Optimization Days 2024

Welcome to the 2024 Optimization Days

Optimization Days is an annual conference organized alternately by the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD) and the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT).

The conference aims to survey theory, numerical methods, and applications of optimization. It provides researchers from around the world the opportunity to exchange and to collaborate.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

We especially encourage presentations on new methods of optimization and their applications. The conference languages will be French and English. In 2024, Optimization Days will be held at HEC Montréal, 3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, near the Campus of the Université de Montréal.

Plenary speakers:

• Claudia d’Ambrosio, CRNS, Polytechnique LIX, France
  Mixed integer nonlinear optimization in energy systems: old and new challenges
  
  
• Erick Delage, HEC Montréal, Canada
  Towards Robust and Risk-aware Contextual Optimization
  
  
• Mike Hewitt, Loyola University Chicago, USA
  The L-Shaped Method for Stochastic Programs with Decision-Dependent Uncertainty

• Michael Rabbat, Meta AI (FAIR), Canada
  Benchmarking Neural Network Training Algorithms
  
  
• Karen Smilowitz, Northwestern University, USA
  Access and equity: the use of optimization models in public school decision-making
  
  

 Tutorials:

• Fabian Bastin, Université de Montréal, Canada
  Short-term electricity demand forecasting
  
  
• Guy Desaulniers, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
  Branch-and-price algorithms for electric vehicle routing
  
  
• Dena Firoozi, HEC Montréal, Canada
  Shuang Gao, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
  Mean Field Games and Applications
  
  
• Thibaut Vidal, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
  Combinatorial Optimization for Trustworthy Machine Learning

 The preliminary program will be available on our website in April 2024.

 Important Dates:

• April 2nd, 2024 - Deadline for submission of abstracts for the Optimization Days
  
• The notification of acceptance will be sent as abstracts will be submitted.
  
• April 5, 2024 - Deadline for the registration fee discount

2024 Optimization Days

   

         

 

 

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