Georges Zaccour, Full Professor at HEC Montréal, will be a plenary speaker at the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling (WCNRM) that will take place from June 9 to 13 at Guangzhou, China.

Title: Renewable resources management through viability theory and game theory

The Chair in Game Theory and Management of HEC Montréal, hold by Professor Georges Zaccour, will continue its activities over the next five years through the renewal of its grant, until May 2022.

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Governments get richer when NGOs band together to fight official corruption, game theorists at HEC Montréal find.

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Title: Two-stage trading game between electricity markets

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.

Elnaz Kanani Kuchesfehani, directed by Full Professor Georges Zaccour of the Department of Decision Sciences from HEC Montréal, received the 2015 Best Thesis award for her thesis entitled "Dynamic Games Played over Event Trees." She is now working for Deloitte Canada as a Data Scientist, Information Management Consulting.

Congratulations to Aichouche Oubraham, Ph.D. student at HEC Montréal supervised by Georges Zaccour, who obtained a $10,000 TD Research Scholarship on environmental, sustainable development and circular economy. This scholarship is awarded by the EDDEC institute.

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

• Jean-Bertrand Gauthier, candidate proposed by Jacques Desrosiers;
• Ahmed Saif, candidate proposed by Erick Delage.

Title: Essays in dynamic games played over event trees

At the scholarship ceremony of the HEC Montréal Offices of the Program Director, on April 8, 2015, Jean-Bertrand Gauthier, PhD student with Professor Jacques Desrosiers, and Elnaz Kanani Kuchesfehani, PhD student with Professor Georges Zaccour, have won two of the three Esdras-Minville Awards for one of their articles. This award comes with a $3,000 scholarship.

• Amir Ardestani Jaafari, PhD student with Professors Michèle Breton and Erick Delage.

  • Research scholarship for foreign students

• Sahar Guesmi, PhD student with Professors Hatem Ben-Ameur and Michèle Breton.

  • Research scholarship for foreign students

• Gert Janssens, PhD student with Professor Georges Zaccour.

  • Édouard-Montpetit - Standard Life scholarship

• Oussama Marzouk, PhD student with Professor Michèle Breton.

  • Fondation J.A. DeSève scholarship
  • Research scholarship for foreign students
  • Henry Laureys scholarship

• Samuel Pelletier, MSc student with Professors Gilbert Laporte and Ola Jabali.

  • L'Oréal Canada scholarship

Lê Nguyen Hoang, directed by François Soumis and Georges Zaccour, received a special mention for the quality of his thesis entitled "Conception bayésienne de mécanismes et quantification de l’équité appliquées à la construction d’horaires personnalisés".

Title: Store brand’s performance : A cross-country and a cross-category analysis

Stefan Wrzaczek, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Title: Conception bayésienne de mécanismes et quantification de l'équité appliquées à la construction d'horaires personnalisés

Four scholarships of $3000 each respectively will be attributed to:

• Stéphane Jacquet, sponsored by Charles Audet and Gilles Caporossi;
• Geoffroy Chevalier, sponsored by Jérôme Le Ny andRoland Malhamé;
• Vilmar de Sousa, sponsored by Miguel F. Anjos and Sébastien Le Digabel;
• Amal Feriani, sponsored by Georges Zaccour.

• Valérie Saint-Antonin, IFPEN
• Stefan Irnich, Université Johannes Gutenberg de Mayence
• Juan G. Villegas, Universidad de Antioquia
• Alain-Désiré Nimubona, University of Waterloo
• Nizar Allouch, Queen Mary University

• Stefan Wrzaczek, Vienna University of Technology et University Vienna, Austria
• Charles Figuières, INRA Montpellier, France
• Mabel Tidball, LAMETA, France
• Alain Jean-Marie, LIRMM, Université Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier II, France

Title: Three Essays in Quantitative Marketing Models