On May 23 and 24, 2016 the Game Theory Laboratory of the HSE St Petersburg held its first international conference entitled "Game Theory and Mechanism Design", in memory of the late Victor Domanskiy.
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Vincent Carabias-Hutter, Head of Research in Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland) and speaker at HSE ISSEK session “Science, Technology and Innovation Policy” at the XVII April Conference, shared his impressions with an information bulletin “The HSE LOOK” about what did he liked most about the conference and also mentioned plans for collaboration with colleagues from HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre.
Vincent Carabias-Hutter, Head of Research in Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland) and speaker at HSE ISSEK session “Science, Technology and Innovation Policy” at the XVII April Conference, shared his impressions with an information bulletin “The HSE LOOK” about what did he liked most about the conference and also mentioned plans for collaboration with colleagues from HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre.
According to a recent survey, Russians are more likely to accept flying cars, smart homes and other futuristic wonders than genetically-engineered biomedical interventions.
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LCSR staff organized the round table devoted to the "Historical Roots of Corruption" within the framework of the conference "Education and Global Cities: Horizons for Contemporary University". After the event, Russian newspaper 'Izvestia' conducted an interview with Professor Eric Uslaner regarding his research on corruprtion.
On May 24th, Pavel Sorokin (PhD in sociological sciences, researcher at the Centre for social studies of business administration, senior lecturer of the Department of Human Resource Management at the Faculty of Business and Management HSE), made a report "Intercultural relationships in politics and in science: a comparison through the scope of multiculturalism". The report took place at the scientific seminar "Culture matters".
Lectures by Professor Theodor Trafalis (university of Oklahoma, USA) were held on "Kernel Methods with Imbalanced Data and Applications to Weather Prediction" (May 23, 2016) and "Bayesian Kernel Methods for Classification and Online Learning Problems" (May 24, 2016)
Stephanie Forkel - Senior Neuroimaging Research Scientist, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London