BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//EN TZID:Australia/Sydney X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:VEVENT UID:141@anziam.org.au DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE:20160711 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE:20160714 DTSTAMP:20261001T081014Z URL:https://anziam.org.au/events/the-13th-australasian-conference-on-mathe matics-and-computers-in-sport/ SUMMARY:The 13th Australasian Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Sp ort DESCRIPTION:Second Call for Participation and Papers\n(Organized by ANZIAM MathSport)\n\nYour Conference Team\nWe have quickly organized a team to mo ve the lucky 13th meeting to Melbourne as we announced in February. Your o rganizing team is\nRay Stefani (California State University\, Long Beach\, USA)\nSam Robertson (Sports Performance Analytics\, Victoria University a nd the Western Bulldogs)\nStephanie Kovalchik (Tennis Australia and Victor ia University)\nDenny Meyer (Swinburne)\nAdrian Schembri (Cogstate)\n\n\n\ nDates and Location\nPlan to meet with your Mathsport friends at the City Conference Center of Victoria University 11-13 July\, 2016. The City Confe rence Center is at 300 Flinders Street diagonally across from Flinders Sta tion and near Federation Square. That is a superb location for a sports co nference (in addition to hotels\, pubs and shopping) since the MCG and Mel bourne Park are within easy walking distance.\nOn 10 July\, the day before we start\, there is a footy match between Carlton and Adelaide at the MCG . We will try to find a way for you to buy tickets seated together. \nFor each of the three days\, your conference fee will include coffee/tea befor e we start\, coffee/tea at the morning break\, lunch and coffee/tea at the afternoon break. The chef will have treats for us at each break. You will receive the Proceedings as part of your conference fee.\n\n\nKeynote Spea kers\nWe have three noted keynote speakers planned. Their presentations wi ll cover a wide span of Mathsport topics. \nKen Quarrie (Sports Analyst an d The All Blacks)\nSam Robertson (Sports Performance Analytics\, Victoria University and the Western Bulldogs)\nGary McCoy (Bond University\, Surf L ifesaving\, Surf Hazard Ratings)\nWe hope to have guests from the Western Bulldogs speak as well.\n\n\nMathsport Activity\nAfter our first day of ta lks on 11 July\, your conference fee will include a visit to the National Sports Museum at the MCG. That museum has the best coverage of sports that you will experience anywhere. It will seem that Shane Warne is there to r eminisce on his career. You can try your hand (or foot) at shooting a netb all goal\, kicking for a soccer goal and experiencing a cricket crease.\n\ n\nConference Dinner\nYour fee will include a conference dinner on 12 July \, at the nearby Young and Jackson pub at Flinders and Swanston. \n\n\nCon ference Fees\nThe fees below are good until 1 June\, 2016. After that date add\, $50. \nAustMS or ANZIAM Members $375\nNon members $425\nStudents $3 25\nPay your fees online at Trybooking.com. Use the link here.\n\n\nTopics for the Conference\nThe conference will cover\, but is not limited to\, t he following topics of interest to sports scientists\, mathematicians\, st atisticians\, coaches and athletes. The term “sport” is interpreted li berally here and includes games and pastimes\, gambling\, general fitness and health-related activities.\nAnalysis of rules\, adjudication\, and ref eree decision-making\nApplication of gambling methodology \nCompetitive st rategy and methods for in-game strategy \nComputational analysis in sport \nEconometrics in sport \nIdentification\, analysis and mitigation of spo rts injuries\nMathematical modeling in sport \nOptimal tournament design a nd scheduling \nQuantitative approaches to improve coaching and optimize individual performance \nStatistical and machine learning methods applied to motion capture and wearable technologies \nStatistics and statistical m odeling in sport \nTeaching of mathematics and computers in sport \nThe st atistics of performance measurement \n\n\n\n Abstracts Book\nThe Abstracts Book with abstracts and information about the 39 talks is available here. \n\n\nProceedings and Conference Schedule\nThe Proceedings with informatio n about the three keynote speakers and the two guest speakers and with the 34 contributed papers is available here. The Conference Schedule for 11-1 3 July\, with the timing of those 39 talks (keyed to Proceedings pages)\, breaks\, lunches\, visit to the national Sports Museum and conference dinn er is available here. The Organizing Committee thanks all the contributors . We look forward to a very informative and congenial meeting. If you have any questions\, please contact Raystefani@aol.com or Raymond.stefani@csul b.edu.\n\n\nHotels\nThere are many hotels in close proximity to the confer ence venue. The following list shows 12 hotels which are marked on the two maps. The City Conference Center is denoted by “CC” while the confere nce dinner location in denoted by “Di”. \nMelbourne Marriott Hotel\nHi lton Melbourne South Wharf\nGrand Hyatt Melbourne\nThe Langham Melbourne\n Radisson on Flagstaff Gardens Melbourne\nSheraton Melbourne Hotel\nBest We stern Princes Park (not on the maps\, some distance north) \nIbis Styles M elbourne\, The Victoria Hotel\nPensione Hotel Melbourne\nSofitel Melbourne on Collins\nThe Westin Melbourne\nThe Hotel Windsor Melbourne\n\n\n\n\nBu siness Meeting\n\nAs per protocol\, the last action of Mathsport 2016 was the Business Meeting. As ANZIAM Mathsport Acting Secretary\, Ray Stefani c onducted the meeting. The following are the minutes of that meeting.\nThe attendees thanked Ray Stefani for his efforts as conference organizer and chair. They thanked the entire organizing committee for putting on a succe ssful conference:\n\nRay Stefani (California State University\, Long Beach \, USA)\nSam Robertson (Sports Performance Analytics\, Victoria University and the Western Bulldogs)\nStephanie Kovalchik (Tennis Australia and Vict oria University)\nDenny Meyer (Swinburne)\nAdrian Schembri (Cogstate)\nThe Victoria University venue and conference staff members were complemented. \nIt was suggested that ANZIAM Mathsport become proactive in attracting m ore women to take part in ANZIAM Mathsport activities. It was suggested th at Netball Australia be involved.\nThe Acting Secretary asked for input fr om those wanting to organize a meeting in 2018. Steve Stern and Anthony Be dford spoke about tentative plans to meet in the Brisbane area in 2018. Th ey cited several examples of organizations in that area that are involved in sport\, including Queensland U and The Queensland Academy of Sport. The latter might serve as host. Stern and Bedford spoke at length about the a ctivities of those organization and that Netball Australia could be includ ed. The meeting attendees voted informally to support that proposal.\nAs p er protocol\, the Executive Committee of ANZIAM Mathsport was dissolved an d a new Executive Committee was elected. A Chair\, Secretary\, and Treasur er were elected as required. As per protocol\, up two four additional memb ers may be elected. In fact\, four additional members were elected. The AN ZIAM Mathsport Executive Committee that will serve through the 2018 meetin g includes the following:\n\nAnthony Bedford (Chair\, XTRADE Sorts)\nRay S tefani (Secretary\, California State University\, Long Beach\, USA)\nSteve Stern (Treasurer\, QUT)\nStephanie Kovalchik (VU\, Tennis Australia)\nSam Robertson (VU\, Western Bulldogs)\nJonathan Sargent (Statson)\nAdrian Sch embri (Cogstate)\nA meeting of the Executive Committee was called to order by Chair Anthony Bedford. The Committee discussed the location for the 20 18 meeting. The Stern-Bedford suggestion for the Brisbane area was moved\, seconded and passed.\nBedford asked Conference Chair Ray Stefani to condu ct the rest of the Business Meeting. He thanked all present for attending a unique meeting: all 39 scheduled speakers attended and spoke on time. He thanked all attendees for a very interesting\, useful and collegial meeti ng.\nThe meeting was adjourned.\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Conference LOCATION:City Conference Center, Victoria University, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20160403T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR