AMSI / MASCOS Industry workshop & ICE WaRM Industry Short Course: The mathematics of water supply and pricing

Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 14-16 July 2008

Event Review and resources

This 3-day long event included three short courses, invited lectures and contributed talks on the mathematics of water supply and pricing.

The event aimed to present recent developments on mathematics and statistics applied to water management with emphasis on water markets.

Program

Event Program including biographies and abstracts (868KB)

Short course speakers:

• David Fox, The University of Melbourne, part 1 , part 2 , part 3
• Shahbaz Khan, UNESCO, part 1 , part 2 , part 3
• Barbara Lence, The University of British Columbia, part 1, part 2 , part 3

Invited speakers:

• Graeme Dandy, the University of Adelaide
• Mohammed Dore, Brock University Canada
• Quentin Grafton, The Australian National University

Contributed talks:

• Chokri Dridi, University of Alberta
• Amy Mannix, University of Alberta
• Roger Collinson, Curtin University of Technology
• Matthew Fernandes, RMIT University
• Niels Riegels, Technical University of Denmark
• Julia Piantadosi, University of South Australia
• Phil Broadbridge, AMSI
• Henry Kar Ming Chan, Knitro Optimisation Software

Acknowledgments

Special thank to sponsors for their participation in planning this event.

Event Feedback

“Networking opportunities between the same disciplines members.”

“Interaction between the topics such as mathematical/statistical modeling and water management was interesting."

“The breadths of discussions were all relevant to the conference topic. “Interesting range of experiences of presenters.”

“Contributed talks presented by Graeme Dandy and Quentin Grafton were particularly engaging and interesting.”

“Short courses run by David Fox and Shahbaz Khan were interesting and potentially useful."

Organising committee

Prof. Philip Broadbridge, AMSI
Mr Richard Hopkins, International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management
Dr Elliott Tonkes, Energy Edge Pty Ltd
Mr Jim Brookes, MITACS (Canada)
Assoc. Prof. John Boland University of South Australia
Dr Thomas Montague, AMSI

Sponsors

AMSI is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations