Tag "conferences & seminars"

The coronavirus pandemic has spread to almost all countries of the world and by early April 2020 the number of confirmed cases of the disease has exceeded a million milestone. In terms of the impact on the political and economic situation in the world and on people's minds, what is happening has no analogs over the past decades. However, can we reliably quantify this phenomenon? Oddly enough, despite the presence of a huge amount of easily accessible data on the Internet, the quantitative characteristics of the pandemic remain problematic even in economically developed countries. The presentation examined the key points regarding the quality and comparability of COVID-19 cases and deaths, as well as some additional options for objectively measuring the impact of the epidemic on mortality.

On March 24, 2020, a joint seminar was held at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research and the Department of General Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Higher School of Economics. Volha Verbilovich, Master of Sociology and Lecturer for the School of Media, presented a report on her dissertation entitled “Disability Category in the Public Sphere”, which performed under the guidance of the Head of the Laboratory, PhD, professor of the Department of General Sociology E.R. Iarskaya-Smirnova.

On Wednesday, March 18 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. A. Rezyapova gave a lecture on "International Migration: Problems of Public Administration".

On March 5, the regular seminar of the Modern Demography series was held. At the seminar, Evgeny Mikhailovich Andreev, head of the International Laboratory for Population and Health, presented the report "Inequality in the infant mortality rate among the population of modern Russia."

On Wednesday, March 4 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. D. Sokolov gave a lecture on "Shapley Value for TU-Games with Multiple Membership and Externalities".

On Wednesday, February 19 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. A. Raikov gave a lecture on "The choice of methodology for the development of the national digital platform of agriculture in Russia".

The Linguistic Convergence Laboratory and the School of Linguistics are organizing an International Summer School on Areal Linguistics and Languages of Russia.

On Wednesday, January 15 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. S. Demin gave a lecture on "Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): classic and modified models for evaluating the effectiveness of universities, emergency safety systems, etc.".

51st Annual Convention of Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies was held in San Francisco (USA) at the end of November, 2019. Amanda Zadorian, ICSID research fellow, among other ICSID staff members gave a paper. We asked Amanda to give her opinion on the convention