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In August, Control, Information, and Optimisation school was held by Sirius education centre. At the school Daniil Tyapkin, fourth-year student of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science bachelor’s programme has found an optimum algorithm of finding Wasserstein barycentre, which he was solving throughout 2020. Here Daniil talks about the history of the problem and its practical applications.

Semyon Savkin, a graduate of Moscow School No. 57 and student of HSE University’s Bachelor's Programme in Applied Mathematics and Information, has won gold in theInternational Olympiad in Informatics individual all-around among school students from 87 countries. In the unofficial team race, Russia shares second place with USA and Iran.

The School gathered more than three hundred participants from around the world to discuss the applications of geometrical and topological methods in mathematics and computer science.

Roman Nesterov, doctoral student and research intern at the Laboratory of Process-Aware Information Systems (PAIS Lab), worked distantly long before it became mainstream. For he is a student of a joint doctoral school and works together with Italian researchers. He talks about his research and how to organise a joint doctoral school.

What should an undergraduate education entail? How do the minors benefit students? How will people interact with machines? These were some of the questions discussed by HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov and Elana Bunina, Yandex General Director in Russia, in a conversation about future professions at HSE Day.  

Students Rate how Effectively Their Academic Programmes Are Managed

Laboratory of Bioinformatics organised the first international summer school in bioinformatics. The school was held online on August 24-28.

Any student or 2020 graduate of a Russian or international university is eligible to take part in the Student Research Paper Competition. Papers can be submitted from September 1 to October 15. The competition has been held at HSE University since 2003.

ELLIS is a leading European association in the field of artificial intelligence

Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA) of the Faculty of Computer Science, HSE University held the sixth summer school on Machine Learning in High Energy Physics (MLHEP) on July 16-30. The school was organised in cooperation with Yandex School of Data Analysis and EPFL High Energy Physics Laboratory. This year the school was listed as an official EPFL course with 4 ECTS credits awarded to the participants successfully passing the school requirements.