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On January 14 International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy (HSE), Department of Logic of Faculty of Philosophy (MSU), Department of Logic of Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences held the 50th meeting of Theoretical Seminar "Formal Philosophy": the round table“Formal Philosophy: Foundations and Prospects”, devoted to the application of formal methods in philosophy.

The workshop was devoted to study on the popular video game "Dota2".

Topic: Costly Public Transfers in Repeated Cooperation under Imperfect Monitoring
Date & Time: January 21, 2019 at 16.50
Place: 3A Kantemirovskaya st., room 346

Master’s programme in Governance of Science, Technology and Innovations is among HSE’s numerous English-taught programmes that are open to international students who can enrol full-time or take a semester or two as part of a study-abroad experience. HSE News Service has talked to some of the programme’s students about their decision to apply to HSE and their studies.

Photo report from the international symposium ExoRehab Spotlights 2018 that took place on December 5 in Moscow.
Researchers of the Center for Bioelectric Interfaces Nikolai Smetanin, Aleksandra Kuznetsova and Alexei Ossadtchi presented Russia's first EEG-based neural interface that uses lower limb motor imagery for exoskeleton control. Alexei Ossadtchi also made a presentation "BCI for walk decoding".
This work has been done in collaboration with the Russian company ExoAtlet and Denis Lyovin who had volunteered to pilot the exoskeleton.
Megagrant #14.641.31.0003 "Bi-directional ECoG BCIs for contol, stimulation and communication". Lead scientist: Mikhail Lebedev.

Topic: On the uniqueness of stable marriage matchings
Date & Time: January 17, 2018 at 16.50
Place: 3A Kantemirovskaya st., room 257

The Condensed-Matter Physics Laboratory invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in the field of condensed-matter physics. See the detailed announcement at https://iri.hse.ru/post_cmp2019. Application deadline is February 15, 2019.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup showed that big data analysis allows to significantly improve traffic flows in a megacity. How to organise nationwide collection of statistical data to build more up-to-date and reliable indicators was discussed at the expert meeting on 28 December hosted by the Higher School of Economics jointly with the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Rosstat. Pavel Malkov, the new head of the Federal State Statistics Service, and his colleagues presented general approaches to restructuring the service, and discussed with HSE experts the prospects for setting up Digital Analytical Platform which is being designed by Rosstat. The participants agreed that big data will not replace conventional statistics but allow to fill numerous 'white spots' in it.

Markov Chains, authors: Douc, R., Moulines, E., Priouret, P., Soulier, P.

Semyon Abramyan (1st year Master programme), Lyalya Guseva (1st year PhD programme) and Vasily Krylov (2ns year Master programme) became memebers of Young Faculty Development Programme 2019, (Group of Young Academic Professionals) in Category "New Researchers"