Programme

Programme Booklet

Location: Conference Centre, Building 423, University of Auckland, 22 Symonds St, Auckland

Thursday 23 November

8:40 Registration (Conference Center Foyer)

9:30 Opening (Room 423-342)

9:50 – 10:50 (Room 423-342) Hans Daellenbach Plenary – Assoc Prof Andrew Mason

10:50 Morning Tea (Conference Center Foyer)

11:10 – 12:30 (Room 423-340) Session 2 – Algorithms for Scheduling and Production (Chair: Sarah Marshall)

  1. Daniel Kulasingham Solving the mass customised sawmill planning problem using cutting pattern enumeration
  2. Dominic Keehan Multistage production planning and price modelling
  3. Yasith Udagedara State-space search to find energy-aware Pareto-efficient optimal task schedules
  4. Mostafa Papen Towards the development of a Virtual Safety Officer – Few-Shot-Learning prototype

12:30 Lunch (Conference Center Foyer)

13:20 – 14:00 (Room 423-340) Session 3 – Modelling and Insights 1 (Chair: Andy Philpott)

  1. Akhil Ramesh Digital thread-enabled smart factory inventory control for New Zealand manufacturers
  2. Sarah Marshall, Mahsa Mohaghegh Improving allocation of mentees and mentors in a Women in STEM mentoring programming

2:30 Gurobi Community Event 2.0

Date November 23rd, 2023
Time 2:30 pm to 6 pm
Location Sofitel Auckland Viaduct Harbour
Registration (note that you need to register separately for the Gurobi event)
https://www.gurobi.com/events/optimization-community-auckland-23112023/
Agenda
14:30: Arrival and registration
15:00: Introducing Gurobi 11
15:25: Customer Guest Speaker
15:50: Partner Guest Speaker (Gurobipy. pandas)
16:20 – 18:00 Networking Drinks & Canapes

19:00 Conference Dinner (Good George North Wharf)

Friday 24 November

9:00 Coffee/Tea (Conference Center Foyer)

9:20 – 10:40 (Room 423-340) Annual General Meeting (agenda)

10:40 Morning Tea (Conference Center Foyer)

11:00 – 12:20 (Room 423-340) Session 4 – ORSNZ SIG on Healthcare Analytics Session (Chair: Andrea Raith)

  1. Shirekha Layangani, LDC An Analysis of Oncology Drug Prescription Patterns using Hidden Markov Models
  2. Mike O’Sullivan Pandemic Resilience – Developing an AI-calibrated ensemble of models to inform decision making
  3. Thomas Adams Equitable Surgery Scheduling
  4. Andrea Raith A Biobjective Mathheuristic for patient transport scheduling

12:20 Lunch (Conference Center Foyer)

13:20 – 14:40 (Room 423-340) Session 5 – Energy and Natural Resources SIG Session (Chair: Andrew Mason)

  1. Brian Gu Optimisation of Inductive Power Transfer Modules for In-Road EV Charging
  2. Zainab Batool Rizvi Multi Scale Analysis of Energy Systems with MicroGrids
  3. E Grant Read An LP-based Exchange to Maximise the Value of Delivered Water, while Managing Multiple Environmental Impacts
  4. Andy Philpott Planning renewable electricity capacity using JADE

14:40 Afternoon Tea (Conference Center Foyer)

15:00 – 16:20 (Room 423-340) Session 6 – Modelling and Insights 2 (Chair: Tom Adams)

  1. Lisa Aoki Hillas Designing Service Menus for Bipartite Queueing Systems
  2. Aida Shams Behavioral Enablers of Servers in Queueing Systems
  3. Michael Zhang Visualising the column generation processes for the airline crew rostering problem
  4. Oscar Dowson JuMP: the year in review

16:20-16:40 (Room 423-340) Prizegiving

16:40 (Room 423-340) Closing