The last issue of the Newsletter is now available.

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Elnaz Kanani Kuchesfehani, directed by Full Professor Georges Zaccour of the Department of Decision Sciences from HEC Montréal, received the 2015 Best Thesis award for her thesis entitled "Dynamic Games Played over Event Trees." She is now working for Deloitte Canada as a Data Scientist, Information Management Consulting.

• Guiomar Martín-Herrán, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• Salma Karray, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Title: Stratégie de gestion des retours des conteneurs maritimes de l’Internet physique

Title: Gestion du stockage d'énergie thermique d'un parc de chauffe-eaux par une commande à champ moyen

Title: Calculs pour la mise à jour de plans de vol

Title: Optimisation de l'allocation de ressources dans un réseau de télécommunication par coloration impropre de graphes

Full Professor Gilbert Laporte was awarded, on April 21, 2016, an honorary doctorate from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) for his exceptional achievements in the field of operations research, transportation science and logistics.

On April 18, 2016, at the Soirée de l’excellence en genie 2016 engineering awards ceremony, Diane Riopel, professor at Polytechnique Montréal, received two awards: the Mérite du CIQ prize given by the Quebec Interprofessional Council (Conseil interprofessionnel du Québec—CIQ), and the Prix du Président au Bénévolat given by Quebec’s order of engineers. These two awards recognize Diane Riopel’s work with engineers, particularly in the area of recognition by the order for diploma equivalencies and exams.

Title: Primal algorithms for degenerate linear and network flow problems

11:00, room 4488, Warren Hare seminar

Title : Heuristiques pour le problème conjoint de récupération des appareils et des passagers en transport aérien

Warren Hare, Université de la Colombie-Britannique, Canada

Congratulations to Kenjy Demeester, M.Sc. student at Polytechnique Montréal supervised by Dominique Orban, who obtained the 2015 Rio Tinto Graduate Scholarship of $18,000.

Congratulations to Aichouche Oubraham, Ph.D. student at HEC Montréal supervised by Georges Zaccour, who obtained a $10,000 TD Research Scholarship on environmental, sustainable development and circular economy. This scholarship is awarded by the EDDEC institute.

• Hadrien Mélot, Université de Mons, Belgium
• Timothy Chan, University of Toronto, Canada

Title: Linearized robust counterparts of location and inventory management problems

• Georgia Perakis, Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA
• Fatma Gzara, University of Waterloo, Canada

Eric Bahel, Virginia Tech, États-Unis

Title: Méthodes pour favoriser l’intégralité de l’amélioration dans le simplexe en nombres entiers. Application aux rotations d’équipages aériens