On 20 November, Vilnius University (VU) will host Quantum Lithuania 2026: Towards Baltic Cooperation, the annual event organized by the Lithuanian Quantum Technologies Association, Quantum Lithuania. This year’s focus will be on strengthening collaboration between Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the field of quantum technologies.
How can Vilnius identify urban problems more quickly and determine which ones need to be addressed first? A team from Vilnius University (VU), SL LAB, developed a technological solution: a prototype app called “Vilkas” (Lithuanian for “wolf“) that combines artificial intelligence (AI), citizen engagement, and gamification. Their innovation earned them first place at the Hack4Vilnius city hackathon, held on 9–11 October 2026.
On 28 October, Simona Jokubauskienė successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in Mathematics, entitled “Multidimensional Compound Poisson and Signed Compound Poisson Approximations”, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University (VU MIF). Her research contributes to the development of approximation theory for distributions of sums of multivariate random variables, which is important for solving problems in actuarial mathematics.
Satellites photograph all of Europe every few days, and the images are freely available to everyone. Terra AI, a prototype being developed at the Artificial Intelligence Methods Lab (AIML) of the Institute of Computer Science at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, lets anyone ask a question and receive an answer based on satellite data analysis. The work is part of the project “AI-Driven Multimodal Remote Sensing Analysis”, funded by the Research Council of Lithuania and led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valentas Gružauskas, head of AIML.
“Cybersecurity matters more today than it ever has,” says Benas Buškus, a second-year Information Technology student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Vilnius University (VU MIF) and a member of Lithuania’s national youth cybersecurity team.
The Office of the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures of the Republic of Lithuania invites first-year students to participate in its online seminars on academic ethics. The seminars will take place in November and December 2026 and will be delivered in English.
The winner of Vilnius University’s (VU) competition recognizing significant contributions to open science in the category “Impact of Open Science” is the Center of Excellence of Vilnius University “Data Center for Machine Learning and Quantum Computing in the Natural and Biomedical Sciences”.
For the second consecutive year, a team led by cybersecurity experts and students from Vilnius University’s Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (VU MIF) demonstrated outstanding cyber defense capabilities at the international cybersecurity exercise Amber Mist 2026. Bringing together VU MIF researchers, students, and IT specialists, the team included staff from VU’s Information Technology Services Center (ITPC), IT professionals from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH), and experts from Japanese company Hitachi Ltd. The joint team was recognized as the strongest performer in cyber defense.
