GERAD Research Center Courses

Green Synergy: A Three-Party Fashion Retail System Balancing Profit Maximization and Impact Minimization

Explore a three-party fashion retail system balancing profit and environmental impact. Gain insights into consumer preferences, willingness-to-pay, and the effects of educational interventions on sustainable fashion choices.

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

Designing Size Inclusive Fashion Assortments

Explore innovative strategies for balancing revenue and size inclusivity in fashion retail assortments. Gain insights into advanced analytics, choice modeling, and fairness measures to optimize product offerings.

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

A General Tractable Differential Game Framework - Climate Policy Applications Between Global North and South

Explore a differential game framework analyzing climate policy negotiations between global north and south, examining Nash and Stackelberg equilibria outcomes and their implications for emissions control.

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

Impact of Cross-Ownership in Common Property Renewable Resource Oligopoly

Explore cross-ownership effects in renewable resource industries, analyzing profit and welfare implications for antitrust policies and long-term resource management strategies.

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

A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for Tactical Maintenance Planning for Rotor Blades on Onshore Wind Turbines

Explore a branch-and-price algorithm for tactical maintenance planning of onshore wind turbine rotor blades, optimizing team selection and task assignment to minimize costs.

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

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Personalized Delivery and Fulfillment Optimization

Explore personalized e-commerce fulfillment optimization, balancing customer preferences with efficient operations. Learn strategies for demand management and improved logistics in online retail.

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

Coins, Cards, or Apps: Impact of Payment Methods on Street Parking Occupancy and Search Times

Explore how payment methods and pricing affect street parking behavior, occupancy, and search times. Gain insights into improving urban parking management through data analysis and simulation.

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

Data-Driven Decision Making with Entropic Risk Measure

Explore data-driven decision-making using entropic risk measure. Learn bias correction techniques and apply them to project selection, portfolio optimization, and insurance pricing.

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

Status Concern and Environmental Awareness in Common Access Resource Games - Heterogeneous Agents

Explore status concern and environmental awareness in common access resource games with heterogeneous agents, examining effects on extraction and resource management.

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

Nonlinear Stochastic Hybrid Optimal Control with Fixed Terminal States

Explore novel approaches for stochastic systems with fixed terminal states. Learn about Terminally Constrained Stochastic Minimum Principle and Hamilton-Jacobi equations for optimal control.

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

A Strategic Information Transmission View of Misinformation Epidemics

Explorez les modèles économiques d'information adaptés pour étudier la propagation de la désinformation en ligne, en tenant compte des comportements humains et des interactions stratégiques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Equivalence Between Contraction and Koopman Approaches and Its Application in Nonlinear System Identification

Explore connections between Koopman operator and contraction analysis frameworks for nonlinear systems. Learn a new data-driven method for stable model learning using Koopman embeddings.

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

Stochastic Control with Partial Information: Regularity, Optimality, Approximations, and Learning

Explore regularity, optimality, approximation, and learning in partially observed stochastic control models. Gain insights into filter stability, finite-window policies, and reinforcement learning algorithms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Decision-Based Scenario Clustering - General Bounds for Stochastic Optimization Models

Explore decision-based scenario clustering for stochastic optimization models. Learn to derive efficient bounds and address computational challenges in uncertainty-driven decision-making.

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

Large Network-Coupled Mean Field Games and Associated Network Centralities

Explore large-scale linear quadratic stochastic games with network couplings, examining graphon mean field game models, Nash equilibrium characterization, and low-complexity solution methods.

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