Pierre-Yves Bouchet, Charles Audet, and Loïc Bourdin
This paper introduces a new step to the Direct Search Method (DSM) to strengthen its convergence analysis.
By design, this so-called covering step may e...
Charles Audet, Pierre-Yves Bouchet, and Loïc Bourdin
This note provides a counterexample to a theorem announced in the last part of the paper Analysis of direct searches for discontinuous functions, Mathemati...
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.