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Директор Центра биоэлектрических интерфейсов Алексей Осадчий рассказывает о том, что мы уже знаем о мозге, и о том, что нам ещё предстоит узнать, в интервью на канале НТВ.

The II International Strategic Forum on Intellectual Property IPQuorum was held in mid-April in Kaliningrad. Its motto was 'IP code: all aspects of intellectual property for man and economy'. An ISSEK team took part, comprising Ekaterina Streltsova, Ilya Kuzminov, and Gleb Kuzmin. Our colleagues share some of their observations, and related trends.

Vitaliia Eliseeva and Margarita Pavlova, 4-year students in Economics, and RAs at the GT lab, are admitted to master programmes at PSE and CERGE-EI

On 25 April research fellows of the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy made reports on sessions "The philosophy of P.F. Strawson" and "Neurosciences and moral responsibility: neuroethics perspectives".

The new patented method is based on a superposition of functions and considerably enhances the speed and precision of Big Data processing. The project’s authors are Fuad Aleskerov, Tenured Professor at HSE and Head of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis, Laboratory Researchers Sergey Shvydun, Evgeny Mitichkin and Vyacheslav Yakuba, as well as Vyacheslav Chistyakov, Professor at the HSE Campus in Nizhny Novgorod.

Indicators presented by Gulnara Abdrakhmanova, Director of the HSE ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Information Society and Digital Economics, at a conference dedicated to the International Girls in ICT Day, help estimate Russian women’s internet activities.

From 09 April to 16 April,  professor of Finance and Econometrics (Imperial College Business School) Rustam Ibragimov delivered a mini-course "Heavy-tailed and dependent models and robust inference in finance and economics"

The 7^th session of the research seminaron Diversity and Development - 2019 was held in the HSE campus at Shabolovka on April 23.

From 15-17 April a conference organized jointly by the Laboratory of Language Convergence, the University of Lyon, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the Institute of Linguistics (Moscow) was held in Lyon. The conference was dedicated to the study of multilingualism in minority language communities - a field of research which has been actively pursued by Laboratory faculty for some time thanks to extensive fieldwork in Dagestan.

Yulia Akinina told about aphasia and about the current projects of the HSE Center for Language and Brain related to this speech disorder.