Congradulations to Samuel Pelletier, a graduate of the HEC Montréal, who received the most prestigious recognition awarded to graduates of Canadian educational institutions, the Governor General of Canada’s Academic Gold Medal.
This article, published in the prestigious journal Nature, shows that in France, many COVID-19 patients have not consulted or alerted public health to their condition, leading to problematic under-detection of cases. This study is based on a mathematical model, the parameters of which were optimized using the NOMAD software developed at GERAD by the team of professors Charles Audet and Sébastien Le Digabel and the research associates Viviane Rochon Montplaisir and Christophe Tribes. This blackbox optimization software has been in continuous development for over twenty years and represents the state of the art in derivative-free optimization.
Professor Gilbert Laporte was among the winners of the 2021 Killam Prize. Among Canada’s most prestigious prizes for careers in research. The Canada Council Killam Prize recognizes and celebrates our most inspiring scholars and thought leaders.
Congratulations!
The last issue of the Newsletter is now available. Enjoy!
Andrea Lodi and Guy Desaulniers contacted to improve the distribution of molecular and serological tests for COVID-19 across Canada.
GERAD researchers have developed models to identify the most economically efficient GHG reduction scenarios and the optimal time to implement them.
Claudia Archetti, Jean-François Cordeau et Guy Desaulniers publient un numéro spécial pour célébrer le 40e anniversaire du GERAD.
Combining optimization and machine learning: applications in vehicle routing, network design and crew scheduling, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, Volume 19, Numéro 4, décembre 2020.
Professor Alain Hertz (Polytechnique Montréal) has published a new book entitled "La Fraternité du Verseau", published by Éditions Eaux Troubles. His novel is available in all bookstores. Alain Hertz is ready to sign his book for those who wish.
Title: Vehicle scrappage subsidies in the presence of strategic consumers
Gilbert Laporte, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, received the 2020 Roger-Charbonneau Award for the book entitled Location Science, written with Stefan Nickel et Francisco Saldanha.
Seventeen GERAD professors appear in a ranking of research citations created in May 2020 and published on the Mendeley website, a search tool belonging to Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher.
Congratulations to John W. Chinneck, Carleton University, that was appointed to the rank of Distinguished Research Professor on July 2020. This is a 5-year appointment until June 30, 2025.
Title: Méthodes de recherche directe pour l'optimisation stochastique de boîtes noires
Professor Erick Delage has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the RSC, respectively. He is joining the College, which represents the emerging generation of scholarly leadership in Canada, in recognition of his remarkable achievements in operational research.
Congradulations!
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 Edward Hallé-Hannan, MSc student at Polytechnique Montréal and supervised by Charles Audet and Sébastien Le Digabel, He received the 2020 Hydro-Québec excellence scholarship.
Titre: Modélisation et résolution de problèmes de planification de production et de distribution à trois niveaux
Associate Professor Yossiri Adulyasak, in the Department of Logistics and Operations Management, has been recognized as one of the Canadian immigrants who have made the greatest contribution to enhancing the supply chain.
On June 1st, 2020, Mehmet Gumus has been promoted Professor from the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University.
Congratulations !
Title: Analyse de sensibilité pour la réduction de dimension en optimisation sans dérivées
