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News
07.10.21 Special issue of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics dedicated to Mathsport International 2019 is now published. 10.11.21 MathSport International will take place in person at the University of Reading (UK) on 11-13 July, 2022. -
Important dates
11-13.07.2022 MathSport International (Reading, UK)
Welcome to MathSport International
MathSport International organizes biennal conferences dedicated to all topics where mathematics and sport meet. The next MathSport International meeting is scheduled for 11-13 July, 2022, and will take place in Reading (UK). This will be an on-location meeting (unless the pandemic forces us to consider another format), hosted by University of Reading. It will be the 9th conference in Europe that brings together Maths and Sport.
Previous conferences have been organised by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), KU Leuven, Loughborough University, University of Padova, Athens University of Economics and Business, and University of Reading. The latest edition, Mathsport International 2021, was hosted online on June 24th and 25th 2021. More information about previous conferences can be found here.
We invite you to check out the EURO working group OR in Sports, and register for free membership.
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.
Remembering Chris Potts (University of Southampton)
We learned about the passing of Chris Potts, a regular and appreciated attendee of the MathSport Conferences.
Frits Spieksma wrote the following about Chris.
"I remember Chris as a gentle man, a great scientist, and a lover of many sports, from athletics to football, from golf to, of course, tennis. It was thru scheduling conferences that I met this soft-spoken, intelligent, spectacled man. He would come up to you after your talk, and posed some questions and insights that you hadn't considered, and which we further discussed under a drink at the conference dinner. He was a regular participant of the MathSport conferences - for instance, he was present at the one in Leuven in 2013, where the origin lies of the EURO Working Group Operations Research (OR) in Sports. He was instrumental in bringing OR to Formula 1 racing, already in the nineties of the last century, and he always shared his keen insights on any sports related topic.
However, independent of all his contributions to the field, foremost we will miss his quiet presence in conferences and meetings."
Publishing your research on Mathematics and Sports?
Tim Swartz has written a text where some of the issues that are relevant to publishing in the field of sports analytics are discussed. Potential publication outlets are identified, some summary statistics are given, and some experiences and opinions are provided.
The MathSport committee:
| Dries Goossens | Ghent University |
| Phil Scarf | University of Salford |
| Marco Ferrante | University of Padova |
| Dimitris Karlis | Athens University of Economics and Business |
| Ruud Koning | University of Groningen |
| Stephanie Kovalchik | Victoria University |
| Christophe Ley | University of Luxembourg |
| Ioannis Ntzoufras | Athens University of Economics and Business |
| Alun Owen | Coventry University |
| James Reade | University of Reading |
| Frits Spieksma | TU Eindhoven |
| Ray Stefani | California State University, Long Beach |