Title: User-oriented demand response for smart buildings

PhD student Gabrielle Trudeau has just received a major scholarship for her research into energy commodities. The $25,000 scholarship is awarded annually by the Montréal TMX exchange to a doctoral student conducting innovative research into derivatives.

Giulia Zarpellon, a PhD student directed by Andrea Lodi, received an honorable mention for her poster presentation entitled "Learning a Classification of Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming Problems" at the 2017 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop held in Montréal.

-Puduru Viswanadha Reddy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

-Andrew R. Conn, IBM TJAndrew R. Conn Watson Research Center, USA

Title: Stateful data plane abstractions for software-defined networks and their applications

Title: Évaluation des opportunités économiques pour une unité de stockage de grande taille sur le marché de l’électricité de New York

Title: Unsupervised learning based on markov chain modeling of hot water demand processes

Title: Problème d’horaire d’autobus avec dépôts multiples et modification contrôlée des heures de début des voyages

Marilène Cherkesly, professor at UQAM, received the second prize for Best Paper Award, Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management College, from the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS) in Seattle on May 4th.

Articles by Charles Audet and Dominique Orban are among the top 10 of the most quoted articles in optimization published in 2006.

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

• Romina Hassani, cosupervised by Peter E. Caines and Aditya Mahajan;
• Thiago Pereira, cosupervised by Daniel Aloise and Andrea Lodi.

Congratulations!

Alberto Ceselli, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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.