Title: Advanced product end-of-life treatment using a modular approach

Title: Optimisation sans dérivées sous contraintes

Title: Design for disassembly using modularity technique aiming to support product at end-of-life

Title: Semidefinite Programming Approaches and Software Tools for Quadratic Programs with Linear Complementarity Constraints

Title: Lissage optimal de la charge électrique en présence de sources d’énergies renouvelables via le pilotage de la consommation des chauffe-eau

Title : Optimisation de l'affichage des itinéraires dans le système interne de réservation d'une compagnie aérienne

This year’s Practice Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) went to Émilie Dufour, Gilbert Laporte, Julie Paquette and Marie-Ève Rancourt, for their Logistics service network design for humanitarian response in East Africa project.

Title: Disassembly modeling and coding

Title: Modélisation agrégée de chauffe-eau électriques commandés par champ moyen pour la gestion des charges dans un réseau

Title: Sélection des noeuds dans les réseaux de capteurs sans fil avec récolte d'énergie

Santiago Rubio, Universitat de València, Spain

Supervised by Alain Hertz, Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering of Polytechnique Montréal, 13 students participated in the Competitive Mathematical Game and finished atop the leaderboard. 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.

During the 2016 CORS Conference which took place from May 30 to June 1st, 2016, Amir Ardestani-Jaafari, PhD student with Professor Erick Delage, received a Honourable Mention for his article "The Value of Flexibility in Robust Location-Transportation Problems" at the Student Paper Competition.

Congratulations to Jean-François Cordeau, Full Professor at the Department of Logistics and Operations Management, who won the Award of Merit from the CORS!

On June 1st, 2016, François Bouffard and Aditya Mahajan have been promoted as Associate Professor from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University.

On June 1st, 2016, Gilles Caporossi has been promoted Full Professor from the Department of Management Sciences of HEC Montréal.

Congratulations to Sylvain Perron for his nomination as Director in the Office of the B.B.A. Program at HEC Montréal. This appointment is effective June 1st, 2016.

Title: Intégration d'un système radio à bande ultra-large pour la navigation de robots mobiles

Starting June 1st, 2016, Mr. Olivier Bahn will be the new Director of the Department of Decision Sciences of HEC Montréal. He will take charge of Mrs. Geneviève Gauthier’ work which is at this position since June 2013.

At the scholarship ceremony of the HEC Montréal Offices of the Program Director, on April 21, 2016, Amir Ardestani-Jaafari, PhD student with Professor Erick Delage, won the Esdras-Minville Award for this article:

Amir Ardestani-Jaafari, Erick Delage, "Robust Optimization of Sums of Piecewise Linear Functions with Application to Inventory Problems", Operations Research, 64(2), 474-494, 2016.