Gilbert Laporte is one of the world’s most productive and influential authors in the fields of computer science and electronics, according to the Top 1000 Scientists 2019 ranking.

Title: Evaluation of demand forecast models for urban carsharing

Title: Conception et analyse de la stabilité robuste d'une commande non linéaire d'un quadrotor

Title: Design of robust networks. Application to the design of wind farm cabling networks

On April 5th, Ibrahim Chamseddine won the 2018 GERAD Best Thesis Competition for his thesis titled "Utilizing computational design optimization in cancer nanotherapy and biology system principles in air transportation: A successful demonstration of interdisciplinary research". He was supervised by Michael Kokkolaras at McGill University.

Title: Essays on the effects of price stimuli in online display ads

Congratulations to François Bellavance for his nomination as Director at the Academic Programs Office at HEC Montréal. This appointment is effective June 1, 2019 for a term of three years and may be renewed.

On March 14, GERAD Students Day was held for the third time. The day attracted more than 45 people.

Thank you all for your participation!

A scholarship of $3500 will be attributed to:

• Niels van der Lann, sponsored by James Richard Forbes.

Congratulations!

Title: Promoting product recovery through implementing EPR regulation and performing green activities

Here are the winners who will each receive a half-fellowship of $25,000:

• Chun Peng , candidate proposed by Erick Delage;
• Aleksandr Kazachkov, candidate proposed by Andrea Lodi;
• Seyed Ahmad Mojallal, candidate proposed by Pierre Hansen.

HEC Montréal is pleased to announce a new Chair in Supply Chain Operations Planning, held by Professor Raf Jans. His five-year appointment took effect January 1, 2019, and will continue until December 31, 2023.

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Gilbert Laporte, Full Professor at HEC Montréal, is now a foreign members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Congratulations!

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

• Tayeb Mhamedi, M.Sc. student, cosupervised by Marilène Cherkesly and Guy Desaulniers;
• Raihan Seraj, Ph.D. student, cosupervised by Jérôme Le Ny and Aditya Mahajan.

Congratulations!

A scholarship of $3500 will be attributed to:

• Johann Bourhis, sponsored by Dominique Orban and Jean-Pierre Dussault.

Congratulations!

Pierre L'Ecuyer received the Outstanding Simulation Publication Award during the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference that took place at Gothenburg, Sweden, in December 2018.

The selection committee gave this award to Boris N. Oreshkin, Nazim Réegnard, and Pierre L’Ecuyer for their paper: Rate-Based Daily Arrival Process Models with Application to Call Centers, Operations Research 64 (2) 510–527, 2016.

We are proud to announce that Mr. Utsav Sadana, candidate presented by Georges Zaccour and Mr. Mohammad Afshari, candidate presented by Aditya Mahajan are the winners of the 2018-2019 – FRQNT International Internship Program.

Congratulations!

Title : Integrated crew pairing and personalized crew assignment problems for pilots and copilots simultaneously

Full Professor Gilbert Laporte has been made a member of the Order of Canada, in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of decision science and the development of new methods in operational research. This is one of our country's highest civilian honours.

The announcement was made on December 27 by Governor General Julie Payette. Professor Laporte will be invited to receive his insignia at a ceremony on a later date. "Created in 1967, the Order honours people whose service shapes our society; whose innovations ignite our imaginations; and whose compassion unites our communities," explains the press release issued to announce the new appointments. "Close to 7,000 people from all sectors of society have been invested into the Order."

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

• Spotlights on ... - Handbook of dynamic game theory: a review
  
• Actions and Interactions - Deep learning for natural language processing
  
• Collaborations - GERAD day: third edition
  
• Who are they? - Romanic Pieugueu, Caroline Rocha, Maximilian Schiffer, Sara Séguin
  
• Postdoctoral fellows - Rinel Foguen Tchuendom, Gonzalo Muñoz, Karim Pérez Martínez, Younes Seyedi
  
• Where are they now? - Salma Karray, Mirela Stojkovic, Adham Ismail Tammam