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On April 8, 2025, Nazar Beknazarov, a postgraduate student at the International Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science, HSE, took part in the International Conference "Parallel Computing Technologies 2025" (PCT 2025), where he presented a report "Optimizing Computational Infrastructure for LLMs in Bioinformatics: A Case Study".

The key areas of the conference this year were modeling the processes of growth and development of living organisms, the dynamics of populations and communities; modeling of ecological complexity, statistical and spatial modeling; modeling of element cycles and matter flows in ecosystems, including at the regional and global levels; mathematical models in soil science and landscape science; mathematical models as a tool for supporting decision-making in problems of managing biological resources, solving climate change problems and rational nature management.

On April 6, as part of the special project  "Child"  by the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, experts addressed critical questions about the psychological well-being of children during adolescence.

Forbes published an interview with Alexei Ossadtchi, Head of the AIRI Neurointerfaces Research Group and Director of the HSE Center for Bioelectric Interfaces.

On April 4, a seminar "From the Logical Point of View" took place, at which Arsen Volsky gave a presentation titled "The Epistemology of Mathematics Between Pragmatism and Empiricism."

In the journal "Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics," an article by Maksim Evstigneev and Alexander Melnikov titled "John Locke and Toleration for Atheists" has been published.

The Russian Science Foundation has completed its review of projects submitted for grants to support fundamental and exploratory research by teams, as well as 2022 grant winners applying for project extensions. In addition, interdisciplinary projects for fundamental and exploratory research awarded under the Presidential funding programme have been announced. Projects awarded under each of the three categories include submissions from researchers at all four campuses of HSE University.

At a recent research seminar hosted by the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab) at HSE University, Perm, Laboratory Head Petr Parshakov presented findings from a new study on how people perceive text written by artificial intelligence versus humans. The results were unexpected—and challenge common assumptions about AI.The research team included Yulia Naidenova, Deputy Head of the Lab; Sofia Paklina, Junior Research Fellow; Nikita Matkin, Research Assistant; and Cornel Nesseler, Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway.

Two research projects from the HSE University Perm have been awarded grants by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF). The projects were selected as part of the RSF’s competitive funding program for fundamental and exploratory research carried out by individual scientific groups. Out of nearly 4,500 proposals, 534 were selected based on expert review—including two from the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy at HSE University

The Tale of Two Rooms: Comparison of QuSpin Zero-Field OPMs’ Operation in Two Magnetically Shielded Environments addresses both metrological aspects of OPM application and practical issues of signal quality improvement.