2021 : Event calendar : GERAD

10:15 AM–11:15 AMJul 9, 2021 10:15 AM

Restless bandits: Indexability, Whittle index computation and learning

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Nima Akbarzadeh – McGill University, Canada

Centre for intelligent machines (CIM)

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJun 25, 2021 11:00 AM

Two reinforcement learning problems from healthcare and generative social science

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Jayakumar Subramanian – Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe, India

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJun 24, 2021 11:00 AM

Double marginalization and external financing: Capacity investment under uncertainty

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Peter M. Kort – Tiburg University, Netherlands

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMJun 18, 2021 02:00 PM

Adaptive linear-quadratic regulators

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh – University of Georgia, United States

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMJun 18, 2021 01:00 PM

High-dimensional black-box optimisation in small data regimes

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Haitham Bou Ammar – Huawei Research London, United Kingdom

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJun 17, 2021 11:00 AM

A model of river pollution as a dynamic game with network externalities

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Artem Sedakov – Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMJun 11, 2021 01:00 PM

From Batch Normalization (BN) to Stochastic Whitening Batch Normalization (SWBN)

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Ehsan Nezhadarya – LG Electronics, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJun 10, 2021 11:00 AM

Stable networks and dynamic network formation with group partitioning

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Ping Sun – Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMJun 4, 2021 01:00 PM

Improved knowledge distillation

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Mehdi Rezagholizadeh – Huawei Noah’s Ark, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJun 4, 2021 11:00 AM

Reformulation of an optimal control problem using some states as variables

GERAD student seminar
Pierre-Yves Bouchet – Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

10:00 AM–11:00 AMJun 4, 2021 10:00 AM

Risk-sensitive safety analysis via conditional value-at-risk

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Margaret P. Chapman – University of Toronto, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJun 3, 2021 11:00 AM

The impact of product recall on advertising decisions and firm profit while envisioning crisis or being hazard myopic

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Arka Mukherjee – HEC Montréal, Canada

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

09:00 AM–10:00 AMJun 2, 2021 09:00 AM

Preference robust optimization: Characterization and numerical methods

GERAD seminar
Wenjie Huang – GERAD, School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Canada Research Chair in Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMMay 28, 2021 01:00 PM

Ecole: A library for machine learning in combinatorial optimization solvers

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Didier Chételat – Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMay 27, 2021 11:00 AM

Groundwater extraction for irrigation purposes: The case of asymmetric players

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Jesús Marín Solano – Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMay 26, 2021 11:00 AM

Nurse scheduling problem with soft constraints

GERAD seminar
Antoine Legrain – Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMay 20, 2021 11:00 AM

Graph-constrained dynamic choice

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Vivek Borkar – Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMay 19, 2021 11:00 AM

Service facility location optimization during a pandemic

GERAD seminar
Okan Arslan – Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMMay 14, 2021 01:00 PM

Towards lifelong learning systems

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Sarath Chandar – Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMay 13, 2021 11:00 AM

Affirmative action in large population contests

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Ratul Lahkar – Ashoka University, India

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

10:00 AM–11:00 AMMay 12, 2021 10:00 AM

Mitigation and management of climate and environmental impacts of abandoned oil and gas wells

GERAD seminar
Mary Kang – Civil Engineering, McGill University, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMay 11, 2021 11:00 AM

Recent algorithmic advances for the quadratic knapsack problem

GERAD seminar
Franklin Djeumou Fomeni – Department of Analytics, Operations and Information Technology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMay 6, 2021 11:00 AM

Buyer direct financing under supplier disruption risk

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Xiao Huang – John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMay 5, 2021 11:00 AM

Role of hydrogen economy in the de-carbonization of energy systems

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Azadeh Maroufmashat – HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 29, 2021 11:00 AM

Team collaboration in innovation contests

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Sidika Tunc Candogan – School of Management, University College London, United Kingdom

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 28, 2021 11:00 AM

Efficient Bayesian optimization techniques for high-dimensional urban mobility problems

GERAD seminar
Carolina Osorio – Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

12:30 PM–01:30 PMApr 26, 2021 12:30 PM

A column generation scheme for two-stage distributionally robust multi-item newsvendor problem

GERAD seminar
Shanshan Wang – HEC Montréal, Canada

Canada Research Chair in Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 22, 2021 11:00 AM

Interdiction games on graphs

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Margarida Carvalho – Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal, Canada

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 21, 2021 11:00 AM

Routing problems arising in public transit and freight distribution

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Fausto Errico – Department of Construction Engineering, ÉTS, Canada

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMApr 16, 2021 02:00 PM

Epidemic spread with transportation: Modeling, inference, and control

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Philip E. Paré – Purdue University, United States

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 15, 2021 11:00 AM

Investment in cleaner technologies in a transboundary pollution dynamic game. A numerical investigation

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Guiomar Martín-Herrán – Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 14, 2021 11:00 AM

Sentometrics: An overview of methodology and applications

GERAD seminar
David Ardia – Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

10:00 AM–10:00 AMApr 9, 2021 10:00 AM

Mean-field and graph limits for collective dynamics models with time-varying weights

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Nathalie Ayi – Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory, Sorbonne University, France

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 8, 2021 11:00 AM

Optimal adaptation of lockdown measures upon the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Alessandra Buratto – University of Padova, Italy

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 7, 2021 11:00 AM

Inventory routing under stochastic supply and demand

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Aldair Alvarez – HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMApr 2, 2021 02:00 PM

What is the Lagrangian for nonlinear filtering?

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Prashant Girdharilal Mehta – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMApr 1, 2021 11:00 AM

Dynamic pricing and advertising in the presence of strategic consumers and social contagion: A mean-field game approach

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Jafar Chaab – HEC Montréal, Canada

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMar 31, 2021 11:00 AM

Distributed resource constrained shortest paths for 5G network provisioning

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Brigitte Jaumard – Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Concordia University, Canada

Online meeting

10:00 AM–11:00 AMMar 26, 2021 10:00 AM

Approximately solving mean field games via entropy-regularized deep reinforcement learning

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Kai Cui – Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMar 25, 2021 11:00 AM

Quasi-hyperbolic discounting in Markov decision processes

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Anna Jaśkiewicz – Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMMar 19, 2021 02:00 PM

Formal methods for nonlinear control: A robustness perspective

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Jun Liu – University of Waterloo, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMar 18, 2021 11:00 AM

Average-oriented opinion dynamics in society with given network structure

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Elena Parilina – Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMar 17, 2021 11:00 AM

Real-time decision-making for demand response under uncertainty

GERAD seminar
Antoine Lesage-Landry – Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMMar 12, 2021 02:00 PM

Control of inhomogeneous dynamic ensembles

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Jr-Shin Li – Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMMar 12, 2021 01:00 PM

Deep structured teams: A game-theoretic approach towards large-scale multi-agent systems and parametric reasoning

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Jalal Arabneydi – Concordia University, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMar 11, 2021 11:00 AM

The impact of safety covenants in syndicated loan agreements

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Michèle Breton – Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Canada

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMar 10, 2021 11:00 AM

Optimisation hydroélectrique

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Imène Benkalai – Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMMar 5, 2021 01:00 PM

Scaling up exact neural network compression by ReLU stability

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Thiago Serra – Bucknell University, United States

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMMar 4, 2021 11:00 AM

Robust communication on networks

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Marie Laclau – HEC Paris, France

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMFeb 26, 2021 02:00 PM

A neural network approach for high-dimensional optimal control

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Derek Onken – Emory University, United States

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMFeb 26, 2021 01:00 PM

Multitask transformers for robust machine translation

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Peyman Passban – Amazon, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMFeb 25, 2021 11:00 AM

Improving treatment of metastatic cancer through game theory

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Katerina Stankova – Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMFeb 24, 2021 11:00 AM

Sélection de variables objective avec un algorithme génétique parallèle

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Jean-François Plante – Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMFeb 19, 2021 02:00 PM

Weakly interacting particles on dense graph sequences

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Fabio Coppini – LPSM, Université de Paris, France

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMFeb 19, 2021 01:00 PM

Sampling in combinatorial spaces with SurVAE flow augmented MCMC

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Priyank Jaini – Huawei Noah’s Ark, Canada

GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMFeb 18, 2021 11:00 AM

Provable reinforcement learning for multi-agent and robust control systems

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Kaiqing Zhang – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

01:00 PM–02:00 PMFeb 12, 2021 01:00 PM

Federated learning meets multi-objective optimization

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
Kiarash Shaloudegi – Huawei Noah’s Ark, Canada

Online meeting

10:00 AM–11:00 AMFeb 12, 2021 10:00 AM

Mean-field games models of price formation

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Joao Saude – Systems and Robotics Institute (ISR), Portugal

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMFeb 11, 2021 11:00 AM

Advertising, goodwill, and the Veblen effect

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Régis Chenavaz – KEDGE Business School, France

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMFeb 10, 2021 11:00 AM

Towards more practical stronger cutting plane methods

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Aleksandr Kazachkov – Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMFeb 5, 2021 02:00 PM

Building energy-efficient AI chips by exploiting energy-reliability tradeoffs

Efficient Machine Learning Seminar
François Leduc-Primeau – Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

GERAD

Online meeting

10:00 AM–11:00 AMFeb 5, 2021 10:00 AM

Dynamic games among teams with asymmetric information

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Dengwang Tang – University of Michigan, United States

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMFeb 4, 2021 11:00 AM

Incentive mechanism design using linear matrix inequality approach

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Pegah Rokhforoz – School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMJan 29, 2021 02:00 PM

LQG mean field games with a major agent: Nash certainty equivalence versus probabilistic approach

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Dena Firoozi – Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJan 28, 2021 11:00 AM

Fuzzy fractional-order model of the novel coronavirus: The impact of delay strategies on the pandemic dynamics model with nonlinear incidence rate

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Massimiliano Ferrara – Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMJan 27, 2021 02:00 PM

The value of aggregate service levels in stochastic lot sizing problems in a receding horizon environment

GERAD student seminar
Narges Sereshti – HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJan 27, 2021 11:00 AM

Random forest as a weight-generating machine for local estimation and prediction

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Denis Larocque – Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Canada

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJan 21, 2021 11:00 AM

Control of an epidemic with endogenous treatment capability under popular discontent and social fatigue

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Fouad El Ouardighi – ESSEC Business School, France

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

02:00 PM–03:00 PMJan 15, 2021 02:00 PM

Social learning under behavioral assumptions

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
Rabih Salhab – Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT, United States

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJan 15, 2021 11:00 AM

Global optimization with interval methods in Julia

GERAD seminar
David P. Sanders – Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Online meeting

11:00 AM–12:00 PMJan 14, 2021 11:00 AM

All symmetric equilibria in differential games with public goods

Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar
Florian Wagener – University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD

Online meeting

03:00 PM–04:00 PMJan 13, 2021 03:00 PM

Dynamic programming on posets for traveling salesman with precedence constraints: A dent in state of the art

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Yaroslav Salii – McGill University, Canada

Online meeting

10:00 AM–11:00 AMJan 8, 2021 10:00 AM

Optimal control of quadrotors on the matrix Lie group of double direct isometries SE_2(3)

ISS Informal Systems Seminar
James Richard Forbes – Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada

Online meeting

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