GERAD celebrates this year its 25th anniversary. The Center was created
in 1980 by a small group of professors and researchers of HEC Montreal,
McGill University and of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. GERAD's
activities achieved sufficient scope to justify its conversion in June
1988 into a Joint Research Centre of HEC Montreal, the Ecole
Polytechnique de Montreal and McGill University. In 1996, the U- versite
du Quebec a Montreal joined these three institutions. GERAD has fifty
members (professors), more than twenty research associates and post
doctoral students and more than two hundreds master and Ph.D. students.
GERAD is a multi-university center and a vital forum for the devel- ment
of operations research. Its mission is defined around the following four
complementarily objectives: - The original and expert contribution to
all research fields in GERAD's area of expertise; - The dissemination of
research results in the best scientific outlets as well as in the
society in general; - The training of graduate students and post
doctoral researchers; - The contribution to the economic community by
solving important problems and providing transferable tools.