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Panos Pardalos will make a keynote talk on the conference MIC 2013 in Singapore

Panos Pardalos will make a keynote talk on the 10th Metaheuristics International Conference which takes place in Singapore 5-8 Aug 2013.

Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services

The book includes the articles "KIBS and Knowledge Dynamics is Client–Supplier Interaction" by Ian Miles and "How Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Upgrade their Customers: Evidence from Russia" by Marina Doroshenko.

Technology Platforms, Cluster Policy and Cluster Initiatives: New Platforms for Dialogue

In the beginning of 2012 HSE ISSEK initiated creation of two special web-sites devoted to problems of development of the technology platforms as well as making of cluster policy and implementing cluster initiatives. These efforts are part of HSE activities on methodological, information and organization support of implementing new Russian Government’s initiatives in the field of STI policy.

School in Comparative Social Science Studies at the University of Oslo

Margarita Zavadskaya tells about Oslo Summer School 2012

Temporary employment in Russia: why mostly men?

Tatiana Karabchuk's article has just been published in international peer-reviewed journal

Workshop in Eurasian studies, Wisconsin-Madison

Olga Basmanova and Marina Nikitina shared their experience of participating in the SSRC workshop

ISA Second Forum of Sociology

ISA Forum of Sociology took place in Buenos-Aires, Argentina. Ekaterina Lytkina tells about the Forum.

Panos Pardalos will make a keynote talk on the conference PPSN-2012 in Taormina, Italy

Panos Pardalos will make a keynote talk "Global equilibrium search algorithm for combinatorial optimization problems" on the 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature which takes place in Taormina, Italy 1-5 Sep 2012.

Coursera. Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For Free.

Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. They envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Their technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students. Through this, they hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. They want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.

"The Second Demographic Transition in Israel: One for All?"

Evgenia Bystrov's article has just been published in international peer-reviewed journal