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.
