Spring 2005 Seminar Series

Gilbert Laporte obtained his Ph.D. in Operations Research at the London School of Economics in 1975. He is Professor of Operations Research at HEC Montréal, Director of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, and adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta and Université Laval. He is also a member of the Centre for Research on Transportation (serving as director from 1987 to 1991) and founding member of the Groupe d'études et de recherche en analyse des décisions (GERAD). He has authored or coauthored several books, as well as more than 250 scientific articles in combinatorial optimization, mostly in the areas of vehicle routing, location and timetabling. He has also made more than 750 scientific presentations. He is the Editor of Computers & Operations Research, the past Editor of Transportation Science (1995-2002), and associate editor or editorial board member of several other operations research journals. He has received many scientific awards including the Pergamon Prize (United Kingdom) in 1987, the 1994 Merit Award of the Canadian Operational Research Society, the CORS Practice Prize on two occasions. In 1999, he obtained the ACFAS Jacques-Rousseau Prize for Interdisciplinarity, and the President's Medal (Operational Research Society, United Kingdom). In 2001, he was awarded the Pedagogy Prize by HEC Montréal. In 2004, he received, with François V. Louveaux and Luc Van hamme, the Best Paper Award of the Transportation Science and Logistics Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He has been a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1998.