Cooperation between JINR and G.V. Plekhanov RUE On 18 October, the JINR Director met with the Rector of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics(RUE) Ivan Lobanov. Delegation of the RUE arrived at the Institute to discuss the prospects for cooperation enhancement with the Joint Institute. During the meeting, issues of cooperation in the field of big data processing, joint educational projects were discussed. Guests in their turn noted the existing cooperation in the field of big data: the Laboratory of Cloud Technologies and Big Data Analytics headed by MLIT JINR Director Vladimir Korenkov has been operating for several years already. Moreover, the University has been using the capacities of the Institute’s big data processing hardware to process economic data. Participants of the meeting expressed the general wish to continue and extend mutually beneficial cooperation in this field. Within the programme of the visit to JINR, guests learned about the NICA megascience project and the factory of superconducting magnets at the VBLHEP site, as well as visited the Laboratory of Information Technologies. More...