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The final programme is below.
Monday 28 November
8:40 Registration
9:30 Opening of the Conference
OSHA Healthcare Modelling Cluster (9:40 – 14:00)
9:40 – 10:40: Plenary Session
Integrated Planning in Healthcare.
➥Melanie Reuter-OppermannTechnical University of Darmstadt
10:40 Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:50: Healthcare Modelling
Scheduling surgeries using optimisation algorithms.
➥Thomas AdamsEngineering Science, University of Auckland
A districting approach to investigate the effect of home carers on the number of caregivers in home healthcare.
➥Mazyar ZarepourEngineering Science, University of Auckland
How modelling and digital transformation can improve healthcare.
➥Michael O’SullivanEngineering Science, University of Auckland
Panel discussion on healthcare modelling.
➥Thomas AdamsEngineering Science, University of Auckland
➥Pieta BrownOrion Health & Precision Driven Health
➥Isaac ClelandRosterLab
➥Melanie Reuter-OppermannInformation Systems, Technical University of Darmstadt
➥Cameron WalkerEngineering Science, University of Auckland
➥Ilze ZiedinsStatistics, University of Auckland
12:50 Lunch
13:40: Annual General Meeting
14:40 – 15:40: Network Models & Data Science
Product categorisation and implementation challenges.
➥Golnar BehzadiPlexure
Is it time to retire the Solomon dataset for benchmarking VRP solution techniques?
➥Param IyerInformation Systems and Operations Management, University of Auckland.
Finding the missing with integer programming. 📝
➥Karl ZhuEngineering Science, University of Auckland
Simulation-optimisation for optimal location of wireless charging infrastructure for an electric taxi fleet.
➥Andrea RaithEngineering Science, University of Auckland
15:40 Afternoon Tea
16:00 – 17:00: Decomposition Methods
Benders decomposition algorithms to solve bi-objective linear programmes. 📝
➥Ali SohrabiEngineering Science, University of Auckland
Speeding up column generation by heuristically limiting the solution space for the airline crew rostering problem. 📝
➥Michael ZhangEngineering Science, University of Auckland
Neighbourhood pricing: A matheuristic column generation approach for staff rostering.
➥Andrew MasonEngineering Science, University of Auckland
18:30 Conference Dinner at debretts kitchen
Tuesday 29 November
9:20 – 10:40: Hydrogen Integration into Energy Systems
On hydrogen and electricity security of supply.
➥Andy PhilpottElectric Power Optimization Centre, University of Auckland
Dependent inflow models in JADE.
➥Adam CliffordEngineering Science, University of Auckland
Calculation of synthetic energy carrier production costs with high temporal and geographical resolution. 📝
➥Uwe LangenmayrInstitute for Industrial Production, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Multi-horizon modelling of hydrogen integration.
➥Anthony DownwardEngineering Science, University of Auckland
10:40 Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:40: Production Processes & Environmental Modelling
Energy transition planning in manufacturing: An integrated framework of machine learning and mathematical programming.
➥Ehsan IzadpanahiEngineering Science, University of Auckland
Optimisation in Dairy 101.
➥Geoff LeylandFonterra Co-operative Group
Using operational models to make strategic decisons.
➥Oleg BarbinFonterra Co-operative Group
Multi-discipline Multi-criteria Multi-models.
➥Kerry MayesWSP
Automating the quality assurance process for continuous environmental data.
➥Preston FerreiraNorthland Regional Council
12:40 Lunch
13:40 – 15:00: Modelling & Optimization under Uncertainty
Certainty equivalent model predictive control and distributionally robust stochastic dynamic programming. 📝
➥Dominic KeehanEngineering Science, University of Auckland
A general framework for modelling decision-dependent information revelation in stochastic programming. 📝
➥Rishi AdigaEngineering Science, University of Auckland
Modelling housing feature impacts on sale price in newly developed suburbs relative to a standard house. 📝
➥Christina Yin-Chieh LinEngineering Science, University of Auckland
Which flights to cancel? Disruption mitigation for a tail allocation problem.
➥Sarah MarshallDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology
15:00 Afternoon Tea
15:20 – 16:40: Operations Research Tools & Supply Chain Modelling
Mapping the future of information sharing and processing in supply chains — A literature review.
➥Maryam MirzaeiBusiness Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology
JuMP 1.0: Recent improvements to a modelling language for mathematical optimization.
➥Oscar DowsonJuMP
Optimisation over exotic cones with Hypatia.
➥Lea KapelevichMathworks
Embedding operations research and analytics into Engineering Science design.
➥Kevin JiaEngineering Science, University of Auckland