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On June 7, Valeria Nikolaeva, an intern researcher at IL LogLinFF, made a presentation on the topic of "The Search for Bisimulation in Python" at the research workshop "From the Logical Point of View".

The fifteenth meeting of the Working Group was held on June 4, 2024,jointly chaired by N.Y. Kudryavtsev, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and Sun Jian, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China. The event was held in Yekaterinburg on the basis of the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin.

On the 7th of June Natalia Zevakhina successfully defended her doctoral dissertation "Experimental and Corpus Studies of Linguistic Pragmatics: Informativeness, Illocutionary Types of Sentences, Metalinguistic Comparison".

Title: AI vs HR: A Field Experiment on Hiring
Presenter: Rustamdjan Hakimov, Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne
Date & Time: June 11, 1 PM
Where: Kantemirovskaya str 3/1, 5th floor

From May 31 to June 2, 2024, the second interdisciplinary conference ‘Researching the Deaf Community’ was held at the GES-2 House of Culture, organised in collaboration with HSE University. The international forum brought together experts from 11 countries and four continents. Participants discussed topics related to the social, cultural, and linguistic characteristics of people within the deaf community in the modern world.

The first seminar was held on June 6, 2024. Tairzhan Karabasov, a 4th year post-graduate student of the MIEM of the Higher School of Economics, made a presentation. His report was covering new hybrid functional materials superconductor/topological insulator/ferromagnet and their use to create superconducting diodes.

For Russians, learning Belarusian is often better than Chinese

Leading scientists from HSE University have won the Scientific Category of the 2024 Best Russian-Language Scientific and Popular Science Works Competition by HSE University employees in the "Biology and Medicine" section for their research on predicting the effectiveness of chemotherapy with gemcitabine in patients with bladder cancer.

The final workshop "What defines the High-Low Arctic tundra boundary, where it is and how to map it?" was held on 5 June 2024.

HSE University, in collaboration with Sber, have conducted a foresight study on artificial intelligence (AI). Its early results were discussed by the participants of a strategic foresight session on exploratory research in AI, held at the Coordination Centre of the Russian Government, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko. The results from the foresight study will inform the Unified Research and Development Programme in the Field of AI.