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
  

Title: Méthodes de décomposition pour la parallélisation du simplexe en nombres entiers

The Polytechnique Montréal administration is proud to be awarding the Order of the White Rose scholarship today to Viviane Aubin, a MSc student under the supervision of Miguel F. Anjos. This $30,000 scholarship created in 2014 is awarded annually to a Canadian woman engineering student who plans to enrol in graduate studies in this field, in Canada or elsewhere in the world.

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Title: Agrégation d’un grand nombre de petites charges en incluant l’incertitude de la disponibilité des ressources

HEC Montréal has saluted the exceptional career and teaching contribution of Professor Michèle Breton, by giving her the Jean-Guertin Award for Teaching Excellence at the annual award ceremony on November 28.

Congratulations!

This year’s Pierre Laurin Award, recognizing the recipient’s research excellence and contribution to the scientific reputation of HEC Montréal, has been given to Jean-François Cordeau. He received this distinction on November 28, at the HEC Montréal’s annual award ceremony.

Lê Nguyên Hoang, a student who obtained his PhD in January 2015 under the direction of Mr. François soumis and Mr. Georges Zaccour, publishes a book La formule du savoir.

Title: Individual Treatment Effect Estimation for Survival Data

Title: Placement et chainage dynamique de fonctions réseau sur multiples centres de données

Gilbert Laporte received the 2018 Marie-Victorin Award. The 2018 Quebec Awards ceremony was held on November 21 at the Parliament Building.

Title: Three essays on nonparametric prediction intervals and robust variable selection

Professor Yossiri Adulyasak have been appointed to hold the Canada Research Chair in Supply Chain Analytics.

The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, federal Minister of Science and Sport, made the official announcement on November 13, when she revealed the details of the Canada Research Chairs Program. The chair will receive $100,000 in annual funding over a renewable five-year period.

Maximilian Schiffer, an associate member of GERAD, received the best doctoral thesis award during the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix that took place on November 2018. This award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area. The award includes a plaque and cash prize.

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.

On October 29th, the 3rd edition of the GERAD Day was held for members and students of GERAD only. For this occasion, five GERAD members made a presentation on their research interests. They were Daniel Aloise and Michel F. Anjos (Polytechnique Montréal), Yang Cai, James Richard Forbes and Christian Genest (McGill University) and Sara Séguin (UQAC). The day attracted more than 80 people.

Thank you all for your participation!

Title: On time-varying volatility and financial derivatives

Title: Méthodes primales pour résoudre le problème de plus court chemin avec contraintes de ressources

Congratulations to Rémi Galarneau-Vincent, Ph.D. student at HEC Montréal, who has been awarded the Canadian Derivatives Scholarship by the TMX Montréal Exchange. The scholarship is $25 000.

He is directed by professor Geneviève Gauthier of Department of Decision Science from HEC Montréal.

For more information.

We would like to welcome a new member at GERAD since September 2018, Sara Séguin, Assistant Professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

Title: Comparaison des approches DDMRP et EOQ : modélisation et simulation d’un cas d’étude

Title: Affinement de modèles substituts en optimisation de boîte noire et en optimisation sans dérivées