Author: sarahmarshall

ORSNZ Annual Conference Registrations Open

The ORSNZ Annual Conference will be held Thursday 20/11/2025 and Friday 21/11/2025 at the University of Auckland.

Some of the key dates are (full list here):
– abstracts are due Friday 17/10/2025
– Paper deadline (optional) and YPP paper deadline Friday 24/10/2025
– early bird registrations are available until Friday 24/10/2025

Thanks to some very generous sponsorship the registration fees are low this year, so hopefully many of you can join us. Registration details and the Humanitix registration page are linked here.

There are two prizes available, the ORSNZ Young Practitioners’ Prize (YPP) and the John A. George Memorial Prize (JAG). This year, there will be two YPP prize categories: paper and presentation. Further details can be found on the conference website.

I would also like to draw everyone’s attention to the Optimization Community Event, organised by Gurobi, which will be held on Thursday 20 November 2025 (venue to be confirmed). The event is free-of-charge but ORSNZ attendees need to register for this event in addition to ORSNZ conference registration. Further details about this event will be released over the coming weeks.

This year’s conference will be co-located with JuMP-dev, which will take place November 17–20, 2025, also in Auckland, New Zealand. Separate registration is required for this event via this page.

There may be travel support for students out of Auckland. Please get in touch by emailing [email protected] to find out more.

We look forward to many interesting talks and discussions. The abstract submission form is linked here.

Andrea Raith (ORSNZ President)
on behalf of the conference organising committee (Sarah Marshall, Lisa Hillas, Oscar Dowson).

10th AUT Mathematical Modelling and Analytics Symposium, Nov. 24-25, 2025

The Mathematical Modelling and Analytics Research Centre and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology are hosting the 10th AUT Mathematical Modelling and Analytics Symposium on Monday and Tuesday, November 24-25, 2025. We cordially invite you to this event.

The symposium will be held at Auckland University of Technology, WS and WZ Building, AUT City Campus, Auckland Central.

The following invited speakers have been confirmed:

** CONTRIBUTED TALKS **

We welcome contributed talks (20 minutes) from the mathematical sciences community in the areas of statistical programming, statistical methodology, stochastic modelling, data science, computational and mathematical modelling, financial analytics, financial mathematics, decision analysis and operations research.  Abstracts (up to 250 words) should be submitted through the Symposium website by Friday 31st October 2025.

** REGISTRATION & DINNER **

Registration is free of charge, however all participants are required to register on the Symposium website by Monday 17th November 2025.  Morning tea and afternoon tea will be provided. The Symposium dinner will be held on Monday 24 November 2025 at the Puen Eatery & Bar Restaurant (3 Mount Eden Road, Grafton, Auckland). The dinner is free of charge for registered participants

For general enquiries, please contact [email protected] or visit the symposium’s website.

Symposium website: 10th AUT Mathematical Modelling and Analytics Symposium

Registration Form: Registration form – 10th AUT Mathematical Modelling and Analytics Symposium

Job Opportunity – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Auckland

Kia ora koutou,

Please see link below for a call for applicants for three Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions in Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Link – https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversityOfAuckland/744000063647030-lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-operations-and-supply-chain-management

Applications must be submitted online, by the closing date of 27 June 2025 to be considered. 

Noho ora mai, Sarah (ORSNZ Vice President)

CfP: AUT Mathematical Sciences Symposium 21-22 Nov 2019

The Mathematical Sciences Research Group (MSRG), Department of Mathematical Sciences, School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology is hosting a Symposium over the period Thursday 21st November – Friday 22nd November 2019. The symposium will be held at Auckland University of Technology, WF Building, AUT City Campus, Auckland Central, rooms WF710 and WF711.

The following invited speakers have been confirmed:
• Boris Choy, The University of Sydney, Australia
• Simona Fabrizi, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Rachel Fewster, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Andreas W. Kempa-Liehr, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Fabien Montiel, University of Otago, New Zealand
• Thomas Yee, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Contributed talks (20 minutes) from the mathematical sciences community are welcomed. Abstracts (up to 250 words) should be submitted through the symposium website by Monday 11th November 2019.

Attendance at the symposium is open to all members of the mathematical sciences community. There is no registration fee, however participants are required to register on the Symposium website by Thursday 7th November 2019.

For further information, including abstract submission and registration, refer to the symposium website: https://www.aut.ac.nz/events/2019-aut-mathematical-sciences-symposium
For general enquiries, please contact [email protected] or visit the symposium’s website.

In Memoriam: Shabbir Ahmed

ORSNZ is saddened to share that Shabbir Ahmed,  Anderson-Interface Chair and Professor of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, passed away on June 19th, 2019.

A tribute by Alejandro Toriello has been published on the INFORMS Open Forum

Reflections from ORSNZ Members

I had the pleasure of visiting Shabbir at Georgia tech during a visit in the course of my PhD. Shabbir was very unassuming. He was easy to talk to about topics within our research, and also outside of research including his hobby of music. From just a short visit and several email exchanges, it was rather surprising to me to learn that someone with Shabbir’s standing could be so honest, approachable and easy-going. Our community has lost a great researcher but also a passionate teacher and mentor.
Regan Baucke

I was very sad to hear that Shabbir Ahmed died on June 19 after battling cancer for the past 10 months. Shabbir was not only a brilliant researcher but a colleague and good friend. He was the external examiner to our Engineering Science PhD student Oscar Dowson last year, and I examined Jikai Zou, one of his recent PhD students. I met Shabbir in 2004 and had stayed in touch with him through our work together in the Committee on Stochastic Programming (COSP). Shabbir was an active participant in this committee, writing a tutorial for the website on stochastic integer programming, and also designing and drawing COSP’s logo (see the home page of https://stoprog.org/).  It was quite clear from early on that Shabbir was going to be a star in the mathematical programming community. Last year he won the INFORMS Optimization Society Farkas Prize, awarded each year to the world’s top mid-career optimization researcher. It seemed as if this was another milestone on a career that would continue to reach even greater heights. Alas that was not to be. We received some heartening news in February that his cancer was responding to treatment, but then the shocking news in June that he had died. He will be missed by many.
Andy Philpott     

                    

PhD scholarship at UNSW

As part of strategic investments to tackle global grand challenges, a new PhD Scholarship opportunity at UNSW Sydney focuses on identifying transformative policies to improve societal well-being. A central component of this complex systems research project involves building a systems model of the evolution of social, economic and environmental capital stocks in response to business and public policies (e.g. land development, population growth, infrastructure spending, science and technology investment). 

The scholarship includes a stipend of $41,200 per year for 4 years, up to $10,000 per year to support the successful candidate’s career development, and covers all tuition fees. The supervisory team includes faculty members from both the social sciences and natural sciences.

Interested candidates should complete an expression of interest by July 12, 2019 using this link: http://bit.ly/ScientiaEOI

For a one-page overview of the research project click this link: http://bit.ly/UNSWSydneyPhD

Fifty-Second Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India & International Conference: Call for papers

  • What: Fifty-Second Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India & International Conference
  • When: December 16th-18th, 2019
  • Where: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India
  • Conference website: https://conference.iima.ac.in/orsi2019/index.php

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India will be hosting the Fifty-Second Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India & International Conference on the theme of Practice of Management Science & Analytics from December 16th-18th, 2019. Members of ORSNZ are invited to attend the conference and present a paper, chair a session or participate in different competitions.

The objective of the conference: The Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) and the International Conference is a leading platform to share information among academia and industry, on the latest theory methods, techniques, applications and the practice of OR, Management Science and Analytics. It is designed to attract the participation of researchers, students and practitioners from India and abroad besides ORSI members. ORSI conducts an annual convention in different local chapters every year in order to promote the usage of Operational Research and to exchange the ideas amongst the attendees of the conference. This year ORSI has planned its 52nd Annual Convention at the IIMA Campus. ORSI has various awards to be presented in this conference for high achievers. 

About ORSI: The Operational Research Society of India was founded in 1957 in order to provide a forum for the Operational Research Scientists to broaden their horizon by an exchange of knowledge and application of techniques from all over the world. Headquartered in Kolkata, the society is affiliated to the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) and Asia Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS) and has sixteen chapters located in various cities in India. ORSI is dedicated to promote and propagate the knowledge in Operational Research.

About Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad: IIMA has been consistently ranked as the premier management school in the country by several national agencies. The institute funds research projects and case- writing, which over the years has led to a rich repository of monographs, technical notes, cases, and journal articles.

See the conference website
https://conference.iima.ac.in/orsi2019/index.php
for detailed information about all aspects of the conference including the abstract submission and registration process.

For more information about the paper presentation and its thematic topics, you can refer to the conference poster and conference brochure.

Contact details
Program Committee Chair Prof. Nita Shah: [email protected].
General queries: [email protected].
For award related queries Prof. Goutam Duttatact [email protected]