Irène Abi-Zeid, Université Laval, Canada

Full Professor Olivier Bahn, Director of the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal, is part of a research project on metals and the circular economy, funded by the Quebec government.

Title: Analyse mathématique, méthode de calcul de la gigue et applications aux réseaux internet

Gilles Savard, Professor of Polytechnique Montréal, has been appointed Director of the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO) for a term of four years. He will be responsible to deploy, develop and sustain IVADO as world class pole in science and data valorization.

Pierre Hansen and Mustapha Aouchiche received a certificate for their paper "Two Laplacians for the distance matrix of a graph". Published in 2013, it is one of the most highly cited papers during 2014, 2015 and up until June 2016 in Linear Algebra and Its Applications.

Congratulations!

Rabih Sallhab, a PhD student directed by Jérôme Le Ny and Roland Malhamé received the CDC Best Paper Award at the 55th Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, USA, for the paper entitled "A Dynamic Collective Choice Model With An Advertiser", by R. Salhab, R.P. Malhamé and J. Le Ny.

Alain Haurie, ORDECSYS, Switzerland, will be at GERAD from December 15 to 21, 2016.

Title: Portfolio optimization model

Title: Algorithme tabou pour le problème de positionnement des trous de forage en tenant compte d'un indice d'incertitude des blocs

Title: Ré-optimisation d’horaires de personnel en ajoutant des transferts entre départements

Congratulations to Pierre L'Ecuyer, Full Professor at the Université de Montréal, who won the 2016 ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contributions Award (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Simulation and Modeling (SIM)).

Title: Large-scale assortment optimization

• Joseph Abdou, Université Paris 1, France
• Alain Haurie, ORDECSYS, Switzerland

On Monday, November 28, GERAD was visited by some 60 students from Père Marquette secondary school (Rosemont). It was an opportunity for them to discover and demystify the daily lives of researchers and the problems they are working on. They attended activities on modeling, the use of mathematics as a generic methodology applicable to a wide variety of problems and applications, such as environmental modeling or management. The role of the computer in research has not been forgotten. Thanks to Eglantine Camby, Laurie Cloutier, Annie Levasseur, Edoh Logo and Catherine Poissant for animating these sessions.

Title: A framework for the performance analysis and simulation of RF-MESH advanced metering infrastructures for smart grid applications

**Change of room.**

• Mabel Tidball, INRA-LAMETA, Université Montpellier 1, France
• Alain Jean-Marie, LIRMM, Université Montpellier 2, France
• Zdravko I. Botev, The University of New South Wales, Australia
• Luyi Gui, University of California at Irvine, USA
• Joseph Abdou, Université Paris 1, France

• Yossiri Adulyasak, HEC Montréal, Canada
• Mostafa Davtalab-Olyaie, Kharazmi University, Iran

Title: Ruin theory: Credit scoring application

• Alessandra Buratto, University of Padova, Italy
• Arnaud Chevallier, Rice University, USA

GERAD is now a member of the Réseau Québec maritime.

The RQM aims to mobilize researchers from all sectors, but also to develop collaborations between partners from universities, colleges, industry, government and community to create synergy between the different sectors related to maritime.