ACTIVITIES

The grant obtained in the Regroupement stratégique program of FQRNT (Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies), as well as the support provided by the four institutions partners in GERAD, will help us doing better and more of what we usually do (seminars, workshops, visiting researchers, etc.) and start some new activities.

Indeed, we already launched a new summer school series and other activities are planned. The first summer school was organized by Jean-Philippe Waaub on Concerted Resource Management and Sustainable Development: Processes and Tools. Thirteen professors lectured to 42 students coming from 17 countries. It was held from May 26 till June 6, 2003. Since then, summer schools have been succeeding each other regularly; thus the Summer School on Differential Games has gathered 10 lecturers from 8 different countries and 15 participants from 4 countries in May of 2004; at the same time, the tutorial CREF-GERAD day on Dynamic Games in Finance has gathered 4 lecturers and 20 participants. Also, the Summer School on Column Generations has taken place in May 2006 and has gathered 6 lecturers from 3 different countries and 44 participants.

Finally, during the academic year 2003-2004, GERAD has launched a series of thematic workshops which aimed at gathering representatives of industry, business, researchers and students with the aim of discussing important technical problems the former face in their daily operations, and identifying research areas and problems of mutual interest. The first thematic workshop was entitled Planning and Optimization in the Electric Power Industry: The Case of Hydro-Québec, and was held November of 2003. Other workshops have followed and were conecerned with Data Mining, Public Transport Optimization, and Practical Multi-Criterion Decision Making.