• 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

• Moussa Larbani, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
• Thomas Fagart, École d'économie de Paris, France
• Lei Wu, Clarkson University, USA

Professor Gilbert Laporte is ranked 947th among the world's 1,040 most widely cited authors, based on his h index and his Google Scholar Citations public profile. His h index is 102, for 39,171 citations.

• Cagri Koç, HEC Montréal, Canada
• Mikhail Nediak, Queen's Smith School of Business, Canada
• Alexander Shapiro, Georgia Tech, USA
• Philippe Collard, Le Link Inc., Canada
• Cedric Langbort, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Register for the 2016 Optimization Days/PROMETHEE Days.

https://symposia.gerad.ca/jopt2016/

This competition aims to pay part of the conference expenses (registration, travel, accommodation, etc.) for certain doctoral students at GERAD. The conference has to take place outside of Quebec between April 1st and September 30, 2016.

The application must be made by a regular member of GERAD and send to Marie Perreault before March 25, 2016.

Charles Audet and Michael Kokkolaras are guest editors for a special issue on blackbox and derivative-free optimization published in Optimization and Engineering, volume 17, number 1, March 2016.

Here are the winners who will each receive a half-fellowship of $22,500:

• Jean-Bertrand Gauthier, candidate proposed by Jacques Desrosiers;
• Ahmed Saif, candidate proposed by Erick Delage.

• Manuel Vieira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Shabbir Ahmed, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Mohammad Attarian Shandiz, McGill University, Canada

• Brian Eck, Google, USA

Due to circumstances beyond our control, several Cahiers du GERAD of last September have just been published: from G-2015-83 to G-2015-94. Check them out!

Debbie Dupuis, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.

Gilbert Laporte, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, from June 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.

Bruno Rémillard, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, from June 1, 2016 to May 31,2017.

• Armando Sacco, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
• Margarida Carvalho, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Mina Mirshahi, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
• Manuel Vieira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

• Manuel Vieira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Dean Carlson, AMS, USA
• Thibaut Vidal, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Yassir Rabhi, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• Eric Feron, Georgia Tech, USA

Title: Élaboration de quarts de travail robustes aux perturbations de courte durée

• Alain Haurie, ORDECSYS, Switzerland
• Hassan Omidi Firouzi, RBC Royal Bank, Canada