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Research Seminar on January 20, 2017.

Topic: Tropical geometry in auctions
Speaker: Nikita Kalinin (CINVESTAV, Mexico)
The workshop will take place at 3A Kantemirovskaya st., room 356 (3rd floor) at 16:50.

8th Annual Conference in Political Economy “The Political Economy of Inequalities and Instabilities in the 21st Century” (Berlin, September 13-15, 2017)

IIPPE, CPERN and IPE call for general submissions for the Conference but particularly welcome those on its core themes of inequalities and instabilities, which will be the focus for the plenary sessions. Proposals for presentations will, however, be considered on all aspects of political economy. New participants committed to political economy, interdisciplinarity, history of economic thought, critique of mainstream economics, and/or their application to policy analysis and activism are encouraged to submit an abstract. Deadline is April 1, 2017.

Andrei Yakovlev, Head of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, became a member of the Academic Advisory Board working on the Discuss Data project

The project is initiated as collaboration between the Research Centre for East European Studies of the University of Bremen (FSO), Göttingen State and University Library (SUB) and supported with the grant from the German Research Council (DFG).

EACES-HSE Workshop, June 13, 2017, Moscow: Call for Papers

The International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at Higher School of Economics in Moscow together with the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) are pleased to invite submissions to the workshop: Topics in Political Economy of Development.

Michael Röckner was elected the president of the German Mathematical Society

Michael Röckner was elected the president of the German Mathematical Society.Michael Röckner, one of the lab friends (https://lsa.hse.ru/en/friends) was elected the new president of the German Mathematical Society. Scientific cooperation of Professor Röckner with the members of the laboratory has led to the publication of a number of joint articles. Professor Röckner is the leader of the stochastic analysis group and the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), and also the recipient of the Max Planck Award. Detailed information is available on the website of the German Mathematical Society https://dmv.mathematik.de/index.php/aktuell-presse/presseinformationen/2614-presseinformation-der-deutschen-mathematiker-vereinigung

Timothy Frye, ICSID academic supervisor and the chair of the Political Science Department at Columbia University, appeared on the American TV-channel NY1 last week

Tim joined Errol Louis, the host of "Inside City Hall" - a nightly political show on NY1, to discuss a report from the Obama administration that accused Vladimir Putin of ordering a hidden campaign to influence America's presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. Tim also offered some insights into the current state of affairs in Russia and relationship between the USA and Russia nowadays.

Provision of Buildings for Research and Development Organisations in Russia

The new issue of the newsletter "Science, Technology, Innovation" series presents a specialized survey conducted by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge commissioned by Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Contest "Young Russian Mathematics" 2016

The results of the contest "Young Russian Mathematics" became known. Graduate students of math faculty, members of Laboratory and faculty fellows are among the winners.

Figure of the Day: 46 000 Roubles

Figure of the Day: 46 000 Roubles
is the average monthly salary of a research scientist in Russia. From January to September 2016 it increased by 5.2% in comparison with the same period in 2015.

ISSEK Highlights 2016

Here’s a review of major events, projects and publications by HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge which marked the year 2016.