GERAD is pleased to award six scholarships (of $3,500 each) for foreign undergraduate interns who will come to work in our offices this summer.

The last issue of the Newsletter is now available. Enjoy!

• Spotlights on ... - Two decades of blackbox optimization applications
  
• Actions and interactions - Bridging engineering and family medicine practice: Application of AI and OR
  
• Impact papers - Planning the future North American northeast electricity sector
  
• Postdoctoral fellows - Amay Cheam, Pedro Luis Miranda Lugo, Claudie Ratté-Fortin, Yassine Yaakoubi
  
• Where are they now? - Charles Gauvin, Aleksandr Kazachov, Patrick St-Louis
  
• Who are they? - Janosch Ortmann
  

Sanae Lotfi, a graduate of the Master of research in applied mathematics, has received the Best Master’s Thesis Award of the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal.

Sanae Lotfi's thesis, "Stochastic first and second order optimization methods for machine learning", was co-directed by professors Andrea Lodi and Dominique Orban.

Congratulations!