• News

  01.05.12	The website of MathSport International is online at www.mathsportinternational.com.
  01.10.12	Keynote speakers confirmed: Dominique de Werra, David Forrest, and Mark Glickman. More information on the contributions page.
  23.10.12	Abstract/paper submission opened.
  15.11.12	Social events have been booked! We'll have a guided tour in Leuven, a quiz, and a conference dinner in the Grand Beguinage. More information on the social event page.
  29.01.13	Registration is now open, please check the registration page.
  14.02.13	Forms for hotel booking now available on the accommodation page.
  07.03.13	A preliminary schedule is now available on the programme page.
  09.04.13	A list of talks, including abstracts, is now available on the contributions page.

• Important dates

  8 February 2013	Abstract submission deadline (ext)
  15 February 2013	Notification of acceptance
  12 April 2013	Submission of proceedings paper (ext)
  12 April 2013	Early registration deadline
  5-7 June 2013	Conference

Welcome to MathSport International

The 4th International Conference on Mathematics in Sport will take place in Leuven (Belgium), from 5 till 7 June 2013.

Topics:

econometrics in sport; optimal tournament design and scheduling; competitive strategy; match outcome models; decision support systems; analysis of sporting technologies; analysis of rules and adjudication; performance measures and models; optimisation of sports performance; mathematics education and sport; computationally intensive methods; financial valuation in sport.

The term sport is interpreted liberally here and includes: games and pastimes, gambling, lotteries, and general fitness and health-related activities.

The organizing committee:

Dries Goossens	KULeuven
Frits Spieksma	KULeuven
Phil Scarf	University of Salford

The scientific committee:

Anthony Bedford	RMIT University
Ruud Koning	University of Groningen
David Percy	University of Salford
Ray Stefani	California State University, Long Beach
Celso Ribeiro	Universidade Federal Fluminense
Guillermo Duran	Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad de Chile
James Cochran	Louisiana Tech University
Dimitris Karlis	Athens University of Economics and Business
Liam Lenten	LaTrobe University
João Carlos Soares de Mello	Universidade Federal Fluminense
Michael Trick	Carnegie Mellon University
Ryuhei Miyashiro	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Ian McHale	University of Salford

Links to related events:

New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports
21 September 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

The Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics workshop at ECML/PKDD
27 September 2013 in Prague (Czech Republic)