Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry and its Applications - 220*

Algebraic geometry is one of the most active fields of mathematics. Since its foundation, the Laboratory has strived to attract the best scientific minds working in algebraic geometry, in Russia and abroad. The conferences organized by the Laboratory will serve to disseminate the knowledge (both already obtained and newly created); a rich network of international contacts will help to establish its reputation as a major center of science.

Academic Supervisor: Fedor Bogomolov – Full Professor at the Courant Institute, New York.

Head of the Laboratory: Dmitry B. Kaledin

 Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis - 220*

Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis (LATNA) was created in October, 2011 at the Higher School of Economics. It is an independent body of researchers and teachers, under direction of Professor Panos M. Pardalos (University of Florida, USA), funded from a grant by the Ministry of Science of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the laboratory is scientific research and the establishment of international relations in the field of algorithms and techniques on algorithms and technologies for networks analysis for fundamental and applied research.

Head of the Laboratory: Valery A. Kalyagin – Professor at the Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Mathematics (HSE Branch in Nizhny Novgorod), Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics

Academic Supervisor: Panos M. Pardalos – Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, Director of the Center for Applied Optimization.

Internatonal laboratory for Applied Network Research - HSE*

International laboratory for Applied Network Research was launched in 2014 as a result of a tender of three-years projects. General aims are development and testing of new network data analysis methods in different fields (branches of science). As much as network researches are multidisciplinary we involve researchers in mathematics, statistics, education, sociology and management.

Scientific Adviser: Stanley Wasserman, professor, Indiana University.

Director: Valentina Kuskova, assistant professor, NRU HSE, PhD, Indiana University.

Laboratory for Comparative Social Research - 220*

The Laboratory aims to develop rigorous quantitative comparative (cross-country and cross-regional) studies in Russian sociology. The combined efforts of international and Russian scholars in the Laboratory will bring comparative sociology in the Higher School of Economics to the forefront of international research. The focus of research will be on comparative studies of social change – the analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data.

Head of the Laboratory (Academic Supervisor): Ronald Inglehart -President of the World Values Survey Association; Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor: Christian Welzel – Chair for Political Culture Research, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany; Tenured Professor at the HSE, St. Petersburg; Vice President of the World Values Survey Association, Stockholm, Sweden.

Director: Eduard Ponarin – Professor at the HSE Department of Sociology; Professor at the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology, EUSP.

Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics (Saint Petersburg) - 220*

The Laboratory aims at getting meaningful results in economic theory and empirical research. It is based on a new class of models of market systems with free entry.

The main tasks

• the study of new possibilities of monopolistically competitive markets under conditions of the removal of restrictions on the constant elasticity of substitution between goods in consumption;
• extended analysis of the model of monopolistically competitive markets by including it in models of endogenous growth and multi-product output;
• study of the nature of asymmetric solutions agglomeration model of core-periphery type;
• empirical study of Russian interregional and international trade accounting for heterogenity of firms, sectors and trade flows;
• development and testing of computable general equilibrium models in the regions.

Academic Supervisor: Jacques-Francois Thisse

Director: Sergey Kichko

Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies - HSE*

International Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies is established within the framework of the existing Center for Studies of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Center).

Academic Supervisor: Lester Salamon

Director: Lev I. Yakobson

Laboratory of Quantitative Finance - 220*

The purpose of the ILQF is to build an academic team for the purpose of conducting research in mathematical finance and financial econometrics. Key areas of research include realistic mathematical models of financial markets; development of probabilistic mathematical tools for analysing suchmodels; risk assessment, portfolio optimization, liquidity risk, real options, and optimal stopping;financial econometrics focused on systemic risk and its indicators, ratings of banks and financial corporations, and ways to consider intermarket interactions; research on the globalization of marketsby examining the correlation between their global and local components and the dynamics of these relationships. Key areas of educational activity include the development and implementation of courses based on research findings in financial mathematics.

Academic Supervisor: Yuri M. Kabanov

Director: Pavel Katyshev

Laboratory of Space Research, Technologies, Systems and Processes - 220*

The project was completed in 2013. If you would like further information on this topic, please contact Vladimir Kulagin at vkulagin@hse.ru.

Goals of the Laboratory are integration of science and education, improving the quality of students and professionals, modernization of research and educational processes, the expansion of research work in the MIEM in "Space Exploration and Technology" in the field of mathematical modeling of physical-mechanical systems and processes, celestial mechanics and ballistics, continuum mechanics, celestial navigation and predict the behavior of complex nonlinear systems, the development of managed space missions and missions of protection when the asteroid and comet impact hazard.

Academic Supervisor: David Dunham

Academic Supervisor: Vladimir Kulagin

Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis - HSE*
The Laboratory's main research and development areas are: theory of individual, social and multicriteria choice; mathematical modeling and empirical analysis of decision making in various economic and political institutions and institutional systems; game-theoretical models and methods in economics, political economy and political science; data analysis (methods of clustering, pattern recognition etc.)

Head of the Laboratory: Fuad Aleskerov – Tenured Professor at the HSE; Head of the HSE Faculty of Economics Department of Higher Mathematics; Academic Supervisor at the School of Applied Mathematics and Information Science.

Chief Research Fellow: Eric Maskin – Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2007; Honorary Professor at the HSE; Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study; Visiting Lecturer in Economics, Princeton University.

 Laboratory for Economics of Innovation  - HSE*

The key objective of the Laboratory is the development of a theory for the economics of innovation and elaboration of the applied instruments and concepts for evidence-based innovation policy.

Laboratory Heads:

Ian Miles – Head of the Research laboratory for Economics of Innovation, Professor of Technological Innovation and Social Change at the University of Manchester;

Leonid Gokhberg – First Vice Rector of the HSE, Director of the ISSEK, HSE;

Tatiana Kouznetsova – Director of the Centre for S&T, Innovation and Information Policy, ISSEK, HSE.

Laboratory for Educational Policy Research - HSE*
The Laboratory aims to carry out research in education through the use of modern methods. The laboratory works in cooperation with leading international researchers on projects related to evaluation of education quality, the economics of education and educational policy.

Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory: Martin Carnoy – Professor of Education at the Stanford University.

Laboratory of Financial Economics - HSE*
The goal of the International Laboratory of Financial Economics (LFE) is to support academic research in finance at best international standards in Russia, particularly but not exclusively with a focus on emerging financial markets.

Head of the Laboratory: Carsten Sprenger

Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms - HSE*
The Research Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms (LIA) brings together faculty, post-graduates and students from the HSE departments of Economics, Sociology, Public and Municipal Administration; their professional interests are focused on institutional analysis of different markets and sectors of the economy. The Lab’s researchers engage both in their own research and LIA-wide projects, including Economics of Education, Economics of Bureaucracy, Institutional analysis of Banking and Economics of NGOs.

Head of the Laboratory: Maria Yudkevich – Vice Rector of the HSE, Deputy Director of the Institute for Institutional Analysis;

Academic Supervisor: John V. Nye – Professor of Economics, George Mason University, and Frédéric Bastiat Chair in Political Economy, Mercatus Center.

Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies - HSE*
The LST research entity aims at conducting pioneer studies on evidence-based science, technology and innovation policy. The balance between solid scientific work and user-oriented projects for various stakeholders on the national and international level is another crucial factor of success which guarantees the Lab a unique advantage both in Russia and  worldwide.

Laboratory Heads:

Jonathan Linton – Head of the Research Laboratory, Professor of the University of Ottawa

Alexander Sokolov  – Tenured Professor at the HSE; Professor at the HSE Faculty of Public Administration Department of Science and Innovations Administration; Deputy Director of the HSE ISSEK; Director of the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre;

Oleg Karasev – Deputy Director of the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre.

Center for Sociocultural Research - HSE*
Major activities of the Laboratory include investigating the impact of culture (cultural values and socio-cultural context) on socio-economic development; investigating socio-cultural conditioning of economic consciousness and behavior; developing a unified concept of cultural dimensions that would integrate existing concepts and approaches; developing new methods for socio-psychological and cross-cultural research.

Laboratory Heads:

Nadezhda Lebedeva, Professor at the HSE;

Seger Breugelmans.

Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory:
Shalom Schwartz, Professor at the Hebrew University (Israel).

Center for the Study of Institutions and Development - HSE*

The International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (CSID) brings together Russian and foreign experts in economics and political science to conduct cutting edge research. Current projects for the period 2011-13 examine the career trajectories of regional bureaucrats in Russia, the impact of police reform in Moscow, and the influence of legality and violence on company behaviour. 

Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory: Timothy Frye – Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University;

Director: Andrei Yakovlev – HSE Vice Rector,  Director of Institute for Industrial and Market Studies.

The International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences - HSE*

Established in 2010, the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences aims to develop academic studies in the field of history and sociology of World War II and the Holocaust and disseminate research results by publishing historical sources and secondary studies.

Academic Supervisor: Michael David-Fox, Associate Professor at Georgetown University 

Director: Oleg Budnitskii

Center for Language and Brain - HSE*

Center for Language and Brain was founded on April 1, 2013. Laboratory researchers study language as a product of human brain functioning in its complex interactions with other cognitive functions. Working on these problems they apply experimental approach and use such tools as eye-movement tracking, magnitoencephalography, fMRI, and ERPs.

Laboratory Head: Olga Dragoy

Academic Supervisor: Nina Dronkers, Prpfessor at the University of California

International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy - HSE*

The Laboratory aims at discovering phenomena of economic agents’ behavior under uncertainty in the knowledge economy. The HSE-Perm research group together with their international partners focus on intangible-intensive organizations, with the emphasis on special features of public corporations, privately-held companies and organizations in sport industry.

Laboratory Head: Elena Shakina

Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and its Applications - HSE*

The team of the international laboratory gathers together researchers from various countries (Germany, France, Russia, UK) and from different schools but linked by close research interests. This lab has an initiative group from HSE (V.Konakov and V.Panov) and four invited professors with international recognition ( E.Mammen, S Menozzi, D.Belomestny, A.Veretennikov). This team was created on the basis of a long collaboration history, and research interests of all members of the group are quite close to each other. The general aim is to improve theoretical background and to develop practical methods for different stochastic models, to combine and share knowledge and ideas of leading international researchers to advance in several directions of the modern stochastic analysis. 

Laboratory Head: Valentin Konakov

HSE – Skoltech International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics - HSE*

The main objective of the laboratory is to develop a common approach to a variety of issues at the interface between the theory of integrable systems and representation theory of quantum and infinite-dimensional groups and algebras.

Prof. Andrey Okunkov, Columbia University, New York, USA

Prof. Roman Bezrukavnikov, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Laboratory Head: Boris Feigin

International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation - HSE*

The research projects of the laboratory address engagement, meaning, motivational regulation, concordance of goals, and other constructs using instruments developed by the laboratory members as well as validated Russian versions of established measures.

Academic Supervisor: Prof. Kennon Sheldon, University Missouri – Columbia, Missouri, USA

Laboratory Head: Dmitry Leontiev

International Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis - HSE*

The ISSA Lab is focused on some mathematical models of artificial intelligent and it's software implementation. Laboratory staff participate in all academic activities on tree levels: bachelor's programs, master's programs, and postgraduate schools (for dissertation preparation).

Laboratory Head — Sergei Kuznetsov

*220 - Laboratories financed as part of implementation of the Decree No. 220 of the Government of the Russian Federation ‘On the measures to attract leading researchers to Russian higher education institutions’

*HSE - Laboratories financed from the HSE funds

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