Title: Learning activation functions in deep neural networks

On the occasion of its 27th annual gala, the ADRIQ recognized the excellence of Gilles Savard's contributions in operational research.

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Charles Audet, Professor at Polytechnique Montréal and GERAD member, has just published with Warren Hare from the University of British Columbia the book "Derivative-Free and Blackbox Optimization" at Springer.

Title: Nouvelle approche de maîtrise de processus intégrant les cartes de contrôle multidimensionnelles et les graphes en coordonnées parallèles

Yossiri Adulyasak, Professor at the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montréal, received the 2017 New Researcher Award. This HEC Montréal award recognizes the excellence of scientific and professional publications by a career-track assistant professor or guest professor, over the past three years.

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Title: Estimation des distances lors de la préparation de commande

Professor Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal, received the COAP 2016 best paper prize for the article "On handling indicator constraints in mixed integer programming", by P. Belotti, P. Bonami, M. Fischetti, A. Lodi, M. Monaci, A. Nogales-Gómez and D. Salvagnin.

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Corrine Touati, INRIA, France. She is invited by de Georges Zaccour. Don't miss her presentation on November 22, 2017.

On Thursday, November 9, HEC Montréal is launching its first-ever industrial research chair. The NSERC-Prompt Industrial Research Chair in User Experience is being created with the support of the federal and provincial governments and in partnership with D-Box, Deloitte, JDA Software, Mouvement Desjardins, Sobeys and Vidéotron.

Two of the School’s professors will be directing its research work: Pierre-Majorique Léger, Chairholder and Co-Director of the Tech3Lab, and Marc Fredette, Full Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences.

The Chair will receive total funding of $7.6 million over five years, in particular thanks to support from the NSERC and from Prompt, the ICT research and innovation consortium, whose main financial partner is the Quebec Ministère de l’Économie, de la Science et de l’Innovation.

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On October 17th, the 2nd 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 Yossiri Adulyasak and Debbie J. Dupuis (HEC Montréal), Marilène Cherkesly (UQÀM), Brunilde Sansò (Polytechnique Montréal) and Nathan Yang (McGill). The day attracted more than fifty people.

Thank you all for your participation!

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

• Kwassi Joseph Dzahini, Ph.D. student, cosupervised by Sébastien Le Digabel and Michael Kokkolaras;
• Alice Wu, M.Sc. student, cosupervised by François Soumis and Issmail El Hallaoui.

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Professor Debbie J. Dupuis has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)—an honour that the Association confers on no more than one-third of one percent of its members each year.

This distinction, in recognition of Professor Dupuis’ career excellence, was officially announced at the annual Joint Statistical Meeting in August, in Baltimore.

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Kerem Akartunali, University of Strathclyde Glasgow, United Kingdom
Taoufik Bouezmarni, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Ilaria Brunetti, École Polytechnique, France
Alain Jean-Marie, LIRMM, Université Montpellier 2, France
Mabel Tidball, INRA-LAMETA, Université Montpellier 1, France
Ayoub Insa Corréa, Université de Thiès, Senegal
Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Matyszkiel, Warsaw University, Poland

A scientific paper co-authored by Professor Geneviève Gauthier and her colleagues Professors Diego Amaya, of Wilfrid Laurier University, and Jean-François Bégin, of Simon Fraser University, won the Best Paper Award in the "Best Paper on Derivatives" category at the annual Conference of the Northern Finance Association (NFA) in Halifax last month.

The paper, entitled Extracting Latent States from High Frequency Option Prices, was chosen for its scientific quality, beating out dozens of other entries from around the world.

During the 15th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization held in Montréal on July 12-14, 2017, Professor Miguel F. Anjos received the title of EUROPT Fellow, which is awarded each year to an outstanding researcher in the field. He gave the EUROPT Fellow Lecture as a plenary talk.

From October 12 to 13, 2017, the Ninth Workshop on Dynamic Games in Management Science will take place at HEC Montréal.

INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research

Invitation for contributions: Continuous Optimization and Applications in Machine Learning and Data Analytics

At the 4th International Conference on Big Data Analysis and Data Mining held in Paris on September 7-8, Pierre Hansen received a certificate of recognition for his phenomenal and worthy Plenary talk on "Two applications of variable neighborhood search in data mining".

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Title: Fabrication d’horaires personnalisés maximisant le nombre d’heures travaillées par ordre de séniorité

Title: Integrated production and inbound transportation planning