks.

Nonlinear acoustics and its applications are one of the areas of research conducted at LIMU. In this direction,…