Research & Expertise

On December 22, Marina V. Kotova Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Psychology, Senior Researcher of International laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research, senior lecturer, School of Psychology, (Department of Social Sciences, HSE), took part in the "Culture Matters" research seminar with the report on "Socio-psychological factors of the adoption of the policy of multiculturalism in Russia".

Speaker: Panos M. Pardalos (CAO, University of Florida, USA & LATNA, Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Title: Constrained Subspace Classifier for High Dimensional Datasets

December 10, Andre Scedrov gave a presentation at the conference "Problems in Theoretical Computer Science".

The Russian Science Citation Index project has been officially launched. The best Russian academic journals are now compiled in a separate database on the Web of Science platform. The goal of the project is to integrate Russian academic journals into international networks for scientific information exchange. 649 journals have been included in the RSCI list based on bibliometric indicators and expert assessments.

On December 17 Evgenia A. Golman Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Sociology, lecturer, School of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE) took part in the "Culture Matters" research seminar with the report on "The body as a project in personal narratives of women: between subordination and resistance from embodiment".

Eric Maskin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007, Chairman of the HSE International Advisory Committee, and chief researcher at the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis, and Fuad Aleskerov, head of the Laboratory, talk about the the value of other people's opinions, joint research projects and opportunities for international cooperation in our time.

Speaker: Eric Maskin (HSE, Harvard University)
Title: Social Choice Theory with a Poverty Line

Speaker: Herve Moulin (Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow)
Title: Fair Division and Counterfactual-proofness

On the 26^th and 27^th of November the professor Hannu Vartiainen (University of Helsinki) gave a lecture on "Covering in tournaments" to the students of Higher School of Economics. In his interview specially for International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis the professor shared his secrets of success, formula of  making the best decisions and expressed his thoughts about the most important things in our days.

The fifth International Academic Conference on Foresight and STI Policy took place at the Russian National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow) on 18-20 November 2015. The conference was organized under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Among the speakers of the conference were officials and experts from Russia and other countries.