The final programme for both the NZSA / IASC-ARS and ORSNZ conference streams is available here.
Note that the first official event is the welcome reception from 5pm on Sunday 10 December on level 0 of OGGB.
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Mini-conference on Infrastructure Planning
The half-day mini-conference on infrastructure planning is being held on Wednesday 13 December. This is part of the ORSNZ conference; however, you can also register for this event separately here.
This will be followed by an analytics forum event from 3-6pm.
ORSNZ Presentation Schedule published
The programme for the upcoming ORSNZ conference has been announced. If you are presenting, please check the date and time of your session, and if you have any issues please contact the conference chair Cameron Walker immediately.
The programme can be viewed here.
ORSNZ Annual General Meeting 2017
ORSNZ is holding its Annual General Meeting during the upcoming ORSNZ conference on Tuesday the 12th of December from 12:20pm – 1pm.
The agenda for the meeting is:
- Apologies (to [email protected]);
- Minutes of the previous AGM;
- Matters arising from the minutes;
- President’s report;
- Honorary Treasurer’s report and financial statement;
- Update on Special Interest Groups;
- Update on website;
- Mentoring;
- Hans Dallenbach Prize;
- Conferences
- ORSNZ Statistics
- Election of officers and auditor;
- Other business.
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ORSNZ Annual General Meeting 2017
There will be an AGM held during the upcoming ORSNZ Conference (date+time to be confirmed). The tentative agenda is:
1. Apologies (to [email protected]);
2. Minutes of the previous AGM;
3. Matters arising from the minutes;
4. President’s report;
5. Honorary Treasurer’s financial statement;
6. Update on Special Interest Groups;
7. Update on website;
8. Mentoring;
9. Election of officers and auditor;
10. Other business.
You can find the minutes from the previous AGM here, and the discussion document about Special Interest Groups here.
If you have any other agenda items, please email them to [email protected] by Sunday 19 November 2017.
Final date for abstracts has been extended
The final submission date for abstracts for presentations at the upcoming ORSNZ Annual Conference have been extended until Tuesday November 7. Please submit your abstract by this date if you would like to present at the upcoming conference. (Unless you are entering the YPP, no paper is necessary.)
In memoriam: John Andrew George (30-11-1945 – 1-11-2017)
Dr John George unexpectedly passed away last Wednesday (November 1). John was a former vice-president of the Operations Research Society of New Zealand, and Editor of the Newsletter.
Here are a selection of newsletters where John contributed editorials: September 1998; March 1999; December 1999.
His memorial service will be held at 2pm on November 6. You can view the service live here. For the next three months, you can watch a recording of the service here. Log in using the Event ID westparkchapel, and Password ESZFRF.
We would like to recognise John’s contribution to OR in New Zealand at the upcoming conference, so if you have any memories of John George which you would like to share, please email [email protected].
Mini-conference on Infrastructure Planning under Uncertainty
As part of the 2017 ORSNZ Annual Conference, there will be a 1-day mini-conference on Infrastructure Planning under Uncertainty on Wednesday 13 December. This day will begin with a plenary presentation by Prof. Michael Ferris (see the program for details), and end with an analytics forum event, and a discussion panel.
Also, we would like to remind you that Tuesday, 31 October is the final day for abstract submissions, as well as early-bird registrations. We welcome both practical and theoretical talks utilising either operations research, or analytics methods.
ORSNZ annual conference 2017: Plenary speaker announced
Plenary Speaker Confirmed
We’re pleased to announce that Professor Michael Ferris, the Optimization Theme Leader at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will be a plenary speaker at the upcoming ORSNZ annual conference being held in Auckland, December 11-14.
This plenary will be held on the Wednesday morning (13 December).
Registration and Abstract Submission
If you have not yet submitted an abstract, please do so. October 31 is the deadline for both abstract submission, and the early-bird registration. Please try to submit your abstract in advance of this date, to enable us to provide responses in a timely manner.