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On April 28, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Head of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, presented a report on the main areas of activity and prospects for the development of the laboratory at a meeting with the Chancellor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Yaroslav Kuzminov, the Vice-Chancellor and Director of the Institute of Social Policy Lilia Ovcharova, the Vice-Chancellor and Director of the Institute of Applied Political Research Valeria Kasamara, attended the discussion. Participants discussed the main areas of research and key research and partnership projects of the ILSIR and other research institutions of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

At the end of the April of 2021 the staff of the international laboratory DSA and students of the Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics, and Computer Science took part in the conference in Saratov.

All IDLab interns are actively working on research as part of their coursework. At the laboratory seminar, some of them presented the research results to demonstrate their areas of interest, as well as receive feedback from laboratory researchers.

Researchers from the HSE International Laboratory for Supercomputer Atomistic Modelling and Multi-scale Analysis, JIHT RAS and MIPT have compared the performance of popular molecular modelling programs on GPU accelerators produced by AMD and Nvidia. In apaper published by the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, the scholars ported LAMMPS on the new open-source GPU technology, AMD HIP, for the first time.

Speaker Aya Ben-Yaakov, Research Fellow at MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, University of Cambridge.

On April 27, 2021 the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration of the IPAG held the round table "Evaluation of digital readiness of the population for the implementation of digital technologies in Russia" within the framework of the XXII April International Scientific Conference of the Higher School of Economics.

Topic: Convexity Arbitrage – the Idea Which Does Not Work
Date & Time: April, 29; 18:00 - 19:00
Where: online platform Zoom

Anna Bykova and Dennis Coates presented the results of the study "Economic freedom and performance in sports: evidence from US major leagues"

The traditional fifth workshop "Computational Linguistics and Language Science" was held online on April 26 at NRU HSE.

A panel session on “Modernizing Welfare in Russia and Other Post-Soviet States: Deinstitutionalization, Inclusion, and Agency” was successfully organized and held by the International Laboratory of Social Integration Studies (ILSIS) at the XXII April International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development to be held on 21 April, 2021 via Microsoft Team Platform in order to interact with presenters and participants from different parts of the world.