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On June 22, Alexander Vyazmin successfully defended his PhD dissertation on grasping and transporting objects with the hand. The study examines how the requirement to rotate an object affects different phases of the movement even before contact with the object is made.

In an experiment involving 15 healthy men, scientists at HSE University investigated how different phases of the cardiac cycle influence the excitability of the motor cortex when participants viewed either their own photograph or the faces of strangers. The researchers found that when participants looked at their own image, the brain’s response to signals from the heart was weaker, meaning that the influence of cardiac activity on the motor cortex decreased. This finding came contrary to expectations, as self-focused attention was thought to enhance the brain's sensitivity to internal bodily signals. The study has been published in Frontiers in Signal Processing.

Ivan Sobolev's article "The Frontier of Semantics and Pragmaticsin the Philosophy of Language" has been published in the journal Epistemology and Philosophy of Science.

On July 4, at the 56th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference (56th EBES Conference), held in Istanbul in a hybrid format, Junior Research Fellow at the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy Evgeniya Shenkman presented the study "Medium-Term Electricity Load Forecasting Using Large Language Models", co-authored with Anastasiya Kireecheva. The research was conducted as part of the Russian Science Foundation project No. 25-18-00539, "Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Agents and Real Individuals in Economic Decision-Making."

At Saint Petersburg State University, the traditional international scientific conference "Game Theory and Management" (GTM2026) was held. As part of the conference's Young Researchers Day, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexey Savvateev presented the findings of a study titled "Not Yet! Humans Outplayed LLMs in a Colonel Blotto Game Tournament," conducted within the framework of RSF project No. 25-18-00539 "Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Agents and Real Individuals in Economic Decision-Making."

From June 16 to 19, 2026, the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology of the HSE Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies held the international scientific conference "Landscape Ecology: Adaptation, Resource, and Risk Management" (LEARRM-2026). The conference, held in Moscow on the HSE campus on Pokrovsky Boulevard, featured a mixed format

On July 3, Ramazan Ayupov gave a talk titled "Analyticity and Modern Formal Theories: Hintikka's Typology and Type Theory" at the "Logical Colloquium" conference, which was held at Swansea University (Wales, UK).

18-19 Jun 2026 the HSE University International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration (the Laboratory) organized the third International conference on digital governance

On July 3, 2026, an interim meeting was held to review the results of the first half of the second year of the project "Internationalization of Companies from Developing Countries: The Role of Intellectual Resources in Response to Exogenous Shocks". The project is carried out within the framework of the HSE University "International Academic cooperation" grant competition. The project leader is Maria Molodchik, Professor at HSE University – Perm.

On July 2, the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy hosted a workshop within the framework of RSF project No. 25-18-00539, "Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Agents and Real Individuals in Economic Decision-Making." The seminar focused on research by Junior Research Fellow Egor Ivanov and Senior Research Fellow Marina Zavertiaeva titled "Beyond Demographic Labels: Facial Cues and LLM Bias in Trust-Game Decisions".