Mr Scott Mackenzie |
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| Position: | Research Associate | |
| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment | |
| School/Unit: | School of Mathematics and Statistics | |
| Campus: | Mawson Lakes Campus | |
| Position: | Administrator | |
| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment | |
| School/Unit: | School of Mathematics and Statistics | |
| Campus: | Mawson Lakes Campus | |
| Office: | OC1-74 | |
| Telephone: | +61 8 830 25153 | |
| Fax: | +61 8 830 25785 | |
| Email: | Scott_dot_Mackenzie_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/Scott.Mackenzie | |
Teaching interests
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I have taught and/or tutored the following subjects
- Advanced Operations Research
- Mathematics for Engineering 1st, 2nd and 3rd year subjects
- Calculus and Linear Algebra
- Numerical Analysis
- Aviation mathematics
- Technical Communications for Scientists and Engineers
- Mathematics for Health Sciences
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I have experience with the following programming languages and numerical solvers
- Visual Basic
- C
- Pascal
- Ada
- GAMS
- CPLEX
- Matlab
Qualifications
Current - Completing PhD Mathematics to be submitted June 2008, University of South Australia
1998 - Bachelor of Mathematics & Computer Science with first Class Honours, University of Adelaide
Research interests
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Rail CRC
- Dynamic train rescheduling on long-haul rail networks.
- Railway scheduling and logistics
- Railway capacity analysis
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Operations Research
- Job shop Scheduling
- Transportation Scheduling
- Project scheduling
- Integer Linear Programming
- Queueing Theory
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Techniques of Optimisation
- Heuristic methods
- Lagrangian relaxation
- Simulated Annealing
- Tabu Search
- Genetic Algorithms
- Problem Space Search
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MISG - Maths in Industry Study Group
I have worked on the following problems- Optimal sorting of product into fixed weight packaging (2004)
- The effects of deadlock avoidance on rail network capacity and performance (2003)
- Inferring eye movements on the basis of head and visual target position (2001)
- Medical Data Compression (2000)
- Optimising quarry product production and delivery across the Boral Quarries SA metropolitan portfolio (2000)
Research publications
Mackenzie, SA, Train Timetabling on Complex Networks, CORE2000 Conference Proceedings, July 2000
Mackenzie, S. and Mills, G., Scheduling a hetorogenous set of trains over a single line track using Lagrangian relaxation, ANZIAM journal (to appear).
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