The collaboration project with Ericsson, which focuses on the quality of experience of connected object applications in smart cities, was selected as a finalist for the 2020 ADRIQ Prize.

Among its achievements there is a large scale multi-level simulator of 4G/5G infrastructure built at GERAD with public data from the cities of Montréal, Ottawa and Toronto which is available to the public at https://www.trafficm2modelling.com/home.

Congratulations to several GERAD students who have obtained IVADO scholarships!

Congratulations to several GERAD students who have obtained IVADO scholarships!

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: Placement et chainage dynamique de fonctions réseau sur multiples centres de données

Title: Stateful data plane abstractions for software-defined networks and their applications

Here are the winners who will each receive a half-fellowship of $22,500:

• Amir Farshbaf-Geranmayeh, candidate proposed by Georges Zaccour;
• Filippo Malandra, candidate proposed by Brunilde Sansò.

Title: Analyse mathématique, méthode de calcul de la gigue et applications aux réseaux internet

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

**Change of room.**

Title: Sélection des noeuds dans les réseaux de capteurs sans fil avec récolte d'énergie

Two fellowships of $20,000 each respectively will be attributed to:

• Luca Gianoli, candidate proposed by Erick Delage and Brunilde Sansò;
• Diego G. Pecin, candidate proposed by Claudio Contardo and Guy Desaulniers.

During the International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks 2015, Antonio Capone, Carmelo Cascone, Alessandro Nguyen and Brunilde Sansò received the Best Paper Runner-Up for the paper "Detour Planning for Fast and Reliable Failure Recovery in SDN with OpenState".

• Bernardetta Addis, École de Mines de Nancy, France
• Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Giuliana Carello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Stefano Secci, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
• Marco Premoli, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France

Title: Radio Planning and Management of Energy-Efficient Wireless Access Networks

• ** Ekaterina V. Shevkoplyas**, St. Petersburg State University
• Fabien Prieur, LAMETA-INRA, Université Montpellier I
• Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano
• Mabel Tidball, LAMETA
• Jean-Marie Alain, LIRMM, Université Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier II
• Henry Wolkowicz, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization University of Waterloo
• Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Matyszkiel, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Warsaw University

Brunilde Sansò won the best paper award for "A method for the Integrated Design of Reliable GMPLS Networks" (par F. Mobiot, B. Sansò et A. Girard) at DRCN (Design of Reliable Communication Networks) Conference, last October 20, Banff, Alberta.

Brunilde Sansò and Frédéric Bodevin won the second prize of the "OR Practice" competition of the Canadien Operational Research Society for their work entitled "Assessing user QoS in a deployed GPRS network".