During the 2019 CORS Conference which took place from May 27 to 29, 2019, Christian Bingane, PhD student with Professors Miguel F. Anjos and Sébastien Le Digabel, received the First Prize for his article "Tight-and-cheap conic relaxation for the AC optimal power flow problem" at the Student Paper Competition.
This year’s recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Bruno N. Rémillard. This prestigious award is bestowed upon a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics, or to probability, either to mathematical developments or in applied work. It is intended to honour current leaders in their field.
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Two students of Polytechnique Montréal, Alexis Montoison (supervised by Dominique Orban) and Pierre-Yves Bouchet (supervised by Charles Audet), won the second prize in the individual category at the 10th Competitive Mathematical Game. These games, organized by the French Federation of Mathematical Games (FFJM) and the Society of Mathematical Calculation SA (SCM), are to solve a social problem.
Congratulations to Sihem Taboubi for her nomination as Director in the Office of the M.Sc. Program at HEC Montréal. This appointment is effective June 1st, 2019.
Starting June 1st, 2019, Mr. Gilles Caporossi will be the new Director of the Department of Decision Sciences of HEC Montréal. He will take charge of Mr. Olivier Bahn’ work which is at this position since June 2016.
On March 27th, the GERAD executive board officially announced Olivier Bahn (HEC Montréal) as director of the GERAD from June 1st, 2019 to April 30th 2023.
Title: Opportunisme et traitement des contraintes dans mads
Title: Application de l'optimisation conique au problème d'écoulement de puissance optimal
Title: Demand response for smart homes
Title: Analyse d'un système radar intervéhiculaire en onde millimétrique (77 GHZ)
Title: Optimisation de boîtes noires à précision variable
Title: Méthodologie d’intégration de l’agilité aux chaînes logistiques aéronautiques
Title: Optimisation de la planification à court et moyen terme dans les mines souterraines
Gilbert Laporte is one of the world’s most productive and influential authors in the fields of computer science and electronics, according to the Top 1000 Scientists 2019 ranking.
Title: Evaluation of demand forecast models for urban carsharing
Title: Design of robust networks. Application to the design of wind farm cabling networks
On April 5th, Ibrahim Chamseddine won the 2018 GERAD Best Thesis Competition for his thesis titled "Utilizing computational design optimization in cancer nanotherapy and biology system principles in air transportation: A successful demonstration of interdisciplinary research". He was supervised by Michael Kokkolaras at McGill University.
