Senior Lecturer in Management Science, Dept. of Management,
University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Phone: 3-364-2987, ext. 8616. Fax: 3-364-2020.
Email: john.raffensperger@canterbury.ac.nz
Office: Commerce 314; hours 9 am - noon Mondays.
Currently, I am researching problems of the environment, especially water quantity and quality, incentives to improve ecology, and to reduce sediment, impervious cover, and flooding. The main method is the application of smart markets to environmental resources. These markets are cleared with constrained optimisation, but the market design generally requires considerable surrounding study in ecological economics, mechanism design, and hydrology. In the past, I have studied a variety of problems including scheduling, military readiness, cutting stock, fishery management, and nutrition, and these remain of interest to me.
The Water Markets Research Group, Dept. of Management, University of Canterbury.
My blog, mostly about water and environmental issues.
Why and how to set up a water market that is physically, economically, and environmentally correct.
Notes on net versus gross pool market formulations.
Masters and PhD students wanted! Click here for more information.
Instructions to grad students about writing.
Instructions to grad students about presentations.
My personal website, stories, essays.
Wagmu.com, changing the world one bite at a time.
The old SpreadsheetStyle.Com - my now-defunct commercial web site for spreadsheet design and auditing.
Spreadsheet readability - an article about how you should write spreadsheets.
The Gettysburg Address PPT, Raffensperger version.
Military readiness: MORSS Powerpoint show (460k), May 1998. Select "View Notes" in PPT.
20 Feb 2009, free Excel-to-Outlook Task_Scheduler.xls (zipped). This spreadsheet is designed to help use Microsoft Excel and Outlook to (1) schedule your long-term work, to ensure that you have enough time to meet your deadlines, and (2) schedule your current week. No support whatever is provided and use at your own risk. Copyright 2009 John F. Raffensperger.
1 Mar 2010, free Excel-to-Outlook updated, My_Task_Scheduler_4.xlsm, for Excel 2007. Copyright 2010 John F. Raffensperger.
Becoming Kiwi. Notes on moving house. Some of my favorite books. Pix of friends & family.
Analytics, a digital magazine published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS), provides readers with real-life examples of how data, modeling and mathematical analysis is used to drive better business decisions and provide concrete competitive advantage.
Everything on this site: Copyright 2009 John F. Raffensperger. Updated 25 May 2010.
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