Andrey Vorchik studies happiness, delivers popular science lectures, and believes that science should address social issues as well. In an interview for the Young Scientists of HSE University project, he spoke about how emotions influence decision-making, the Bermuda Triangle formed by the bathroom, refrigerator, and bed, and the ideal formula for education.
Physicist Nina Dzhanayeva, recipient of a Vladimir Potanin Foundation scholarship, focuses her research on nanophotonics. In this interview for the HSE Young Scientists project, she discusses nanowells, scientific intuition, and how physics can help in making frangipane cream puffs.
A team of Russian researchers, including scientists from HSE University–St Petersburg, has developed the first open multimodal dataset containing recordings of brain activity, heart function, and video observations to help researchers understand what happens in the human brain during deep concentration. In the future, the dataset could accelerate the development of neural interfaces, rehabilitation technologies, and AI systems. The article has been published in Scientific Data.
Мамонова С. К., Фольклор: структура, типология, семиотика 2023 Т. 6 № 1 С. 74–92
The paper is an attempt to identify the main symbolic meanings of the girl’s braid in the texts of wedding lamentations. In the modern researches (works of E.L. Madlevskaya, S.M. Tolstaya, A.V. Gura) the braid was considered only as one subject substitute for the volya/krásota an abstract concept that combined the idea of youth, beauty, ...
Voevodskiy A., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2022 Т. 40 № 3 С. 84–107
The article examines the activities of Protestant missionaries in South Africa. It was the most important component of the processes of the formation of a colonial society and the transformation of African society in the 19th century. Based on memoirs, travel journals, diaries and letters of missionaries, as well as official publications of the British ...
We show that if we are given a smooth non-isotrivial family of curves of genus 1 over C with a smooth base B for which the general fiber of the mapping J : B → A 1 (assigning j-invariant of the fiber to a point) is connected, then the monodromy group of the family (acting ...