Title: Problèmes de réalisabilité et de connexité dans les graphes chimiques

At the scholarship ceremony of the HEC Montréal Offices of the Program Director, on May 24, 2017, Amir Ardestani-Jaafari won the Esdras-Minville Award for this article:

Amir Ardestani-Jaafari, Erick Delage, "The value of flexibility in robust location-transportation problems", Transportation Science, 2017.

Dominique Orban, Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal and GERAD member, has just published with Mario Arioli the book "Iterative Solution of Symmetric Quasi-Definite Linear Systems" at SIAM.

Congratulations!

Here are the winners who will each receive a half-fellowship of $22,500:

• Hamza Benzerrouk, candidate proposed by Jérôme Le Ny;
• Peng Chun, candidate proposed by Erick Delage.

Miguel F. Anjos, Full Professor at Polytechnique Montréal and GERAD member, has just published with Tamás Terlaky and Shabbir Ahmed the book "Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications" at SIAM.

Congratulations!

Starting June 1st, 2017, Mr. Jean-Philippe Waaub will be the new Vice-Dean of Research for the Faculty of Humanities of the Université du Québec à Montréal. He will take charge of Mr. Joseph Yvon Thériault’ work which is at this position since June 2014.

On June 1st, 2017, Jérôme Le Ny has been promoted as Associate Professor from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal.

Matthieu Gruson, directed by professors Raf Jans and Jean-François Cordeau of the Department of Logistics and Operations Management from HEC Montréal, received the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

• Bertrand Crettez, Université de Paris 2, France

• Naila Hayek, Université de Paris 2, France

All our congratulations go to Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal directed by Vahid Partovi Nia and Bruno Agard, who obtained a scholarship for an international internship in the USA for a period of six months. This scholarship is awarded by the FRQNT.

Jean-Bertrand Gauthier, directed by Full Professor Jacques Desrosiers of the Department of Decision Sciences from HEC Montréal, received the 2016 Best Thesis award for her thesis entitled "Primal algorithms for degenerate linear and network flow problems."

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Drawing on his background in information technologies, businessman Alexandre Taillefer is once again applying their incredible potential, this time to revolutionize a very conventional world: the taxi industry. Researchers at HEC Montréal are currently working on an application based on big data processing, which should allow his Téo Taxi business to serve more customers with the same number of employees.

This research project is a perfect example of the type of initiatives supported by IVADO, the Institute for Data Valorization, and which are making Montréal a world leader in big data mining.

Professor-researcher Jean-François Cordeau, holder of the Chair in Logistics and Transportation at HEC Montréal, and Master’s student Charly Robinson La Rocca explain exactly what they are working on.

To read more, click here.

Please note that Edouard Wagneur will be visiting GERAD until June 9th. He will be in the office 4433.

Title: Essays on valuation and the management of counterparty risk

The Chair in Game Theory and Management of HEC Montréal, hold by Professor Georges Zaccour, will continue its activities over the next five years through the renewal of its grant, until May 2022.

Congratulations!

The last issue of the Newsletter is now available.

Enjoy!

On May 4th, Samuel Rosat and Amir Ardestani Jaafari won the 2016 GERAD Best Thesis Competition.

Samuel Rosat for his thesis titled "Méthodes pour favoriser l'intégralité de l'amélioration dans le simplexe en nombres entiers - Application aux rotations d'équipages aériens". He was supervised by François Soumis and Issmail El Hallaoui at Polytechnique Montréal.

Amir Ardestani Jaafari for his thesis titled "Linearized robust counterparts of location and inventory management problems". He was supervised by Erick Delage at HEC Montréal.

On May 2, 2017, Polytechnique Montréal launched the NSERC-Hydro-Quebec-Schneider Electric Industrial Research Chair on Optimization for the Smart Grid. Indeed, Full Professor Miguel F. Anjos from Polytechnique Montréal will be the the holder and he will collaborate with several researchers and teams of GERAD.

For more information, visit Polytechnique Montréal website.

Congratulations to Catherine Poissant, M.Sc. student at Polytechnique Montréal supervised by Charles Audet, who obtained the J.A. Desève Excellence Award of $4,000.

Title: Estimation de trafic routier par filtre de Kalman d'ensemble sous contrainte de confidentialité différentielle