Title: Flexibility and Consistency in Inventory-Routing

• Remy Spliet, Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and ERIM
• Luis F. Zuluaga, Lehigh University

The MSc in Administration program management of HEC Montréal had listed 20 of their students at the Honour Roll for the winter 2012 term, three of them are from GERAD:

Full Professor Michèle Breton (Management Sciences) has been elected President of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG) for a renewable two-year term. Her role at the head of the ISDG includes overseeing the scientific aspects and material organization of activities, disseminating information, increasing the organization’s membership and expanding its interests into new fields of application for dynamic games.

Title: Algorithmes pour la programmation non linéaire dégénérée

Congratulations to Pierre L'Ecuyer who won first place at the June 29 Master D cycling race of the 2012 COLD-FX Canadian Road Cycling Championships, which were held in Lac-Mégantic from June 21st to July 1st.

Pierre-Henri Bombenger, supervised by Jean-Philippe Waaub, Corinne Larrue and Maurice Blanc, is the winner of the 2012 Special Award given by the CNFPT (Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale), for his thesis in Spatial Planning - Urbanism, intitled: "L’urbanisme en campagne. Pratiques de planification des sols et d’aide à la décision dans des communes rurales françaises".

Hurry! You have until September 1st to apply for the FQRNT Étudiants-chercheurs awards.

At the ceremony of recognition of length of service which was held at HEC Montreal on May 25, Michèle Breton was honored for her 35 loyal years at the university.

Supervised by Alain Hertz, Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, 12 students participated at the third contest of Mathematical Games and they won the first place ahead of 27 other teams. These games, organized by the Fédération Française des Jeux Mathématiques and the Société de Calcul Mathématique SA, are to solve a social problem.

Title: Développement d’un modèle cinétique pour l’étude des flux métaboliques de cellules de plante

Title: Optimization of Algorithms with the Opal Framework

Jean Bigeon, Directeur de recherche CNRS, Laboratoire G-SCOP(Grenoble-INP)

Paolo Caravani, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Congratulations to Frédéric Godin, Ph.D. student under the supervision of Geneviève Gauthier, who just received a Lieutenant-Governor's Youth Medal.

Aditya Mahajan, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

Gilbert Laporte, a Full Professor with the Department of Management Sciences, is Canada’s third most influential researcher in the field of business, according to HiBAR, the Hirsch-Index Benchmarking of Academic Research. The first Canadian version of the index was recently published in The Globe and Mail.

Title: Data mining for commerce problems: global optimization of clusterwise regression and neural networks applied to electronic negotiations

Marina Epelman, Industrial and Operations Engineering department, University of Michigan

The Université de Moncton saluted the remarkable career of Professor Debbie J. Dupuis (Management Sciences) by awarding her “Le Prisme” on February 27. The award is presented every year to a Science Faculty graduate or student who has distinguished himself or herself in the sciences.