Award of Merit |
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The Award of Merit is awarded to a present or past member of CORS in recognition of significant contributions to the profession of operational research. |
2010 Award of Merit Recipient | (Top) |
Bernard Gendron, Département d'informatique et de recherche
opérationnelle (DIRO) and Director of CIRRELT
Université de Montréal |
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Bernard Gendron is the recipient of the 2010 CORS Merit Award. Prof. Gendron earned his Ph.D. in Operational Research from the Université de Montréal in 1994, after which he was appointed as a visiting scholar and a visiting scientist at MIT. Upon his return to Montreal, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at U de M, where he became Professor in 2006. Prof. Gendron has held several visiting professor positions in Italy, France and Switzerland. He was president of CORS in 2004-2005, president of the INFORMS Transportation Science Section in 2001-2002, and president of the INFORMS Section on Transportation Science and Logistics in 2002-2003. He has been the Editor of INFOR since 2006 and he is now director of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), probably the largest operations research centre in the world. |
Prof. Gendron has made numerous contributions in the areas of network design, multicommodity transportation, decomposition methods and parallel computing. In 2004, Prof. Gendron won the CORS Practice Prize for his single-authored application of integer programming to a personal scheduling problem arising at the Quebec Liquor Stores Corporation. He was also finalist at the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice in the same year. |
René Séguin (l) presenting the 2010 Award of Merit to Bernard Gendron.
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Previous Recipients | (Top) |
2009 |
David Martell |
Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto |
"For his outstanding contributions to the development and application of operational research in forest management in Canada and the world, and for his many contributions to the Canadian Operational Research Society." |
2008 |
Alain Martel |
Faculté des sciences de l'administration, Université Laval |
"Pour ses nombreuses contributions à l’application et à la diffusion de la recherche opérationnelle au Canada ainsi que pour les multiples services rendus à la communauté de la recherche opérationnelle au Canada et à l’étranger." |
2007 |
Peter C. Bell |
Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario |
"For his significant contributions to education and the practice of Operations Research in Canada, as well as his many years of dedicated service to the Canadian Operational Research Society and beyond." |
2006 |
Teodor Gabriel Crainic |
CRT, Université de Montréal |
"For his many contributions to the application and dissemination of Operational Research in Canada, as well as for numerous services rendered to the Operational Research community in Canada and abroad." |
2005 |
Martin L. Puterman |
University of British Columbia |
"For his significant contributions to the theory and practice of Operations Research and for his numerous contributions to the Canadian Operational Research Society." |
2004 |
Erhan Erkut |
University of Alberta |
“For his contributions to the teaching, practice, and promotion of Operational Research in Canada, and service to the Canadian Operational Research Society.” |
2003 |
Mohan Chaudhry |
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Royal Military College of Canada |
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2002 |
Dr. Jean-Marc Rousseau |
First Vice-President
Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO)
Montreal, Quebec. |
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2001 |
Michel Gendreau |
"For his numerous contributions to the theory and practice of Operations Research in Canada, and for his significant contributions to the Canadian Operational Resesarch Society." |
2000 |
Michael Carter |
"For his many contributions to the application and dissemination of Operational Research in Canada, and for his significant contributions to CORS activities." |
1999 |
Winfried Grassmann |
"For his many contributions to Queueing and Markov Chain Theory, Application, Analysis and Optimization in Academia and Industry, as well as for numerous services rendered to the O.R. community in Canada and abroad." |
1998 |
Maurice Queyranne |
"For his many contributions to the theory and application of Combinatorial Optimization in Academia and Industry, as well as for numerous services rendered to the O.R. community in Canada and abroad." |
1997 |
Pierre Hansen |
1996 |
Suresh Sethi |
1995 |
Jim Templeton |
1994 |
Gilbert Laporte |
1993 |
Wilson Price |
1992 |
Dave Deziel |
1991 |
Cecil Law |
1990 |
Ed Silver |
"Made significant contributions to CORS as a founder of the South Western Ontario Section, Council Member, Vice-President 1979-80 and President 1980-81. Co-author of the book "Decision Systems for Inventory Management and Production Planning" which had a major impact through its organization and clarification of the state-of-the-art in the field. An outstanding teacher of the theory and applications of Operational Research at the University of Waterloo 1969-81 and the University of Calgary since 1981. Made major research contributions in the area of inventory and production, in particular through the development of reasonable and implementable solutions to difficult practical problems (e.g. the Silver Meal heuristic), thus contributing to improved practice in many organizations." |
1989 |
John Buzacott |
1988 |
Michael Florian |
1987 |
K. J. Radford |
1986 |
John Roberts |
1985 |
John Gratwick |
1984 |
George Lindsey |
1983 |
Omond Solandt |
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