2013 Events/Seminars Date Topic Presenter 21st June                 Simulating Aircraft Flow in WestJet's Network Glen Phillips                     19th April Risk & Value - A Practical Approach to Effective Decision Making in a Large Water and Wastewater Utility Owen James           2012 Events/Seminars Date Topic Presenter 20th September The Wisdom of Voters: Evaluating the Weber Objective at the Condorcet Solution Mozart Menezes             19th April Optimal Supply Chain under Uncertain Future Demand Suvra Saha 2011 Events/Seminars Date Topic Presenter 17th November Robustness Measurement of Supply Chain Replenishment Strategies under Multiple Measuresof Wind Power into Power Systems and Market Operations Chandandeep Singh Grewal 29th June Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems and Market Operations Ming Hu 18th March The Problem of Measuring "Lean" Performance S. T. Enns 18th February Using a Simple Simulation to Support Pipeline Contamination Estimates Maurice Elliot 2010 Events/Seminars  Date Topic Presenter 19th November Behavioural Operations Management: An Introduction and a Sample of Applications Diane Bischak 20th May An MILP-based Formulation for Minimizing Pumping Energy Costs of Oil Pipelines: Beneficial to both the Environment and Pipeline Companies Ehsan Abbasi 18th February           Studying the Impact of Uncertainty in Operational Release Planning – An Integrated Method and its Initial Evaluation Ahmed Al-Emran         21st January Adaptive Production Scheduling and Control for One-of-a-kind Production (OKP) Wei Li (Mike)  2009 Events/Seminars  Date Topic Presenter 18th November Scheduling to Optimize Due Date Performance under Uncertainity of Processing Times Anubhuti Parajuli 21st Octoberr Better Inventory Management in a Seasonal Demand with Re-adjustment and Re-optimization of Replenishment Parameters Chandandeep Singh Grewal 16th September Development of a Financial Sustainability Model for a Solid waste Management Facility Klas Ohman 21st May Using Spreadsheets to Teach Management Science: Opportunities, Adaptations and Caveats Jaydeep Balakrishnan 19th, March Trans Canada's Risk Management System for Pipeline Integrity Management Warren Peterson and Louis Fenyvesi  2008 Events/Seminars  Date Topic Presenter 21st Feburary An Optimization System for Heavy Oil Supply Allocation and Strategic Planning Mina Rahnama 20th March A Capability based Measure of Economic Working Gas Capacity Neil Robinson 15th May Comparing Supply chain Replenishment Policies using Optimum-seeking Simulation Chandandeep Singh Grewal  2007 Events/Seminars  Date Topic Presenter 19th December Fredholm Integral Equations of the First kind: A Discussion of the Influence of Measurement Error Tom Morrison 21st November Beyond Black-Scholes: Approaches to Energy Option Pricing Des J. Mc Manus 17th October Scheduling the Career Days at western Canada High School Maurice Elliott 19th September The Robustness of Applying Genetic Algorithm(GA) to Multiple objective optimization of large Pipeline Networks Kamal  K. Botros 21st June Risk Modeling Methodology Tools and Demonstration Alex Hudy 17th May Personal Productivity, Communication & E-mail  Ron Kitt 19th April Facility Integrity – A Management Perspective  Tom Morrison 15th March Maple 11 - Global Optimization Toolkit   MapleSoft      Mathematical   Software Company 15th Feburary Comparing “Pull” Replenishment Systems under Capacity Constraints   Van Enns 18th Janurary Developing a Gas Supply Model For Forecasting Future Canadian Gas Supply   Kenneth Logan  2006 Events/Seminars  Date Topic Presenter 13th December The Development Process of the Plant Risk Tool Model Alex Hudy 18th October Maximum Inventory Space when Re-Stocking and Drawdown Rates are Functions of Inventory  Ron Kitt 16th June Integrating Market and Operational Research: A Look into Discrete Choice Modelling (DCM)  Phillip Elliot 19th May Measuring Efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis: Managerial and Implementation Issues   Murray Howland 21st april Optimizing the Utility return in Complex Projects: Getting the Most out of Projects, Before They are Finished   Tim Sweet 20th Janurary Risk and Decision Analysis for Environmental Projects   Andrew Mcgoey Smith 2005 Events/Seminars  Date Topic Presenter 21st October Productivity Improvement for a Manufacturing Process: The Black Belt Attack Sara Haynes 16th September Liquified Natural Gas: Yesterday, Today and Tommorrow  Peter Howard 3rd June Operations Reserach in Health Care  Micheal Carter 18th March Learning by (Not) Dying on the 8000 meter peaks in Himalaya and Karakoram   Diane Bischak 18th Feburary CPR Transforms Oprations by Using Models to Develop Integrated Operating Plans   Philip Ireland 21th Janurary Optimization and Simulation Software in Supply Chain Consulting   Olessia Mikhovitch  2004 Events/Seminars  Date Topic Presenter 19th November Inventory Management Under Supplier Trade Credit With Stochastic Demand and Lead Time David Robb 15th October Enterprise resource Planning Implementations at Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Influencial factors  Brent Snider 17th September Electricity Deregulations in Alberta Softening the Bow  Maurice Elliott 18th June Planning and Control in a Warranty Service Facility Energy   Van Enns   Amir Messih 28th May Energy Environment Modeling with Energy 2020   Abha Bhargava 16th April Input Control via Delayed Order Release and Judicious Order Rejection: Results from Simple Queuing Models   Paul Rogers 19th March Optimization of Process Operating Strategy for Oil Reservoir Simulation Ian Gates 20th Feburary Optimal Allocation of Production Lots to Surface Mount Technology Lines Ryan Waarrington  2003 Events/Seminars   2002 Events/Seminars   2001 Back Events/Seminars