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Prizes and mentions

  1. Prix Pierre-Laurin pour l'ensemble des réalisations de recherche au cours de la carrière, HEC Montréal, G. Laporte, 2012.
  2. Best Reviewer Award, European Journal of Operational Research, G. Laporte, 2012.
  3. Gilbert Laporte is Canada's third most influential researcher in the field of business, according to HiBAR, the Hirsch-Index Benchmarking of Academic Research, 2012.
  4. Prix Esdras-Minville, HEC Montréal, pour l'article "The Inventory-Routing Problem with Transshipment", Leandro C. Coelho, 2012.
  5. Prix Esdras-Minville, HEC Montréal, pour l'article "Long-Haul Vehicle Routing and Scheduling with Working Hour Rules", Marie-Ève Rancourt, 2012.
  6. Jim Davey Award, Canadian Transportation Research Forum , best doctoral paper, Julie Paquette (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte), 2011.
  7. Prix Mercure, HEC Montréal, Meilleure thèse de doctorat, "Complexity Analyses and Algorithms for Pickup and Delivery Problems", G. Berbeglia (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte), 2011.
  8. Best Reviewer Award, European Journal of Operational Research, G. Laporte, 2010.
  9. Prix Sofía Kovalévskaia, Angélica Salazar-Aguilar, 2010.
  10. Prix Pierre-Laurin, HEC Montréal, G. Laporte, 2010.
  11. The Network Optimization Workshop 2010 was organized in August 2010, in Ajaccio, France, to mark the 60th anniversary of Gilbert Laporte.
  12. Practice Prize, Canadian Operational Research Society, “Designing New Electoral Districts for the City of Edmonton”, B. Bozkaya, E. Erkut, D. Haight, G. Laporte, 2010.
  13. Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, “Complexity Analyses and Algorithms for Pickup and Delivery Problems”, G. Berbeglia (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte), 2010.
  14. Prix Esdras-Minville, HEC Montréal, pour l'article "Counting feasible solutions of the traveling salesman problem with pickups and deliveries is #P-complete", G. Berbeglia, 2010.
  15. According to a recent study (Hsieh, P.-N., Chang, P.-L, “An Assessment of World-Wide Research Productivity in Production and Operations Management”, International Journal of Production Economics 120, 540-551, 2009), Gilbert Laporte is the most prolific author in five top journals of his field, he has the highest h-index among 44,881 authors surveyed, and he comes third for the number of publications in 20 journals for the period 1959-2008.
  16. Robert M. Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science, Transportation Science and Logistics Society, INFORMS, G. Laporte, 2009.
  17. 42nd Honorary Member of the INFORMS International Omega Rho Society, G. Laporte, 2009.
  18. Prix Gérard-Parizeau, Fondation Gérard-Parizeau, G. Laporte, 2009.
  19. Premier Prix, Challenge ROADEF 2009, "La gestion des perturbations dans le domaine aérien", S. Bisaillon, J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte, F. Pasin.
  20. Honorable mention, Transportation Science and Logistics Section of INFORMS, for the article "Solving a Dynamic and Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem with a Sample Scenario Hedging Heuristic", L.M. Hvattum, A. Løkketangen, G. Laporte, 2008.
  21. Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, "Models and algorithms for two network design problems", A.M. Costa (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte), 2008.
  22. Progistix National Student Paper Award, Supply Chain & Logistics Association Canada, T. Chan (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte), 2008.
  23. Publication Award 2007, California State University, for the article: Asef-Vaziri, A., Laporte, G., Ortiz, R.A., "Exact and Heuristic Procedures for the Material Handling Circular Flow Path Design Problem", European Journal of Operational Research 176, 707-726, 2007.
  24. Médaille Innis-Gérin, Société royale du Canada, Gilbert Laporte, 2007.
  25. Prix Roger-Charbonneau pour le livre "Transportation", HEC Montréal, C. Barnhart, G. Laporte, 2007.
  26. Deuxième Prix (ex aequo), Challenge ROADEF 2007, "Planification des Techniciens et des Interventions pour les Télécommunications", J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte, F. Pasin, S. Ropke.
  27. First Prize, A.M.Stevens Award, Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Student Research Paper Competition 2005-2006 (Best Masters Papers), "Transport international: l'importance de la considération de l'environnement dans la sélection des Incoterms et la performance export", N. Hien (Advisors: G. Laporte, J.Roy), 2007.
  28. Second Prize, A.M.Stevens Award, Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Student Research Paper Competition 2005-2006 (Best Masters Papers), "Optimisation du transport dans l'industrie forestière", C. Gingras (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte), 2007.
  29. Honorable Mention, CORS Student Paper Competition-Open Category, "L'optimisation du transport dans l'industrie forestière", C. Gingras (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte), 2006.
  30. H. James Eckler National Student Logistics Paper Award, Supply Chain & Logistics Association Canada, N. Hien (Advisors: G. Laporte, J. Roy), 2006.
  31. Honorable Mention, Ph.D. Dissertation Competition for Operations Research in Telecommunications, INFORMS, "Discrete Location Models for Content Distribution", T. Bektas (Advisor: Osman Oguz), 2006.
  32. Prix Esdras-Minville, HEC Montréal, pour l'article "Steiner Tree Problems with Profits", A.M. Costa, 2006.
  33. The article "The Vehicle Routing Routing Problem: An Overview of Exact and Approximate Algorithms", by Gilbert Laporte (European Journal of Operational Research 59, 345-358, 1992) has been selected as one of the 30 most influential articles among 11,458 articles published in EJOR over the past 30 years.
  34. First Place 2005 Dissertation Prize, Transportation Science and Logistics Section of INFORMS, for the thesis "New Optimization Models and Algorithms for the Management of Maritime Container Terminals", L. Moccia (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte, M. Gaudioso), Università della Calabria.
  35. Prix Pierre-Laurin, HEC Montréal, G. Laporte, 2005.
  36. Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, G. Laporte, 2005.
  37. Discrete Applied Mathematics has published a special issue (vol. 145, 2004) containing some of the papers presented at the Fourth Colloquium on Graphs and Optimization (GO-IV) that took place at Loèche-les-Bains, Switzerland, from August 20 to 24, 2000. This event was organized to mark Gilbert Laporte's 50th birthday.
  38. Glover-Klingman Prize for the best paper published in Networks in 2004, "The Ring Star Problem: Polyhedral Analysis and Exact Algorithm", M. Labbé, G. Laporte, I. Rodríguez Martin, J.J. Salazar González, 2005.
  39. Tow Lecturer, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, G. Laporte, 2005.
  40. Operations Research 2004 Meritorious Service Award, G. Laporte.
  41. Best Paper Prize, Transportation Science and Logistics Section of INFORMS, for the article "An Integer L-Shaped Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands", G. Laporte, F.V. Louveaux, L. Van hamme, 2004.
  42. Prix Roger-Charbonneau pour le livre "Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control", HEC Montréal, G. Ghiani, G. Laporte, R. Musmanno, 2004.
  43. Glover-Klingman Prize for the best paper published in Networks in 2003, "Improved Preprocessing, Labeling and Scaling Algorithms for the Weight-Constrained Shortest Path Problem", I. Dumitrescu, N. Boland, 2004.
  44. Honorable Mention, CORS Student Paper Prize-Graduate Student Papers, "La localisation de centres de tri de colis chez Postes Canada", R. Monfet (Advisors: J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte), 2004.
  45. Prix de reconnaissance d'une publication scientifique, Direction du programme de Ph.D. en administration, HEC Montréal, "A Survey of Benders Decomposition Applied to Fixed Charge Network Design Problems", A.M. Costa, 2004.
  46. Honorable Mention, CORS Student Paper Prize-Graduate Student Papers, "Exact Solution of the Centralized Network Design Problem on Directed Graphs", F. Gzara (Advisors: J. Desrosiers, J.-L. Goffin, G. Laporte), 2003.
  47. Deuxième Prix, Challenge ROADEF 2003, "Optimisation de la mission d'un satellite d'observation de la Terre", J.-F. Cordeau, G. Laporte, 2003.
  48. Service Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Gilbert Laporte, 2002.
  49. Prix jeune chercheur, HEC Montréal, J.-F. Cordeau, 2002.
  50. CORS Practice Second Prize, "Solving a Home Care Districting Problem in an Urban Setting", M. Blais, S.D. Lapierre, G. Laporte, 2002.
  51. Honorable Mention, CORS Student Paper Prize-Graduate Student Papers, "A Compact Model and Tight Bounds for a Combined Location/Routing Problem", M. Albareda-Sambola, J.A. Diaz, E. Fernandez (Advisors: E. Fernandez, G. Laporte), 2002.
  52. Grand Prix de la Pédagogie, HEC Montréal, G. Laporte, 2001.

Honours list, M.Sc. program, HEC Montréal

  1. François Sarrazin, logistique, 2008.
  2. Karine Sinclair, logistique, 2007.
  3. Julie Paquette, logistique, 2006.
  4. Nicolas Hien, logistique, 2005.
  5. Marie-Ève Rancourt, modélisation et décision, 2005.
  6. Geneviève Parent, modélisation et décision, 2004.
  7. Vincent Raymond, modélisation et décision, 2004.
  8. Anne-Marie Walach, logistique, 2004.
  9. Rémy Monfet, logistique, 2003.
  10. Anne-Marie Walach, logistique, 2003.
  11. Karine Cousineau-Ouimet, modélisation et décision, 2002.
  12. Guillaume Hamer-Lavoie, logistique, 2002.


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