A scholarship of $3500 will be attributed to:

* Luc Laporte, sponsored by Jean-Pierre Dussault and Dominique Orban.
* Aurélien Mombelli, sponsored by Sébastien Le Digabel.

Congratulations!

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

Since June 1st, 2019, Daniel Aloise has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal.

Erick Delage was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Decision Scences of HEC Montréal.

Sébastien Le Digabel has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal.

Sihem Taboubi was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Marketing of HEC Montréal.

Congratulations!

During the 2019 CORS Conference which took place from May 27 to 29, 2019, Christian Bingane, PhD student with Professors Miguel F. Anjos and Sébastien Le Digabel, received the First Prize for his article "Tight-and-cheap conic relaxation for the AC optimal power flow problem" at the Student Paper Competition.

Title: Application de l'optimisation conique au problème d'écoulement de puissance optimal

Title: Demand response for smart homes

Title: Modèles quadratiques et décomposition parallèle pour l'optimisation sans dérivées

Title: Global Optimization of the Maximum K-Cut Problem

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

• Kwassi Joseph Dzahini, Ph.D. student, cosupervised by Sébastien Le Digabel and Michael Kokkolaras;
• Alice Wu, M.Sc. student, cosupervised by François Soumis and Issmail El Hallaoui.

Congratulations!

Christophe Tribes and the NOMAD software ranks honourably at the BBComp blackbox optimization competition held during the GECCO 2016 conference.

Title: Optimisation sans dérivées sous contraintes

Title: Stratégie de contrôle optimale de la production électrique dans un site isolé.

On June 1st, 2015, Sébastien Le Digabel and Issmail El Hallaoui have been promoted as Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal.

Title: Mise à jour des horaires de personnel travaillant sur des quarts

All our congratulations go to Mathilde Peyrega, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal directed by Charles Audet and Sébastien Le Digabel, who obtained a Doctoral research scholarship. This scholarship is awarded by the FRQNT.

All our congratulations go to Mathilde Peyrega, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal directed by Charles Audet and Sébastien Le Digabel, who obtained a scholarship for an international internship in the United States for a period of two months. This scholarship is awarded by the FRQNT.

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.

Mr. Degila is a Lecturer at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. He is invited by Sébastien Le Digabel (Polytechnique Montréal) from August 12 to 23, 2013.

Students from the Combinatorial Optimization (MTH6311) class won first place at the 4th contest Jeux Mathématiques.

Title: Optimisation sous contraintes d’un modèle hydrologique pour une représentation de la physique des processus