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IFORS March 2019 Newsletter
The IFORS newsletter contains a range of articles about OR, which may be of interest to ORSNZ members. Click here to view the March 2019 newsletter.
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ASOR News
ORSNZ members wanting to keep up to date with OR happening across the Tasman may be interested in the latest newsletter from the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR). The newsletter is available here: https://www.asor.org.au/index.php/newsletter
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ORSNZ Conference 2019 Survey
We hope you have all had a good break over the summer. As you know, the work never stops at ORSNZ, so we’ve been eagerly planning the 2019 ORSNZ Conference. This year, NZSA will be holding their conference in Dunedin, which is not a particularly strong location for ORSNZ. For this reason, we wish to…
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Shane Henderson wins INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize
I am very pleased to announce that Auckland University graduate and ORSNZ member, Prof Shane Henderson, has been awarded the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research. Shane and colleagues at Cornell, Uber and Lyft were awarded this prize for their application of analytics and O.R.…
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Hans Daellenbach Prize Event for Prof Vicky Mabin
By Mike O’Sullivan, ORSNZ President: It was my pleasure to fly to Wellington to present Prof Vicky Mabin with her Hans Daellenbach Prize. A/Prof Bob Cavana organised an excellent event at which Vicky’s colleagues and students, alongside the Victoria University of Wellington Provost Professor Wendy Larner and local ORSNZ members, honoured Vicky’s distinguished and pioneering…
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IFORS Dec 2017 Newsletter
The IFORS newsletter contains a range of articles about OR, which may be of interest to ORSNZ members. Click here to view the December 2017 newsletter.
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Winners of the Inaugural John Andrew George Memorial Prize
At the 2017 ORSNZ the first John Andrew George Memorial Prizes were awarded. This prize was established by Grant Read, Vicky Mabin, Bob Cavana, and John Buchanan in memory of former ORSNZ Vice President John George, who passed away in November last year. While most OR projects are expected to deliver “benefits” of various kinds, the…
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ORSNZ Hans Daellenbach Prize awarded to Prof. Vicky Mabin
At the 2017 ORSNZ Conference Prof. Vicky Mabin was awarded the Hans Daellenbach Prize. Part of the citation is given below: We have great pleasure in announcing that Professor Victoria Jane Mabin, from Victoria University of Wellington, has been awarded the ORSNZ Hans Daellenbach Award for outstanding contributions to Operational Research in New Zealand. This…
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Young Practitioner’s Prize Winners 2017
At the 51st ORSNZ Conference held in December 2017, we had 14 entries into the Young Practitioner’s Prize, which was sponsored by Trustpower. There were three prizes awarded: 1st Place: Oscar Dowson – SDDP.jl: a Julia package for Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming 2nd Place: Thomas Adams – Balancing Physician Workloads Under Uncertain Admissions 3rd Place: Isaac Cleland…
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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…
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