Professor François Soumis received from IBM a grant of $ 40 000.

During the annual conference of the Association québécoise de pédagogie collégiale (AQPC), Alain Hertz was honored on June 8 at the Minister's Awards ceremony for the creation of his pedagogical work L'Agrapheur - Intrigues policières à saveur mathématique.

Title: Optimisation stochastique d'horaires de personnel

The 2011 Journées de la finance mathématique, organized by the Institut de finance mathématique de Montréal (IFM2), rewarded the three best MSc theses of 2010. Mourad El-Hila, of HEC Montréal, took first place. His thesis, entitled Estimation et calibrage du processus GARCH : une étude empirique, was directed by Michèle Breton and Lars Stentoft (Finance).

Title: Multivariate Trees and Random Forests for Mixed Outcomes

Gerardo Berbeglia has won the 2010 Mercure Award for the best doctoral dissertation. His dissertation, entitled Complexity Analyses and Algorithms for Pickup and Delivery Problems, was co-directed by Jean-François Cordeau, Full Professor with the Department of Logistics and Operations Management and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Logistics and Transportation, and Gilbert Laporte, Full Professor with the Department of Management Sciences and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management.

Last March, the GERAD executive board officially announced Jean-Philippe Waaub (UQAM) as director of the Center from May 1st to April 30th 2015.

Title: Couplage des méthodes d'agrégation dynamique de contraintes et de stabilisation pour résoudre le problème d'horaires de véhicule avec dépôts multiples

Title: Affectation d’activités et de tâches à des quarts de travail fixés

Title: Génération des itinéraires potentiels des passagers dans un réseau de transport aérien

Title: La gestion de centrales hydroélectriques par balancement des réservoirs

All the GERAD members will like thank the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering of École Polytechnique de Montréal which offered us, so kindly, all those new chairs.

The MSc in Administration program management of HEC Montréal had listed 16 of their students at the Honour Roll for the fall 2010 term, three of them are from GERAD:

Title: Rôle des dossiers santé personnels dans l'amélioration des services de soins de santé aux individus atteints de maladies chroniques

Title: Méthodes hybrides basées sur la génération de colonnes pour des problèmes de tournées de véhicules avec fenêtres de temps

The article published last October in the Génial!, the FQRNT Newsletter, on E2G a GERAD research team, which is co-directed by Olivier Bahn and Jean-Philippe Waaub, has interest people accross the sea. ADIT, Agence pour la diffusion de l’information technologique, has published the article about global energy on his website bulletins-electroniques.com.

Title: Méthodes heuristiques pour la construction des rotations d'équipage

Congratulations to María Angélica Salazar-Aguilar, a postdoctoral trainee under the supervision of Gilbert Laporte and André Langevin. She is one of the eight winners of the 2010 Sofía Kovalévskaia Award.

Title: Mixed Effects Trees and Forests for Clustered Data

Congratulations to Pierre Hansen and Gilbert Laporte who have won (ex aequo), the "Pierre Laurin" research award from HEC Montréal.