
Congratulations to Olessia Koltsova on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation!
On April 23, 2024, the defense of the doctoral dissertation in philology by Olessia Koltsova, the head of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics, took place.

The Winter Psychological School took place at SPbSU
On 1st and 2nd February 2024 the team from the "Mirror Labs" project of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics at HSE presented their project at the Winter Psychological School of SPbSU.

SCILA held a seminar dedicated to diary studies with multiple measurements in psychology
On December 18, 2023, at the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics within the framework of the "Mirror Laboratory," a discussion on the methodology of diary studies "Experience Sampling Method (ESM)" took place.

Larisa Mararitsa presented the results of a study on the quality of communication during in-person meetings and video conferences
The research conducted by the HSE University and the V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University was presented at the II All-Russian Scientific Conference 'Digitalization of Society: Transformation of Everyday Practices and Research Perspectives'.

The article by Vera Ignatenko, Anton Surkov, and Sergey Koltsov has been accepted for publication in the journal "PEERJ Computer Science"
The second article, developed within the QTM project "Enhancing the Methodology of Automatic Text Analysis Based on Topic Modeling," on the topic "Random Forests with Parametric Entropy-Based Information Gains for Classification and Regression Problems," will be published.

The SCILA won a Russian Science Foundation grant to study the use of large language models for solving differential equations
On November 28, 2023, the results of the Russian Science Foundation competition were announced: the application submitted by the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics received support for the year 2024.

The article by S. Koltsov, A. Surkov, V. Filippov, and V. Ignatenko has been accepted for publication in the journal PEERJ Computer Science
The work "Topic models with elements of neural networks: investigation of stability, coherence, and determining the optimal number of topics" was prepared within the framework of the QTM project "Improving the Methodology of Automatic Text Analysis".

The 'Sorochkinsky Readings' took place in Moscow
On November 24, 2023, Xenia Leontyeva, a research assistant at the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics of the Higher School of Economics and an associate professor at the Department of film producing at the St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television, spoke at the "Sorochkinsky Readings 23" conference at the State Institute of Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Sergey Koltsov spoke at a seminar at Sirius University
From November 20th to November 24th, 2023, a seminar on "Mathematical Modeling of Materials: Modern Research and Training of Specialists" took place at Sirius University of Science and Technology. On November 21st, Sergey Koltsov, a leading researcher from the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics, gave a presentation at the event.
Yadviga Sinyavskaya participated in the ANR-lab seminar
On November 20, 2023, Yadviga Sinyavskaya, a research fellow of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics and a candidate of sociological sciences, delivered a presentation 'Studying social capital in urban networks in relation to behavior and communication on social media'.