Title: La méthode des résidus conjugués pour calculer les directions en optimisation continue

Georges Zaccour, Professor at HEC Montréal and GERAD member, has just published with Tamer Basar from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the book "Handbook of Dynamic Game Theory" at Springer.

Congradulations to Margarida Carvalho who received the 2018 EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award for her thesis "Computation of equilibria on integer programming games". She was co-supervied by Professor Andrea Lodi from Polytechnique Montréal.

The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding doctoral dissertation in OR defended in the countries having an OR society that is a member of EURO.

Congratulations to Mathieu Tanneau, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal, who obtained the Doctoral research scholarship for foreign students from the FRQNT. The scholarship is $21,000/year.

Professors François Bellavance and Geneviève Gauthier won two of the 2018 Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) awards, presented on June 5 in Montréal in recognition of their exceptional contributions to advancing statistics.

Claudio Contardo, Université du Québec à Montréal, from June 1st, 2018 to May 31, 2019.

Pierre Hansen, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2018 to May 31, 2019

Michael Kokkolaras, McGill University, from September 1st, 2018 to August 31, 2019.

Jérôme Le Ny, Polytechnique Montréal, from August 13, 2018 to August 12, 2019.

Roland P. Malhamé, Polytechnique Montréal, from September 1st, 2018 to August 31, 2019.

Elena Parilina – Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

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

• Samuel Goyette, M.Sc. student, cosupervised by Jean-Pierre Dussault and Dominique Orban;
• Marie Pied, M.Sc. student, cosupervised by Miguel Anjos and Roland Malhamé.

Congratulations!

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

Title: Optimal decentralized load frequency control for power system: A mean-field team approach

Miguel F. Anjos, Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member. IEEE Senior Membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession.

Congratulations!

A new phase in the 10 Together campaign to promote the universities in Greater Montreal, an urban art installation entitled "The Roaming Classroom," was unveiled on May 25 at the Mount Royal lookout. The inauguration ceremony was attended by Montréal Mayor Valérie Plante, along with representatives of the 10 universities involved in the campaign. ...

Laurence Haguenauer, Consul General of France in Québec presented the badge of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques to Gilles Savard, general director of the Institute for data valorization (IVADO).

With this decoration, the French government wanted to recognize his brilliant career in the field of mathematics and operational research as well as his invaluable contribution to the cooperation between France and Quebec.

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Maximilian Schiffer, an associate member of GERAD, received the best doctoral thesis award from the German Operations Research Society (GOR). His thesis entitled "Logistics Networks with Intermediate Stops, Innovative Design and Green Solutions", was defended in August 2017 at RWTH Aachen. It was directed by Michael Schneider and Gilbert Laporte.

Two students of Polytechnique Montréal, Alexis Montoison (supervised by Dominique Orban) and Pierre-Yves Bouchet (supervised by Charles Audet), won the first prize in the individual category at the 9th 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.

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: Solving optimal portfolio choice problems with predictable returns by dynamic programming methods

During the award gala held on May 7th at the CIM 2018 Convention, Roussos Dimitrakopoulos received the CIM Fellowship award.

He has received this award in recognition of his work resulting in major advances in the sustainable and efficient exploitation of mineral resources worldwide.

Professor James Forbes was recently named as a William Dawson Scholar. Professor Forbes joins a select group of early-career professors at McGill University who have demonstrated particular promise. More specifically, "The William Dawson Scholar award recognizes a scholar developing into an outstanding and original researcher of world-class caliber who is poised to become a leader in his or her field, similar to that of a CRC Tier II chair holder."
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Title: Amélioration des précisions immédiates du vent et de la production éolienne