Speakers and Schedule
Plenary Speakers
- - Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University
- Léo Liberti, CNRS
- Jacques Desrosiers, HEC Montréal
- Patrick Jaillet, MIT
Invited Speakers
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- Daniel Aloise, Polytechnique Montréal
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- Charles Audet, Polytechnique Montréal
- Sonia Cafieri, École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
- Gilles Caporossi, HEC Montréal
- Jean-François Cordeau, HEC Montréal
- Sophie D'Amours, Université Laval
- Guy Desaulniers, Polytechnique Montréal
- Issmail El Hallaoui, Polytechnique Montréal
- Michel Gamache, Polytechnique Montréal
- Michel Gendreau, Polytechnique Montréal
- Alain Hertz, Polytechnique Montréal
- Andrea Lodi, Cornell Tech
- Frédéric Messine, University of Toulouse, ENSEEIHT-LAPLACE
- Marcus Poggi, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Frédéric Quesnel, Université du Québec à Montréal
- Monia Rekik, Université Laval
- Brunilde Sansò, Polytechnique Montréal
- Jacques Tisse, Université catholique de Louvain
- Georges Zaccour, HEC Montréal
Schedule
| Thursday October 2, 2025 | |
| 8h00 | Breakfast |
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| 8h45 | Welcome address |
| 9h00 | Plenary 1 The Early Days of the GENCOL Team: Thinking Outside the Box Jacques Desrosiers |
| 9h50 | Plenary 2 Cluster analysis in the interplay of operations research and machine learning Brigitte Jaumard |
| 10h40 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Integer programming primalization Issmail Elhallaoui |
| 11h25 | Columns and Clusters: Aggregating the Work of P. Hansen & F. Soumis Daniel Aloise |
| 11h50 | Art, passion, and mathematics: the “Soumis” code Sophie D'Amours |
| 12h15 | Lunch |
| 14h00 | Recreational mathematics: A three-tray scale Charles Audet |
| 14h25 | Benders Decomposition and Column Generation for Joint Rolling Stock and Crew Scheduling Jean-François Cordeau |
| 14h50 | Un monde de découvertes Gilles Caporossi |
| 15h15 | The Dynamic Predicate Stashing Copy Problem Brunilde Sansò |
| 15h40 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | GPU-Accelerated Primal-Dual Column Generation for Large-Scale Resource Allocation Problems Marcus Poggi |
| 16h25 | Deep-learning-based partial pricing in a branch-and-price algorithm for personalized crew rostering Frédéric Quesnel |
| 16h50 | Clustering on graphs with Pierre Hansen Sonia Cafieri |
| 17h15-20h00 | Cocktail (room B.307) |
| Friday October 3, 2025 | |
| 8h00 | Breakfast |
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| 8h45 | Plenary 3 Discussing research with François Patrick Jaillet |
| 9h35 | Spatial pricing and the strategic choice of retail formats Jacques Tisse |
| 10h00 | Overview of optimization problems in the mining industry Michel Gamache |
| 10h25 | Coffee break |
| 10h45 | Machine-learning–based arc selection for constrained shortest path problems in column generation Andrea Lodi |
| 11h10 | Polyhedral approach to the optimization of chemical invariants Alain Hertz |
| 11h35 | A VNS-based algorithm for very large-scale practical dial-a-ride problems Michel Gendreau |
| 12h00 | Lunch |
| 13h45 | Plenary 4 My work with Pierre Hansen Léo Liberti |
| 14h35 | Personnel scheduling in flexible operating environments Monia Rekik |
| 15h00 | Coffee break |
| 15h20 | The Story of Hansen's Octagon Frédéric Messine |
| 15h45 | Dynamic constraint aggregation for the multi-depot bus scheduling problem Guy Desaulniers |
| 16h10 | Payment schemes for finitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma games Georges Zaccour |