Michaël Thémans
Nationality: Swiss & Belgian
EPFL VPS DEV
CE 3 305 (Centre Est)
Station 1
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 99 58
Office: CE 3 305
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EPFL VPS DEV
CE 3 305 (Centre Est)
Station 1
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 99 58
Office: CE 3 305
EPFL › VPA › VPA-FAC › GEP
Website: https://go.epfl.ch/gep
Expertise
Business development Technology Transfer Industrial relationships Multidisciplinary innovation Project Management Nonlinear optimization Operations Research Mathematical Modeling Discrete Choice Modeling Transportation demand analysis Design of Experiments Statistics
Mission
As the Director of the Development Office, directly reporting to EPFL's President, my main missions include:
- Alumni Relations
- Donors Relations
- Strategic partnerships & Initiatives
- Representation of the President and of the Institution in various Boards
- Alumni Relations
- Donors Relations
- Strategic partnerships & Initiatives
- Representation of the President and of the Institution in various Boards
See LinkedIn profile. ;-)
Education
Ph.D.
| Mathematics - Operations Research, Data Sciences, Modeling2003 – 2007 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
M.Sc.
| Applied Mathematics (Numerical Optimization and Statistics)1998 – 2002 University of Namur, Belgium
Professionals experiences
Director
President of the Board
President of the Board
Board Member
Group Research & Innovation Director
Deputy Vice-President and Head of Corporate Relations & Innovation Projects.
Deputy Vice-President
Data scientist and R&D specialist
Lecturer
Research and Teaching Assistant
Project manager
Modeling pedestrian flows in train stations: The example of Lausanne railway station
Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, April 16, 2015.Modeling pedestrian flows in train stations: The example of Lausanne railway station
2015. Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, April 15-17.Transportation Research at EPFL: From Supply Chain to Intelligent Vehicles
Nestlé's Logistics Blue Sky Day, Montreux, Switzerland, March 21, 2014.Transportation Center: Research related to traffic management and public transport operations
Green Day of the Transportation Department of State of Geneva, Coppet, Switzerland, January 28, 2014.Clip-air: a concept for future air transport
IATA Airs@t User Forum, Athens, Greece, October 08, 2014.User-centric research for predicting future transportation demand
IATA Airs@t User Forum, Athens, Greece, October 08, 2014.Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions
Transportation Science. 2014. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2013.0487.Solving mobility challenges through demand-oriented and user-centric innovation
Guest speaker, Verbier Investment Forum on Mobility, Verbier, Switzerland, December 05, 2014.From Information & Communication Technologies to Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems
Seminar at Federal Office of Communication, Invited speaker, Bienne, Switzerland, June 27, 2013.EPFL's Transportation Research: Strategy & Selected Projects
Eurotech Workshop on Transportation, Brussels, Belgium, October 08, 2013.Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles
EDC seminar, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, November 12, 2013.Les usages de la mobilité: pour une ingénierie des modes de vie
Editions Loco, 2013.Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting: a framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions
Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, April 25, 2013.Pedestrian strategies within railway stations: Analysis and modeling of pedestrian flows (PedFlux Mid-Term Report)
2013Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting: a framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions
2013. Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, April 24-26.Electric mobility: The social acceptance of electric vehicles on Swiss market
Workshop de la Chaire Armand Peugeot, Ecole Centrale Paris, Paris, France, June 25, 2013.EPFL: Aperçu des activités en transport routier durable
Congrès annuel de l'association e'mobile, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23, 2013.A framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions
8th Workshop on discrete choice models, EPFL, Lausanne, May 30, 2013.Planning of feeding station installment for electric urban public mass-transportation system
2013. 13th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, 24-26 April.Integrated choice and latent variable models: applications to vehicle and mode choice modeling
IRE seminar, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, October 10, 2013.Some challenges in electric mobility
Research Seminar at SGS Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, July 12, 2012.From Technology... to Sociology in Transportation
Annual Conference of the Cosmobilities Network on Governing Mobility, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, November 01, 2012.Transport durable: De la sociologie aux technologies en passant par la logistique
Séminaire TraCE-Alliance "De l'intelligence dans vos déplacements", EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 29, 2012.Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting
Latsis Symposium 2012, EPFL, EPFL, September 05, 2012.Electric Mobility: Some Challenges and Its Acceptation in Switzerland
Research Seminar at the Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 12, 2012.Car demand in the future: enriching forecasting models with market dynamics, behavioural variables and policy evolution
Research and innovation for transport systems in of the future, Paristech, Ministère Recherche et Enseignement Supérieur, Paris, November 14, 2012.Final report on the modeling part of the "Flux pietons Gare de Lausanne" project within the framework of "Leman 2030"
2012The innovation Cell of PSA - Peugeot-Citroën on EPFL's campus
Seminar StelLab, PSA-Peugeot-Citroën, Paris, France, November 15, 2012.CLIP-AIR: A new concept for multimodal transport based on a modular aircraft
Orchestrating Winning Performance 2012, IMD Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 26, 2012.Analyse, modélisation et prédiction de la demande de véhicules électriques sur le marché automobile suisse
3ème Congrès Suisse sur la Mobilité Electrique, Luzern, Switzerland, February 08, 2012.Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions
2012Integrating Latent Concepts in Demand Models
Seminar of the Department of Applied Economics, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, November 25, 2011.Modèles de demande intégrant attitudes et perceptions
Séminaire du laboratoire GAEL, INRA et Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France, December 08, 2011.Modeling demand for electric vehicles: the effect of car users' attitudes and perceptions
ICMC 2011, Leeds, UK, July 06, 2011.Quelle mobilité pour demain? Quelques solutions innovantes et durables
Journée de l'Energie (Valais), Martigny (VS), Switzerland, October 05, 2011.TraCE: From society needs to cutting-edge research
TraCE Research Day 2011, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 17, 2011.Integrating latent concepts in a demand model for electric vehicles
IFORS 2011, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2011.Modeling demand for electric vehicles: the effect of car users' attitudes and perceptions
2011. Second International Choice Modeling Conference, Leeds, UK, July 4-6.Research on vehicles for ground transportation at EPFL
Event for the launch of Commercial Vehicles Middle East, Chartered Institute of Logistics, Emirates Aviation College, Dubai, UAE, June 20, 2011.Le transport de marchandises en ville: Vers une optimisation opérationnelle et une meilleure coordination?
Association Transports et Environnement, Assemblée Générale 2011, Geneva, Switzerland, March 23, 2011.Etude sur la propulsion du Clip-Air
2011Transportation Center @ EPFL: Overview of research activities and projects
Research seminar, XEROX Research Centre Europe, Grenoble (France), September 27, 2011.Interactions complexes entre infrastructures et piétons: tracking et modélisation comportementale des flux piétonniers dans les secteurs des gares
Planification et construction dans les secteurs ferroviaires, Association suisse pour l'aménagement national VLP-ASPAN, Genève, September 01, 2011.Emergence of electric mobility: a nested approach to vehicle choice modeling
2011. 11th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, May 11-13.Analyse de la demande et des comportements de mobilité
Colloque sur la mobilité durable «Nouveaux comportements dans le domaine de la mobilité: enjeux et perspectives», Pôle de compétence mobil-IT (Jura), Delémont (JU, Switzerland), September 14, 2011.Emergence of electric mobility: a nested approach to vehicle choice modeling
Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, May 11, 2011.EPFL's Transportation Center: Research related to rail industry
Swissrail Board Meeting 2010, Bussnang, Switzerland, November 24, 2010.EPFL's Transportation Center: Mobility of the future
2ème séminaire de recherche Franco-Suisse, Pôle Véhicule du Futur, Strasbourg, France, October 28, 2010.TraCE: Le centre de transport à l'EPFL
Visite des Administrations Latines, Voyage vers les futurs possibles, EPFL, Switzerland, November 02, 2010.TraCE: Le centre de transport à l'EPFL
Visite des Maires Francophones à l'EPFL, 13ème sommet de la Francophonie, EPFL, Switzerland, October 22, 2010.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
INFORMS Journal of Computing. 2010. DOI : 10.1287/ijoc.1090.0343.EPFL's Transportation Center: Smart mobility
Seminar at IBM Zürich Research Center, Zürich, Switzerland, March 18, 2010.EPFL's Transportation Center: Some on-going projects
A3-Event on Mobility, EPFL, Switzerland, June 16, 2010.EPFL's Transportation Center: Sustainable Mobility
Clean Technology European Partnering Event, 1-2 June 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, June 01, 2010.Overview of transportation research at EPFL
PREDIT seminar, French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Transport, Paris, France, March 15, 2010.Simulation and optimization of urban transport systems
Réunion "Plan Climat 2010" du Conseil Général des Alpes Maritimes, Nice, France, December 16, 2010.Adjusted Mixture Designs illustrated with examples from food industry
EPFL Civil Engineering Seminar Series, EPFL, Switzerland, July 07, 2009.Dealing with singularities in nonlinear unconstrained optimization
European Journal of Operational Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.02.036.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
Graph and Optimization Meeting 2008, Saint-Maximin La Sainte Baume, France, August 26, 2008.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
Seminar, Applied Mathematics Dpt, SINTEF, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Oslo, Norway, February 06, 2008.Development and estimation of advanced Discrete Choice Models
Seminar at Nestlé Research Center, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Switzerland, October 24, 2007.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice models estimation
2007. of the Sixth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN), Phuket Island, Thailand, June 10-15.A multi-iterate method to solve systems of nonlinear equations
European Journal of Operational Research. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.09.080.Optimisation non-linéaire globale avec applications aux modèles de choix discret
FRANCORO V / ROADEF 2007, Grenoble, France, February 21, 2007.Nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice models estimation
2007. 7th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-14 September 2007.Development and estimation of advanced Discrete Choice Models
Seminar at Philipp Morris Research Center, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, November 15, 2007.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice models estimation
TRISTAN VI, Phuket Island, Thailand, June 12, 2007.A heuristic for global nonlinear optimization
Séminaire du Groupe de Recherche sur les Transports, FUNDP - Université de Namur, Namur, Belgium, April 25, 2007.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
2007Numerical methods and models relevant to transportation applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3875.Numerical Methods and Models Relevant to Transportation Applications
PhD public defence, EPFL, Lausanne, August 24, 2007.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice model estimation
Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, September 12, 2007.Méthodes de région de confiance pour l'optimisation singulière sans contrainte
ROADEF 2006, Société française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision 6, Lille, France, February 06, 2006.Solving issues in the estimation of econometric models
2006. 6th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, March 15-17, 2006.Dealing with singularities in nonlinear unconstrained optimization
2006Solving singularity issues in the estimation of econometric models
2006. Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, March, 15-17.Analysis of driver's response to real-time information in Switzerland
European Transport. 2006.Solving singularity issues in the estimation of econometric models
Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, March 15, 2006.Solving singularity issues in the estimation of econometric models
European Transport Conference (ETC), Strasbourg, France, September 18, 2006.Development of Swiss models for transportation demand presiction in response to real-time traffic information
5th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, EPFL - CAST - GR-BIE, Ascona, Switzerland, March 09, 2005.Trust-region based algorithms for singular nonlinear optimization with applications to discrete choice models
Presentation for EPFL doctoral school in mathematics, EPFL, Switzerland, May 01, 2005.Algorithmic developments for the estimate of advanced discrete choice models
2005. 5th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, March 09-13.Development of Swiss models for transportation demand prediction in response to real-time traffic information
2005. Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, March, 09-11.Algorithmic developments for the estimation of advanced discrete choice models
5th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, EPFL CAST - GR-BIE, Ascona, Switzerland, March 09, 2005.Trust-region based algorithms for singular nonlinear optimization with applications to discrete choice models
3rd Joint Oerations Research Days, IBM, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, September 15, 2005.On the Globalization of a Generalized Secant Method for solving Nonlinear Systems of Equations
3ème cycle romand de Recherche Opérationnelle, EPFL, Zinal, Switzerland, February 28, 2005.Modeling response to traffic information in Switzerland
European Transport Conference, Sttrasbourg, France, October 04, 2004.Algorithmic developments for the estimation of advanced discrete choice models
Workshop on Computational Econometrics and Statistics, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, April 02, 2004.Modélisation et simulation du flux d'une ligne d'embouteillage
Internal seminar, EPFL, Switzerland, August 10, 2002.Infoscience
Modeling pedestrian flows in train stations: The example of Lausanne railway station
Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, April 16, 2015.Modeling pedestrian flows in train stations: The example of Lausanne railway station
2015. Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, April 15-17.Transportation Research at EPFL: From Supply Chain to Intelligent Vehicles
Nestlé's Logistics Blue Sky Day, Montreux, Switzerland, March 21, 2014.Transportation Center: Research related to traffic management and public transport operations
Green Day of the Transportation Department of State of Geneva, Coppet, Switzerland, January 28, 2014.Clip-air: a concept for future air transport
IATA Airs@t User Forum, Athens, Greece, October 08, 2014.User-centric research for predicting future transportation demand
IATA Airs@t User Forum, Athens, Greece, October 08, 2014.Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions
Transportation Science. 2014. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2013.0487.Solving mobility challenges through demand-oriented and user-centric innovation
Guest speaker, Verbier Investment Forum on Mobility, Verbier, Switzerland, December 05, 2014.From Information & Communication Technologies to Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems
Seminar at Federal Office of Communication, Invited speaker, Bienne, Switzerland, June 27, 2013.EPFL's Transportation Research: Strategy & Selected Projects
Eurotech Workshop on Transportation, Brussels, Belgium, October 08, 2013.Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles
EDC seminar, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, November 12, 2013.Les usages de la mobilité: pour une ingénierie des modes de vie
Editions Loco, 2013.Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting: a framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions
Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, April 25, 2013.Pedestrian strategies within railway stations: Analysis and modeling of pedestrian flows (PedFlux Mid-Term Report)
2013Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting: a framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions
2013. Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, April 24-26.Electric mobility: The social acceptance of electric vehicles on Swiss market
Workshop de la Chaire Armand Peugeot, Ecole Centrale Paris, Paris, France, June 25, 2013.EPFL: Aperçu des activités en transport routier durable
Congrès annuel de l'association e'mobile, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23, 2013.A framework to model inter-temporal renewal decisions
8th Workshop on discrete choice models, EPFL, Lausanne, May 30, 2013.Planning of feeding station installment for electric urban public mass-transportation system
2013. 13th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, 24-26 April.Integrated choice and latent variable models: applications to vehicle and mode choice modeling
IRE seminar, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, October 10, 2013.Some challenges in electric mobility
Research Seminar at SGS Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, July 12, 2012.From Technology... to Sociology in Transportation
Annual Conference of the Cosmobilities Network on Governing Mobility, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, November 01, 2012.Transport durable: De la sociologie aux technologies en passant par la logistique
Séminaire TraCE-Alliance "De l'intelligence dans vos déplacements", EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 29, 2012.Dynamic vehicle ownership forecasting
Latsis Symposium 2012, EPFL, EPFL, September 05, 2012.Electric Mobility: Some Challenges and Its Acceptation in Switzerland
Research Seminar at the Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 12, 2012.Car demand in the future: enriching forecasting models with market dynamics, behavioural variables and policy evolution
Research and innovation for transport systems in of the future, Paristech, Ministère Recherche et Enseignement Supérieur, Paris, November 14, 2012.Final report on the modeling part of the "Flux pietons Gare de Lausanne" project within the framework of "Leman 2030"
2012The innovation Cell of PSA - Peugeot-Citroën on EPFL's campus
Seminar StelLab, PSA-Peugeot-Citroën, Paris, France, November 15, 2012.CLIP-AIR: A new concept for multimodal transport based on a modular aircraft
Orchestrating Winning Performance 2012, IMD Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 26, 2012.Analyse, modélisation et prédiction de la demande de véhicules électriques sur le marché automobile suisse
3ème Congrès Suisse sur la Mobilité Electrique, Luzern, Switzerland, February 08, 2012.Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions
2012Integrating Latent Concepts in Demand Models
Seminar of the Department of Applied Economics, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, November 25, 2011.Modèles de demande intégrant attitudes et perceptions
Séminaire du laboratoire GAEL, INRA et Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France, December 08, 2011.Modeling demand for electric vehicles: the effect of car users' attitudes and perceptions
ICMC 2011, Leeds, UK, July 06, 2011.Quelle mobilité pour demain? Quelques solutions innovantes et durables
Journée de l'Energie (Valais), Martigny (VS), Switzerland, October 05, 2011.TraCE: From society needs to cutting-edge research
TraCE Research Day 2011, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 17, 2011.Integrating latent concepts in a demand model for electric vehicles
IFORS 2011, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2011.Modeling demand for electric vehicles: the effect of car users' attitudes and perceptions
2011. Second International Choice Modeling Conference, Leeds, UK, July 4-6.Research on vehicles for ground transportation at EPFL
Event for the launch of Commercial Vehicles Middle East, Chartered Institute of Logistics, Emirates Aviation College, Dubai, UAE, June 20, 2011.Le transport de marchandises en ville: Vers une optimisation opérationnelle et une meilleure coordination?
Association Transports et Environnement, Assemblée Générale 2011, Geneva, Switzerland, March 23, 2011.Etude sur la propulsion du Clip-Air
2011Transportation Center @ EPFL: Overview of research activities and projects
Research seminar, XEROX Research Centre Europe, Grenoble (France), September 27, 2011.Interactions complexes entre infrastructures et piétons: tracking et modélisation comportementale des flux piétonniers dans les secteurs des gares
Planification et construction dans les secteurs ferroviaires, Association suisse pour l'aménagement national VLP-ASPAN, Genève, September 01, 2011.Emergence of electric mobility: a nested approach to vehicle choice modeling
2011. 11th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, May 11-13.Analyse de la demande et des comportements de mobilité
Colloque sur la mobilité durable «Nouveaux comportements dans le domaine de la mobilité: enjeux et perspectives», Pôle de compétence mobil-IT (Jura), Delémont (JU, Switzerland), September 14, 2011.Emergence of electric mobility: a nested approach to vehicle choice modeling
Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, May 11, 2011.EPFL's Transportation Center: Research related to rail industry
Swissrail Board Meeting 2010, Bussnang, Switzerland, November 24, 2010.EPFL's Transportation Center: Mobility of the future
2ème séminaire de recherche Franco-Suisse, Pôle Véhicule du Futur, Strasbourg, France, October 28, 2010.TraCE: Le centre de transport à l'EPFL
Visite des Administrations Latines, Voyage vers les futurs possibles, EPFL, Switzerland, November 02, 2010.TraCE: Le centre de transport à l'EPFL
Visite des Maires Francophones à l'EPFL, 13ème sommet de la Francophonie, EPFL, Switzerland, October 22, 2010.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
INFORMS Journal of Computing. 2010. DOI : 10.1287/ijoc.1090.0343.EPFL's Transportation Center: Smart mobility
Seminar at IBM Zürich Research Center, Zürich, Switzerland, March 18, 2010.EPFL's Transportation Center: Some on-going projects
A3-Event on Mobility, EPFL, Switzerland, June 16, 2010.EPFL's Transportation Center: Sustainable Mobility
Clean Technology European Partnering Event, 1-2 June 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, June 01, 2010.Overview of transportation research at EPFL
PREDIT seminar, French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Transport, Paris, France, March 15, 2010.Simulation and optimization of urban transport systems
Réunion "Plan Climat 2010" du Conseil Général des Alpes Maritimes, Nice, France, December 16, 2010.Adjusted Mixture Designs illustrated with examples from food industry
EPFL Civil Engineering Seminar Series, EPFL, Switzerland, July 07, 2009.Dealing with singularities in nonlinear unconstrained optimization
European Journal of Operational Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.02.036.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
Graph and Optimization Meeting 2008, Saint-Maximin La Sainte Baume, France, August 26, 2008.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
Seminar, Applied Mathematics Dpt, SINTEF, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Oslo, Norway, February 06, 2008.Development and estimation of advanced Discrete Choice Models
Seminar at Nestlé Research Center, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Switzerland, October 24, 2007.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice models estimation
2007. of the Sixth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN), Phuket Island, Thailand, June 10-15.A multi-iterate method to solve systems of nonlinear equations
European Journal of Operational Research. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.09.080.Optimisation non-linéaire globale avec applications aux modèles de choix discret
FRANCORO V / ROADEF 2007, Grenoble, France, February 21, 2007.Nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice models estimation
2007. 7th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-14 September 2007.Development and estimation of advanced Discrete Choice Models
Seminar at Philipp Morris Research Center, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, November 15, 2007.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice models estimation
TRISTAN VI, Phuket Island, Thailand, June 12, 2007.A heuristic for global nonlinear optimization
Séminaire du Groupe de Recherche sur les Transports, FUNDP - Université de Namur, Namur, Belgium, April 25, 2007.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
2007Numerical methods and models relevant to transportation applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3875.Numerical Methods and Models Relevant to Transportation Applications
PhD public defence, EPFL, Lausanne, August 24, 2007.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization relevant to discrete choice model estimation
Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, September 12, 2007.Méthodes de région de confiance pour l'optimisation singulière sans contrainte
ROADEF 2006, Société française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision 6, Lille, France, February 06, 2006.Solving issues in the estimation of econometric models
2006. 6th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, March 15-17, 2006.Dealing with singularities in nonlinear unconstrained optimization
2006Solving singularity issues in the estimation of econometric models
2006. Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, March, 15-17.Analysis of driver's response to real-time information in Switzerland
European Transport. 2006.Solving singularity issues in the estimation of econometric models
Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, March 15, 2006.Solving singularity issues in the estimation of econometric models
European Transport Conference (ETC), Strasbourg, France, September 18, 2006.Development of Swiss models for transportation demand presiction in response to real-time traffic information
5th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, EPFL - CAST - GR-BIE, Ascona, Switzerland, March 09, 2005.Trust-region based algorithms for singular nonlinear optimization with applications to discrete choice models
Presentation for EPFL doctoral school in mathematics, EPFL, Switzerland, May 01, 2005.Algorithmic developments for the estimate of advanced discrete choice models
2005. 5th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, March 09-13.Development of Swiss models for transportation demand prediction in response to real-time traffic information
2005. Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, March, 09-11.Algorithmic developments for the estimation of advanced discrete choice models
5th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, EPFL CAST - GR-BIE, Ascona, Switzerland, March 09, 2005.Trust-region based algorithms for singular nonlinear optimization with applications to discrete choice models
3rd Joint Oerations Research Days, IBM, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, September 15, 2005.On the Globalization of a Generalized Secant Method for solving Nonlinear Systems of Equations
3ème cycle romand de Recherche Opérationnelle, EPFL, Zinal, Switzerland, February 28, 2005.Modeling response to traffic information in Switzerland
European Transport Conference, Sttrasbourg, France, October 04, 2004.Algorithmic developments for the estimation of advanced discrete choice models
Workshop on Computational Econometrics and Statistics, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, April 02, 2004.Modélisation et simulation du flux d'une ligne d'embouteillage
Internal seminar, EPFL, Switzerland, August 10, 2002.Research
List of publications
Details on publications and talks are available on the following links: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/personnal.php?Person=THEMANS http://transp-or.epfl.ch/pagesPerso/michaelFiles/publications.php http://transp-or.epfl.ch/pagesPerso/michaelFiles/talks.php