Congratulations to the teams selected to lead new fundamental research projects!

Title: Machine learning algorithms in mixed-integer programming

Title: Confection de tournées de livraison dans un réseau urbain à l'aide de métaheuristiques et de méthodes de forage de données massives

Title: Optimal change point detection by error maximization

IVADO funding program for excellence scholarships – PhD

• Antoine Prouvost (Polytechnique Montréal, Andrea Lodi)
  Learning to Select Cutting Planes in Integer Programming

IVADO funding program for excellence scholarships – MSc

• Tiphaine Bonniot de Ruisselet (Polytechnique Montréal, Dominique Orban)
  Accélération de méthodes d’optimisation pour les problèmes volumineux par évaluation inexact

Title: Accelerating TSP solving by using cost-based solution densities of relaxations

Title: Predicting buses end-trip delay using different ML models in order to modelize planning effectiveness

Here are the winners who will each receive a half-fellowship of $25,000:

• Chun Peng, candidate proposed by Erick Delage;
• Aleksandr Kazachkov, candidate proposed by Andrea Lodi;
• Seyed Ahmad Mojallal, candidate proposed by Pierre Hansen.

Congradulations to Margarida Carvalho who received the 2018 EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award for her thesis "Computation of equilibria on integer programming games". She was co-supervied by Professor Andrea Lodi from Polytechnique Montréal.

The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding doctoral dissertation in OR defended in the countries having an OR society that is a member of EURO.

Congratulations to Mathieu Tanneau, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal, who obtained the Doctoral research scholarship for foreign students from the FRQNT. The scholarship is $21,000/year.

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.