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On April 24, 2026, a seminar of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration was held on the topic "Brazil's Digital Landscape and its Intersection with Russia"

The 30th anniversary scientific conference named after E.V. Armensky was held at the Higher School of Economics, bringing together young researchers, PhD students and students working in advanced areas of modern science and technology. This year, the event once again became a platform for discussing current scientific results and exchanging ideas in the fields of physics, materials science and computational methods. The conference was particularly successful for the PhD students of the Center for Quantum Metamaterials who have demonstrated a high level of training and the significance of their research.

On April 23, the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research at HSE University held its regular scientific seminar. Pavel Kishenin, a Research Intern at the laboratory, presented a report titled "Evolution of Fertility in Russia by Mother’s Age and Birth Order: A Birth Cohort Lens."

The project “Investigation of Persuasion Processes and Conformal Behavior in Social Groups of Different Age Categories” will be carried out under the supervision of Proferssor V.A. Klyucharev. The project focuses on the neurocognitive mechanisms of conformal behavior and social influence.

A team of young scientists from the HSE University’s Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience has created “Scientists’ Multiverse” — a series of comics, videos, and quizzes highlighting the achievements of Russian neurobiologists and psychophysiologists. Developed in 2025 with support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the project aims to make complex science more accessible and engaging for young people. Its final product is an interactive laboratory map designed to help students and early-career researchers navigate opportunities in the field.

The HSE University International Laboratory for Mirror Symmetry and Automorphic Forms and the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) held a joint online conference on mathematical physics. The results of the laboratory research presented at the event will be published in leading academic journals.

On April 17, 2026, the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab) held a research seminar. Anna Daviy, Associate Professor at the Department of Management (HSE University St. Petersburg) and Junior Research Fellow at IDLab, presented the results of a study on the relationship between business model innovation and organizational performance in the cultural sector.

Interdisciplinary research is a defining feature of modern science, and this trend is especially pronounced in the field of quantum technologies. Physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology form the core fields of research at the Centre for Quantum Metamaterials of the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM). Prof. Alexei Vagov, director of the centre, discusses its key activities, which focus on exploring the prospects of creating materials with predefined properties through manipulating their structure at the quantum level.

On April 16, 2026, Maxim Shkurnikov, head of the Laboratory for Research on Molecular Mechanisms of Longevity, took part in the work of the evaluation committee of the section "Genetic Technologies in Healthcare" within the framework of the II All-Russian Forum of Young Scientists (https://кму-ран300.рф/pdf/programm_RAN_2026.pdf).

Elena Dragalina-Chernaya delivered a talk titled "Epistemology of Formal Philosophy" at the scientific seminar "Epistemological Application of Mathematical and Computer Modeling in the Study of Scientific Cognition," which took place on April 17 at the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VINITI).