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Conference Papers

* International Conferences
* National Conferences
* Invited Lectures
* Other Conferences / Workshops attended


International Conferences

  1. Alewyn P Burger, Werner R Gründlingh & Jan H van Vuuren, The lottery problem: New avenues of investigation, SIAM Conference on Discrete Matehmatics, held at the University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 25-28 June 2006.
  2. Alewyn P Burger, Werner R Gründlingh & Jan H van Vuuren, A method for characterizing lottery sets, 17th Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, held at the Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesburo, Tennessee, United States of America, 20-22 May 2004.
  3. Alewyn P Burger, Werner R Gründlingh & Jan H van Vuuren, Optimal lottery sets, 35th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, held at the Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America, 8-12 March 2004.
  4. George W Groves, Jeannne le Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, A New Routing & Scheduling Problem in Transportation Networks , INFORMS Annual Meeting, held at the The Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, United States of America, 19 October - 22 October 2003.
  5. George W Groves, Jeanne le Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Scheduling evenly spread-out service routings in transportation networks where service frequencies vary per link/road type, Workshop on Operations Research for Global Logistics, held at the CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 7 August 2002.
  6. George W Groves, Jeanne le Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Network service routing & scheduling, 16th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies, held at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8 July 2002.
  7. Werner R Gründlingh & Jan H van Vuuren, Dominating sets for a combinatorial optimisation problem, South African International Graph Theory Conference, held in the Ithala Game Reserve, Republic of South Africa, 18 June 2001.
  8. Esbeth van Dyk & Jan H van Vuuren, Tutorial Series: Applications of graph optimisation techniques, 3rd International Conference on Operations Research in Development, held at Berg-en-Dal, Kruger National Park, Republic of South Africa, 17-18 May 2001.
  9. Jan H van Vuuren & Werner R Gründlingh, An active decision support system for optimality in open air reservoir release strategies, 15th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies, held at the Friendship Hotel, Beijing, Peoples' Republic of China, 16 August 1999.
  10. Jan H van Vuuren, Permanence and asymptotic stability in diagonally convex reaction-diffusion systems, 4th International Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics, held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 26 May 1995.
  11. Jan H van Vuuren, Permanence and asymptotic stability in diagonally convex reaction-diffusion systems, 3rd SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems held in Snowbird, Utah, United States of America, 22 May 1995.

National Conferences

  1. Francois Binneman & Jan H van Vuuren, Network reliability as a result of redundant connectedness, 49th National Conference of the Sout African Mathematical Society, held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 November 2006.
  2. Alewyn P Burger & Jan H van Vuuren, On the placement of a number of strings in a collection of hats, 49th National Conference of the Sout African Mathematical Society, held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 November 2006.
  3. Alewyn P Burger & Jan H van Vuuren, On the asymptotic growth of the lottery number, 49th National Conference of the Sout African Mathematical Society, held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 November 2006.
  4. Jacques du Toit, Jaco Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Probability of Attack Stage of Fixed Wing Aircraft in a Ground Based Air Defense Environment, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  5. Andries Heyns, Jaco Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Measuring the Threat Value of Fixed Wing Aircraft in a Ground Based Air Defense Environment, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  6. Jeanne le Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Locating Processing Units in a Blood Service System, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  7. Isabelle Nieuwoudt, Alewyn Burger, Paul Grobler & Jan H van Vuuren, Computer access scheduling by means of graph colouring, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  8. Nthabiseng Ntene & Jan H van Vuuren, A survey and comparison of level heuristics for offline oriented 2D strip packing problems, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  9. Frank Ortmann & Jan H van Vuuren, Decision support for cascading inventory management, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  10. Cobus Potgieter, Francois du Toit, Jaco Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Real-time weapon assignment in a ground based air defence environment, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  11. Darian Raad & Jan H van Vuuren, Modelling Surface Hydrology, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  12. Jaco Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Threat evaluation and weapon assignment in a ground based air defence environment, 36th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Sinodale Centre, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 3-6 September 2006.
  13. Alewyn Burger & Jan H van Vuuren, A Framework for the enumeration of set covers and related structures, Part I: Viewing set covers as contractions, 48th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa, 31 October - 2 November 2005.
  14. Alewyn Burger & Jan H van Vuuren, A Framework for the enumeration of set covers and related structures, Part II: Enumeration of labelled, balanced minimum set covers, 48th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa, 31 October - 2 November 2005.
  15. Alewyn Burger & Jan H van Vuuren, A Framework for the enumeration of set covers and related structures, Part III: Enumeration of optimal lottery sets of cardinality three, 48th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa, 31 October - 2 November 2005.
  16. Rickus Jooste & Jan H van Vuuren, Spouse-avoiding mixed doubles tennis tournaments, 48th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa, 31 October - 2 November 2005.
  17. Stephen Benecke, Paul Grobler & Jan H van Vuuren, Higher order protection strategies for graphs, 34th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 September 2004.
  18. Stephen Benecke, Paul Grobler & Jan H van Vuuren, The protection of complete multipartite graphs, 47th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of the North West, Potchefstroom, North West Province, Republic of South Africa, 1-3 November 2004.
  19. Ernest Cockayne, Gerhard Geldenhuys, Paul Grobler, Kieka Mynhardt & Jan H van Vuuren, The depression of a graph - Part II, 47th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of the North West, Potchefstroom, North West Province, Republic of South Africa, 1-3 November 2004.
  20. Ernest Cockayne, Gerhard Geldenhuys, Paul Grobler, Kieka Mynhardt & Jan H van Vuuren, The depression of a graph - Part I, 47th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of the North West, Potchefstroom, North West Province, Republic of South Africa, 1-3 November 2004.
  21. George Groves & Jan H van Vuuren, New heuristics for the Rural Postman Problem, 34th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 September 2004.
  22. Jeanne le Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Inventory and location decisions in a blood service system, 34th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 September 2004.
  23. Nthabiseng Ntene & Jan H van Vuuren, An overview of exact and heuristic algorithms for packing problems, 34th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 September 2004.
  24. Frank Ortmann, Esbeth van Dyk & Jan H van Vuuren, Modelling infrastructure capacity for the South African fruit industry, 34th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 September 2004.
  25. Nicky Pantland & Jan H van Vuuren, A three-dimensional numerical technique for determining the foot of a continental slope, 34th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 September 2004.
  26. Jaco Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Ground based threat evaluation of fixed wing aircraft, 34th National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 5-7 September 2004.
  27. Wynand Winterbach & Jan H van Vuuren, A crossing number lower bound via algorithmic graph-to-graph embedding, 47th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of the North West, Potchefstroom, North West Province, Republic of South Africa, 1-3 November 2004.
  28. Stephen Benecke, Paul JP Grobler & Jan H van Vuuren, Higher Order Domination - Past, Present & Future, National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 3-5 November 2003.
  29. Hendri J Botha & Jan H van Vuuren, Using Genetic Algorithms to Break a Block Cipher, National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 3-5 November 2003.
  30. David J Coleman, Jean le Roux, Isabelle Nieuwoudt & Jan H van Vuuren, Job shop scheduling case study part II: Scheduling with simulation and neural networks, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the ABSA conference centre, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 7-9 September 2003.
  31. Margarete J Louw, Isabelle Nieuwoudt & Jan H van Vuuren, Job shop scheduling case study part I: The layout problem, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the ABSA conference centre, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 7-9 September 2003.
  32. Nthabiseng Ntene & Jan H van Vuuren, Packing the maximum number of mxn tiles in a large pxq rectangle, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the ABSA conference centre, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 7-9 September 2003.
  33. Frank G Ortmann, Esbeth van Dyk & Jan H van Vuuren, Modelling infrastructure capasity in the SA fruit industry, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the ABSA conference centre, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 7-9 September 2003.
  34. Catherine Black & Jan H van Vuuren, Optimal Inventory Control at the Click-a-Box factory, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at Goudini Spa, Goudini, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 9 September 2002.
  35. Alewyn P Burger, Werner R Gründlingh & Jan H van Vuuren, Characterising lottery set structures, 45th National Conference of the South African Mathatical Society, held at the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 6 November 2002.
  36. Alewyn P Burger, Werner R Gründlingh & Jan H van Vuuren, A lower bound on the lottery number L(49,6,6;3), 45th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 6 November 2002.
  37. Ernest J Cockayne, Paul JP Grobler, Werner R Gründlingh, J Munganga & Jan H van Vuuren, Protection of a graph, 45th National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 6-8 November 2002.
  38. Alewyn P Burger & Jan H van Vuuren, How many graphs are claw-free?, Graph Theory Concentration Camp, held at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 28 January 2002.
  39. David Coleman, Margarete Louw, Isabelle Nieuwoudt & Jan H van Vuuren, Job-shop scheduling: A case study at Infinite Woods, Inc., National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at Goudini Spa, Goudini, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 9 September 2002.
  40. Paul J Funston, Eric Herrmann & Jan H van Vuuren, Lions in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park: Modelling the effect of human-caused mortality, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at Goudini Spa, Goudini, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 9 September 2002.
  41. Jan H van Vuuren & Wynand Winterbach, The classical graph crossing number problem, National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 6 November 2002.
  42. Stephen Benecke & Jan H van Vuuren, Modelling torsion in an elastic cable suspended in space , National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Durban Westville, Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 7 November 2001.
  43. SG Berjak & Jan H van Vuuren, A binary tree search for the initial state of a linear congruential generator, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Vaaltriangle Technicon, Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 17 September 2001.
  44. Stephen G Berjak & Jan H van Vuuren, A tree search for finding polynomial generator seeds, National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Durban Westville, Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 7 November 2001.
  45. CD Black & Jan H van Vuuren, Optimal inventory control: ClickaBox case study, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Vaaltriangle Technicon, Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 17 September 2001.
  46. Alewyn P Burger, Werner R Gründlingh & Jan H van Vuuren, On a combinatorial problem concerning lotteries, National Conference of the South African Numerical and Applied Mathematics Society, held at the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 11 April 2001.
  47. Alewyn P Burger & Jan H van Vuuren, The minimum number of tickets that will guarantee a prize in the lottery , National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Durban Westville, Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 7 November 2001.
  48. Alewyn P Burger & Jan H van Vuuren, Off-diagonal multipartite Ramsey numbers, National Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Durban Westville, Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 7 November 2001.
  49. M Louw, I Nieuwoudt & Jan H van Vuuren, Finding good nursing schedules, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Vaaltriangle Technicon, Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 17 September 2001.
  50. Jeanne le Roux & Jan H van Vuuren, Network service scheduling & routing, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Stellenbosch Graduate Business School, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 16 September 2000.
  51. Eugene H Stipp & Jan H van Vuuren, Lower bounds for Ramsey numbers in multipartite graphs, National Conference of the South African Numerical and Applied Mathematics Society, held at the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 25 March 2000.
  52. Jan H van Vuuren & Elmien A Wagenaar, Quantifying the role of management style in the success of investment portfolios, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held in the Dikhololo Game Reserve, Republic of South Africa, 17 September 1999.
  53. Jan H van Vuuren & Werner R Gründlingh, An active decision support system for optimality in open air reservoir release strategies, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 27 November 1998.
  54. Jan H van Vuuren, A comparison theorem for weakly coupled competitive reaction-diffusion systems, Joint Mathematics Conference of the American Mathematicsl Society and the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Petoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 27 June 1997.
  55. Jan H van Vuuren & Grant E Huddlestone, An optimal control strategy for the production of fruit juice concentrates, National Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, held at the Karridene Hotel, Illovo Beach, KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, 14 August 1997.
  56. Jan H van Vuuren, Die bestaan van bewegende golffronte in diagonaal konvekse reaksie-diffusie sisteme, 39th Annual Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 5 November 1996.
  57. TP Dreyer & Jan H van Vuuren, The experimental validation of discrete and continuous models for cable shapes and tensions, 34th Annual Conference of the South African Mathematical Society, held at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, October 1991.

Invited Lectures

  1. Jan H van Vuuren, Two Statistical Problems involving Lotteries, Colloquium at the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 18 August 2006.
  2. Jan H van Vuuren, Towards characterising efficient lottery design structures, Colloquium at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 15 September 2003.
  3. Jan H van Vuuren, The South African Fruit Logistics Infrastructure Capacity Oprimisation Study, Colloquium at the School of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 8 October 2003.
  4. Jan H van Vuuren, Ramsey numbers for multipartite graphs, Colloquium at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 14 March 2001.
  5. Jan H van Vuuren, Bounds for a combinatorial problem concerning lotteries, Colloquium at the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, Repblic of South Africa, 18 October 2000.
  6. Jan H van Vuuren, On a generalisation of the Euler problem in graph theory, Colloquium at the Department of Quantitative Management, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 11 April 2000.
  7. Jan H van Vuuren, Lower bounds for the Ramsey problem in multipartite graphs, Colloquium at the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, 10 April 2000.
  8. Jan H van Vuuren, Computation of small lattice bases and cryptosystems, Volkswagen Foundation Student Workshop on Arithmetic and Data Security, Department of Mathematics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 7 April 1999.
  9. Jan H van Vuuren, Permanensie in modelle van kompetisie, Colloquium at the Department of Mathematics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 13 May 1996.
  10. Jan H van Vuuren, A question of mathematical permanence. Part II: applications in biological competition models, Colloquium at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa, 10 April 1995.
  11. Jan H van Vuuren, A question of mathematical permanence. Part I: theoretical results, Colloquium at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa, 10 April 1995.
  12. Jan H van Vuuren, Solution permanence in parabolic partial differential models of competition: why and how?, Colloquium at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa, 28 March 1995.
  13. Jan H van Vuuren, Permanence and asymptotic solution behaviour in diagonally convex competitive reaction-diffusion systems, Colloquium at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 18 November 1994.

Other Conferences / Workshops attended

  1. South African Joint Air Defence Symposium, hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 30-31 May 2007.
  2. ARMSCOR Ledger Conference, hosted by the Institute for Maritime Technology, Simon's Town, Republic of South Africa, 7-8 December 2006.
  3. Mini-Conference on Asia-Pacific Logistics, hosted by The Logistics Institute and the Asia-Pacific Logistics Institute at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 18 October 2003.
  4. Annual Georgia Tech Supply Chain Executive Forum, held at the GT Conference Center and Hotel, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 October 2003.
  5. 25th Conference of the European Operations Research Societies, held at the Budapest University of Economy, Budapest, Hungary, 18-23 June 2000.
  6. Volkswagen Foundation Student Workshop on Arithmetic Geometry and Data Security, held at the Department of Mathematics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa, 6-9 April 1999.
  7. Joint Meeting [on A hundred years of analysis] of the London Mathematical Society and the British Society for the History of Mathematics, held at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 21-23 May 1995.
  8. Commemorative meeting [in honour of Arthur Cayley (1821-1895)] of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, held at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 12-13 May 1995.
  9. 8th Conference of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, held at the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 6-10 September 1994.

 

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