Three HEC Montréal students, members of GERAD, have been chosen to take part in the NSERC–CREATE Program on Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance and Business Analytics (Fin-ML FONCER).

- Audrey Leduc, MSc in gestion – business intelligence, supervised by Denis Larocque

- Rémi Galarneau-Vincent, PhD in administration – financial engineering, supervised by Geneviève Gauthier

- Ahmadreza Tavasoli, PhD in administration – financial engineering, supervised by Michèle Breton

On July 29, 2019, Professor Bruno Rémillard from HEC Montréal was awarded the title of IMS Fellow.

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: Schémas de valorisation économique de grands ensembles de chauffe-eau électriques coordonnés par un agrégateur au sein d'un réseau intelligent

Title: Mécanismes d’attention pour les modèles convolutifs dans le cadre de la prédiction de trajectoire

Title: Optimisation du déséquilibre de phase sur un réseau de distribution via la gestion de la demande

Title : Trois variantes du problème de rotations pour une approche semi-intégrée de la planification d’horaires de personnel aérien

Title: Analyse et visualisation du processus d’écriture à l’aide des graphes

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

Professor Gilbert Laporte was among the winners of this year's Best Paper Awards recently presented by the Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management College of the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS).

Their paper, entitled "Collaborative Prepositioning Network Design for Regional Disaster Response", was co-authored with Professor Marie-Ève Rancourt of HEC Montréal, Professor Burçu Balcik of Ozyegin University, in Turkey, and IVADO postdoctoral researcher Selene Silvestri.

The paper will be published shortly in Production and Operations Management, a scientific journal on the Financial Times list.

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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.

This year’s recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Bruno N. Rémillard. This prestigious award is bestowed upon a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics, or to probability, either to mathematical developments or in applied work. It is intended to honour current leaders in their field.

The last issue of the Newsletter is now available. Enjoy!

• Spotlights on ... - Projects to strengthen collaboration: report from the outgoing director
  
• Collaborations - Canada research Chair program in Supply Chain Analytics
  
• Impact papers - Boris N. Oreshkin, Nazim Regnard, and Pierre L’Ecuyer win the INFORMS Outstanding Simulation Publication Award
  
• Who are they? - Hugues Delmaire, Marco Lübbecke
  
• Postdoctoral fellows - Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Linda Mhalla, Chun Peng, Borzou Rostami
  
• Where are they now? - Jean-François Bégin, Ibrahim Chamseddine, Loïc Sarrazin McCann
  

Two students of Polytechnique Montréal, Alexis Montoison (supervised by Dominique Orban) and Pierre-Yves Bouchet (supervised by Charles Audet), won the second prize in the individual category at the 10th Competitive Mathematical Game. These games, organized by the French Federation of Mathematical Games (FFJM) and the Society of Mathematical Calculation SA (SCM), are to solve a social problem.

Title: Essays on CDS-bond basis