Past Meetings

2001 Previous Events

Date	Topic	Presenter
May 17, 2001	OR Applications and the Real World	Mina Rahnama
April 27, 2001	Plant Design and Noise Control	Richard Patching
March 15, 2001	The Year 2000 Alberta Electricity Auctions	Gerry Angevine
February 16, 2001	A Truth Table for Inspection Tools	Tom Morrison
January 19, 2001	Rapid Modelling using Spreadsheet Software	Van Enns
December 15, 2000	Scheduling and Seasonal Fun	Maurice Elliott,
November 16, 2000	Statistical Estimation of Parameters of Distributions for Grouped Data	Tom Morrison
October 20, 2000	Electric Power Systems - Short Term Load Forecasting (STLF) Using Artificial Neural Networks	Dan Ruiu
September 21, 2000	Henri Theil: His Contributions to Econometrics and Operations Research	Cornelis van de Panne
May 25, 2000	Recent Research on Traffic Patterns in Calgary.	Neil McKendrick
April 28, 2000	Operations Research and Road Maintenance in India	Pramod K. Kanchan
March 23, 2000	The Use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for Bank Branch Efficiency	Murray Howland
February 18, 2000	Hazardous Hurdle Rates	Neil Robinson
January 20, 2000	A Mixed Integer Non-linear Program for Oilfield Production Planning	Robert G. Dawson
November 29, 1999	Simulating Railway Delivery Logistics using I-Think	Maurice Elliott, Decision Insight Systems Inc
October 28, 1999	Implications of Commodity Price Risk and Operating Leverage on Petroleum Project Evaluations	Gordon Salahor, Solex Energy Inc., Calgary
September 30, 1999	The Operations Research Umbrella	Dr. Ernest Enns, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
April 16, 1999	GIS and Operations Research: A Marriage Made in Heaven --- or Hell?	Nigel Waters, Department of Geography, University of Calgary
March 19, 1999	Focus on Profit	Richard C. Hudson CMC
February 18, 1999	Economic Lot Size in a Multi-Product Steel Pipe Mill	Thorn Walden, Alberta Energy & Utilities Board
January 22, 1999	Development and Operational Use of Artificial Intelligence in In-line Magnetic Flux Leakage Pipeline Inspection	Jeff Sutherland, BJ Pipeline Inspection Services, Calgary Alberta
Nov. 19, 1998	The Near Term Outlook for Natural Gas	Leonard Coad, Canadian Energy Research Institute
Oct. 16, 1998	The Prediction of Corrosion Growth in a Gas Pipeline.	Tom Morrison, Morrison Scientific
Sept 17, 1998	Building System Dynamics Models using I-Think Software	Maurice Elliott, Decision Insight
April 16, 1998	Systems Dynamics in Leadership Development	Mike Ricketts, Developing Leaders
March 19, 1998	Optimal Network Design for Natural Gas Pipelines	Chan Wirasing and Dawn Dott,University of Calgary
March 19, 1998	Application of System Dynamics to Strategic Planning	Alan McKee, Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Limited
March 19, 1998	Optimization with Spreadsheets	Erhan Erkut, University of Alberta
March 19, 1998	Railway Boxcar Allocation	John Gradek, C.P. Rail
February 19, 1998	O.R. in Airport Design	Chan Wirasinghe, University of Calgary
January 22, 1998	Project Evaluation in Utility Demand-Side Management	Thorn Walden, Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
Nov. 22, 1997	An Introduction to Analyzing and Managing Call Centres	Tom Rohleder, The University of Calgary
October16, 1997	Genetic Algorithms for Pipeline Scheduling	Jim Enarson, Intelligent Technologies Inc
September 19, 1997	Possible Effects of Gas Caps on Bitumen Recovery by Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage: A Numerical Simulation Study	Bill Good, Alberta Department of Energy
May 22,1997	Optimized Inspection Times for Systems Under Stochastic Decay	Tom Morrison, Morrison Scientific
April 24 1997	Crude Oil Prorationing as an Optimization Problem	Thorn Walden Senior Economist, Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
March 27, 1997	A Large Scale Study of Bank Branch Efficiency	Cornelis van de Panne, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary
February 20, 1997	Applying Genetic Algorithms to Railcar Allocation	Vickitt Lau, RADSS Technologies
November 21 1996	Some Different Uses for Optimization Data	Maurice Elliott Decision Insight Systems Inc.
October 17, 1996	Systems Thinking as an Integral Component of a Strategic Planning Exercise	Alan McKee, Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Limited
September 19 1996	How to Lie, Cheat and Deceive Using Data	David Ellis, D. W. ELLIS & ASSOCIATES LTD
May 16, 1996	Operations research Methods in the Management of Insurable Risk	Jack Gordon and Ajay Kumar Sigma Risk Management Inc.
April 18, 1996	Sustainable Capacity: a Methodology for Pipeline Reliability Evaluation and Design	Bill Chmilar, NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd
March 21, 1996	The Democratization of Operational Research. Advantages, Disadvantages and Impacts of Using Spreadsheet Software to do Operational Research	Tom Grossman, University of Calgary
November 16, 1995	Redesign of Manufacturing Systems	Harish Rao
October 19, 1995	Integration of Knowledge-based and Operations Research Techniques in Computer Integrated Manufacturing	Aldo Dagnino, Alberta Research Council
September 21, 1995	A Reserves-Based Engineering and Micro-Economics-Oriented Supply and Demand Forecasting System	Robert Lavoie, P. Eng., NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd
April 13, 1995	Supply Chain Management at Hewlett-Packard	Tom Davis, Hewlett-Packard
February 16, 1995	Geostatistics and Visualization	Leon Fedenczuk - Gambit Consulting Ltd
January 19, 1995	A Linear Programming Model for Systems Staff Assignment	John Heffer (Husky Oil)
October 20, 1994	Modelling the Consequences of Actions: A Human Resources Simulation Model	Fred Krause (Imperial Oil) and Tom Rohleder (U of C)
September 22, 1994	Scheduling Outpatient Appointments Dynamically	Kenneth J. Klassen
May 19, 1994	BUBLS: The Bus Barn Location System (BC Transit)	Keith Willoughby, University of Calgary