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NEWS
- Feb 03, 2012 -
Cahiers du GERAD published recently
G-2011-88
Azarfar, A., Frigon, J.-F., Sansò, B.
A Performance Comparison of Cognitive Versus Traditional Radio Networks
December 2011, 14 pages.
G-2011-89
Azarfar, A., Frigon, J.-F., Sansò, B.
Improving the Reliability of Wireless Networks Using Cognitive Radios
December 2011, 30 pages.
- Feb 03, 2012 -
This week guest: Richard Caron
Richard Caron
Windsor University
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Short Bio
Richard J. (Rick) Caron earned his PhD at Waterloo in 1983 and then joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Windsor. He served as department head from 1991 – 1997 and as dean from 1999 to 2008. He was the creator and director of the Operational Research from June 2001 - 2012.
Rick is a past president of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) and a past Director of the Canadian Mathematical Society. He was general chair of CORS 1999, MOPTA 2005 and the CMS national math camps from 2009-2011. He has won several teaching awards.
His research is on preprocessing in mathematical optimization with a focus the use of probabilistic methods such as hit and run algorithms.
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He is invited by Miguel F. Anjos.
Don't miss his seminar on Thursday, March 15, 2012.
- Jan 31, 2012 -
Julie Paquette, recipient of the 2010-2011 Jim Davey Award
The Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) has presented the 2010-2011 Jim Davey Award for the best doctoral paper by a student in Canada to Assistant Professor Julie Paquette (PhD 2010), for her article entitled “Mesure de la qualité de service et développement d’un outil d’aide à la décision multicritère en transport adapté : le cas de la ville de Longueuil.” The article summarizes her thesis, co-directed by Jean-François Cordeau and Gilbert Laporte.
To learn more about this news, visit HEC Montréal.
- Jan 24, 2012 -
This week guest: Mario Cuturi
Mario Cuturi
Kyoto University
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Short Bio
Marco Cuturi received his Ph.D. in applied maths in 11/2005 from the École des Mines de Paris under the supervision of Jean-Philippe Vert after receiving his undergraduate degree from the ENSAE and his masters degree from ENS Cachan. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, from 11/2005 to 03/2007. From 04/2007 to 09/2008 he worked for a hedge fund owned by Credit Suisse in Tokyo. After working as a Lecturer at the ORFE department of Princeton University from 02/2009 to 08/2010, he joined the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University in September 2010.
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He is invited by Miguel F. Anjos.
Don't miss his seminar on Thursday, February 9, 2012.
- Jan 24, 2012 -
This week guest: Julio C. Góez
Julio C. Góez
Lehigh University, USA
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Short Bio
Julio C. Góez is a native from Colombia and joint the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University in 2007. He is currently a Ph.D.
candidate workign in optimization algorithms and optimization software development. In 2004 Julio C. Góez recieved a Master Degree in Industrial Engineerign at the University of los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. In 2002 he received his Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. From September 2004 to July 2007 Julio C. Góez held the position of instructor at the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Los Andes. He was a summer intern at Argonne National Laboratory in 2009 and at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 2008.
Julio C. Góez research interests focus principally in methodologies for solving Mixed Integer Conic Optimization (MICO) Problems. In particular, he investigates cuts generation methodologies for MICO problems. Currently he is working on the development of conic cuts for Mixed Integer Second Order Cone Optimization
(MISOCO) problems. Additionally, he is developing a solver based on interior point methods for MISOCO problems.
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He is invited by Miguel F. Anjos.
Don't miss his seminar on Thursday, February 16 , 2012.
- Jan 17, 2012 -
Doctorat Thesis Defence of Pablo Andrés-Domenech on February 10, 2012 at 14:00
Student name : Monsieur Pablo ANDRÉS-DOMENECH
Date: Friday, February 10, 2012
Time: 14:00
Venue: HEC Montréal, 3000 Côte Sainte-Catherine
Room: Hélène Desmarais, 1st floor – blue section
Title: Three Essays on Sustainable Forest Management
Co-directors: Georges ZACCOUR and Guiomar MARTIN-HERRAN
- Jan 16, 2012 -
This week guest: Michael Ferris
Michael Ferris
University of Wisconsin, USA
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Short Bio
Michael C. Ferris is Professor of Computer Sciences and leads the Optimization Group within the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 1989.
Dr. Ferris' research is concerned with algorithmic and interface development for large scale problems in mathematical programming, including links to the GAMS and AMPL modeling languages, and general purpose software such as PATH, NLPEC and EMP. He has worked on several applications of both optimization and complementarity, including cancer treatment plan development, radiation therapy, video-on-demand data delivery, economic and traffic equilibria, structural and mechanical engineering.
Ferris received the Beale-Orchard-Hays prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and is a past recipient of a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He serves as co-editor of Mathematical Programming, and is on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Optimization, Transactions of Mathematical Software, and Optimization Methods and Software.
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He is invited by Miguel F. Anjos.
Don't miss his seminar on Thursday, January 19, 2012.
- Jan 11, 2012 -
Sabbatical leave
Michèle Breton and Georges Zaccour, Professors in the Department of Management Sciences at HEC Montréal, will be in sabbatical leave from June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013.
- Jan 09, 2012 -
This week guest
Atsushi Takizawa
Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering
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Short BIO
Atsushi Takizawa is an assistant professor of Dept. of Architecture and Architectural Eng., Kyoto Univ. Graduate School of Eng. He earned a Bachelor of Eng. in Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Eng., Kobe Univ. in 1995, a Master of Eng. in Dept. of Architecture, Graduate School of Science and Tech., Kobe Univ. in 1997 and a Doctor of Eng. by way of dissertation from Kobe Univ. in 2001. He's current research themes are spatial information science for crime analysis and real estate analysis, evacuation planning with network theory, and architectural form and space finding by optimization.
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He is invited by Miguel F. Anjos.
Don't miss his seminar on Thursday, January 12, 2012.
- Jan 04, 2012 -
Nominations
The GERAD team is pleased to congratulate the following nominations:
- Sébastien Le Digabel, as Assistant Professor of the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering of École Polytechnique de Montréal, since June 2011.
- Issmail Elhallaoui, as Assistant Professor of the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering of École Polytechnique de Montréal, since December 2011.
- Dec 19, 2011 -
Doctorat Thesis Defence of Diego Amaya on January 27, 2012 at 9:30
Student name : M. Diego AMAYA
Date: Friday, January 27, 2012
Time: 9:30
Venue: HEC Montréal, 3000 Côte Sainte-Catherine
Room: Nancy & Michel Gaucher
1st floor – green section
Title: Trois essais en méthodes numériques appliquées à la finance
Director: Ms. Geneviève Gauthier
- Dec 02, 2011 -
Congratulation to our young researcher HEC, Erick Delage
This award recognizes research conducted over the past three years by an assistant professor or replacement or an assistant researcher. The 2011 winner is Erick Delage.
View all the winners of the 2011 Research and Teaching Awards of HEC Montréal.
- Nov 28, 2011 -
GERAD Newsletter
The latest GERAD Newsletter is available online. Don't hesitate to read it!
- Nov 21, 2011 -
Election results of GERAD's students
Dear students,
Following the elections of November 11, 2011, here are your new representatives:
M.Sc. representative: Samuel Rosat (Samuel.Rosat@gerad.ca)
Ph.D. representative: Jean-Bertrand Gauthier (Jean-Bertrand.Gauthier@gerad.ca)
Person in charge of the "Séminaires pas ordinaires": Mathilde Peyrega (Mathilde.Peyrega@gerad.ca).
- Nov 14, 2011 -
This month guests
Ekaterina V. Shevkoplyas
St. Petersburg State University
November 10 to 30, 2011
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Ekaterina V. Shevkoplyas is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes of St. Petersburg State University.
In 2004 she defended a Ph.D. thesis entitled "Cooperative Differential Games with Random Duration".
Now she is dealing with environmental applications in the field of differential games.
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She is invited by Georges Zaccour.
Don't miss her seminar on Friday, November 18, 2011.
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Fabien Prieur
LAMETA-INRA, Université Montpellier I, France
November 15 to December 1st, 2011
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Fabien Prieur holds a junior Chair in Environmental Economics at INRA, the French Institute for Research in Agriculture, and University Montpellier I, Montpellier, France. In 2006, he defended a ph.D thesis entitled ?Growth and the Environment in Overlapping Generations Models: Dynamic Analysis and Evaluation of Public Policies. His research is mainly dedicated to the analysis of the impact of irreversible pollution on the relationship between growth and the environment, on the optimal control of pollution under uncertainty and, on the management of polluting non-renewable ressources. He is also interested in the design of environmental policies. To this end, he develops growth, optimal control and differential game models.
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He is invited by Georges Zaccour.
Don't miss his seminar on Wednesday, November 23, 2011.
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Antonio Capone
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano
November 21 to 25 2011
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Antonio Capone is Full Professor at the Information and Communication Technology Department (Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione) of the Technical University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), where he is the director of the Advanced Network Technologies Laboratory (ANTLab). Dr. Capone is co-founder and CTO of MobiMESH, a spin-off company of Politecnico di Milano. His expertise is on networking and his main research activities include protocol design (MAC and routing) and performance evaluation of wireless access and multi-hop networks, traffic management and quality of service issues in IP networks, and network planning and optimization. On these topics he has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in international journal and conference proceedings.
He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1994 and 1998, respectively. In 2000 he was visiting professor at UCLA, Computer Science department. He currently serves as editor of ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), Computer Networks (Elsevier), and Computer Communications (Elsevier). He was guest editor of a few journal special issues and served in the technical program committee of major international conferences (including INFOCOM, SECON, MASS, Globecom, ICC, LCN, Networking, WoWMoM), as Technical Program Chair of Ifip MEDHOCNET2006, Poster&Demo co-chair of SECON 2009, Workshop chair of INFOCOM 2010, publicity chair of MOBIQUITOUS 2007, general co-chair of WONS 2011, area chair of INFOCOM 2012, Technical Program Co-chair of INFOCOM 2013.
He is currently involved in the scientific and technical activities of several national and European research projects, and he leads several industrial projects. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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He is invited by Brunilde Sansò
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Mabel Tidball
LAMETA (Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée) France
20 au 30 novembre 2011
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Mabel Tidball obtained her PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Rosario, Argentina, in 1991. She has been professor at the University of Rosario, invited researcher at INRIA (French National Institute of Computer Science and Control) in Sophia-Antipolis and researcher at INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research), department of economy, Montpellier, France since 2000. Her research interest ranges from Optimal control and dynamic games to applications in environmental economics.
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She is invited by Georges Zaccour.
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Jean-Marie Alain
LIRMM, Université Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier II, France
20 au 30 novembre 2011
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Alain Jean-Marie obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Paris XI at Orsay, France, in 1987. Since then, he has been researcher at the INRIA (French National Institute of Computer Science and Control) in Sophia-Antipolis and Montpellier, France. He has been Professor of Informatics at the University of Montpellier 2, from
1999 to 2003. His research interests range from applied probabilities and stochastic modeling to optimal control and game theory, with applications to scheduling, networking, biological systems and natural resource management.
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He is invited by Georges Zaccour.
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Henry Wolkowicz
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization University of Waterloo, Canada
November 24, 2011
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Professor Henry Wolkowicz received his doctoral degree in 1978 from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Mcgill University. He has worked at Dalhousie University, University of Alberta, Emory University, University of Delaware, and joined the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo in 1986.
Prof. Wolkowicz has been elected chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization and is currently on the SIAM council.
His research deals with applications of optimization and matrix theory to algorithmic development for both continuous and discrete optimization problems.
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He is invited by Miguel F. Anjos.
Don't miss his seminar on Thursday, November 24, 2011.
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Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Matyszkiel
Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Warsaw University, Pologne
24 au 29 novembre 2011
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Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Matyszkiel is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Mathematics, Information Science and
Mechanics, University of Warsaw.
The subject of her Ph.D. thesis, defended in 1999, was "Optimality and equilibrium in games with nonatomic space of players".
She deals with theory and applications of large games, including large dynamic games, game-theoretic modelling of economic and ecological problems of dynamic nature (among others financial markets and common ecosystems) and new equilibrium concepts in dynamic games.
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She is invited by Georges Zaccour.
Don't miss her seminar on Monday, November 28, 2011.
- Oct 28, 2011 -
Next guest: Coralia Cartis
Coralia Cartis
School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Royaume-Uni
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Short BIO
Coralia CARTIS has been a tenured assistant professor at Edinburgh University in Scotland, United Kingdom since 2007. Previously, she held postdoctoral appointments within the numerical analysis groups at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Oxford University. She pursued her PhD research in numerical optimization under the supervision of Prof Mike Powell at Cambridge University (2005).
Coralia's research addresses the development, convergence and complexity analyses and implementation of algorithms for linear and nonlinear nonconvex smooth optimization problems, suitable for large-scale problems. She is also interested in the interconnections between dynamical systems and continuous optimization; and optimization aspects of compressed sensing and sparse approximation.
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She is invited by Miguel F. Anjos and Dominique Orban.
Don't miss her seminar on Monday, October 31, 2011.
- Oct 13, 2011 -
Renewal of the Canada Research Chair in Logistics and Transportation
The Canada Research Chair in Logistics and Transportation, hold by Professor Jean-François Cordeau, will continue its activities over the next five years through the renewal of its grant, which amounts to $ 500 000, by the Chairs Canada Research Program.
To read the entire news, visit HEC Montréal website.
- Oct 05, 2011 -
Congradulations to our scholarship recipients!
Congradulations to the Gérardiens that received a scholarship.
For the entire list, visit the HEC Montréal website.
- Sep 16, 2011 -
Computational Management Science: Dominique Orban Wins the Award for Best Article of 2010
We want to congradulate Dominique Orban, an associate professor with the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal, who has received the award for the best article of 2010 from Computational Management Science journal, for his article entitled "DrAmpl: a meta solver for optimization problem analysis".
Congradulations!
- Sep 14, 2011 -
Pierre Duchesne has been nominated full professor
Congradulations!
- Sep 12, 2011 -
Doctorat Thesis Proposition of Réal. A. Carbonneau on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 9h00
Studient name: Réal A. CARBONNEAU
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Time: 9:00am
Venue: HEC Montréal, 5255 Decelles
Room: Amphithéâtre Lévis (3rd floor)
Title: Data Mining for Commerce Problems
Co-directors: Gilles CAPOROSSI and Pierre HANSEN
- Sep 06, 2011 -
Doctorat Thesis Defence of Lotfi Khribi on Friday, September 16, 2011 at 13h30
Student name: Lotfi KHRIBI
Date: Friday, September 16, 2011
Time: 1:30pm
Venue: HEC Montréal, Côte Sainte-Catherine building
Room: Esdras-Minville (4th floor - blue section)
Title: Application du Principe de Maximum d’Entropie dans la prédiction des évènements récurrents dans le cas des processus de Poisson
Co-directors: Marc FREDETTE and Brenda MacGIBBON
- Jul 26, 2011 -
Erik Frenette, winner of a NSERC grant
Congratulations to Erik Frenette, directed by Olivier Bahn, which obtained a research grant of $ 4,500 from the NSERC to fund his summer internship.
The complete news is available on HEC Montréal.
- Jul 26, 2011 -
Laetitia Wong, winner of a NSERC grant
Congratulations to Laetitia Wong, directed by Michèle Breton, which obtained a research grant of $ 4,500 from the NSERC to fund his summer internship.
The complete news is available on HEC Montréal.
- Jul 06, 2011 -
François Soumis received a grant from IBM
Professor François Soumis received from IBM a grant of $ 40 000.
For more information.
Congradulations!
- Jun 22, 2011 -
Alain Hertz was honored by the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sport
During the annual conference of the Association québécoise de pédagogie collégiale (AQPC), Alain Hertz was honored on June 8 at the Minister's Awards ceremony for the creation of his pedagogical work L'Agrapheur - Intrigues policières à saveur mathématique.
- Jun 20, 2011 -
Master's Thesis Defence of Rémi Pacqueau on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 15:45
TITLE: Optimisation stochastique d'horaires de personnel
PRESENTED BY: Rémi Pacqueau
DEPARTMENT: Mathematics and Industrial Engineering
PRESIDENT: Guy Desaulniers, Ph.D.
DIRECTOR: François Soumis, Ph.D.
MEMBRE: Michel Gendreau, Ph.D.
DATE: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
TIME: 15h45
VENUE: AA-6516 (Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
- May 24, 2011 -
Mourad El-Hila, took first place
The 2011 Journées de la finance mathématique, organized by the Institut de finance mathématique de Montréal (IFM2), rewarded the three best MSc theses of 2010. Mourad El-Hila, of HEC Montréal, took first place. His thesis, entitled Estimation et calibrage du processus GARCH : une étude empirique, was directed by Michèle Breton and Lars Stentoft (Finance).
The full article is available on HEC Montréal News.
- May 19, 2011 -
2009-2010 Annual Report
The 2009-2010 annual report of GERAD is now available:
2009-2010 annual report
- May 13, 2011 -
GERAD Newsletter
The latest GERAD Newsletter is available online. Don't hesitate to read it!
- May 06, 2011 -
Gerardo Berbeglia Wins the 2010 Mercure Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation
Gerardo Berbeglia has won the 2010 Mercure Award for the best doctoral dissertation. His dissertation, entitled Complexity Analyses and Algorithms for Pickup and Delivery Problems, was co-directed by Jean-François Cordeau, Full Professor with the Department of Logistics and Operations Management and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Logistics and Transportation, and Gilbert Laporte, Full Professor with the Department of Management Sciences and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management.
The full article is available on HEC Montréal News.
- Mar 09, 2011 -
A welcome contribution
All the GERAD members will like thank the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering of École Polytechnique de Montréal which offered us, so kindly, all those new chairs.
We are specially grateful for the work and the support of:
Pierre Baptiste, Director
Marlène Aubin, Assistant to the Director - Administration
Diane Bernier, Officer, Administrative Affairs
- Mar 01, 2011 -
Three of our students at the Honour Roll
The MSc in Administration program management of HEC Montréal had listed 16 of their students at the Honour Roll for the fall 2010 term, three of them are from GERAD:
- Jean-Bertrand Gauthier, directed by Jacques Desrosiers
- Marie-Hélène Roy, directed by Denis Larocque
- Sofiane Tafat, directed by Michel Denault
Congradulations to all!
For the complete annoncement, please visit the HEC Montréal Web site.
- Jan 05, 2011 -
E2G shine overseas
The article published last October in the Génial!, the FQRNT Newsletter, on E2G a GERAD research team, which is co-directed by Olivier Bahn and Jean-Philippe Waaub, has interest people accross the sea. ADIT, Agence pour la diffusion de l’information technologique, has published the article about global energy on his website bulletins-electroniques.com.
- Nov 25, 2010 -
María Angélica Salazar-Aguilar wins the 2010 Sofía Kovalévskaia Award
Congradulations to María Angélica Salazar-Aguilar, a postdoctoral trainee under the supervision of Gilbert Laporte and André Langevin. She is one of the eight winners of the 2010 Sofía Kovalévskaia Award.
For the entire news, please visit the HEC web site.
- Nov 24, 2010 -
Doctorat Thesis Defence of Ahlem Hajjem on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 13h
Studient name: AHLEM HAJJEM
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Time: 1pm
Venue: HEC Montréal, Côte Sainte-Catherine building
Room: Groupe Cholette (1st floor - yellow section)
Title: MIXED EFFECTS TREES AND FORESTS FOR CLUSTERED DATA
Co-directors: François Bellavance and Denis Larocque
- Nov 18, 2010 -
Two GERAD member won ex aequo the Pierre Laurin Award
Congratulations to Pierre Hansen and Gilbert Laporte who have won (ex aequo), the "Pierre Laurin" research award from HEC Montréal.
- Nov 18, 2010 -
HEC Montréal celebrates the dedication and loyalty of its staff
On November 9, HEC Montréal celebrated the dedicated service of its employees.
See the entire list, where you will find several GERAD members.
- Nov 01, 2010 -
Doctorat Thesis Defence of Rim Kilani on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 9:30 a.m.
Title: Étude théorique et algorithmique de la cardinalité maximale d'un sous-graphe 2-colorable
Presented by: Rim Kilani
Date: Thursday, November 25, 2010
Time: 9:30 a.m. to noon
Department: Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering
President: Louis-Martin Rousseau
Director: Alain Hertz
Co-directors : Pierre Hansen and Odile Marcotte
Member: Hadrien Mélot, Faculty of Science, Université de Mons, Belgium
External Examiner: Timothy Walsh, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science, UQAM
Representative of the Director of Graduate Studies: Gilles Pesant, Department of Computer Engineering
Venue: Room A-404, École Polytechnique de Montréal
- Oct 27, 2010 -
Congradulations to our scholarship recipients!
Congradulations to the Gérardiens that received a scholarship.
For the entire list, visit the HEC Montréal website.
- Oct 27, 2010 -
E2G dans le Génial!
Olivier Bahn a livré une entrevue dans le Génial!, le bulletin électronique du FQRNT. Dans cette édition spéciale sur l'environnement, Olivier Bahn énonce que la modélisation détaillée est un outil essentiel pour l'élaboration de politiques énergétiques et environnementales. De ce fait, l’Équipe énergie du GERAD (E2G) vise à développer un modèle détaillé du secteur de l’énergie au Canada, par province et par territoire, en utilisant le nouveau générateur de modèles TIMES.
Lisez l'article sur le site de Génial.
- Oct 22, 2010 -
Othmane Rachid Tahri, lauréat CFA Montréal 2010
Othmane Rachid Tahri, un récent diplômé de la M. Sc. (ingénierie financière), est lauréat de la bourse CFA Montréal 2010, d'une valeur de 4 000 $. Ce prix récompense le meilleur mémoire de maîtrise de l'année dans ce domaine.
Le mémoire primé, qui s'intitule Stratégies de couverture dans le cadre des modèles à changements de régime, a été codirigé par Geneviève Gauthier, professeure titulaire, du Service de l'enseignement des méthodes quantitatives de gestion, et Pascal François, professeur agrégé, du Service de l'enseignement de la finance.
Pour l'article complet, visitez HEC Montréal.
- Oct 19, 2010 -
Les midis de la recherche - HEC Montréal
On October 13, 2010, Michèle Breton, Gilbert Laporte and Georges Zaccour participated to the "midi de la recherche" organized by the Research Office of HEC Montréal. They presented GERAD, and examples of solving complex problems related to their respective field of expertise to the professors, executives, professionals and doctoral students of HEC Montréal.
- Oct 13, 2010 -
GERAD Newsletter
The latest GERAD Newsletter is available online. Don't hesitate to read it!
- Oct 07, 2010 -
A Women in Finance Scholarship from National Bank Financial Group for a GERAD’s student
Siyang Wu, a Ph.D student, directed by Michel Denault, HEC Montréal and GERAD has won one of the three Women in Finance Scholarship from National Bank Financial Group. This program is intended to support graduate studies in finance.
For more information.
Congratulations!
- Oct 05, 2010 -
Master's Thesis Defence of Bertrand Velut on Thursday, October 7, 2010
Title: Application de la méthode IPS au problème de localisation d'entrepôts sans capacité
Present by: Bertrand Velut
Date: Thursday, October, 2010
Time: 3:00 p.m
Venue: room 6156, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
Chairman: Charles Audet, Ph. D.
Director: Guy Desaulniers, Ph. D.
Co-director: François Soumis, Ph. D.
Member: Alain Hertz, D.Sc.
- Sep 28, 2010 -
Gilles Savard, honored by ADRIQ
As part of the event "Célébrons le partenariat!" organized by ADRIQ on September 23, 2010 at the Marché Bonsecours, Gilles Savard (École Polytechnique de Montréal), Patrice Marcotte (Université de Montréal) and Expretio Technologies have been honored for their research project Développement d'outils d'optimisation pour la mise en oeuvre de systèmes de gestion des revenus et de la tarification dans le domaine des transports aériens et ferroviaires.
For more information on this event, please visit ADRIQ web site.
- Sep 03, 2010 -
Doctorat Thesis Defence of Hasina Rasara on Friday, September 24, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.
Student's Name: Julie Paquette
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: HEC Montréal, Édifice Côte Sainte-Catherine
Room: Rona(First floor - blue section)
Title: Investissements en capacité de production dans les marchés déréglementés de l,électricité: approches par la théorie des jeux.
Co-director: Georges Zaccour and Pierre-Olivier Pineau
- Sep 03, 2010 -
Doctorat Thesis Defence of Julie Paquette on Monday, September 27, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.
Student's Name: Julie Paquette
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: HEC Montréal, Édifice Côte Sainte-Catherine
Room: Hélène-Desmarais (First floor - blue section)
Title: Problème de transport avec contraintes d’horaires
Co-director: Jean-François Cordeau and Gilbert Laporte
- Sep 02, 2010 -
Made in honor of Pierre Hansen
This octagonal whisky glass was designed to maximize its volume for a fixed diameter; the diagonals represented below share the same length. This glass was made in the honor of Pierre Hansen’s 70th birthday celebrated during the TOGO 2010 meeting in Toulouse.
- Jul 28, 2010 -
An Award for the Best Canadian Doctoral Dissertation in Applied Mathematics for a GERAD’s student
Gerardo Berbeglia, a Ph.D student, directed by Jean-François Cordeau and Gilbert Laporte, HEC Montréal and GERAD has won the 2010 Cecil Graham Award for the best doctoral dissertation in applied mathematics defended at a Canadian university in the year 2009, for his thesis, entitled "Complexity Analyses and Algorithms for Pickup and Delivery Problems".
For more information.
Congratulations!
- Jun 29, 2010 -
Pablo Andrés Domenech wins the "Best student presentation award"
Every two years, the International Society of Dynamic Games organizes an International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications. During the 14th edition, which occurred in Banff from June 19-24, 2010, M. Pablo Andrés Domenech received the "Best student presentation award" for is presentation named: Towards a sustainable and time consistent use of the forest.
For more information.
Congratulations!
- Jun 14, 2010 -
La SCRO remet le 1er prix de la pratique 2010 à l'équipe de Gilbert Laporte
Lors du congrès annuel MITACS-SCRO, qui se déroulait du 25 au 28 mai 2010, la Société canadienne de recherche opérationnelle a remis le 1er prix de la pratique 2010 à l'équipe constituée de : Gilbert Laporte, de HEC Montréal, Burcin Bozkaya, de l'Université Sabanci d'Istanbul, en Turquie, Erhan Erkut, de l'Université Ozyegin, aussi d'Istanbul, en Turquie, et Dan Haight, de l'Université de l'Alberta, à Edmonton. Leur projet consistait à effectuer le redécoupage de la carte électorale de la ville d'Edmonton.
Pour plus de renseignements, lisez l'article sur hec.ca.
- Jun 08, 2010 -
IAMC elect one of ours
The International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry newly elected Gilles Caporossi as a member.
Congratulations, we hope this new partnership brings interesting discoveries!
- Jun 03, 2010 -
Sabbatical leave
Three of our members, also Professors in the Department of Management Sciences at HEC Montréal, will be in sabbatical leave from June 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011, they are:
- Gilles Caporossi
- Jacques Desrosiers
- Marc Fredette
- Jun 03, 2010 -
Two new Associate Professors
On June 1, 2010, Chantal Labbé and Sylvain Perron have been promoted as Associate Professor of the Department of Management Sciences at HEC Montréal.
Congratulations to both of you and good luck!
- May 28, 2010 -
Sunday, interview of Alain Hertz on 95.1 FM
Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 13:00, M. Alain Hertz will be interviewed by Sophie-Andrée Blondin from the radio station of Radio-Canada (95.1 FM) regarding his latest book l'Agrapheur.
- May 17, 2010 -
The Department of Management Sciences will have a new Director
Starting June 1, Mr. Denis Larocque, as the new Director of Department of Management Sciences of HEC Montréal, will take charge of Mr. Jacques Desrosiers’ work which is at this position since June 2004.
- May 07, 2010 -
Winners of GERAD's internal competition
Dear fellow GERAD members,
It is my great pleasure to announce the names of the winners of our internal GERAD postdoctoral competition. The selection committee, of which I was not a member, has declared Drs Guillaume Goffaux and Ibrahim Karakayali each the winner of a half postdoc GERAD fellowship of $17000/each, to be complemented by the GERAD researchers who backed their candidacy.
As to the visiting undergraduate summer trainees GERAD competition, the Committee has attributed three scholarships of $3000/each respectively to Yosra Neji, Sidina Biha and Fabien Brulard.
For GERAD, I would like to congratulate all of the winners. My warm thanks also go to the members of our selection committee, Professors Jacques Desrosiers, Gilles Savard and François Watier for their thorough and conscientious deliberation process.
I encourage you to submit candidates at our next GERAD competition whenever it will be announced.
Roland Malhamé
- May 07, 2010 -
Award for Best Innovation at Hatch in 2009
Alain Hertz, Odile Marcotte and Asma Mdimagh have developed innovative methods for the automatic generation of an optimal system for gathering energy in a windmill park.
These developments have been made in collaboration with Michel Carreau from Hatch.
Hatch is a global company operating in 150 countries in the mining and metals, infrastructure and energy and has over 8,000 employees. Many projects from various offices around the world and industries have been nominated. The project carried out by three members of GERAD won the award for Best Innovation at Hatch in 2009, all sectors.
Congradulation to our members.
- Apr 20, 2010 -
2008-2009 Annual Report
The 2008-2009 annual report of GERAD is now available:
2008-2009 annual report
- Apr 06, 2010 -
Release of the Dynamic Games and Applications Journal
Dynamic Games and Applications is devoted to the development of all classes of dynamic games, namely, differential games, discrete-time dynamic games, evolutionary games, repeated and stochastic games, and their applications.
For more information, please visit Springer website.
- Mar 26, 2010 -
Easter Holiday!
Our offices will be closed on April 2 and 5, 2010.
- Mar 10, 2010 -
Alain Hertz's inspector, Maurice Manori, has been released in l'Agrapheur
Je m’appelle Maurice Manori. Je suis inspecteur de police à la Sûreté du Québec à l’Institut de Police Scientifique de Montréal. Bien que j’habite au Québec, mes origines sont italiennes. Mes collègues m’appellent tout simplement Manori. Je sais cependant que, derrière mon dos, certains me surnomment « l’agrapheur ». N’allez surtout pas imaginer que j’ai pour habitude de brandir une agrafeuse… j’agrafe les suspects à l’aide de la théorie des graphes.
Je me trouve actuellement dans un avion, en direction de Genève. Je me rends en Suisse pour participer au congrès COPS de la Police Scientifique. J’ai pour mission de convaincre mes collègues que les graphes pourraient leur être utiles dans leurs enquêtes.
To learn more or to make an order, visit Les Presses internationales Polytechnique
- Feb 19, 2010 -
Ève Lacasse-Guay has been nominated as coordinator of the Mathematics Help Center
On February 18, 2010, Program Director at HEC Montréal, Mrs. Ruth Dupré was proud to welcome in her team Mrs. Ève Lacasse-Guay as coordinator of the Mathematics Help Center.
She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from École Polytechnique and a Master of Science in Administration, Logistics option from HEC Montréal. Mrs. Lacasse-Guay will apply her training and expertise to coordinate all activities of the Mathematics Help Center. She will ensure to offer students a range of activities to acquire or consolidate prior mathematical knowledge of administration studies and monitoring fiscal activities.
We wish our best wishes to Mrs. Lacasse-Guay.
- Jan 19, 2010 -
Peter Caines, lecturer at the IEEE
McGill University's Professor Peter Caines has been the prestigious Henrick Bode lecturer at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Shanghai, China, December 2009. This choice is in recognition of his distinguished contributions to Systems Science and Engineering. He has presented his work with Roland Malhamé and their common Ph.D. student Minyi Huang, now Professor at the Mathematics and Statistics Department of Carleton University.
Congratulations Peter!
Here is a summary of the presentation Mean Field Stochastic Control
- Jan 19, 2010 -
Michel Perrier has been nominated Chairman
We are proud to announce that Michel Perrier, Professor from École Polytechnique, has been nominated Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department.
Congratulations Michel!
- Jan 12, 2010 -
Opening of a competition for GERAD fellowships contest for undergraduate foreign student trainees
We are pleased to announce the opening of an internal competition for four undergraduate foreign student trainees scholarships of $3000 each. Candidate proposals must be presented together with letters of support and candidate CV's, by one or more members of GERAD.
Please send your prospective candidates data to Marie Perreault, marie.perreault@gerad.ca, under the title GERAD fellowships contest, from now until April 15, 2010.
- Jan 12, 2010 -
Opening of a competition for GERAD fellowships contest for post doctoral research
During the 2009-2010 fiscal exercise, GERAD will offer two half post doctoral research fellowships of $17000 each at the end of an internal competition.
Candidate proposals must be presented together with letters of support and candidate CV's together with copies of up to 3 publications, by one or more members of GERAD who then in effect commit to completing the fellowships using other funds, if the candidate they propose is retained by the center’s selection committee.
Please send your prospective candidates data to Marie Perreault, marie.perreault@gerad.ca, under the title GERAD post doctoral fellowships contest, from now until April 15, 2009.
- Jan 04, 2010 -
Charles Audet has been promoted
We sincerely congratulate Charles Audet, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal, for is promotion as Full Professor since June 2009.
Furthermore, we are proud to inform you that he will be an Associate Editor for the Pacific Journal of Optimization (http://www.ybook.co.jp/pjo.html).
- Dec 18, 2009 -
GERAD Newsletter
The latest GERAD Newsletter is available online. Don't hesitate to read it!
- Dec 17, 2009 -
Holidays!
Our offices will be closed from December 23, 2009 to January 3rd, 2010 included.
- Dec 09, 2009 -
Soccer: GCC saddest victory
On October 18th GERAD’s soccer team, GCC, ended the regular season with a victory 7-3 against Super Seven, their big rivals of the previous season. With this last victory GCC ended in first position of the league with a perfect score of five victories in the five games of the regular season.
The first place in the league allowed GCC to play the playoffs (semifinals) for the soccer championship. GCC was to encounter United Nations on October 25th for a place in the tournament final. The match against United Nations was easier than expected and GCC qualified for the final of the championship after defeating United Nations with a final score of 6-2 for our GERAD footballers.
On November the 1st GCC was to play the final against Karpaty. The match would certainly be tough. GCC had previously encountered Karpaty twice this year and their players were young and energetic, but GCC relied on the two previous attempts on their greater experience and team concentration to defeat.
The day of the final all GCC players were ready for the occasion with the only exception of Andrew McCann who was out for a research trip. Gerardo and Anthony were fully recovered from their season injuries and GCC was determined to end with the curse of three consecutive playoff defeats in the last three tournaments.
The atmosphere prior to the match was excellent and GCC did not lack the support of other GERAD members who came to cheer for their fellow friends.
Since the starting whistle Karpaty were extremely rough and physical and kicked GCC players’ legs without penitence or restrain. Despite aggressive Karpaty play, GCC was the first to score by means of Anthony who found his way to the goal in the middle Karpaty defense after a shoot on the goal by Stefano.
Karpaty came back with more energy and intensity and little later they scored a goal on a counterattack. The score was even and the first half was far from being over.
A few seconds prior to half time Karpaty did a rough tackle foul on Kasper, GCC’s left defender, as he initiated an attack on GCC’s left side. The referee whistled and GCC had a clear occasion close to Karpaty’s goal. Pablo put the ball in play and Stefano jumped over the defense and touched the ball slightly with his head. It was enough to put the ball far from the reach of Karpaty´s goalkeeper. The score was 2-1 for GCC. The first half came to an end.
During the intermediate GCC players commented on the extreme roughness with which Karpaty’s players played. GCC’s players conjured themselves to resist.
The second half started, GCC had the control of the pace of the game and was more accurate in attack. Several minutes later Pablo intercepted a pass in the midfield and ran without opposition in front of Karpaty’s goalkeeper and scored. By then GCC led 3-1 and the tournament seemed closer than ever.
However, the match was far from being over and GCC’s players did not know that the worse surprise was yet to come. After the goal, Karpaty players continued to show a very rough play.
Only eight minutes prior to the completion of the match one of Karpaty’s players came to intercept Ricardo. He impacted without any self restrain. A second later Ricardo was crying with pain on the floor. Karpaty’s player had broken Ricardo’s leg. He broke Ricardo’s tibia and fibula but did not even apologize.
The rest of the tournament was meaningless. GCC won 3-1 and an ambulance came to pick Ricardo up.
Epilogue:
Ricardo had surgery on his leg. He is doing much better now.
GCC in their fourth attempt managed to win the championship. It was, though, the saddest victory ever.
GCC wants to thank GERAD for their moral and financial support as well as Mouna, Hafedh, Maaike and Quentin for following GCC and coming to cheer for us.
- Nov 10, 2009 -
Diane Riopel at Radio-Canada network
Diane Riopel, professor at École Polytechnique, GERAD member as well as co-founder and co-holder of the Marianne-Mareschal Chair promoting engineering to women, was Louis Lemieux's guest, this past November 7, at the RDI matin week-end show. She spoke of the Journées du Savoir and did the Saturday's press review.
Congratulations Ms Riopel!
- Nov 04, 2009 -
Congratulations to Michèle Breton for her election to the Royal Society of Canada!
Michèle Breton, member of GERAD and a Full Professor with the Department of Management Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and will be welcomed into this select group at the induction and awards ceremony on November 28.
The mandate of the Society, consisting of eminent scientists, researchers and men and women of letters, is to recognize academic excellence, promote research and learning in the arts and sciences, and advise governments and organizations. It currently has about 2,000 members, selected by their peers for their outstanding contributions to the natural and social sciences and in the humanities and the arts.
For more information, please see the HEC Montréal website.
- Oct 30, 2009 -
Peter Caines awarded Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2009
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics honorific designation is conferred on members distinguished for their outstanding contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science.
For more information, please visit McGill CIM website.
- Apr 28, 2009 -
Subvention du Regroupement Stratégique du FQRNT
Le GERAD a vu renouveler sa subvention du Regroupement Stratégique du FQRNT pour les six prochaines années, soit de 2009-2015. Le directeur, Roland Malhamé, souligne l'excellent travail de tous et de toutes ainsi que des contributions des membres impliqués dans cette démarche.
Bonne route et félicitations!
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