HSE Students to Participate in the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013 World Final
Students of the HSE School of Software Engineering won the Russian final of the Microsoft Imagine Cup contest for software projects on April 6, 2013, in Moscow. Now they will represent Russia in the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Final in July 2013 in Saint Petersburg.
‘Science Can Help to Bring Countries Together in Different Ways’
Professor Jonathan Linton, Power Corporation Professor for the Management of Technological Enterprise of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Technovation‘ journal spoke on ‘Centers of Excellence. Research Strategy and Portfolio Planning’ at the XIV HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. He gave a special interview to the HSE news service.
HSE Students and Lecturers Get Chance to Help Broadcast Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
An Educational Centre of the Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS), which supports worldwide broadcasting of the Olympic Games, is opening at the HSE Faculty of Media Communications
Joint Project of Channel One Russia, New York Film Academy, and the HSE
On April 7, 2013, Channel One Russia, together with the New York Film Academy and the Higher School of Economics, will launch the course ‘Modern Production in Cinema and Television’.
What Does Political Activism Depend on?
Well developed telecommunications, and population density increase the chances of people taking part in public protests. Bad weather, poor salaries and the repressive habits of the authorities decrease them. So Anton Sobolev reported his findings to the XIV April Conference at HSE.
Close Cooperation between the HSE and Halle Institute
Philipp Marek, scientific researcher in Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany, and participant of the XIV HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development gave an interview for the HSE news service.
‘Efficient Harvesting of Solar Energy Will Be as Dramatic as the Discovery of Extra-Terrestrial Life’
On April 3, 2013, Panos M. Pardalos, Academic Supervisor of the HSE Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis in Nizhny Novgorod, Professor at the University of Florida, USA, gave an honorary lecture on ‘Optimization and Modeling in Energy Networks’ as part of the XIV HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
Second Plenary Session of the XIV HSE April Conference: The Social Sphere in Search of Money and Ideas
The second day of the XIV HSE April Conference started with a plenary session on ‘Institutions and New Social Policy’. Problems of education, healthcare, and the labour market were discussed by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov, the Russian Minister of Education and Science Dmitri Livanov, Professor Simon Marginson of the University of Melbourne, and Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
Russia Is Emerging as a True Eurasian Power
Russia's collaboration with the countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and Asia in general, was the central theme of the session ‘Integration Processes as a Resource for Internal and External Development’.
‘There are a Lot of Opportunities to Make New Contacts’
On the second day of the conference, some of the participants shared their views and impressions in short interviews for the HSE news service.