Title: Learning activation functions in deep neural networks

Professor Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal, received the COAP 2016 best paper prize for the article "On handling indicator constraints in mixed integer programming", by P. Belotti, P. Bonami, M. Fischetti, A. Lodi, M. Monaci, A. Nogales-Gómez and D. Salvagnin.

Congratulations!

Title: A study on shape clustering and odor prediction

Giulia Zarpellon, a PhD student directed by Andrea Lodi, received an honorable mention for her poster presentation entitled "Learning a Classification of Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming Problems" at the 2017 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop held in Montréal.

Two scholarships of $10 000 each respectively will be attributed to:

• Romina Hassani, cosupervised by Peter E. Caines and Aditya Mahajan;
• Thiago Pereira, cosupervised by Daniel Aloise and Andrea Lodi.

Congratulations!

Title: Large-scale assortment optimization

Title: A framework for the performance analysis and simulation of RF-MESH advanced metering infrastructures for smart grid applications

**Change of room.**

Title : Méthodes sans factorisation pour l'optimisation non linéaire [Translation not available]

We would like to welcome six new members of the GERAD since Septembre 2015.

• Yang Cai, Assistant Professor at McGill University;
• Leandro C. Coelho, Assistant Professor at Université Laval;
• Fausto Errico, Assistant Professor at ETS;
• Jean-Pierre Dussault, Professor at Université de Sherbrooke;
• Andrea Lodi, Professor at Polytechnique Montréal;
• Michael Rabbat, Associate Professor at McGill University.

On May 22, 2015, Polytechnique Montréal launched the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making. Indeed, Professor Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal, will be the the holder and he will collaborate with several researchers and teams of GERAD.

For more information, visit Polytechnique Montréal website.