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The Wellington Branch of the ORSNZ, Victoria Management School and Victoria University of Wellington are pleased to host the 40th Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society of New Zealand, ORSNZ05, on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December 2005 (with a pre-conference social on the evening of Thursday 1 December and Dinner at the Harbour View Lounge of the Michael Fowler Centre on Friday 2 December).
Register for the conference here.
The conference fee includes breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon tea, a copy of the proceedings volume and a banquet ticket. (The student registration does not include a banquet ticket unless the student is speaking at the conference.) Refund of paid fees is only possible by notice in writing or by email before 15 November. Conference fees are as follows:
Details of the initial abstract submission and subsequent paper submission process are given in the Call for Papers. Following acceptance of your abstract, you should submit a full-length paper (up to 10 pages, in PDF format) for publication in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be made available for all participants of the conference. Full papers should be submitted by email in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format to conference@orsnz.org.nz. (Visit www.ps2pdf.com for a free PDF creation service.)
Guidelines for preparation of the final papers are available for both Word and Latex. Please download the Word Guidelines Document if you want to prepare your paper using Word. For Latex users we have prepared a style file and sample document. It is in this Latex Guidelines archive, which includes some necessary style files. Please refer to the README.txt file for installation instructions. There is also a simpler sample LaTeX file available that does not require installing style files.
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Submission deadline for Abstracts: 3rd October 2005
Submission deadline for Papers: 31st October 2005
You will have 15 minutes for your talk, with 2 additional minutes for questions. (Students entering the Young Practitioner Prize (YPP) should note that this will be tightly enforced.)
You may find Fritz Raffensperger's excellent Powerpoint guidelines useful in preparing your talk.
Dress: Dress at New Zealand conferences (for speakers and attendees and at social events) is typically comfortable business casual (e.g. a collared shirt & trousers).
OR practitioners and students who will be under 25 years of age on 2 December 2005 are invited to compete for the ORSNZ Young Practitioners' Prize. Condition for entry is the presentation of a paper at the 40th Annual Conference of the ORSNZ. When registering for the conference, competitors should request that their paper be scheduled in the YPP session and must provide proof of their eligibility. The total prize money awarded will be $1,000, split between the authors of the best papers at the judges' discretion.
Full-time students, who are members of ORSNZ, and plan to present a paper at the ORSNZ conference, are eligible for travel assistance from ORSNZ to attend the conference. Applications should be made on this application form and should be signed by the student's supervisor or Head of Department to confirm that the applicant is enrolled in a full-time university course. You must apply for this grant before 31st October 2005. Grants will be payable at the conference upon production of a GST receipt for the travel expenses.
John Davies, Vicky Mabin, Tom Halliburton, John Hayes, Stefanka Chukova, Mark Johnston, Mark Pickup.