Operations Research Society of New Zealand
www.orsnz.org.nz
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New Zealand
www.orsnz.org.nz
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The Operations Research Society of New Zealand is a
nationwide not-for-profit body
comprising academics and public servants, consultants and people in
industry. It currently
has over 150 members within New Zealand and is affiliated to APORS, IFORS and the Royal
Society of NZ. In 2008, David
Ryan
was
presented with an IFORS
certificate (larger image)
celebrating 50 years of
IFORS.
The primary aim of the Society is to promote Operations Research and Management Science in New Zealand in both academic and industrial aspects.
To read the latest news about Operations Research and Management Science in New Zealand look at the ORSNZ Newsletter.
To read the latest from Operations Research and Management Science in the United States look at OR/MS Today
If you are seeking a particular OR/MS journal issue then look at OR/MS library holdings in New Zealand institutions.
The Constitution states that: "The Council shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, an Honorary Secretary, and an Honorary Treasurer and six other members. In addition, not more than five members may be co-opted annually by the Council. ... The members of the Council shall retire annually but shall be available for re-election."
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Secretary |
Treasurer |
Council (APORS / IFORS Rep) |
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Council |
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| Auckland Branch Chair auckland@orsnz.org.nz Golbon Zakeri |
Christchurch Branch Chair christchurch@orsnz.org.nz Grant Read |
Wellington Branch Chair wellington@orsnz.org.nz Mark Johnston |
(WebMaster) Andrew Mason |
Fill out the application form and post it, with payment. to:
Membership Secretary
ORSNZ
PO Box 6544
Wellesley Street
Auckland 1141
New Zealand
Contact the branch chairs above if you wish to give a presentation or organise an OR activity in Auckland, Wellington or Canterbury
History
The ORSNZ was founded in 1965 by staff at the Applied Maths Division of
the DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research), a
government department based primarily in Wellington. We have a small
collection of
historic photos which were collected as part of our 2005 40th
anniversary in Wellington, including:
1/ George Dantzig (Stanford Optimisation Lab) cutting our 21st
anniversary cake, Aug-1985, with Bruce Benseman (President?), [jpg] and
2/ Jerry Brown (Naval Post-Grad College, Monterey), invited conference
speaker, Aug-1987, again with Bruce Benseman. [jpg]
The comments for the following pictures were provided
by Vicky Mabin (Jan 2008). These pictures featured in a picture quizz
held in 2005 at the 40th anniversary of the ORSNZ.
1 APORS delegates,
ORSA/TIMS Conference, Gold Coast: Tony Vignaux, Hugh Barr, Vicky Mabin.
2. 1999 Waikato
conference: Hans Daellenbach and Michael Rothkopf - Keynote
Speakers. Hans did a brilliant futuristic piece for his address, the
conference theme was OR in the new millennium.
3. Canterbury
Conference, 1992?
4. ??
5. 2001, Canterbury OR
Dept 30th Anniversary Re-union including John George (and wife), Hans
Daellenbach, Anne Spence/Wein and Larry Wein, Vicky Mabin, John
Raffensperger, Ed Silver?, John Giffin, Victoria Coad, Nick Winter?,
Jenny George, Don McNickle.
6. Bruce Benseman and George
Dantzig, August 1985, ORSNZ 21st birthday celebrations, organised
partly by Vicky Mabin (especially the cake!) Don't be misled by
the fact that we had our 40th in 2005 - we missed a conference in 1997
due to APORS in Melbourne that year.
7. Joint conference with
NZPICS in Wellington, 1991, organised by Vicky Mabin (President of
ORSNZ, Chair of Wgtn Chapter of NZPICS, and Conference Chair).
8. Waikato? The
speaker with Les looks like Saul Gass?
(Thanks to Bruce and John Hayes, Vicky Mabin, Karen
Garner, and others I'm sure, for contributing
these pictures.)
Logo: Lester
Brian reports "The logo was selected from a competition by art students
(from where? – perhaps Wellington?). I remember laying the
entries out over the floor at more than one meeting." (Email 26/11/2007)
Newsletter
The newsletter editor is Matthias Ehrgott, who can be contacted at newsletter@orsnz.org.nz. The
latest and past
issues can be found here.
Young Practitioner Prize:
The ORSNZ has regular Young Practitioner Prizes to encourage students
and practitioners in OR. Click here
for more details, including a list of these prize
winners.
Hans Daellenbach Prize:
The ORSNZ also awards the Hans Daellenbach Prize to distinguished
contributors in Operations
Research. Click here for more details
on the nomination process and a list of
past prize
winners.
ORSNZ Visiting Lecturer Scholarships
The ORSNZ invites nominations for ORSNZ honorary visiting lecturers
to visit New Zealand between September and June each year. Each
visiting lecturer is invited to give a talk on some topic likely to be
of general interest to ORSNZ members at at least three of Auckland,
Hamilton, Wellington, and Christchurch. Each visiting lecturer will be
invited to write a guest editorial for the society newsletter. The
ORSNZ contributes to the costs up to a maximum of $1000 plus GST (if
any) per visitor. Each candidate must be nominated by a current member
of ORSNZ, "the champion". The nomination must include the CV of the
nominated visiting lecturer, the date and location of the hosts of the
visit, the name of the champion and an undertaking by the champion to
coordinate a visit by the nominee to three or more of the above named
centres. Enquiries concerning, or nominations for, lectureships should
be sent to president@orsnz... The closing date for nominations is the
end of April. Information on past visitors can be found here.
APORS Young Scholar and National Paper
In association with IFORS (International Federation of OR Societies),
the ORSNZ provides support for a young scholar to attend the APORS
(Asia Pacific OR Societies) annual conference. Click here for more details.
Invited Speakers at the Annual Japanese OR Society Conference
For a few years, the Japanese OR Society sponsored one invited speaker
each year to speak at an APORS
session in its annual conference. Click here for
more details.
Official Documents:
Constitution
View our 2009
constitution (dated 10 March 2009) (.doc) with changes
(.doc)
introduced
by
the
amendment
of 20 April 2009 (.doc)
and
discussed
in
the
January
2009 newsletter. This version supercedes our 2008
consitution. We
also have available the Aug
1990
Amendment (introducing honorary life memberships), Jan 1991 Constitution
(ConJan91.doc), Dec 1991 Amendment
(not-for-profit changes, collective members rights, sexist language), Feb 1992 Constitution
(ConFeb92.doc), April 1993
amendment (ConVote1.doc)
(financial year ending June, conduct of members), April 1993
Constitution (as
filed) (ConJun93.doc) the Dec
2000 amendment (.doc)
and
voting result
(Mar 2001 newsletter, p19), the Feb 2001 consitution (.doc) (which was
never filed with the Companies Office), and the Jan 2008 constitution
(.doc) (being
the delayed filing
of the 2001 version). Most of these Word files are
the old originals!
We file annual accounts each
year. There is some useful information for registered societies at
http://www.societies.govt.nz/,
including
some
useful
forms and options for uploading reports and updating
information.
GST
We are registered for GST under GST number 55-449-481.
Registration as a Charity and IRD Donee Organisation Status
In
May 1992, we were approved by IRD (confirmation letter,
25 Feb 2008) as a non-profit organisation for the purposes of
income tax.
In April 2009, we were registered
as a Charity by the Charities
Commission, with registration number CC40246; view the Charities Commission
Registration certificate. (This supercedes and
extends our non-profit status.) IRD (IRD letter, 25 May 2009)
have
confirmed
that
tax
credits
and
deductions
can
be
claimed for
donations to the ORSNZ.
Registration with the Charities Commission means we need to:
• send an Annual Return to the Commission each year. Our first Annual
Return is due before 31 December 2009.
• notify the Commission of changes to the name, address for service,
balance date, rules, purposes or officers no later than three months
after the effective date of the change.
General Documents & Forms:
You can view our past
council members, or
check out the secretarial
duties.
View Overseas
Visitors
Visa
Instructions.
Download our
reimbursement form; please complete this and email it to the
treasurer (treasurer@...) with any claims for reimbursement.
Documenting our Processes:
The following files document our processes.
Branch Chair's Role
Presidential Processes
Secretarial Processes
Treasurer Processes
Official Companies Office
Information
Conference Organisation
Newsletter
Processes
We also have a list of the secretarial duties
(pdf) from 1992 and
an old ORSNZ
Processes seed document from 11/2001.
ORSNZ Annual General Meetings and Annual Reports:
1997 AGM : Minutes 1997.pdf
Accounts 1996/97.pdf Treasurer Report
1996/97.pdf (Aug 1997,
APORS, Sydney)
1998 AGM : Minutes 1998.pdf
Accounts 1997/98.pdf Treasurer Report
1997/98.pdf (Aug 1998,
Auckland University)
1999 AGM: Minutes 1999.pdf
Accounts 1998/99.pdf Treasurer Report
1998/99.pdf (Dec 1999,
Waikato University)
2000 AGM: Minutes 2000.pdf
Accounts 1999/00.pdf Treasurer Report
1999/00.pdf (Dec 2000,
Victoria University)
2001 AGM: Minutes Accounts 2000/01 Treasurer Report President's Report 2002 budget
(Dec 2001, Canterbury
University)
2002 AGM: Minutes Accounts
2001/02 Reports
2003 budget (Dec 2002,
Auckland University)
2003 AGM: Minutes Accounts
2002/03 Reports
2004 budget (Nov 2003,
Waikato University)
2004 AGM: Minutes
Accounts 2003/04
Reports (Nov 2004,
University of Auckland)
2005 AGM: Minutes
Accounts 2004/05
Reports (Dec 2005,
Victoria University of Wellington)
2006 AGM: Nominations
for
Council Minutes
Accounts 2005/06 Reports (Nov 2006,
University of Canterbury)
2007 AGM: Notice
of AGM Nominations
for
Council Minutes
Accounts 2006/07 Reports (Nov 2007,
University of Auckland)
2008 AGM: Notice
of AGM Nominations
for
Council Minutes
Accounts
2007/08 Reports
(Nov 2008, Victoria University of Wellington)
2009 AGM: Notice
of AGM Nominations
for
Council Minutes
Accounts
2008/09 Reports
(Dec 2009, Canterbury University, Christchurch)
*=coming soon
ORSNZ Council
Documents:
Minutes of
the Council Meeting
of 5 July 2001 at the University of Waikato, Hamilton
Minutes of
the Council Meeting
of 16 Nov 2001 at the University of Waikato, Hamilton
Minutes
of the Council Meeting
of 30 Nov 2001 at the conference in the Engineering School,
Canterbury
Minutes of
the Council Meeting
of 5 Nov 2002 at the University of Waikato, Hamilton
Minutes of
the Council Meeting
of 29 Nov 2002 at the Annual Conference, University of Auckland
Minutes of
the Council Meeting
of 21 Nov 2003 at the Annual Conference, Waikato University
Minutes of
the Council Meeting
of 28 Nov 2004 at the Annual Conference, University of Auckland
Minutes of
the Council Meeting of 2 Dec 2005 at the Annual Conference,
Victoria University of Wellington
Minutes of
the Council Meeting of 30 Nov 2006 at the Annual Conference,
University of Canterbury
Minutes of the
Council Meeting of February 2007 held via email.
Agenda and
Minutes of the
Council Meeting of 29 Nov 2007 at the Annual Conference,
University of Auckland
Minutes of
the
Council Meeting of 3 July 2008 at the University of Auckland, and
various subsequent email resolutions.
Minutes of
the
Council Meeting of 24 Nov 2008 at Victoria University.
Minutes of
the
Council Meeting of 3 Dec 2009 at the Annual Conference,
University of Canterbury.
Links to Members:
List of Members
giving affiliation, Email and WWW home page addresses.
Links to Other Societies:
Royal Society of New Zealand
ASOR (Australian Society
of OR)
IFORS (International Federation of OR
Societies)
INFORMS (Institute for Operations
Research and the
Management Sciences)
OR Society of Singapore
Links to NZ OR Groups:
University
of
Auckland
-
Engineering
Science,
Operations
Research
Group
University of Auckland -
Information Systems and Operations Management
Victoria University of Wellington -
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
Victoria University of Wellington -
Victoria Management School
University of Canterbury -
Department of
Management
University
of Waikato -
Department of Management Systems
Massey
University - Department of
Mathematics
Feedback on our Web pages should be sent to webmaster@orsnz.org.nz. General inquiries can be sent to:
ORSNZ
PO Box 6544
Wellesley Street
Auckland 1141
New Zealand
(We had an old address of c/- Department of Management Systems,
Private Bag 3105,
Hamilton. Please
update your records with the new address.)
OPERATIONS RESEARCH SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND
