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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"

29 June - 3 July SCILA was holding a learning workshop for researchers "Fixed and Random Effects Models in Social Studies and Psychology". Amazing speakers Ivan Ivanchei and Boris Sokolov told our participants about all nuances of multilevel modeling.

What does patent activity tell us? Until 2018, Russia conducted its anti-coronavirus studies only for veterinary purposes at the VECTOR State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Novosibirsk, which filed only two requests for corresponding patents. All of this and so much more has been shown in a patent analysis, which Ekaterina Streltsova, a senior research fellow of the HSE ISSEK, discusses a column for IQ.

During a pandemic, scientists around the world are forced to change the format of research. For experimental linguistics, the key question now is the possibility of conducting experiments online. Research members of the Center for Language and Brain Maria Khudyakova, Ekaterina Stupina and Nina Zdorova are trained to conduct online experiments at the Moving Research Online workshop.