Tomsk State University awarded diplomas to the graduates trained under the mega-grant of the Russian government. Five bachelor and one master students completed training in areas related to particle physics and big data analysis. All of them are employees of the TSU Laboratory of Data Analysis in High Energy Physics and deal with urgent research tasks, including the development of electronics and software for the NICA super collider.

Ilya Polishchuk, Denis Romanov, Matvey Vologzhin and Ilya Yakushev received bachelor’s diplomas. Nikita Chaly received a master’s degree. Another employee of the laboratory Dmitry Erofeev graduated from the bachelor course at TPU. Students performed their graduation work under the supervision of experienced scientists – Vladimir Ivanchenko, Irina Schreiber, Olesya Kuchinskaya and Vladislav Borsch.

— The value of our graduates is that during their studies they not only received deep theoretical knowledge, but also gained invaluable practical experience, – says Sergey Filimonov, head of the Laboratory of Data Analysis in High Energy Physics, dean of the TSU Faculty of Physics. – Their graduation works are directly related to the tasks of the project, which is carried out with the support of the mega-grant of the Russian government.

Graduates of TSU Faculty of Physics with Sergey Filimonov and Irina Schreiber

For example, Matvey Vologzhin in his graduation work modeled the effect of alpha decay products on living cells. The results of his work help assess the risks of mutations under the influence of radiation, and thus increase the safety of space flights and medical procedures related to radioactive substances.

The graduation work of Ilya Yakushev covered the development of a technical support site for Russian users of the Geant4 package. This software package was created at CERN to simulate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, but now it is used in radiation medicine and space industry. His development makes the Geant4 package more accessible to Russian users.

The graduation work of Ilya Polishchuk is devoted to the study of the properties of a special class of particles – omega and phi mesons. A more accurate understanding of the properties of these particles is critical for testing current theories of quantum chromodynamics, as well as finding manifestations of New Physics beyond the Standard Model. The results of his work lay the foundation for interpreting data from future experiments on next-generation facilities such as the Russian super collider NICA.

The graduation work of a laboratory employee, TPU graduate Dmitry Erofeev, is associated with the development of a second-level data concentrator – one of the key elements of the future SPD experiment dataset system on the NICA super collider. A prototype hub board with software created by Dmitry is being tested today at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna).

— The value of our graduates is that they are already specialists who are ready to immediately join complex projects, – emphasizes Sergey Filimonov.

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TSU Laboratory of Data Analysis in High Energy Physics deals with data analysis (preparation of experiments and work with data from international mega-science projects, including the NICA super collider (Dubna) and the Large Hadron Collider (CERN), machine learning and AI for big data analysis, software and electronics, modeling of particle interaction with matter for high energy physics, space research and radiation medicine.