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Autumn School on Data Analysis

From October 20 to 28, 2014, the Autumn School on Data Analysis for employees and friends of the International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation took place at the HSE Training Centre in Voronovo.

International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data - MOD 2015

The International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data (MOD 2015) will be held in Taormina - Sicily, Italy, from July 20 to 24, 2015. The workshop will consist of one day of tutorials, followed by one day of workshops followed by three days of main conference sessions. Submissions of papers, abstracts and demos on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization and Big Data are invited.

Сonference «Integrating Genetics and Social Sciences-2014» (Boulder, Colorado, USA)

Сonference «Integrating Genetics and Social Sciences-2014» (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Andrey Shcherbak shared his experience about trip to the conference.

Yegor Gaidar Award Short-List for 2014 Announced

Director of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development A. Yakovlev went to short-list of Yegor Gaidar Award 2014 in category « For the outstanding contribution in economics»

Why people don’t help what does it depend on

From 28th to 30th of October in the course of “Advanced Social Psychology”, Jane Piliavin, emeritus professor of Wisconsin University (USA), gave a three-day series of lectures about prosocial behavior.

Participation in international conference

The staff of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development took part in 14th Annual Aleksanteri Conference, Restructuring State and Society in Russia. 22-24 October, 2014 in Helsinki.

Lecture of prof. Oleg Budnitskii, the Director of the Ceneter, "Jewish soldiers in the Red Army, 1941 - 1945"

The lecture was at the Washington University of St. Louis October 21

Report of Jan Tomasz Gross, the Professor of the Princeton University, "1939 in WesternUkraine and Western Belorussia – a Note on the Nature of Soviet Totalitarianism"

The seminar was on the 23rd of October

The workshop of Dmitrii Pischalnikov

Do Russians choose socialism?

On October 13, there was held the second discussion of the series “Values scale” in club “March”. This debate was dedicated to free market and entrepreneurship in the value hierarchy of Russians.