Operational Research Society of New Zealand
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ORSNZ Hans Daellenbach Prize

Year	Prize Winner
2001 Inaugural Prize	Professor David Ryan Dept Engineering Science University of Auckland University of Auckland Article... View photos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 of the presentation. (c) M Ehrgott
2003	Professor Les Foulds Department of Management Systems Waikato Management School The University of Waikato View photos 1 2 of the presentation. (c) M Ehrgott
2006	Professor Andy Philpott Dept Engineering Science University of Auckland Read the Prize Citation View the RSNZ presentation or the ORSNZ ceremony and talk. (c) A Mason, D McKinnon

ORSNZ Visiting Lecturers

Call for Nominations: 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 three or more 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.

Once nominations have been received, the President will consult Council before forming a subcommittee to review the nominations. The subcommittee is to determine the options that are to be presented to Council. Multiple visiting lecturers in any one year are permissible if the circumstances permit.

Year	Vistor
2007	Professor Michael Trick is Professor of Operations Research at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. Mike is best known for his Web presence, including his OR blog, and as an ex-President of INFORMS. He has a personal blog of his NZ trip. Mike gave an excellent Hood lecture in Auckland. University of Auckland Article...

ORSNZ Young Practitioner Prize

The Young Practitioner Prize (YPP) is open to all presenters at the conference who are under 30 years of age on the first day of presentations at the conference. YPP entrants must submit a paper to the conference organisers that meets the requirements for inclusion in the conference proceedings. (Except in exceptional circumstances, this paper will be published in the proceedings.) In the case that the paper has multiple authors, all authors must be under 30 years of age on the first day of presentations at the conference. (Any number of the authors may partake in the presentation.) Supervisors of YPP entrants can not appear as an author. In addition to the paper, YPP entrants must submit a cover sheet (YPPcoversheet.doc YPPcoversheet.pdf) detailing: 1/ the starting point of the project (including existing software), 2/ the entrant's contribution to the work and 3/ whether they are a industrial practitioner, or a PhD, Masters, or undergraduate student, and the time that they allocated to the project (e.g. 1/8th of an academic year, or 2 years of a PhD program, or 5 years working in industry). This cover sheet is to be signed by the YPP entrant's academic or commercial supervisor(s) (or the entrant themselves if no such supervisor exists).

The ORSNZ will award up to four YPP prizes at each conference from a total prize pool of up to $1000 for the judges to distribute between winners as they see fit. Not all prizes need be awarded if there are insufficient entrants of a satisfactory standard. The judges will take into consideration the quality of both the entry's written paper and their oral presentation. Guidelines that will be used to assess entries include originality, initiative taken, difficulty of topic, the amount of time allocated to the project, and a broader recognition of the context of the project such as the assumptions made, limitations, alternative views, innovation, potential application, and future work.

All entries must be accompanied by a completed cover sheet (YPPcoversheet.doc YPPcoversheet.pdf)

Notes:

1. Typically three prizes of values $500, $300 and $200 have been awarded.
2. Multiple prizes have been awarded to the same person over several years.
3. In 2006, the judging committee explicitly distinguished entries by PhD students and industrial practitioners from entries by Masters/Honours and undergraduate students.
4. Talks are typically 15 to 20 minutes in duration, with 5 minutes for questions. The exact length is determined by the conference organizer to fit the conference schedule. The presentation length will be strictly enforced. (In past conferences, we have had: 2007:15+5; 2006:18 in total; 2005: 15+5; 2004: 20+2.5)

The table below details recent winners of the Young Practitioner Prize. Drumroll...

Young Practitioner Prize Winner Details

Year	Prize	Author	Association	Paper
2007	1st	Le (Oddo) Zhang	Auckland, BE (EngSci)	Optimization of well placement and flow [certificate]
	2nd	Martin Peat	Auckland, BE (EngSci)	Loading congestion at New Zealand aluminium smelters
	3rd	Bassy Tam	Auckland, PhD (EngSci)	Unit crewing in the airline tour of duty planning problem
2006	1st PhD	Richard Lusby	Auckland, PhD (EngSci)	Routing Trains Through Railway Junctions: A New Set Packing Approach [pdf]
	1st ME/Hons	Stuart Donovan	Anckland, ME (EngSci)	An improved mixed integer programming model for wind farm layout optimization [pdf]
	2nd ME/Hons	David Richards	Anckland, ME (EngSci)	A Study of Optimised Ambulance Redeployment Strategies [pdf]
2005	1st	Oliver Tompkins	Auckland, BE (EngSci)	Strategic Production Plan Model for the Hunua Quarry [pdf]
	2nd	David Craigie	Auckland, BE (EngSci)	Portfolio Optimization via Stochastic Dominance of Benchmarks [pdf]
	3rd=	Tim Steer & Richard Bramley	Canterbury, BSc (Hons)	Capacity modelling of the South Island chicken operation at Tegel Foods Ltd [pdf]
	3rd=	Stuart Donovan	Auckland, BE (EngSci)	Wind Farm Optimization [pdf]
2004	1st	Kavinesh Singh	Auckland, PhD (EngSci)	Column Generation for Capacity-Expansion Planning of Electricity Distribution Network
	2nd	Sanjay Patel	Auckland, BE (EngSci)	Locomotive Allocation for Toll NZ
	3rd	Sarah Kirkpatrick	Auckland, BE (EngSci)	Better Base Locations for the Melbourne Ambulance Service
2003	1st=	Jarrad Wallace Martin Young	Auckland, ME (EngSci) Auckland, ME (EngSci)	Optimal Yacht Rig Design using Mathematical Programming Roster Construction for Tranz Rail
2002	1st	Ambili Viswambharan	Auckland, BE (EngSci)	Optimisation in Diamond Cutting
	2nd	James Tipping	Canterbury, BScHons	Scheduling and Routing Grass Mowers Around Christchurch
	3rd	Lenrick Johnston	Auckland, BE/BCom, ME	Optimisation of Irradiation Directions in IMRT Treatment
2001	1st	Hamish Dean	Canterbury, PhD	Compaction Algorithms for the Garment Manufacturing Industry
	2nd	Stephanie Pegg	Beca Carter (ex Auckland, BE EngSci)	An Online Optimised Pump Scheduling System
	3rd	Michael Clist	Auckland, BE/BCom	Plant Location Modelling for the Concrete and Asphalt Industries
2000	1st	Thorsten Piehl	Auckland, ME EngSci	Cell Batching Optimisation for the New Zealand Aluminium Smelter
	2nd	Mark Stewart	Canterbury, PhD	Operational Decision Making for Internet Service Provision
	3rd	Rochelle Meehan	Auckland, BE EngSci	Flight Schedule Optimisation for Air New Zealand's International Fleet

Notes: Papers authored by two or more Young Practitioners were first formally permitted in 2005; previous entries had (generally) been single authored. In 2005, the maximum permitted age was increased from 25 to 30 effective for 2006 onwards.

ORSNZ Student Project Prizes

The ORSNZ student project prize was based upon a written report submitted by a student to the prize organisers. This prize was discontinued in 1993.

Student Project Prize Winner Details

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Prizes Awarded to Members

12 November 2007: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Fellowship for Professor David Ryan Professor David Ryan has become the second person in the southern hemisphere to be inducted as a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). INFORMS is the world’s largest professional organisation in Operations Research. It has awarded a total of 249 Fellowships, but only 12 of those, including Professor Ryan’s, have gone to people outside of the United States. Professor Ryan received his award at a ceremony during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle last Monday, 5 November. The Fellow Award is reserved for distinguished individuals who have demonstrated outstanding and exceptional accomplishments and experience in operations research and the management sciences. Professor Ryan is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Science. A leading authority on Operations Research in New Zealand, his research is concerned with mathematical programming and optimization theory, in particular scheduling, timetabling and combinatorial optimization problems. Professor Ryan was evaluated on the quality of his research, practice, management, education and service before receiving the INFORMS award. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2003).

16 November 2007: Michael Saunders, FSRNZ On behalf of the members, the Operational Research Society of NZ wishes to congratulate long-standing society member Michael Saunders on being elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ. Michael Saunders, a Research Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, is a world expert in the development of mathematical optimisation software, for solving decision problems in large interconnected systems. Professor Saunders began his work in this field while working for the DSIR in the 1970s, producing (in joint work with fellow New Zealander Bruce Murtagh) the MINOS system, which is now one of the best known optimisation packages worldwide, used by economists, engineers, physicists, and operations researchers. In more recent years he has developed a collection of optimisation tools (NPSOL, SNOPT, QPOPT, LSSOL) tailored to solve problems having certain structural features, with wide application in the engineering and aerospace communities. In particular, NPSOL is a key ingredient in the mesh-fitting routines used by the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, and in the optimising yacht velocity prediction program used by Team New Zealand in the successful 1995 America's Cup challenge. He is a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and is a leading supporter of the Operational Research Society of New Zealand, and a mentor for its members. His published work is very highly cited, and in 1985 he was awarded the inaugural Beale-Orchard Hays prize by the Mathematical Programming Society for his contributions to computational optimisation.