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.

• 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.

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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