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Jan 08, 2010 - Operations management: the work of Gilbert Laporte world leaders

Already recognized by numerous awards and honors, outstanding scientific contributions of Professor Gilbert Laporte area of production management and operations is illustrated vividly by a recent study.

For the full article, visit the HEC Montréal website
Dec 15, 2009 - Lila Rasekh publishes a book based on her thesis!

Lila Rasekh, a student who obtained her doctorat in December 2008 under the direction of Mr. Jacques Desrosiers, Ph. D., publishes a book based on her thesis. Please clic here to visit the link and have more information on the matter.
Dec 15, 2009 - Doctorat Thesis Defence of Mr. Nizar El Hachemi on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.

Student's Name: Nizar El Hanchemi

Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Time: 10:30 p.m.

Venue: Room: B-529 (Salle de vidéoconférence au Pavillon principal de l’École Polytechnique)

Title: Problème de transport avec contraintes d’horaires

Director: Monsieur Gilles Savard, Ph. D.
Dec 14, 2009 - Doctorat Thesis Defence of Mr. Benoît Crevier on Monday, December 21, 2009 at 10 a.m.

Student's Name: Benoît Crevier

Date: Le lundi 21 décembre 2009

Time: 10 h

Venue: Salle C-624 de l'École Polytechnique de Montréal (salle multimédia du pavillon principal)

Title: Intégration de la planification des opérations et de la gestion du revenu pour le transport ferroviaire de marchandise.

Director: Monsieur Gilles Savard, Ph. D.
Dec 08, 2009 - Master's Thesis Defence of Luc Hébert-Desgroseillers, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.

Name of student: Luc Hébert-Desgroseillers

Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal (Pavillon principal)

Room: C 630 (Salle multimédia)

Title: "Conception d’un plan de production minière avec rétroaction"

Director: Michel Gamache, ing. Ph. D.
Nov 30, 2009 - Master's Thesis Defence of Jin Jin on Monday, December 10, 2009

Name of student: Jin Jin

Date: Monday, December 7, 2009

Time: 2 p.m.

Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal (Pavillon principal)

Room: A 622 (Salle multimédia)

Title: "Préaffectation des tâches aux employés effectuant des tâches non-interruptibles et des activités interruptibles"

Director: Monsieur François Soumis, Ph.D.
Oct 23, 2009 - New members at GERAD

We would like to welcome 2 new members of the GERAD since October 9, 2009. Fabrice Mehmet, Permanent Professor at UQAM as well as Mehmet Gumus, Assistant Professor et McGill University.
Aug 24, 2009 - Doctorat Thesis Defence of Mrs. Ève Lacasse-Guay on Monday, August 31, 2009 at 3:15pm

Student's Name: Ève Lacasse-Guay
Date: Monday, August 31, 2009
Time: 3:15pm
Venue: Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Université de Montréal Campus, 2920, chemin de la Tour
Room: 6516 at the GERAD research center

Title: Affectation des types d'avions aux vols avec contraintes de maintenance

Director: Monsieur Guy Desaulniers, Ph. D.
Aug 21, 2009 - Master's Thesis Defence of Morad Hosseinalifam Thursday August 27, 2009 at 2pm.

Name: Morad Hosseinalifam
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009
Time: 2pm
Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Pavillon principal
Room: A-404, Salle multimédia

Title: A fractional programming approach for choice-based network revenue management

Director: Monsieur Gilles Savard, Ph. D.

Welcome to everybody!
Jun 25, 2009 - Gilbert Laporte, Omega Rho Honor Society member

We are happy to announce that M. Gilbert Laporte is a new member of the Omega Rho Honor Society.

Please clic here for the complete story.
Jun 25, 2009 - FQRNT Renews Its Support for GERAD: $2.34 Million

We were happy to know that the FQRNT renewed out subvention for another 6 years for a grand total of 2.34 million dollars.

Clic here for the complete news.
Jun 25, 2009 - 2009-2010 sabbatical for our professors

Here is the list of our professors in sabbatical for the years 2009-2010:

— Olivier Bahn (June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010)

— Bruno Rémillard (January 1 to June 30, 2010)

— Sihem Taboubi (January 1 to June 30, 2010 and January 1 to June 30, 2011)

For the complete list of HEC professors in sabbatical, please clic here.
Jun 25, 2009 - Major subsidy from the CFI to create a Calculation and Data Mining Laboratory

Please clic here for the complete story.
Jun 23, 2009 - Master's Thesis Defence of Toufik Hammouche

Name: Toufik Hammouche
Date: Monday, June 29, 2009
Time: 15:00
Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Pavillon principal
Room: A-522, Salle multimédia

Title: Une méthode heuristique pour l'affection des avions aux vols avec contraintes d'entretien

Director: Monsieur François Soumis Ph. D.

Welcome to everybody!
Jun 03, 2009 - Prix Mercure for best doctoral thesis 2008 to go to Ramzi Ben-Abdallah CONGRATULATIONS

We would like to congratulate Ramzi Ben-Abdallah for his prize and the $3000 grant coming along with it for his thesis called "Essays on the Valuation of Derivatives on Long Maturity Treasury Bonds". We would also like to mention that Ramzi was codirected by professors Michèle Breton and Hatem Ben Hameur.

For the complete story, please visit the HEC news site by clicking the link below.

http://www.hec.ca/nouvelles/2009/2009032.html

Once more, congratulations!
May 28, 2009 - Doctorat Thesis Defence of Daniel Aloise on Monday, June 1st 2009 at 10:30

Student's Name: Daniel Aloïse
Date: Monday, June 1, 2009
Time: 10:30
Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Pavillon principal
Room: B-529, Salle vidéoconférence

Title: Exact Algorithms for Minimum Sum-of-squares Clustering

Director: Monsieur Louis-Martin Rousseau, Ph. D.
May 14, 2009 - New member at GERAD

We would like to welcome our new GERAD's research group member Raf Jans (HEC Montréal) who joined us on April 17th, 2009.
May 13, 2009 - Congratulations to Marc Fredette!

Congratulations to Professor Marc Fredette for becoming an Associate Professor as of June 1st, 2009!
Apr 17, 2009 - Doctorat Thesis Defence of Vincent Raymond

Name: Vincent Raymond
Date: Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Time: 8:30
Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Pavillon principal
Room: B-529, Salle vidéoconférence

Title: Un simplexe primal amélioré pour des problèmes linéaires dégénérés

Director: Monsieur François Soumis, Ph. D.
Apr 17, 2009 - Master's Thesis Defence of Arnaud Le Gallou

Name: Arnaud Le Gallou
Date: Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Time: 10:00
Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Pavillon principal
Room: B-530.2, Salle multimédia

Title: Modèle d’affectation pluraliste de passagers dans un réseau de transport en commun

Director: Monsieur François Soumis Ph. D.

Welcome to everybody!
Apr 17, 2009 - Master's Thesis Defense of Jean-Philippe Nantel

Name: Jean-Philippe Nantel
Date: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Time: 10:00
Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Pavillon principal
Room: C-632, Salle multimédia

Title: Agrégation dynamique de contraintes pour la construction de blocs mensuels personnalisés dans un contexte d’équité

Director: Monsieur Guy Desaulniers Ph. D.

Welcome to everybody!
Apr 03, 2009 - 2009 Gérard-Parizeau Prize goes to Gilbert Laporte

It is our great pleasure to announce that Gilbert Laporte, CIRRELT reasercher, HEC Montreal professor, GERAD member and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, received the 2009 Gérard-Parizeau prize.

We wish to invite all our members, reaserchers and students to attend the conference given by the prize winner, called "Le rôle de la recherche opérationnelle en transort", which will be held on Thursday, April 16th, 2009, at 11h, in the Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton room of HEC Montreal (1st floor - yellow section).

Congratulations to Gilbert for this honor!
Mar 24, 2009 - 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 (3K 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, 2009.
Mar 24, 2009 - Opening of a competition for two half post doctoral GERAD research fellowships of $17000 Canadian each.

During the 2009-2010 fiscal exercise, GERAD will offer two half post doctoral research fellowships of $17000 Canadian 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.
Mar 04, 2009 - GERAD Professors Win the 2009 ROADEF Challenge

A team of three HEC Montréal professors, of which two members of the GERAD, Jean François Cordeau, Canada Research Chair in Logistics and Transportation, and Gilbert Laporte, Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, as well as a CIRRELT analyst won the 2009 ROADEF Challenge among 29 teams from 15 countries.

The ROADEF Challenge is a biennial international competition dedicated to industrial applications. A decision-making problem to be solved: managing disruptions in the aviation industry. Organized by the Société française de recherche opérationnelle et d’aide à la décision, the ROADEF Challenge looks at the development of optimization tools for industrial problem solving.

For more information.

Congratulations to our two members!
Feb 26, 2009 - Nomination for Olivier Bahn

Congratulations to Professor Olivier Bahn for his nomination as the new Pedagogical Director “Energy Asia” at HEC Montréal. He is in charge of the graduate diploma (DESS) in energy management in China as well as various training programs in energy management for managers and executives in Asia.
Feb 12, 2009 - A new member at GERAD

A new member has joined GERAD’s research group. Indeed, at our last members’ meeting held on December 19, 2008, Adrian Vetta (McGill University) became member.
Feb 05, 2009 - Congratulations to Michel Gamache!

Michel Gamache will be on June 1st, 2009 a Full Professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Congratulations!
Dec 12, 2008 - Thesis Defense of Sandrine Paroz

Name: Sandrine Paroz
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008
Time: 9:30
Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Pavillon principal
Room: B-529, Salle vidéoconférence

Title: Preuves de non réalisabilité et filtrage de domaines pour les problèmes de satisfaction de contraintes : application à la confection d’horaires

Director: Monsieur Alain Hertz

Welcome to everybody!
Dec 09, 2008 - Marc Fredette receives the Award for teaching excellence for an assistant professor

Marc Fredette, assistant professor at the Department of Management Sciences at HEC Montréal and GERAD member, received the Award for teaching excellence for an assistant professor, in Montréal.

This award recognizes the teaching contribution by an assistant professor. The recipient constantly strives to improve his or her teaching performance, to create an environment conducive to students’ intellectual development and to instil in them the desire to excel and work hard. The award winner is recognized by his or her peers and students as an exceptional teacher.

Congratulations!
Nov 25, 2008 - Master's Thesis Defense of Khadija Dhouib

Name: Khadija Dhouib
Date: Friday, December 3, 2008
Time: 10:00
Venue: École Polytechnique de Montréal, Pavillon principal
Room: B-401, Salle multimédia

Title: Génération d’arbres de scénarios d’apports d’eau

Director: Monsieur André Turgeon

Welcome to everybody!
Nov 12, 2008 - Mathieu Boudreault Awarded a Desjardins Foundation Bursary

Mathieu Boudreault, a Ph.D. student directed by Geneviève Gauthier, HEC Montréal and GERAD, received the only bursary under the Girardin-Vaillancourt program of the Desjardins Foundation in the field of economics, finance, administration and management, to allow him to complete his thesis, which he plans to defend in July of next year.

For more information.

Congratulations!
Oct 23, 2008 - Thesis Defense of Lila Rasekh

Name: Lila RASEKH
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: 11:00
Venue: HEC Montréal, Côte Sainte-Catherine Building
Room: Procter & Gamble (1st floor – green section)

Title: The Two-Level Decomposition Principle Via Dual Central Pricing for Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming

Director: Monsieur Jacques Desrosiers

Welcome to everybody!
Oct 20, 2008 - Pierre Hansen Wins the Acfas – Jacques-Rousseau Award

Pierre Hansen, holder of the Data Mining Chair, and GERAD member, received the 2008 Jacques-Rousseau Award (multidisciplinarity) from the ACFAS. This award was presented at the ACFAS gala held on October 16, 2008, in Montreal.

This award salutes exceptional scientific achievements by individuals or teams having far exceeded their field of specialization and created new bridges between different disciplines.

Congratulations!
Oct 07, 2008 - Publication by professor Diane Riopel of a book at Presses Internationales Polytechnique

Diane Riopel, Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, and GERAD member, has just published with Clément Croteau, linguist-terminologist at the Office québécois de la langue française, a “Dictionnaire illustré des activités de l’entreprise” at the Presses Internationales Polytechnique. The dictionary contains the essential terminology for an effective communication at all levels in a business.

Congratulations!
Oct 03, 2008 - Geneviève Gauthier has been nominated full professor

Congratulations!
Jun 23, 2008 - Professor in sabbatical year in 2008-2009

Department of Management Sciences
- Pierre Hansen, Professor (June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2009)
Jun 23, 2008 - An Award for the Best Canadian Doctoral Dissertation in Applied Mathematics for a GERAD’s student

Alysson M. Costa, a Ph.D. student directed by Jean-François Cordeau and Gilbert Laporte, HEC Montréal and GERAD, received the 2008 Cecil Graham Award for the best doctoral dissertation in applied mathematics defended at a Canadian university in 2007, for her thesis entitled "Models and Algorithms for Two Network Design Problems".

For more information.

Congratulations!
Jun 03, 2008 - Michel Perrier receives an Honorary PhD from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons

On September 26, 2008, the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, in Belgium, will award an Honorary PhD to Michel Perrier, full professor (Department of Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal), and GERAD member, at an official ceremony where four other members of the international scientific community will also be honoured.

Congratulations!
May 29, 2008 - A best paper award for a GERAD’s student

Tuyva Chan who graduated in 2007 from the MSc in Administration program, Logistics option, codirected by Gilbert Laporte and Jean-François Cordeau, received the Progistix National Student Paper Award by the Supply Chain and Logistics Association Canada (SCL) for a paper based on her thesis “La localisation d'usines satellites dans le domaine forestier : une étude de cas”, at the organization’s annual conference, held from May 4 to 6 in Toronto.
May 23, 2008 - Congratulations to Sihem Taboubi!

Sihem Taboubi is now an Associate Professor at HEC Montréal.

Congratulations!
May 23, 2008 - Appointment Notice

Congratulations to Professor Jean-François Cordeau for his nomination as the new Associate Director of Montreal site, at CIRRELT.
May 21, 2008 - Congratulations to Dominique Orban!

Dominique Orban is now an Associate Professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Congratulations!
May 21, 2008 - Congratulations to Gilles Caporossi!

Gilles Caporossi is now an Associate Professor at HEC Montréal.

Congratulations!
May 21, 2008 - Denis Larocque has been nominated full professor

Congratulations!
May 02, 2008 - Party of Anita's Retirement
Apr 25, 2008 - Nobel Prize glory shines on GERAD through Professor Richard Loulou

In 2007, Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". As a member of IPCC, Professor Richard Loulou, a GERAD member and ex director of GERAD, has received the following testimony by Mr. R.K. Pachauri, Chairman.

Congratulations Richard and thank you! Through you, a bit of the Nobel Prize glory shines on GERAD.
Apr 04, 2008 - Michel Gamache receives an honourable mention

Michel Gamache, Associate Professor (Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, École Polytechnique), and GERAD member, received an honourable mention from the Conseil académique for his teaching excellence and for his achievements.

Congratulations!
Feb 11, 2008 - 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 two undergraduate foreign student trainees scholarships (4K 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 Carole Dufour at: carole.dufour@gerad.ca, under the title GERAD fellowships contest, from now until March 31, 2008.
Jan 18, 2008 - Publication of professor El-Kébir Boukas' book at Springer

This week the book of professor El-Kebir Boukas entitled Control of Singular Systems with Abrupt Changes from the book series Communications and Control Engineering was published at Springer.

Congratulations!
Jan 08, 2008 - Desautels Faculty Scholar Award goes to Saibal Ray
Saibal Ray, Associate Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, and GERAD member, received the Desautels Faculty Scholar Award.

This award is given based on:
- A demonstrated track record of publication in top tier academic journals in keeping with stage in career and the individual’s field of study;
- Other evidence of research output and impact such as research grants, books and other publications, other research awards, and citations counts;
- Record of supervision and placement of graduate students.
Congratulations!
Dec 07, 2007 - Gilbert Laporte Wins the Innis-Gérin Medal

Gilbert Laporte, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, and GERAD member, received the 2007 Innis-Gérin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

Awarded for a distinguished and sustained contribution to the social sciences, the medal was presented to Professor Laporte at a banquet held as part of the annual general meeting of the RSC on November 17, in Edmonton.

Congratulations!
Nov 21, 2007 - A best Ph.D. thesis award for a GERAD’s student

Anne Mercier, a Ph.D. student directed by François Soumis, École Polytechnique de Montréal and GERAD, received the 2007 Best dissertation prize from the Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS, for her thesis entitled "Méthodes de décomposition pour la planification intégrée des itinéraires d'avions et des rotations d'équipages". This year, nine theses from all around the world were in competition for this high level contest.

Congratulations!
Nov 12, 2007 - 2007 Pierre Laurin Award goes to Bruno Rémillard

Bruno Rémillard, full professor at the Department of Management Sciences, and GERAD member, received the 2007 Pierre Laurin Award.

This award recognizes research conducted over the past three years at HEC Montréal.

Congratulations!
Nov 12, 2007 - 2007 Roger-Charbonneau Award goes to Gilbert Laporte

Gilbert Laporte, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, and GERAD member, received the 2007 Roger-Charbonneau Award for the book entitled Transportation, written with Cynthia Barnhart.

This award recognizes the quality of an educational handbook published over the year by a professor of HEC Montréal.

Congratulations!
Nov 12, 2007 - Vašek Chvátal wins the 2007 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize

Vašek Chvátal, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization at Concordia University, and GERAD member, has received the 2007 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize from INFORMS.

The Lanchester prize is awarded for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English.

Professor Chvátal and his co-authors, David Applegate, Bob Bixby and Bill Cook, have received the prize for the book The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study, Princeton University Press, 2006.

Congratulations!
Oct 15, 2007 - Opening of a competition for two half post doctoral GERAD scholarships of $15000 Canadian each.

During the 2008-2009 fiscal exercise, GERAD will offer two half post doctoral scholarships of $15000 Canadian each at the end of an internal competition. The rules are as follows:

- Two researchers or more from within GERAD agree to back a given candidate for a one year post doc scholarship within GERAD.
- If the candidate is awarded a15000 dollars, the researchers are committed to complementing the candidate’s salary for one year.

If you are a Ph.D., or about to obtain it, and you are wishing to postulate for these scholarships, contact a GERAD researcher who appears close to your area of interest and expertise. If you do obtain their agreement, send your CV and copies of your publications to the researcher who will present your file, together with a letter of support to Ms Carole Dufour at GERAD.

Closing date for receipt of candidate files is March 31st, 2008. The winners of the competition should be announced early May 2008.
Oct 12, 2007 - The Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) celebrates its 40th anniversary: A paper by Pierre L’Écuyer selected among thousands for the commemoration.

A paper by Pierre L’Écuyer, Professor at the University of Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, and member of GERAD, has been selected among thousands of others as a landmark paper for the 40th anniversary of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC).

L'Écuyer, Pierre, “Efficient and portable 32-Bit random variate generators”. In Proceedings of the 1986 Winter Simulation Conference, J. Wilson, J. Henriksen, S. Roberts (eds.), 275-277, 1986.

Congratulations Pierre!
Aug 15, 2007 - Appointment Notice

Congratulations to Professor Gilles Savard for his nomination as the new Director of Research and Innovation, at École Polytechnique de Montréal, from August 13, 2007 to August 31, 2011.
Jul 11, 2007 - Guy Desaulniers has been nominated full professor

Congratulations!
Jul 04, 2007 - Congratulations to Olivier Bahn!

Olivier Bahn is now an Associate Professor at HEC Montréal.

Congratulations!
Jun 19, 2007 - Professor in sabbatical year in 2008

Department of Management Sciences
- Debbie J. Dupuis, professor (January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008)
Jun 14, 2007 - Promising Young Scientist Award goes to Gilles Caporossi

Gilles Caporossi, member of GERAD and Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences at HEC Montréal, received the Promising Young Scientist Award at the 3rd Meeting of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry at Dubrovnik, June 7-9, 2007.

Congratulations!
Jun 13, 2007 - A best paper award for a GERAD’s student

Soheil Saberi, an M.Sc.A. student codirected by Roland Malhamé (GERAD) and Lorne Mason (McGill) received the best paper award in June 2007 at the International Conference on Network Control and Optimization, Avignon, France for the paper entitled “Pricing for QoS Provisioning across Multiple Interner Service Provider Domains”, by S. Saberi, R. Malhamé and Lorne Mason.
May 25, 2007 - GERAD Newsletter

GERAD's Newsletter of May 2007 is now available on our website.

GERAD Newsletter
May 02, 2007 - GERAD post doc/undergraduate trainees competition

The names of our winners within our internal GERAD post doctoral competition. The selection committee has declared Ms Lucia Sbragia and Mr Moustapha Aouchiche ex aequo first and the winners each of a half post doc GERAD fellowship of $15000, to be complemented by the GERAD researchers who backed their candidacy. Given the position as second of Mr Dan Lansana Kourouma, he will receive one quarter of a scholarship, i.e. $7500.

As to the visiting undergraduate summer trainees GERAD competition, the winners are Julien Cuvillier and Vivien Mura, both from ISIMA, France, with $4000 each.

Congratulations !
Feb 27, 2007 - 2005-2006 Annual Report

The 2005-2006 annual report of GERAD is now available on our website.

2005-2006 annual report
Nov 16, 2006 - New members at GERAD

Five new members have joined GERAD’s research group. Indeed, at our last members’ meeting held on September 15, 2006, Marc Fredette, Chantal Labbé and Sylvain Perron (HEC Montréal), François Watier (UQAM) and Jean-François Frigon (École Polytechnique de Montréal) became members.
Nov 16, 2006 - Pierre Hansen named Fellow of the AIRO

The Italian Society of Operations Research (AIRO) nominated Pierre Hansen foreign AIRO fellow at their annual meeting which was held in Cesena, Italy in September 2006. It is the first time that AIRO nominates Fellows and the two others who received this title are professors Paolo Toth (Bologna) and Giorgio Gallo (Pisa).

Congratulations!

For more information
Nov 14, 2006 - 2006 Pierre Laurin Award Goes to Georges Zaccour

Georges Zaccour, holder of the Chair in Game Theory and Management and Full Professor, Department of Marketing, reveived the 2006 Pierre Laurin Award. This award recognizes research conducted over the past three years.

Congratulations!

For more information
Nov 14, 2006 - Chenelière Éducation/Gaëtan Morin Award Goes to Jean-François Cordeau

Jean-François Cordeau, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Logistics and Transportation and Associate Professor, Department of Logistics and Operations Management, reveived the Chenelière Éducation/Gaëtan Morin Award. This award recognizes research conducted over the past three years.

Congratulations!

For more information
Oct 26, 2006 - Maryse Labriet receives two awards

Maryse Labriet has been honoured an Academic Medal by the Governor General of Canada on October 17, 2005. She has been awarded the Gold Medal for her thesis entitled "Modélisation technico-économique de scénarios globaux coopératifs et non-coopératifs de réduction des gaz à effet de serre".

Furthermore, October 25, 2006, she received the Award of Excellence from the Academy of Great Montrealers, Natural Sciences and Engineering, for the best thesis of the year 2005.

Congratulations!
Oct 03, 2006 - Pierre Duchesne Receives the Best Paper Award Northern Finance Association

Professor Pierre Duchesne received the Best Canadian Financial Market Paper Award for a research paper entitled Intraday Value at Risk (IVaR) Using Tick-by-Tick Data with Application to the Toronto Stock Exchange. Professor Duchesne co-wrote the article with Professor Georges Dionne, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Risk Management at HEC Montréal and Professor Maria Pacurar of the Dalhousie University School of Business Administration. The authors received this distinction at the Northern Finance Association conference, held in Montréal from September 15 to 17.

For more information
Sep 15, 2006 - Odile Marcotte, nominated deputy director at CRM

Congratulations!

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Sep 07, 2006 - Creation of a new Chair

It is a pleasure to inform you that Professor Georges Zaccour's name has been added to the list of chairholders at HEC Montréal since September 1, 2006. His Chair is entitled Game Theory and Management.

Pour plus d'information

Congratulations to Professor Georges Zaccour!
Aug 16, 2006 - Professors in sabbatical year

Here is a list of HEC Montréal professors on sabbatical leave on June 1, 2006:

Department of Management Sciences

- Hatem Ben Ameur, associate professor (June 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007)
- Debbie J. Dupuis, professor (January 1, 2007 to december 31, 2007)
Jul 25, 2006 - François Bellavance has been appointed full professor.

Congradulations!
May 16, 2006 - A new director for HEC Montréal’s M.Sc. and Ph.D. Programs

François Bellavance, professor at HEC Montréal, was appointed director of the M.Sc. and Ph.D. Programs. This nomination will be in effect from June 26, 2006 until May 31, 2009.

Congratulations to Professor François Bellavance!
May 03, 2006 - Creation of a new Chair

The nomination of Jean-François Cordeau, professor at HEC Montréal, was retained for the creation of a Canada Research Chair in Logistics and Transportation. The official announcement was made last Friday, April 28, 2006, at Université Laval by the Honorable Maxime Bernier, minister of industry and minister responsible for the Canada Research Chairs Program.

Congratulations to Professor Jean-François Cordeau!
Mar 21, 2006 - Pierre Hansen has been elected as a member of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry

Congratulations!
Mar 21, 2006 - François Soumis and Jacques Desrosiers were finalists for the Edelman Price

François Soumis and Jacques Desrosiers were finalists for the Edelman Price for the best application in operations research of INFORMS, the United States of America.
Mar 02, 2006 - 2004-2005 Annual Report

The 2004-2005 annual report of GERAD is now available on our website.

2004-2005 annual report
Feb 22, 2006 - New members at GERAD

Three new members have joined GERAD’s research group. Indeed, at our last members’ meeting held on January 20, 2006, Michel Perrier (École Polytechnique de Montréal), Frank Galiana (McGill University) and Shie Mannor (McGill University) became members. Futhermore, David McDonald (University of Ottawa) has joined the research group as an associate member.
Nov 18, 2005 - Gilbert Laporte elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Professor Gilbert Laporte has been elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences in recognition of his significant contribution in the field of operations research and quantitative methods.

For more information
Nov 10, 2005 - 2005 Pierre Laurin Award Goes to Gilbert Laporte

Gilbert Laporte, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management and Full Professor, Department of Management Sciences, reveived the 2005 Pierre Laurin Award. This award recognizes research conducted over the past three years.

Congratulations!
Oct 27, 2005 - Publication of professor El-Kébir Boukas' book at Birkhauser

Last week the book entitled "Stochastic Switching Systems, Analysis and Design" of professor El-Kebir Boukas was published at Birkhauser.

Congratulations!
Aug 15, 2005 - 2004 Glover-Klingman Award Goes to Gilbert Laporte

Gilbert Laporte, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, received the 2004 Glover-Klingman Award, recognizing the best article published in the Networks journal in 2004. Professor Laporte received the award for his article The Ring Star Problem: Polyhedral nalysis and Exact Algorithm, a distinction he shares with co-authors Martine Labbé, of the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), and Juan José Salazar González and Inmaculada Rodríguez Martín, both of the Universidad de La Laguna (Spain).
Aug 15, 2005 - Debbie Dupuis has been nominated full professor

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Aug 15, 2005 - Sylvain Perron becomes a professor at HEC Montréal

Sylvain Perron, former student of Pierre Hansen and Charles Audet, has joined the professors' team at the Department of Management Sciences at HEC Montréal as assistant professor.
Jun 28, 2005 - Professors in sabbatical year

Here is a list of HEC Montréal professors on sabbatical leave on June 1, 2005:

Department of Management Sciences
- Michèle Breton, professor (June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2006)
- Michel Denault, associate professor (January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006)
- Denis Larocque, associate professor (June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2006

Department of Marketing
- Georges Zaccour, professor (June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2006)
Jun 28, 2005 - New director at GERAD

On June 23, the GERAD Executive committee officially announced Roland Malhamé as director of the Center.

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May 19, 2005 - Creation of the RROM, an operations research network

The Montreal Operations Research Network was officially launched on May 3, 2005. In collaboration with the Université de Montréal, École Polytechnique de Montréal and HEC Montréal, the RROM gathers more than 35 professors from these three institutions who have been active in the operations research field for more than 30 years and are, for most of them, affiliated to the Center for Research on Transportation (CRT) or to the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD).

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May 19, 2005 - John F. Nash, Nobel Prize in Economics, at the 2005 Optimization Days

On the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD) 25th anniversary, professor John F. Nash gave a plenary talk on game theory entitled “New Methods for the Study of Cooperation in Games” at the Optimization Days conference on May 11 2005, in HEC Montréal's IBM auditorium.

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Nov 26, 2004 - Gilbert Laporte, prize winner of the TSL Best Paper Award

Gilbert Laporte, Director of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, received the TSL Best Paper Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Transportation Science and Logistics Section), for his article "An Integer L-Shaped Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands ". Co-write with François V. Louveaux, professor, Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, and Luc Van hamme, analyst, OM Partners, Brasschaat, in Belgium, this article was published in the review Operations Research *.

* Operations Research, 2002, vol. 50, No 3, p. 415-423.
Nov 11, 2004 - Michèle Breton gets Pierre-Laurin prize.

We want to congradulate Madame Michèle Breton who got the Pierre-Laurin prize. This price rewards the production for research carried out during three last years of a full professor or invited to the row of holder or of an enquiring holder.
Nov 11, 2004 - Gilbert Laporte gets the Roger-Charbonneau prize.

We want to congradulate Mr Gilbert Laporte who got the Pierre-Laurin prize. This price rewards the teaching quality a the work published during the year and written by professors, researchers, responsible for formation.
Aug 11, 2004 - Statistical Society of Canada: Bruno Rémillard Wins the Award for Best Article of 2003

We want to congradulate Bruno Rémillard, a full professor with the Department of Management Sciences, who has received the award for the best article of 2003 from The Canadian Journal of Statistics, for his article entitled Nonparametric weighted symmetry tests. In the article, co-authored with Belkacem Abdous of Université Laval and Kilani Ghoudi of the United Arab Emirates University, Mr. Rémillard presents the findings of two studies, one of which examines fluctuations in retail gas prices, used to statistically validate the weighted symmetry hypothesis.
Aug 11, 2004 - Jean-Louis Goffin gets Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management

We want to congradulate Mr Jean-Louis Goffin who got the Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management the May 1, 2004 by the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors at McGill University.
Jan 06, 2004 - Peter Edwin Caines elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003

Peter Caines is widely recognized for his contributions to the theory of stochastic system identification, is the coauthor of work on the adaptive control of deterministic and stochastic systems which was recognized as a seminal contribution to control theory in the twentieth century and is the author of a standard text on stochastic systems.

His research on complex systems includes the introduction of controllability based notions of state aggregation and a generalized synchronous product for controlled automata; these ideas have yielded a hierarchical control theory for complex systems and new computational methods for their optimal control.

Congratulations!
Oct 27, 2003 - Another prize for Brunilde Sansò

Brunilde Sansò won the best paper award for "A method for the Integrated Design of Reliable GMPLS Networks" (par F. Mobiot, B. Sansò et A. Girard) at DRCN (Design of Reliable Communication Networks) Conference, last October 20, Banff, Alberta.

Congratulations Brunilde!
Jun 27, 2003 - Le professeur Georges Zaccour élu à la Société Royale du Canada

Georges Zaccour, directeur du GERAD et professeur au Service de l'enseignement du Marketing à HEC Montréal, a été élu à la Société Royale du Canada.

Entrer à la Société est la plus prestigieuse marque de reconnaissance professionnelle dans le monde canadien des sciences et de l'érudition. Cette élection confirme une fois de plus l’excellence de ses travaux de recherche.

Félicitations Georges!
Jun 05, 2003 - CORS Practice Competition Prize

Brunilde Sansò and Frédéric Bodevin won the second prize of the "OR Practice" competition of the Canadien Operational Research Society for their work entitled "Assessing user QoS in a deployed GPRS network".

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May 09, 2003 - Promotions

Hatem Ben Ameur (futur membre), Jean-François Cordeau, Michel Denault et Denis Larocque viennent d'être promus professeurs agrégés à HEC Montréal.

Au nom de tous les membres du GERAD, très sincères félicitations à tous les quatre.
Apr 24, 2003 - Diane Riopel honorée par l'Office québécois de la langue française

Diane Riopel, professeure, titulaire au Département de mathématiques et de génie industriel, a reçu le prix Camille-Laurin de l'Office québécois de la langue française à l'occasion du gala des Mérites du français tenu en mars dernier. Le prix Camille-Laurin est accordé chaque année à une personnalité qui, par son engagement, contribue à la promotion de l'utilisation du français dans sa sphère d'influence, dans son milieu de vie ou de travail.

Bravo Diane!
Dec 05, 2002 - Michèle Breton co-dirigera le Centre de recherche sur la e-finance

Le Centre de recherche sur la e-finance voit le jour grâce au projet Nouvelle Économie Financière (INÉ) du CRSH. Codirigé par M. Georges Dionne, titulaire de la Chaire de gestion des risques, et par Mme Michèle Breton, directrice des programmes de M.Sc. et de Ph.D., ce centre réunira quelque 30 chercheurs provenant de 7 universités qui se pencheront sur les enjeux de la nouvelle économie et s’intéresseront à la gestion des organisations privées et publiques engagées dans la nouvelle économie financière. Par exemple, quel sera l’impact de la e-finance sur la gestion des risques et les marchés financiers? Sur les besoins technologiques et de sécurité de ceux-ci? Les gouvernements auront-ils encore, dans le futur, le plein pouvoir de réguler les marchés? Voilà quelques-uns des objets de recherche de l’équipe composée de financiers, d’économistes, d’informaticiens, de comptables, de mathématiciens et de statisticiens.

Soulignons que le Centre a également reçu un soutien financier de partenaires qui ont injecté ensemble 1 M $. Ces partenaires sont la Banque Nationale du Canada, la Banque CIBC, la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, le Groupe CGI et l’Institut de finance mathématique de Montréal.
Nov 07, 2002 - Jean-François Cordeau obtient le Prix Jeune Chercheur 2002

Jean-François Cordeau, membre du GERAD et professeur au Service de l'enseignement de la gestion des opérations et de la production à HEC Montréal, a obtenu le Prix Jeune Chercheur 2002. Ce prix décerné par HEC, vise à rendre hommage à un professeur adjoint pour la qualité exceptionnelle de ses travaux de recherche.

Félicitations Jean-François!
Nov 07, 2002 - Pierre Hansen obtient le Prix Pierre-Laurin 2002

Pierre Hansen, membre du GERAD et professeur au Service de l'enseignement des méthodes quantitatives de gestion à HEC Montréal, a obtenu le Prix Pierre-Laurin 2002. Ce prix décerné par HEC, vise à rendre hommage à un professeur «pour la qualité exceptionnelle de ses travaux de recherche au cours des trois dernières années».

Félicitations Pierre!
Oct 08, 2002 - Le prix Urgel-Archambault de l'Acfas est remis à Pierre L'Ecuyer

L'Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) a décerné la semaine dernière le prix Urgel-Archambault à Pierre L'Écuyer, professeur titulaire au Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle de l'Université de Montréal et membre du GERAD. Créé en 1953 en l'honneur d'Urgel Archambault, directeur-fondateur de l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, ce prix vise à récompenser une personne travaillant en sciences physiques, mathématiques ou en génie.

Toutes nos félicitations Pierre!

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