From November 26 to December 2, 2014, Professor Emmanuel Lepinette (Université Paris-Dauphine, France) read a mini course at the International Laboratory of Quantitative Finance. The course included lectures and workshops with the use of SciLab software.
In a joint research event of International Center for Study of Institutions and development and scientific workshop «Political Economy» NES-HSE held a lecture of Postdoctoral Fellow of the Department of Politics of the Princeton University James Lo on the topic of «Ideological Clarity in Multi-Party Competition: A New Measure and Test Using Election Manifestos»
The lectures on «An Introduction to the Choquet integral» were held from December 2 till December 3. Speaker: Michel Grabisch (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
On December 2, Seger Breugelmans, PhD (Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, Netherlands, and Deputy Laboratory Head at ISCL-SCR) took part in “Culture matters” research seminar.
Report on Sheila Fitzpatrick's speech given on 25 November at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences
Humans experience a wide array of Disasters. Such disasters wreak utter havoc and provoke extensive large-scale devastation. They also carry extremely serious financial repercussions for nations, organizations and thousands of people. In addition, there is often also significant loss of life and infrastructure and property destruction. Therefore the study of dynamics of such disasters is an important and worthwhile endeavor, with huge benefits for nations, organizations, companies and individuals. The conference takes place at Kalamata, Greece on June 29 - July 2, 2015
This international conference aims on bringing together leading experts in the fields of optimization and computational methods to discuss recent advancements and trending topics. This year, the conference takes place in the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Chania, Greece on June 21-27, 2015
On November 27, Alena Khaptsova, a doctorate student in the department of Organizational Psychology at HSE and a researcher at the Laboratory for Socio-cultural research, took part in the “Culture matters” seminar.
