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On Wednesday, November 21 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. K. Velikanov gave a lecture on "Direct Deliberative Democracy: participatory government model based on a massive direct discussion".

Russian ministry of Education and Science Government grant ag. No 14.641.31.0003, Megagrant to Mikhail Lebedev.

Mikhail Lebedev participated with the invited talk "Repairing the brain with brain-machine interfaces" in the International conference in Bucharest, Romania, 15-17th of November.

From 1^st November 1 15^th November, V. N. Kolokoltsov, Leading Researcher of the Laboratory and Professor of the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) delivered the mini-course, "'ntroduction to Financial Mathematics'.

The member of Center for Language and Brain Olga Buivolova presented a poster at the conference of Academy of Aphasia in Canada

Gari Walkowitz published a paper in Economics Letters on "Employers discriminate against immigrants and criminal offenders — Experimental evidence“.

The Head of the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy gave a talk at the conference in Brussels, Belgium.

The annual meeting of the International Advisory Council of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge took place on 14 November. This year the Council convened before the “Foresight and STI Policy” conference, so discussions of the ISSEK’s 2018 results, its plans for the next year, and approaches and techniques for studying and foreseeing S&T development occasionally overlapped with the conference agenda. The debates highlighted major trends which could affect relevant policies in the coming years.

From 29th October to 1st November Anna Bykova, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Finance and research fellow of the IDLab, participated in the International Workshop "Political Economy of Development: Challenges and Perspectives", which was organized by the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (HSE)  in cooperation with The College of Humanity and Social Sciences (CHSS) at UAE University and New York University Abu Dhabi.

Gari Walkowitz (Technical University of Munich, Ethics of Digitization, Munich, Germany, and International Laboratory for  Experimental and Behavioural Economics, NRU HSE) gave a presentation at the joint seminar of Higher School of Economics on political economy, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID), International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural Economics and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interaction (NES CSDSI) was held on November 14.