Natural disasters that are associated to the atmosphere (known as atmospheric perils) such as hurricanes, tornadoes and hail, flooding, drought, and wildfire, caused over $100 billion in damage throughout the world in 2015. Insurance companies often cannot afford to be responsible when such catastrophes occur, and so they purchase insurance to protect themselves (called reinsurance) […]

La gestion de projet ou de programme et la gestion du changement sont deux disciplines différentes en science de gestion observant chacune des approches qui leur sont propres. Pourtant, malgré leur différence, elles coexistent et la qualité de l’arrimage entre les professionnels des deux disciplines semble nécessaire pour avoir du succès. Aussi, nous intéressons-nous à […]

West 5 community in London, Ontario, will pursue high penetration of electric vehicles, and is exploring an innovative marketing program of including them with the sale of each new condominium unit. The primary objective of this project is to determine an economical approach to create an acceptable infrastructure for these electric vehicles that will be […]

Deep learning is currently the dominant machine learning technique as a result of state of the art performance in vision (Russakovsky, et al., 2015), speech (Amodei, et al., 2015) and natural language processing (Vinyals et al., 2015). The improvement in performance of these models is attributed to the availability of large datasets for training the […]

Project is to import ten year’s of historical data on news events, public sentiment metrics and the price movement of S&P 500 related equities for study and analysis through the latest Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques. The goal is to uncover correlation and causality between events and price movement of global markets in multiple […]

Children born with an absent or ineffective right or left ventricle (single ventricle) have a low life expectancy and will undergo at least three surgical procedures ultimately leading to the Fontan Procedure (FP), which allows blood to travel directly to the lungs (bypassing the heart) to become oxygenated. Adolescent FP-patients indicate poor cardiovascular health which […]

Children born with an absent or ineffective right or left ventricle (single ventricle) have a low life expectancy and will undergo at least three surgical procedures ultimately leading to the Fontan Procedure (FP), which allows blood to travel directly to the lungs (bypassing the heart) to become oxygenated. Adolescent FP-patients indicate poor cardiovascular health which […]

Les inondations constituent les catastrophes naturelles les plus fréquentes dans le monde et aussi les plus désastreuses en termes de dommages matériel et du nombre de victimes. Au Canada, les compagnies d’assurance commencent à offrir des protections contre les inondations. Certaines protections sont offertes pour les inondations causées par les événements de pluies intenses et […]

Cities across Canada are looking for developers and builders to design and construct in “greener” and more “sustainable” ways, yet this is a complex process for municipalities and developers alike. Even with all of the best technologies and financial tools, innovative projects often struggle with the constraints of building codes and development approvals requirements. These […]

The objective of this research is twofold: to improve existing risk management framework to assess interest rate shocks, and to develop a new risk factor model to create an equity risk score system to help guide investment decisions. The first part of this research project involves the development of an equity risk score system to […]

Le projet présenté s’inscrit dans une stratégie de développement de l’industrie piscicole marine québécoise, visant l’élaboration d’un modèle bioéconomique de grossissement de flétan de l’Atlantique, permettant d’évaluer la rentabilité d’entreprises potentielles. Une approche d’analyse financière de projet couplée aux enjeux d’ingénierie et de gestion biotechnique liés au développement de l’industrie sera utilisée pour réaliser la […]

The Graphene Audio group at TandemLaunch is working to revolutionize loudspeaker design through the use of graphene composite materials (Graphene-CMs) in loudspeaker membranes. Graphene is a newly discovered material with exceptional mechanical and electrical characteristics. Its low mass and high strength make it ideal for use in acoustic transducers offering an immediate benefit over existing […]