GERAD Research Center Courses

Opportunities and Challenges of Modeling the Impacts of Human Activities on Climate Change

Explorez les défis et opportunités de modéliser l'impact des activités humaines sur le climat pour guider la prise de décision vers des mesures efficaces face à la crise climatique.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Network Centrality Maximization Game

Explore network formation strategies as players optimize PageRank centrality by strategically wiring outgoing links, analyzing equilibria and potential game dynamics.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Assessing the Impact of Payments for Environmental Services on Bioeconomic Supply Chain Equilibrium

Explorez l'impact des paiements pour services environnementaux sur l'équilibre des chaînes d'approvisionnement bioéconomiques et les stratégies de réduction de l'empreinte écologique.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Limitations of Large Language Models

Explore limitations of large language models as task solvers, including knowledge encoding, downstream task learning, catastrophic forgetting, and bias identification and elimination.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linear Stochastic Graphon Systems with Q-Noise

Explore linear stochastic graphon systems with Q-noise, extending classical theory to large networks. Learn about LQG control problems, finite rank operators, and Nash Equilibrium approximations in graphon-based systems.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Incentivizing Healthy Food Choices Using Add-on Bundling: A Field Experiment

Explore how add-on bundle promotions influence healthy food choices in retail settings. Discover insights from field experiments and online studies on effective strategies for encouraging healthier consumer behavior.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Agent-Based Dynamic Models of Opinion Formation: Where Are We Now?

Explore dynamic models of opinion formation, focusing on continuous opinions at the microscopic level. Examine achievements in analysis and new challenges in dynamical systems, control theory, and AI.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Quantifying Artistic Experiences: How Art Metadata Can Be Used to Understand Audiences' Encounters with Art

Explore computational analysis of art metadata to understand audience experiences and improve art viewing, using topic models, NLP, and image extraction techniques.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Personalized Shift Scheduling Problems: From Modelling to Efficient Resolution

Explore personalized shift scheduling challenges, modeling techniques, and efficient resolution methods for complex employee scheduling problems like nurse rostering.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Regularization and Robustness in Reinforcement Learning

Explore robust Markov decision processes and learn how regularization can simplify planning and learning in uncertain environments while maintaining stability and scalability.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Managerial Risk Assessment and Fund Performance - Evidence from Textual Disclosure

Explore how fund managers' risk assessments impact portfolio management and performance using deep learning analysis of narrative discussions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Principle of Quadratic Fines for Inspection and Corruption Games - Seminar on Dynamic Games and Applications

Explore evolutionary game theory applied to inspection and corruption, focusing on the principle of quadratic fines for effective control of violations in hierarchical systems.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Noncooperative to Cooperative Interval Games Using Alpha and Beta Approaches

Explore strategic interactions under uncertainty through interval games, bridging noncooperative and cooperative approaches with α and β characteristic functions. Gain insights into Shapley value and core concepts.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

TikZ: Une Introduction à la Création de Dessins Vectoriels sous LaTeX

Découvrez les bases de la création de dessins vectoriels sous LaTeX avec TikZ. Apprenez les concepts fondamentaux, la création de graphes et des astuces pratiques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pricing, Assortment, and Inventory Decisions under Nested Logit Demand and Equal Profit Margins

Explorez les décisions interdépendantes d'assortiment, d'inventaire et de prix pour des produits substituables dans un contexte de mode, en utilisant un modèle de choix du consommateur logit imbriqué.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video