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Despite the summer holidays, IDLab members and trainees are undergoing advanced training in automated text data analysis

Laboratory staff were included in the list of the Best Teachers - 2021 according to the students' assessment.

Kyle Marquardt, a research fellow at ICSID, has made the final list of the 2021 HSE Best Teachers award as a winner in the Student Research Paper Competition category. Warmest congratulations to Kyle on his hard-earned success! 

On July 12-17, 2021, the 4th St. Petersburg Summer School on Network Analysis occurred. The event was held online and brought together participants from 9 countries. Two laboratory employees took part in the summer school, where they presented their research and received advice from invited teachers.

The extended deadline for abstract submission is 15 September, 2021.
The conference is planned to take place in a hybrid form on 29-30 November 2021. This year's title is "The changing repertoire of state intervention to promote development in an unfolding new world order”.

Today, July 29, "Urban Economics" workshop starts (organizer -- Prof. Edward Glaeser from Harward University, one on the leading scientists on urban economics). The workshop is held within NBER 2021 Summer Institute conference. At the workshop, our scientific advisor Jacques Thisse will present his paper "A Unified Theory of Cities" (joint with Matthew Turner and Phillip Ushchev), date: July, 30, Friday, 17:30-19:30, Moscow time. The conference will be live streamed: https://www.nber.org/conferences/si-2021-urban-economicsEverybody is welcome!

An HSE University corporate media "Okna Rosta" spoke to the ICSID director Andrei Yakovlev about the history of the Center, being efficient as a global team, the challenges ahead, and more.

Academic allowances were awarded to two laboratory members.

On July 10-15, the 26th World Congress of Political Science was held online. Laboratory members Valentina Kuskova, Dmitry Zaytsev, Gregory Khvatsky and Anna Sokol presented their reports at the "Policy Networks" section: 

On July 5-10, Networks2021 was held – joint conference of Sunbelt and NetSci, the main international conferences on network analysis and network science. Nine laboratory members made oral and poster presentations at the conference and took part in workshops within the conference framework.