If you are considering a submission for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference research paper contest, you will need to act fast. Deadline for submission of abstracts is next Friday, 16 September at 5pm EDT. As was the case last year, the selection process will take place over two rounds. The first round will cull […]
I received an email about a session on Mathematics and Sports to be held at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings the first week of January in Boston. It's the largest mathematics conference in the world and is organized by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Here is a description […]
In about 45 days I will be in London to attend the Leaders in Performance conference. I am looking forward to the trip for a variety of reasons, including the opportunity to network with potential clients and connect with my readers who are based in the UK or other parts of Europe.To this end I […]
The organizers of the recently concluded World Congress on Science and Football have set up a YouTube channel on which you can view oral presentations from the conference. I have not verified this, but it looks like all of the presentations have been videotaped, so you can cross-reference them against the final program to find […]
I just found out about this conference and thought that I should publicize it here, although it is very early. In a year and three days from now the Third World Conference on Science and Soccer will take place in Ghent, Belgium. This conference is a spinoff of the World Congress of Science and Football, […]
The 7th World Congress on Science and Football starts two weeks from today in Nagoya, and the final preparations for the conference are approaching completion. You can read the final conference program here. There are extensive paper and poster presentation sessions over the four days of the conference over a wide range of subject areas […]
A couple of days ago I was invited to speak at the upcoming Sports Management Conference at Florida State University, and I am pleased to announce that I have accepted the invitation. I have not settled on a topic, but it will have something to do with the state of soccer analytics and its potential […]
Simon Harriyott was kind enough to send me a link to his report on the recently concluded Science and Football conference, and you can find his post here. The conference also has a collection of selected presentations on its website.MORE: John Sinnott sent me another link, to a presentation by Darren Burgess of Liverpool FC that […]
The Science and Football conference took place in East London yesterday. If any of my readers attended it and would like to write a summary of what happened and their impressions of the conference, I would greatly appreciate your contribution. I can publish your report here (properly attributed, of course) or link to your own […]
Last year I wrote about the World Congress on Science and Football, a week-long symposium on issues related to science and football. Here, football is used in the broadest sense of the word — soccer is the dominant topic, but there are papers on the other football codes (Australian, Gaelic, American, rugby). The conference is […]
