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On February 16, a meeting of the theoretical workshop "Formal Philosophy" was held. Valeria Chasova made a presentation "Ontology of symmetries: foundations, history and systematization".

Abstract

Symmetry is the invariance of one when the other is transformed. For example, saving the content when changing the form. Physical theories are full of theoretical symmetries. Due to this, gravitational waves and the Higgs boson were predicted. However, it is still not clear how exactly theoretical symmetries relate to the world around us. I am going to tell you in more detail about the ways physical theories are arranged, what kinds of theoretical symmetries can be found there, what the different ways they relate to the world are and how we can systematize research in this area.

A round table «Goals and Values of Alter-globalism» has took place at the Kazan Innovative University named after V.G.Timiryasov (KIU), Research Fellow of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration of the HSE University Dr. Evgeny Diskin has took a part.

The article "La cognición auditiva. Especificidad modal y perplejidad semántico-definicional" by a staff member, researcher Jorge Luis Mendes Martinez was published in the journal "Andamios".

Anna Daviy presented the study " Unpacking the Digital Puzzle: Entrepreneurial Orientation and SME Digitalization". Co-author of this research: Mariia Molodchik

HSE University held a round table «Prospects of legislative regulation of electronic commerce and marketplaces», in which he took part, which was attended by the Research Fellow of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration of the HSE University, Dr. Diskin. During the round table the actual problems of regulation of marketplaces and online trading were discussed. 

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.