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On April 02 - 06 Lukasz Szpruch, assistant professor of School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, The Alan Turing Institute (London) read the mini-course "McKean-Vlasov SDEs, Particle Systems and Calculus on Wasserstein Space"

The 9^th scientific seminar ‘Modern demography’ was held on the 29^th of March. Evgeniy M. Andreev, PhD, laboratory head of the International laboratory for population and health NRU HSE, and Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, PhD, academic supervisor of the International laboratory for population and health NRU HSE, the research scientist at the Laboratory of demographic data of Max Planck Institute for demographic research, presented a paper "Relationship between mortality rates and economic development in the regions of Russia".

On March 27 Galyapin V.N. took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report on "Relationship between intergenerational transmission of values and psychological well-being of Russian teenagers in North Ossetia-Alania, Kabardino-Balkaria, Azerbaijan, and Latvia".

With support from the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory two new resources were created: a corpus of Rogovatka dialect (Belgorod oblast) and a corpus of Russian spoken in Daghestan.

Program of the 8th LCSR International Workshop «Quantitative Research of Social Changes Across the World» (Moscow, April 10-13, 2018), which will be held within the XIX April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, is now published online.

At the upcoming XIXth April International Academic Conference On Economic and Social Development, the leading staff of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research will present Russian editions of their latest monographs.

HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions held another session of their joint  Research Seminar on Diversity and Development.

On 6, 13 and 20 March, Professor Denis Belomestny (HSE, Russia and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) delivered the mini-course, 'Computational methods of stochastics'

On Wednesday, March 21 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. N. Leonova gave a lecture on "A Review of Capital Flight Problem".

In recent years, the number of women in the Russian research world decreased from 151500 in 2014 to 148300 in 2016. However, there are more doctoral and postdoctoral scholars amongst the female population than males, according to the recent issue of the HSE ISSEK data book “Science and Technology Indicators in the Russian Federation”.