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On 29 January 2024, within the framework of the regular seminar of the Centre for Sociocultural Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics "Culture Matters", Daniil Sitkevich, Ph.D. in Economics, researcher at the Centre for Regional Studies and Urbanism of the Institute of Applied Economic Research of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, researcher at the Laboratory of Institutional Analysis of the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, delivered a report on "Mountaineers and Guests: Intercultural Interaction and Development of the Hospitality Industry in the North Caucasus".

The Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics is recruiting students and postgraduates of HSE to participate in research projects for a period of 7 to 9 months.

Vyacheslav Shulenin, Head of the Moscow Center for Innovative Technologies in Healthcare, shared his thoughts on our development of iNeurofeedback, a revolutionary instant neurofeedback solution, in his Telegram channel.

Center’s Research Assistant Tatiana Eremicheva appeared as a guest at the second season of the «Lingvopodcast».

Maxim Glavychev (Utrecht University) made a presentation on "Reasoning About Group Responsibility for Exceeding Risk Threshold" at the workshop "From a logical point of view" on February 9.

Abstract

Tracing and analysing the responsibility for unsafe outcomes of actors’ decisions in multi-agent settings have been studied in recent years. These studies often focus on deterministic scenarios and assume that the unsafe outcomes for which actors can be held responsible are actually realized. This paper considers a broader notion of responsibility where unsafe outcomes are not necessarily realized, but their probabilities are unacceptably high. We present a logic combining strategic, probabilistic and temporal primitives designed to express concepts such as the risk of an undesirable outcome and being responsible for exceeding a risk threshold in one-shot games. We demonstrate that the proposed logic is (weakly) complete, decidable and has an efficient model-checking procedure. Finally, we define a probabilistic notion of responsibility and study its formal properties in the proposed logic setting.

International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration held an online seminar on the topic “Basic indices of digital development: a construction methodology involving secondary aggregation”. Research Assistant of the Laboratory Ivan Makarov made a presentation.

On February 9, 2024, the HSE School of Linguistics held a pre-defense of Natalia Zevakhina's doctoral dissertation "Experimental and Corpus Studies of Linguistic Pragmatics: Informativeness, Illocutionary Types of Sentences, Metalinguistic Comparison".

On Wednesday, February 14, the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted a seminar "Expert opinion and data analysis".

On February 7, the lecture hall of the Russian 'Znanie' ('Knowledge') Society hosted a series of talks by HSE researchers and faculty as part of the 'Russia' International Exhibition and Forum. The talks covered a diverse array of topics, such as the interplay between innovation and creativity, how values are passed down between generations, debunking myths about Russia, the principles of successful communication in various contexts, and the concepts of collectivism and individualism. The events were open to the public.

On 1st and 2nd February 2024 the team from the "Mirror Labs" project of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics at HSE presented their project at the Winter Psychological School of SPbSU.