August 2018: Doctoral Thesis Defences
Thibault Barbier has successfully defended his thesis titled Simulation and Optimization for Choice Behavior Revenue Management. More information here. Congratulations Thibault!
Jesus Rodriguez has successfully defended his thesis titled Mixed-Integer Programming Approaches for Generator Maintenance Scheduling in Hydropower Systems. More information here. Congratulations Jesus!
August 2018: Masters Thesis Defence
Mathilde K. Bourque has successfully defended his thesis titled Reformulation of the parameter estimation problem for an electrical network. More information here. Congratulations Mathilde!
July 2018: FRQNT scholarship
Mathieu Tanneau obtained the Doctoral research scholarship for foreign students from the FRQNT. Congratulations! More info here.
June 2018: DTU summer school awards
Ilaria Salerno and Miguel Anjos participated in the DTU summer school 2018 on Modern optimization in Energy held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ilaria obtained the DTU Scholarship Award for her participation in the poster session, and Miguel obtained the Best Teacher Award for his lecture "Introduction to optimization in energy". (See video here)
Congratulations to both!
Congratulations to both!
June 2018: NEST network summer school
OSG members participated in the 3rd NEST network summer school organized by Ryerson University. Photos: 1, 2, 3.
June 2018: Ph.D. Graduation
OSG congratulates Vilmar de Sousa and Juan A. Gomez-Herrera for their graduation. Video of the ceremony here.
June 2018: Grants Competition for Cosupervised Graduate Student
Marie Pied has received a graduate student scholarship. Congratulations! more info here.
June 2018: Miguel F. Anjos, IEEE Senior Member
Miguel F. Anjos has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member. Congratulations! More information here.
May 2018: Doctoral Thesis Defence
Vilmar de Sousa successfully defended his thesis titled Global Optimization of the Maximum K-Cut Problem. More information here. Congratulations Vilmar!
April 2018: Visit to Shipshaw Power Station
Members of OSG visited the Shipshaw Power Station in Jonquière, Québec, Canada. Thank you to Rio Tinto, owner of the power station, for granting us this opportunity!
January 2018: New OSG members!
OSG welcomes our new members Éloïse Edom (PhD student), William Ferreira (PhD student), Florian Pedroli (M. Eng student), Valerie Provost (MASc student ), Marie Pied (M.Eng student).
September 2017: New OSG members!
OSG welcomes our new members Vinicius Neves Motta (PhD student), Ilaria Salerno (MASc student) and Mathieu Besançon (PhD student).
August 2017: PGMO project award
Miguel Anjos, Claudia d'Ambrosio, and Wim van Ackrooij received a PGMO-IROE grant for the project Challenging mixed integer nonlinear programming problems for the maintenance planning for hydropower plants. Congratulations! More information is available on the PGMO website.
July 2017: EUROPT Fellow 2017
Miguel Anjos was elected EUROPT Fellow 2017 last July 13th. Congratulations Miguel! More information here.
July 2017: Doctoral Thesis Defence
Juan Gomez successfully defended his thesis titled User-Oriented Demand Response for Smart Buildings. More information here. Congratulations Juan!
June 2017: Master's Thesis Defence
Adrien Barbry succesfully defended his thesis titled Assessment of economic opportunities for a large storage unit in the New York electricity market. More information here. Congratulations Adrien!
June 2017: Seminar Optimization for Demand Response in Smart Grids
Seminar by Miguel Anjos about optimization-based approaches to facilitate the integration of demand response in smart grids at University of Birmingham. More information here.
May 2017: Inauguration Of the Industrial Chair On Optimization For Smart Grids
The NSERC-Hydro-Quebec-Schneider Electric Industrial Research Chair on Optimization for Smart Grids was officially inaugurated on May 3rd at Polytechinque Montreal. More details, video of the event.
In the media: Quartier Libre, Novae.
In the media: Quartier Libre, Novae.
March 2017: Scholarship Awarded
Mathieu Tanneau was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Energy Storage Association (ESA) 27th Annual Conference and Expo. The scholarship is provided by the Electric Power Research Institute. Congratulations Mathieu!
February 2017: Mitacs Globalink-Inria Research Award
Juan Gomez was awarded a competitive Mitacs Globalink Research Award - Inria to undertake joint research with the Inocs group of Inria Lille-Nord Europe. Congratulations Juan!
December 2016: An international chair to optimize smart grid
Since September, Professor Miguel Anjos has been sharing his time between Polytechnique Montreal and the Inria Lille - Nord Europe research centre. More details here.