From 7th to 10th of June, the 21st International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound ISTU 2022 was held in a hybrid format, in-person part taking place in Toronto, Canada. Laboratory LIMU was represented by junior researcher Pavel Rosnitskiy, PhD student Alisa Krokhmal and Bachelor's degree graduates Kseniia Tumanova and Azamat Kaloev.

From 5th to 10th of June 2022, the LIMU team participated in the XXXIII All-Russian School-seminar "Wave Phenomena: Physics and Applications" named after Professor A.P. Sukhorukov (“Waves-2022”), held in a hybrid in-person/virtual format in the resort of MSU "Krasnovidovo". LIMU presented 7 reports in the sections "Acoustics of inhomogeneous media" and "Bio- and medical applications of wave physics". Two of our participants were awarded certificates for the best report!

LIMU members, PhD students and students took part at the two events which were held from April 18 to April 22 at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Within the framework of the scientific conference of students, graduate students and young scientists "Lomonosov 2022", 6 students of LIMU presented their works, and graduate student E.M. Ponomarchuk and junior researcher P.B. Rosnitsky made presentations at the scientific conference "Lomonosov Readings - 2022".

From February 14 to 18, the LIMU team took an active part in the XXXIV session of the Russian Acoustical Society held in a hybrid in-person/virtual format at the N.N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute (Moscow, Russia). Overall, LIMU presented 17 talks in the sections devoted to "Nonlinear acoustics", "Ultrasonic technologies", "Bioacoustics and medical applications of acoustical methods" and "Physical acoustics". Most of our students and postgraduates were awarded diplomas for the best reports of young specialists!

Ph.D. student of LIMU Dmitry Nikolaev has successfully defended his PhD thesis on December 30, 2021. The thesis was prepared under supervision of Dr. Sergey Tsysar. Congratulations to Dr. Nikolaev!

The top-rated journal The Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (Q1) published an article presenting a new method for measuring the acoustic characteristics of materials at megahertz frequencies, as well as its experimental verification. The proposed method is based on the use of transient acoustic holography technique.

Results of a joint study of LIMU, MREC MSU and Dmitry Rogachev National Research Center were published in a top-rated Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology journal. The study was devoted to non-invasive liquefaction of volumetric human hematomas using focused ultrasound pulses with shock fronts.

The autumn semester ended with joyful events for LIMU. D. Nikolaev and S. Petrosyan received postgraduate diplomas. Postgraduate student A. Krokhmal won the coursework competition in the framework of teaching the use of neural networks in scientific research. 2nd year students of magistracy P. Pestova and L. Kotelnikova received scholarships from the Basis Foundation. And LIMU employees won the competition for works contributing to the solution of the tasks of the Development Program of Moscow University.

Scientific project of LIMU research fellow Timofey Krit «Mechanical elasticity of tissue-like materials for tissue engineering» is supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation. Congratulations to Timofey!

V.A. Khokhlova presented a lecture on "Nonlinear HIFU: Modeling, Sources, and Bioeffects" at October 28, 2021 webinar of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU). The lecture covered various aspects of nonlinear effects in HIFU, from basic wave phenomena to current clinical applications.

October 15, 2021, at the invitation of the organizers of the physics section of the Central House of Scientists, Professor O.A. Sapozhnikov gave a lecture on the topic "Modern problems of medical acoustics", in which he spoke about the current state of research in the field of medical ultrasound imaging and therapy.