Two scholarships of $10 000 each respectively will be attributed to:
Congratulations!
Professor Debbie J. Dupuis has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)—an honour that the Association confers on no more than one-third of one percent of its members each year.
This distinction, in recognition of Professor Dupuis’ career excellence, was officially announced at the annual Joint Statistical Meeting in August, in Baltimore.
Kerem Akartunali, University of Strathclyde Glasgow, United Kingdom
Taoufik Bouezmarni, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Ilaria Brunetti, École Polytechnique, France
Alain Jean-Marie, LIRMM, Université Montpellier 2, France
Mabel Tidball, INRA-LAMETA, Université Montpellier 1, France
Ayoub Insa Corréa, Université de Thiès, Senegal
Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Matyszkiel, Warsaw University, Poland
A scientific paper co-authored by Professor Geneviève Gauthier and her colleagues Professors Diego Amaya, of Wilfrid Laurier University, and Jean-François Bégin, of Simon Fraser University, won the Best Paper Award in the "Best Paper on Derivatives" category at the annual Conference of the Northern Finance Association (NFA) in Halifax last month.
The paper, entitled Extracting Latent States from High Frequency Option Prices, was chosen for its scientific quality, beating out dozens of other entries from around the world.
From October 12 to 13, 2017, the Ninth Workshop on Dynamic Games in Management Science will take place at HEC Montréal.
Invitation for contributions: Continuous Optimization and Applications in Machine Learning and Data Analytics
At the 4th International Conference on Big Data Analysis and Data Mining held in Paris on September 7-8, Pierre Hansen received a certificate of recognition for his phenomenal and worthy Plenary talk on "Two applications of variable neighborhood search in data mining".
Congratulations!
Title: Fabrication d’horaires personnalisés maximisant le nombre d’heures travaillées par ordre de séniorité
Title: Integrated production and inbound transportation planning
Title: Méthodes sans factorisation pour la tomographie à rayons-X en coordonnées cylindriques
Title: Méthodes numériques appliquées à la programmation dynamique stochastique pour la gestion d’un système hydroélectrique
Title: A study on shape clustering and odor prediction
On June 1st, 2016, Michel Denault has been promoted Full Professor from the Department of Management Sciences of HEC Montréal.
Full Professor Gilbert Laporte has been proclaimed the world’s most productive and influential author in operations research and management science by Omega – The International Journal of Management Science.
His 299 publications and 7,486 citations in specialized journals in these two fields earned him his first place in this ranking drawn up in co-operation with the Web of Science (WoS) database.
Mohammed Saddoune from University of Hassan II Casablanca, Morroco, will be at the GERAD until August 30.
Title: User-oriented demand response for smart buildings
PhD student Gabrielle Trudeau has just received a major scholarship for her research into energy commodities. The $25,000 scholarship is awarded annually by the Montréal TMX exchange to a doctoral student conducting innovative research into derivatives.
Giulia Zarpellon, a PhD student directed by Andrea Lodi, received an honorable mention for her poster presentation entitled "Learning a Classification of Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming Problems" at the 2017 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop held in Montréal.
-Puduru Viswanadha Reddy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
-Andrew R. Conn, IBM TJAndrew R. Conn Watson Research Center, USA
