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)
- Daniel Kulasingham Solving the mass customised sawmill planning problem using cutting pattern enumeration
- Dominic Keehan Multistage production planning and price modelling
- Yasith Udagedara State-space search to find energy-aware Pareto-efficient optimal task schedules
- 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)
- Akhil Ramesh Digital thread-enabled smart factory inventory control for New Zealand manufacturers
- 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)
- Shirekha Layangani, LDC An Analysis of Oncology Drug Prescription Patterns using Hidden Markov Models
- Mike O’Sullivan Pandemic Resilience – Developing an AI-calibrated ensemble of models to inform decision making
- Thomas Adams Equitable Surgery Scheduling
- 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)
- Brian Gu Optimisation of Inductive Power Transfer Modules for In-Road EV Charging
- Zainab Batool Rizvi Multi Scale Analysis of Energy Systems with MicroGrids
- E Grant Read An LP-based Exchange to Maximise the Value of Delivered Water, while Managing Multiple Environmental Impacts
- 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)
- Lisa Aoki Hillas Designing Service Menus for Bipartite Queueing Systems
- Aida Shams Behavioral Enablers of Servers in Queueing Systems
- Michael Zhang Visualising the column generation processes for the airline crew rostering problem
- Oscar Dowson JuMP: the year in review
16:20-16:40 (Room 423-340) Prizegiving
16:40 (Room 423-340) Closing