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The World Values Survey Association has announced the first release of the brand-new World Values Survey dataset. Fieldwork for this 7th wave was conducted from mid-2017 to early-2020. This includes 78 countries and societies on all inhabited continents around the globe.

16-17 July our research fellow Vera Ignatenko was participating in the Computing Conference 2020, which has been held in London every year since 2013.

On Sunday, July 19 the scientific seminar of the International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis was held. Professor Morreau gave a lecture on "Democracy without Enlightenment"

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The project of the laboratory Researcher won a competition of the RSF

I. Makarov made a presentation “Real-Time 3D Model Reconstruction and Mapping for Fashion” at the conference TSP2020 on the topic of virtual fitting rooms based on machine learning models. Due to the restrictions on the pandemic, the conference was held online.

Petr Parshakov, Deputy Head of IDLab, presented a study on the impact of expectations when changing a job on individual productivity using data on football players

Denis Ivanov, the ISCID senior research fellow, was invited to participate in an internship programme at the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition.

Within the first two months of the lockdown, COVID-19 had crippled almost all key production aspects of Russian industry. Although the economic fall began to abate in May, economic growth relative to that of 2019 may not be regained until 2022. The Centre for Business Tendencies Studies of the HSE ISSEK studied the results of a survey conducted in May by the Federal Service of State Statistics of four thousand managers of Russian industrial enterprises. The key outcomes and results are available in 'Theses' on IQ.HSE.

On Sunday, July 12 the scientific seminar of the International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis was held. Professor Maskin gave a lecture on "Arrow’s Theorem, May’s Axioms, and Borda’s Rule"