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Monday, December 11
Plenary 1 (9:10 – 10:00)
YPP Session 1 (10:30 – 12:00)
- A study on bid and budget optimization for sponsored search – Harish Krishna
- Ultra-capacitor electric buses: Efficient placement of charging infrastructure within existing bus networks – Russell Stewart
- Improvements in Water Resource Planning – Oleg Barbin
- Short-Term Modelling of Electricity Prices in New Zealand – Alan Ansell
- Piecewise linear supply offers in the NZ Electricity Market – Weiming Zhi
- SDDP.jl: a Julia package for Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming – Oscar Dowson
Plenary 2 (13:20 – 14:10)
- Jenny Bryan, University of British Columbia
YPP Session 2 (14:10 – 15:25)
- Modelling Traffic Assignment Objectives with Emission Cost Functions – James Tidwell
- Balancing Physician Workloads Under Uncertain Admissions – Thomas Adams
- Solving a Generalised Staff Rostering Problem – Isaac Cleland
- Optimal investment for battery and solar power for load shifting – J M Omar Khaiam
- Ambulance simulation and optimisation – Samuel Ridler
YPP Session 3 (16:00 – 17:00)
- Co-optimization of energy and reserve for a major consumer of electricity over a finite time horizon – Mahbubeh Habibian
- Upper and lower bounds for saddle functions – Regan Baucke
- Integer Programming Optimization of Geothermal Production – Rishi Adiga
- Computing the frustration index in signed graphs using binary programming – Samin Aref
Tuesday, December 12
Plenary 3 (9:10 – 10:00)
- Ross Ihaka, University of Auckland
ORSNZ Session 1 (10:30 – 12:10)
- Modelling Warranty Costs with a Generalised Alternating Renewal Process – Sarah Marshall
- Improving estimation using order statistics – Andy Philpott
- Scholarly contributions of theory of constraints to operations management – Maram Mirzaei
- Using the Theory of Constraints to resolve long-standing resource and service issues in a large public hospital – Vicky Mabin
- Convex Hull Representations for Multi-Level Renewable Power System Optimisation – Grant Read
Session in Memory of Alistair Scott (13:20 – 15:30)
ORSNZ Session 2 (16:00 – 17:00)
- Field Officer Planning for Census 2018: Algorithms and Implementation – Andrew Mason
- Simulating Risk Measures with Estimated Relative Errors – Steven Kou
- Management Insights from Covariance Based and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling – Robert Cavana
Wednesday, December 13
Plenary 4 (9:10 – 10:00)
- Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin – Madison
ORSNZ Session 3 (10:30 – 12:10)
- AROS – Asset Risk Optimisation Suite – Josh Dawes
- Suez
- Investments in Electricity Generation for Auckland’s Growth – Anthony Downward
- Severity risk of forecasting errors for solar energy infeed in South-West Germany – Callum Ferguson
- Water Infrastructure Planning under Long Term Uncertainty – Josh Dawes
Plenary 5 (13:20 – 14:10)
Analytics Forum (14:10 – 17:00)
Thursday, December 14
Plenary (9:10 – 10:00)
- Luke Tierny, University of Iowa
ORSNZ Session 4 (10:30 – 11:30)
- Forecasting Future Medical Speciality Workforce Supply – Emmanuel Jo
- Excel Based Tool for Interactive Optimization Models – Anthony Downward
- A multi-stage stochastic optimization model of a New Zealand dairy farm – Oscar Dowson
