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Mini-course “Copulas and their Applications” Professor Paul Deheuvels (Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie)

Paul Deheuvels, Member of French Academy of Sciences.

World Values Survey Association meeting

World Values Survey Association (WVSA) had a successful meeting of the Executive Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee held at the Higher School of Economics (HSE), November 13-14, 2015.

Seminar by Dr. Anastasia Ulicheva from the University of Hong Kong “Reading aloud across languages: theories and methods”

Reading aloud may seem like a trivial task to a literate adult, which it is not. Reading a word aloud entails a multitude of different processes (identifying printed symbols, converting them into phonological representations and selecting the appropriate one, blending the sounds together, among others). It is not surprising that for many children, learning to read turns out to be a long and effortful process.

Happy future is possible

Russian popular science journal "Schrödinger cat" published an interview with Ronald Inglehart, Scientific Supervisor of LCSR. During the interview «SC» correspondent discovered that professor, unlike himself, is convinced that our long-suffering planet has the potential to become a planet of happy people.

Acculturation and Adaptation of Russian immigrants in the U.S.

On November 12 Dina Birman (PhD, Associate Professor at School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, Editor-in-chief of the journal "International Journal of Intercultural Relations") took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Acculturation and Adaptation of Russian immigrants in the U.S.".

HSE Conference to Discuss Foresight Research from Russia to Singapore

What should Russia’s policy be on Science and Technology? What do Russian and international foresight research results show? How is international cooperation in science developing? These are among the questions which will be discussed at the 5th annual international research conference on Foresight and STI Policy at HSE on the 18th — 20th of November.

HSE Conference to Discuss Foresight Research from Russia to Singapore

What should Russia’s policy be on Science and Technology? What do Russian and international foresight research results show? How is international cooperation in science developing? These are among the questions which will be discussed at the 5th annual international research conference on Foresight and STI Policy at HSE on the 18th — 20th of November.

Attila Kertesz-Farkas Made a Report "Data mining problems in computational mass spectrometry"

November 11, Attila Kertesz-Farkas, Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, School of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence, gave a talk at a seminar of International Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis.

Lecture "Resting-state Brain Activity Observed with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

The lecture was presented by Prof. Nicola Canessa from Istituto niversitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

HSE Conference to Discuss Foresight Research from Russia to Singapore

What should Russia’s policy be on Science and Technology? What do Russian and international foresight research results show? How is international cooperation in science developing? These are among the questions which will be discussed at the 5th annual international research conference on Foresight and STI Policy at HSE on the 18th — 20th of November.