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On September 24, 2026, the International Laboratory for Population and Health at HSE University held a research seminar entitled «Studying fertility in Russia through a birth cohort: a bayesian approach and regional specifics». Pavel Kishenin, a Research Intern and PhD student at the International Laboratory for Population and Health, presented the results of his dissertation research.

On September 23, a research seminar was held at which research intern Yuri Kazakov gave a talk entitled “Epistemic Models of Questions and Answers.”

In mid-September 2026, UNESCO held an online seminar entitled ‘Quantum Science and the Future of Quantum Technologies.’ During a panel discussion, Alexander Sokolov, Director of the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) and Chair of the UNESCO Chair on Future Studies at HSE University, presented the results of ISSEK’s Quantum Leap foresight study to international experts.

On July 6 and 7, 2026, as part of the Summer School, a roundtable discussion was held featuring Professor Eran Vigoda-Gadot, Leading Scientist of the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration. The meeting served as a platform for an in-depth dialogue on the future of the digital state and the professional insights of academic writing

HSE University has joined the international BESIII (Beijing Spectrometer III) collaboration in high-energy physics. This marks the first practical outcome of the memorandum of cooperation signed in 2025 between HSE University and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China.

Maxim Evstigneev successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “The ‘Way of Ideas’ Idiom in Early Modern Philosophy from René Descartes to Thomas Reid.”

On September 16, I. A. Gorbunov and M. N. Rybakov gave a talk entitled “Minimal Fully Determined Logic and Its Theories” at the logic seminar of the Yuri Manin Laboratory, held at the Higher School of Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).

On September 11, the HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health Research held a research seminar entitled «Open Science and Demographic Research». The seminar was presented by Dmitri A. Jdanov, Chief Research Fellow at the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research.The seminar focused on the contemporary concept of Open Science, which aims to enhance the accessibility, transparency, and reproducibility of scientific research. The discussion addressed the application of Open Science principles in demographic research, the barriers to their wider adoption, and the ways in which greater openness in the research process can contribute to public trust in research findings.

The International Youth Festival (IYF) will be held in Yekaterinburg from 11 to 17 September 2026. HSE University will take an active part in the event. The university's booth will present a space settlement mock-up, robots, and the iFORA big data analysis system. Fifty HSE students will visit festival venues, and experts will participate in the business programme.