Tag "HSE guests"

Prof. Thomas Hensinger, IST Austria

Professor Peter Horvath gave a mini course «Microscopy image analysis» for students of computer .In his course he made stress on high-content screening (HCS), which includes cell biology, automated high resolution microscopy, informatics and robotics

In October, at the invitation of HSE ISSEK Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, Dr. Holger Schlör, leading researcher at Jülich Research Centre’s (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Institute of Energy and Climate Research (Germany) spoke to HSE students and staff. According to him, Germany (which the OECD calls “green growth laboratory”) is planning to completely switch to green energy by 2050, generating 80% of energy from renewable sources.

On Wednesday, October 26 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. Professor William Thomson from the University of Rochester gave a lecture on «Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule»

Members of our Laboratory presented their research in the international conference “Trajectories in education and careers”

Education determines people's chances of success in life. Also it is the mechanism for the reproduction of the social stratification of the new generations. The form of the educational system in the country is related with skills distribution in society and the level of inter-generational social mobility. This is an important factor of income distribution of the population, which leads economic inequality. Therefore, the modern debates about educational inequality and policy in this area are important to reduce economic inequality.

On Wednesday, September 14 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. Professor Georgy Artemov from the University of Melbourne gave a lecture on «Assignment mechanisms: common preferences and information acquisition»

The last day of the summer school was devoted to multivariate latent curve models.

On Thursday, Prof. Kenneth Bollen addressed more complicated latent curve models. The lecturer talked about the between-group comparison of trajectories.

On Wednesday, the participants learned how to estimate nonlinear latent curve models and found out more about conditional latent curve models.