Paul's Letters

In this directroy we list Paul Lochert's frequent letters reminding us of all the planned activities and other interesting things. Usually, more details on the activity will be provided in the Program section of our home page. Stay tuned!

Paul's particulars are as follows:

Assoc Prof Paul Lochert
Dept of Maths
President ASOR
phone +61 3 9903 2647
fax +61 3 9903 2227
e-mail: p.lochert@sci.monash.edu.au

ASOR NEWS SEPTEMBER 1996

From: "Paul Lochert" <PAUL@gipsy.maths.monash.edu.au> Organization: Monash University, Mathematics Dpt. Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:27:36 +1000 Subject: ASOR September News Priority: normal September:

ASOR/Melb Uni Maths SEMINAR 3.30pm Friday September 13 Thomas Cherry Room, Richard Berry Building University of Melbourne Vehicle Scheduling - Theory and Practice Jane Parkin School of Computing and Maths University of Huddersfield UK October:

Fatemeh Ghotb Swinburne Uni of Tech Time and details to be announced STUDENT CONFERENCE First Call for Expressions of Interest Students discuss presenting your work with your supervisor. Academics spread the word and encourage student participation. A balance of applied project reports (UG as well as PG) and research results is sought November:

Tue 12 Nov: Recent Advances in OR Annual one day conference designed to communicate current activities in OR in Victoria. FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Four one day workshops covering areas of BUSINESS MODELLING IN EXCEL* Wed 13 Nov: Risk analysis, Scenario analysis Thur 14 Nov: Constrained optimisation, Linear programming Wed 20 Nov: Statistical modelling, regression analysis Thur 21 Nov: Forecasting one day workshop Wed 27 Nov: Practical simulated annealing <xmp> <p> one-day workshop Oct/Nov Jane Parkin Vehicle routing/scheduling/depot location Details in preparation Coming events in 1997:

Feb 1997 Moshe Sneidovich will give 2 workshops 1. How to build dynamic web pages? A very gentle introduction 2. The art & science of sequential decision making VISITORS

Prof Minoru Sakamoto visiting Australia in general and UTS in particular until the end of the year. Prof Sakamoto is from the School of Business Administration, Senshu University. Prof Sakamoto is expert in the area of stochastic optimal control. More information and possibility of arranging a visit contact Jeff Hogg
jeff@zen.maths.uts.edu.au

Prof. Bezalel Gavish (Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA) a well known OR expert in Communication Systems, is interested in a short visit to Melbourne sometime at the end of September begining of October 1996. Persons interested in funding such a visit (round trip ticket to Singapore + hotel etc) should contact: Moshe Sniedovich
moshe@maths.mu.oz.au

Interstate events

Applications of Stochastic Programming -One day symposium Keynote speaker - Professor L Paul Fatti Organised By ASOR -Sydney Chapter More info' Lana Prokopenko <xmp> email <a href="maito: 100236.2303@compuserve.com">100236.2303@compuserve.com</a><p> <xmp> New Researchers in Operations Research Half day Conference Thur October 3 1-5pm Organised by ASOR Queensland Branch More info' Erhan Kozan E-mail: e.kozan@qut.edu.au

Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:10:19 +1000
Subject: ASOR 1996 Programme
Priority: normal

The following outlines events for this year.

ASOR Programme 1996

APRIL

Wed 24 6:00pm, Peter Ryan, DSTO
Use of Distributed Interactive Simulation for Naval Training

MAY

Special meeting - date to be announced, Dr Christie - (visiting Peter Cerone at VUT)

Wed 22, Young Practitioner's Forum, Chair - Dudley Foster

JUNE

Two day Short Course, Wed 12 and Thur 13 Business Modelling in Excel
Monash Uni - Caulfield campus
More info' available from p.lochert@monash.edu.au

Wed 19, David Noble

JULY

Wed 16, Dudley Foster, Software Design for Rapid OR Prototyping

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

A joint meeting with AISIG is being considered

OCTOBER

Student Conference

NOVEMBER

One day Seminar - Recent Advances.

Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:07:47 +1000
Subject: (Fwd) FW: meetings
Priority: normal
Hi all

The following provides an outline of the lecture/seminar series organised by the AI interest group of the ACS. Some of their activities may be of interest. I will distribute updates as they become available in a reciprocal arrangement with AISIG of the ACS.

The current schedule for the following months is:

April 15 David Burgos CCN Asia Expert Systems in Pacific banking May 20 Kevin Korb Computer The frame Science, problem: An AI Monash fairy story University June 17 Liz Kendall Computer Agents and Systems Objects Engineering, RMIT July 15 Andrew Computer To be advised Jennings Systems Engineering, RMIT August Wayne Jenkins Computer Machine Learning 19 Science, RMIT All these seminars will be given in our new venue: the Computer Science Department at the University of Melbourne (221 Bouverie St.)

For further information on the seminar or AISIG contact:

Simon Goss 9626 7274
Ross Gayler 9643 8853
Julie Gledhill 9818 0795

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:06:47 +1000
Subject: ASOR News
Priority: normal

MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON TO ALL.

AGM
Wed 19 March 1997
6:30pm

Followed by a talk Dr Bruce Craven

Make sure you put this in your diary to hear Bruce give an anecdodatal account of the formation and history of the Melbourne Chapter of ASOR.

Nomination forms will be circulated nearer to the AGM.

Reminder: - APORS Abstracts are due by Feb 28.
Do not miss your opportunity to submit.
The programme is growing and looking very interesting.

For information:

WILKINSON FELLOWSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory

The Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory invites outstanding candidates to apply for the J. H. Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing. The appointment is for one year and may be renewed for a second year.

This fellowship was created in memory of Dr. James Hardy Wilkinson, F.R.S., who had a close association with the Mathematics and Computer Science Division as a consultant and guiding spirit for the EISPACK and LINPACK projects. The Wilkinson Fellowship is intended to encourage young scientists actively engaged in state-of-the-art research in scientific computing. Candidates must have received their Ph.D. not more than three years prior to the beginning of the appointment. The benefits of the appointment include a highly competitive salary, moving expenses, and a generous professional travel allowance.

The appointment will be in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, which has strong programs in scientific computing, software tools, and computational mathematics. Of special interest are numerical methods and software for linear algebra, optimization, unstructured mesh computations, computational differentiation, software tools for parallel computing; and state-of-the-art numerical methods for computational science problems.

The Mathematics and Computer Science Division has an outstanding computational environment that includes high-performance scientific workstations, a scientific visualization laboratory, a 128-node IBM SP, a multimedia laboratory, and a virtual environment research facility.

For more information concerning the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and its facilities, see http://www.mcs.anl.gov. Argonne is located in the southwestern Chicago suburbs, offering the advantages of affordable housing, good schools, and easy access to the cultural attractions of the city.

Resumes should be addressed to Walter McFall, Box mcs-wilkinson, Employment and Placement, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, and must include a statement of research goals, and the names and addresses of three references. The closing date for applications is January 24, 1997. The applications will be reviewed by a selection committee and a candidate announced in April 1997. Further inquiries can be made by sending e-mail to griffin@mcs.anl.gov.

Argonne is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

_______________________ Have a great break . Paul Assoc Prof Paul Lochert Dept of Maths Chair APORS'97 Organising Committee phone +61 3 9903 2647 fax +61 3 9903 2227 e-mail: p.lochert@sci.monash.edu.au

1995 Archive

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:05:29 +1000
From: David Noble <davidn@mel.dms.csiro.au>
Subject: AIOR activities in 1996
To: P.Lochert@maths.monash.edu.au

As you will have seen from previous Email messages, The Australian Institute for Operations Research is organising 3 activities in November and December:

Nov 15: Interior Point Methods Workshop - Steve Wright
Nov 27-29: Forecasting Short Course
Dec 6: Nemhauser workshop

We are now looking ahead to next year and starting to consider potential activities. We have a number of ideas ourselves but we would also welcome suggestions from members (and others) - so what courses / workshops would you like us to organise for 1996? Now is your chance to influence us.

The UK OR Society run a 1-day instruction programme entitled "Spreadsheet Modelling" which covers 4 topics:

  1. Forecasting with Excel
  2. Linear programming with Excel
  3. Multiple regression with Excel
  4. Analysis of variance with Excel

We could provide such a course here in Melbourne provided there is sufficient interest and provided we have people willing to present it. Please let me know if you would be interested in attending such a programme, or alternatively which of these topics you would be willing to present.

There would be a cost of attending such a course and there would be a fee for the presenter(s).

David Noble
Chair AIOR Sub-Committee

Tel:03 9545-8045
Fax:03 9545-8080
Email: dhn@swin.edu.au

or alternatively just reply to this message and Paul will forward it to me.

Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 09:45:11 +1000
From: Paul Lochert <Paul.Lochert@sci.monash.edu.au>
Subject: ASOR NEWS

Moshe has also established an OR homepage on the WEBB, have a look and help Moshe create a worthwhile resource.

http://www.maths.mu.oz.au/~worms/

Special opportunity

Silicon Graphics Operations Research Initiative
by
Jim Armstrong
Silicon Graphics

Monday 13 November 1995
RMIT
Building 8, Level 9, Rm 66
4pm

Final Call for Papers

One Day Seminar
Recent Advances
Thur 30 November
RMIT
Building 8, Level 9, Rm 66

Titles and Abstracts to be submitted by 3/11/95 to David Sier or myself.

Any papers submitted will be distributed to attendees with the programme and abstracts provided they are submitted to David at the address above before 17/11/95.

COST to cover lunch and papers:

ASOR Members$50
Non-members$70
Full-time students$22

For full registration form see the newsletter or contact me.

Paul's Mailing List
September 1996

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The Chapter's other activities are advertised on its home page.

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