OR in Sports

Data models
2017-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Brabanthal Leuven, Oude Markt 3, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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All day event
2017-03-31 | Central park New York, 5th avenue, New York, NY, United States
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April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development
2017-04-11 - 2017-04-14 | Moscow, Russian Federation
The April Conference of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) is the main forum in Russia in social sciences, first of all, in Economics. Last years, about 1500 colleagues participated in these conferences including honorary speakers – Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow, Eric Maskin and Muhammad Yunus.
HSE invites researchers to submit papers for presentation at the `Sports studies’ section of the conference. Section comprises theoretical and empirical research papers that deal with economic, social, and managerial problems of sports industry. The articles on the following possible topics are very welcome: success factors in sport, leagues regulation, tournament design, contest theory, tournament and match strategies development, corruption, betting, spectator interest studies, financial and social issues of sporting mega-events, scheduling, competitive balance, and other.
The deadline for submitting an extended abstract is November 13, 2016. Submission is through on-line registration at http://conf.hse.ru/
A detailed summary of the proposed presentation should be attached to the application, in Word or RTF file, in 1-3 pages with 1.5 line spacing (up to 7000 symbols). The abstract should clearly state the problem of the paper, the approach to its solution (in particular, if there is a model based on the analysis), and the main findings. It should indicate the main novelty of the results in comparison with the known, previously published works. Abstracts which are less than 1 page in length will not be accepted.
Working languages of the Conference are Russian and English. Simultaneous translation will be available during all plenary and some session meetings.
If you have any questions, please contact Olga Grigorenko (ogrigorenko@hse.ru; conference programme, online registration etc.) or Dmitry Dagaev (ddagaev@hse.ru; questions related to `Sports studies’ section).

2nd International Conference on Sport Economics & Sport Management (SESM)
2017-05-11 - 2017-05-12 | Berlin, Germany
Call for Papers: The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative thoughts and creating cooperation between researchers in the fields of sport
management and economics. We are inviting proposals for paper presentations as well as complete sessions consisting out of three papers/presenters. This
conference provides researchers with an opportunity to present theoretical, empirical, and policy‐oriented research.
Program Committee: Wladimir Andreff (Paris) ∙ Eike Emrich (Saarbrücken) ∙ Christian Pierdzioch (Hamburg) ∙ Stefan Szymanski (Michigan) ∙ Christian Dreger
(Berlin) ∙ Georg Stadtmann (Frankfurt/Oder) ∙ Tim Pawlowski (Tübingen) ∙ Alexander Ferrauti (Bochum) ∙ Oliver Budzinski (Ilmenau) ∙ Bernd Frick (Paderborn) ∙ Gerd G. Wagner (Berlin)
Deadline for paper submission: 31st Dec, 2016.

Statistics forum
2017-05-15 08:00 - 2017-05-17 17:00 UTC | Brabanthal Leuven, Oude Markt 3, Leuven, 3000, Belgium

Technology watch
2017-05-18 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Central park New York, 5th avenue, New York, NY, United States

Innovation day
2017-05-29 - 2017-05-30 | Central park New York, 5th avenue, New York, NY, United States

22nd Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS)
2017-07-05 - 2017-07-08 | Messe Essen, Germany
The ECSS welcomes contributions from all areas of sport science and sport medicine including:
PHYSIOLOGY & SPORTS MEDICINE
SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES
BIOMECHANICS & NEUROMUSCULAR
Authors are free to choose between oral presentation, mini-oral presentation or e-poster as format while submitting in one of the following topics:
Adapted Physical Activity
Biochemistry
Biomechanics
Coaching
Health and Fitness
History
Molecular Biology
Motor Learning
Neuromuscular Physiology
Nutrition
Philosophy and Ethics
Physical Education and Pedagogics
Physiology
Psychology
Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy
Sociology
Sport Management and law
Sport Statistics and Analyses
Sport Technology
Sports Medicine and Orthopedics
Training and Testing
Abstract submission is free of charge. After undergoing the reviewing process, all authors will be informed about the acceptance of their submission on the 1st April 2017. Registration fee must be paid by the 1st May 2017 at the latest to secure the presentation during the congress and the publication in the Book of Abstracts.

Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference
2017-07-13 | Stevens Point, United States
The Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is a one-day conference showcasing the latest concepts, research and innovations in the fast-growing field of sports analytics. Featuring speakers and presenters from professional and college sports organizations, the business sector and the academic community, the conference will cover innovations and evolutions in strategy, technology, training and more.

21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS)
2017-07-17 - 2017-07-21 | Québec City Convention Centre, Québec , Canada
The 21th triennial conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies will bring together operational researchers from around the globe to discuss the full spectrum of topics in OR. The Convention Centre that will host IFORS 2017 is conveniently located in the heart of Québec City, at walking distance from its UNESCO Word Heritage historic center. Outstanding plenary speakers and keynote speakers, who will deliver tutorials on a variety of topics, will make the conference a memorable scientific event. A number of sessions in the area of OR in sports/sports analytics will be organized; more information will follow soon.

The 2017 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports
2017-09-23 | Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets, United States
2017 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports will be a meeting of statisticians, statistical researchers, and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports data. The symposium format will be a mixture of invited talks, a poster session, and a panel discussion.

2nd AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop
2017-11-07 - 2017-11-08 | Athens, Greece
We have the pleasure to invite you to attend the 2nd AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop, organized by the sports analytics team (incl. Dimitris Karlis and Ioannis Ntzoufras) of the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Keynote speakers:
James Reade (University of Reading, UK)
Alun Owen (University of Coventry, UK)
Frits Spieksma (KU Leuven; Belgium)
Dries Goossens (Ghent University, Belgium)
Ioannis Kosmidis (University College London, UK)
Stefan Kesenne (Antwerp University & KU Leuven, Belgium)
Topics include:
An overview of Sport Analytics
Recent developments in Sports Economics
Optimal Tournament design & scheduling
Modeling and simulation
Match outcome models
Analysis of Play – Competitive Strategy
Performance and Data Analysis in Team Sports
Optimization of Sport Performance

XIX APRIL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
2018-04-10 12:00 - 2018-04-13 16:30 (Europe/Moscow) | National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
The April Conference of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) is the main forum in Russia in social sciences, first of all, in Economics. Last years, about 1500 colleagues participated in these conferences including honorary speakers – Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow, Eric Maskin and Muhammad Yunus.
HSE invites researchers to submit papers for presentation at the `Sports studies’ section of the conference. Section comprises theoretical and empirical research papers that deal with economic, social, and managerial problems of sports industry. The articles on the following possible topics are very welcome: success factors in sport, leagues regulation, tournament design, contest theory, tournament and match strategies development, corruption, betting, spectator interest studies, financial and social issues of sporting mega-events, scheduling, competitive balance, eSports and other.
The deadline for submitting an extended abstract is November 13, 2017. Submission is through on-line registration at http://conf.hse.ru/
A detailed summary of the proposed presentation should be attached to the application, in Word or RTF file, in 1-3 pages with 1.5 line spacing (up to 7000 symbols). The abstract should clearly state the problem of the paper, the approach to its solution (in particular, if there is a model based on the analysis), and the main findings. It should indicate the main novelty of the results in comparison with the known, previously published works. Abstracts which are less than 1 page in length will not be accepted.
Working languages of the Conference are Russian and English. Simultaneous translation will be available during all plenary and some session meetings.
If you have any questions, please contact Olga Grigorenko (ogrigorenko@hse.ru; conference programme, online registration etc.) or Dmitry Dagaev (ddagaev@hse.ru; questions related to `Sports studies’ section).

Workshop on Fairness in Sports
2018-04-12 10:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Ghent University, Tweekerkenstraat 2, Ghent, Belgium
The “Fairness in Sports” workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in sports research, and fairness issues in particular.
Fairness in sport is not just about assigning the top prizes to the worthiest competitors. It is also about the way the competition itself is organized. How to design rules that do not favor certain competitors? How to design a schedule of play that a priori offers similar chances to each participant? How to reconcile various (often conflicting) requests expressed by the stakeholders? It seems that as financial interests in sports increase, fairness is increasingly under pressure, and research on fairness issues in sports is becoming more and more relevant.
The workshop focusses on scientific methods to achieve greater fairness in sports, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. Topics will include i.a. tournament scheduling and rule design.
The workshop will be a 1-day event, which will take place on April 12th 2018, and is hosted at Ghent University in Belgium.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Jörn Schönberger (Technical University of Dresden)
Prof. Mario Guajardo (NNH Norwegian School of Economics).
Prof. Mehmet Ismail (King’s College London).
The workshop will not have an open call for papers, but if you have interesting work to present related to fairness in sports, you are more than welcome to contact Dries.Goossens@UGent.be.

International Symposium of Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Dance
2018-04-26 - 2018-04-28 | Nişantaşı University, İstanbul, Turkey
I.INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SPORT, RECREATION AND DANCE
(ISPESCONGRESS2018)
“Global Goals in Sports”
April 26th- 28th, 2018
Nişantaşı University, İstanbul, Turkey
“I . International Symposium of Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Dance ” will be held in Nişantaşı University, İstanbul, Turkey during April 26th- 28th, 2018.
We welcome researchers, educators, graduate students and industrial professionals from all over the world to submit full papers or abstracts related to Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Dance.
http://www.ispescongress.com
If you want to get detailed information about the exhibition, click here.Participants can click here to send picture to symposium

3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPORT ECONOMICS & SPORT MANAGEMENT (SESM)
2018-05-10 - 2018-05-11 | Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Call for Papers: The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative thoughts and creating cooperation between researchers in the fields of sport management and economics. We are inviting proposals for paper presentations as well as complete sessions consisting out of three papers/presenters. This conference provides researchers with an opportunity to present theoretical, empirical, and policy‐oriented research.
Program Committee: Wladimir Andreff (Paris) ∙ Neil Longley (Massachusetts ) ∙ Dennis Coates (Maryland, Baltimore) ∙ Eike Emrich (Saarbrücken) ∙ Christian Pierdzioch (Hamburg) ∙ Stefan Szymanski (Michigan) ∙ Christian Dreger (Berlin) ∙ Georg Stadtmann (Frankfurt/Oder) ∙ Tim Pawlowski (Tübingen) ∙ Alexander Ferrauti (Bochum) ∙ Oliver Budzinski (Ilmenau) ∙ Bernd Frick (Paderborn) ∙ Gerd G. Wagner (Berlin) ∙ Markus Kurscheidt (Bayreuth) ∙ Joel G. Maxcy (Phiadelphia) ∙ Martin Falk (Vienna)
Deadline for paper submission: 31st Dec, 2017.

Fields Sports Analytics Workshop
2018-05-24 - 2018-05-25 | The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada
The Fields Sports Analytics Workshop is a two day workshop focused on current methods, practices, and research in the increasingly popular area of sports analytics. The topics of the workshop will include the use of analytics on both the on-field performance as well as the business side and fan engagement.

An important aspect of this workshop is to shine a brighter light on the role that advanced mathematical, statistical and computer science methods play in this area both now, and in the future. The major objectives of the workshop are to:

Disseminate the latest results and state of the art mathematical, statistical and computer science methods from researchers to academics, students, and especially to teams and industry
Communicate past work, types of data, challenges, and insights from the sports industry community to gathered researchers
Highlight the role that sophisticated analytical methods will likely play in the sports industry in the near future
Encourage and inspire students and other researchers to find new and innovative ways to apply the latest mathematical, statistical and computer science methods to the sports industry
Provide pathways for industry and researchers to utilize funding organizations to financially support future research, employment opportunities and internships

Invited Talks
There will be 14 invited talks from top academic researchers and industry professionals.
Confirmed Speakers

Ed Kaplan (Yale School of Management)
Luke Bornn (Vice-President, Strategy and Analytics, Sacramento Kings)
Justin Detlor (Manager, Sports Analytics, Canadian Tire)
Mark Glickman (Harvard)
Mark Broadie (Columbia)
Ben Baumer (Smith College)
Tim Chartier (Davidson)
Michael Lopez (Skidmore College)
Meghan Chayka (Co-Founder, Stathletes)
Keith Boyarsky (Director of Analytics, Toronto Raptors)

Panel Discussion
On Friday there will be an hour long panel discussion on the future of sports analytics and the increasing mathematical sophistication that will guide its future developments.
Student Datafest Competition
Two days before the workshop begins, undergraduate students (with a graduate student mentor) will be split into teams and given a large, rich, and complex data set. Teams will work around the clock for 48 hours to find insights in the data. A specific problem to solve with the data will not be provided.
After two days of intense data wrangling, analysis, and presentation design, each team is allowed a few minutes and no more than two slides to impress a panel of judges. A Cash prize will be awarded. The winning team will be invited to give a longer presentation on Day 2 to the workshop attendees.
Networking and Recruitment Lunch
Following the panel on Friday, teams, industry, academics and students will be able to participate in a networking lunch session. This is an excellent opportunity for industry and researchers to exchange ideas and discuss potential collaborations. It will also provide industry a forum to recruit talented and motivated students from across technical disciplines.
Schedule
To be announced.

Registration Instruction:

Students and Postdoctoral Fellows: $30
Faculty: $60
Industry and Teams: $100

Bayesian statistical modelling and analysis in sport
2018-06-04 - 2018-06-08 | Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy
ABS18, the 15th Applied Bayesian Statistics summer school
Professor of Statistics,
Lecturer: Kerrie MENGERSEN, Distinguished Professor of Statistics,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Practical sessions: Paul WU, Research Fellow, Queensland University of
Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Fees (if paid by 8/4/2018):
– EUR 300 (22% VAT included) students and postdocs
– EUR 450 (368.85 + 22% VAT) people from academic and non-profit organisations
– EUR 900 (737.70 + 22% VAT) all the others
Italian public employees are exempt from VAT.

Canadian Operations Research Conference - Sport Analytics
2018-06-04 - 2018-06-06 | Halifax, Halifax, Canada
Professors Timothy Chan (University of Toronto) and Martin Puterman (UBC) will be organizing the sports analytics cluster of the Canadian OR Society conference. They invite you to submit sports talks. Please contact them directly if interested.

Fairness in Sports and Games Workshop
2018-06-05 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | King’s College, Bush House, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom
We would like to invite you to attend the Fairness in Sports and Games Workshop, organized by Dr. Mehmet Ismail, which will take place at King’s College London on 5 June 10:00 – 17:00.
Sports and games continue to provide fantastic challenges in many fields including Mathematical, Natural, and Social Sciences. This interdisciplinary event aims to bring together researchers from these fields and practitioners.
Invited Speakers / Participants (by alphabetical order):
• John D. Barrow (University of Cambridge)
• Ian Braid (Former Head of the British Athletes’ Commission)
• Steven J. Brams (New York University)
• Silvia Camporesi (King’s College London)
• Frank Duckworth (Retired Statistician)
• David Elleray (Technical Director at International Football Association Board)
• Dries Goossens (Ghent University)
• John Haigh (University of Sussex)
• Philip A. Scarf (Salford Business School)
• Andrew Shelley (CEO at World Squash Federation)
• Walter Stromquist (Past Editor of Mathematics Magazine)
Please see the webpage of the workshop for more details
If you plan to join the event, please register here by 18 May (for catering purposes).
The workshop is sponsored by the School of Politics and Economics at King’s College London, and the EURO working group OR in Sports.

Economic (and) History of Sport
2018-06-13 | Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom
One-day workshop on the economics and history of sport
Sport offers a rich history, both social and economic. Sport also offers vast amounts of data on outcomes and inputs over many decades, in addition to
substantial archives. This one-day workshop brings together economists and historians united by an interest in sport and the role it has played over
the years, both in the UK and more widely.
Speakers:
Professor Wray Vamplew (keynote) – Emeritus Professor of Sports History, University of Stirling and Global; Professorial Fellow, Academy of Sport, University of Edinburgh
Dr Rafaelle Nicholson – Queen Mary University of London
Professor Dilwyn Porter – Professor of Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University
Professor Robert Simmons – Professor of Economics, Lancaster University Management School
Professor Stefan Szymanski – Stephen J. Galetti Collegiate Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan

World Cup Workshop
2018-06-14 | Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom
One-day workshop on the economics of football
To coincide with the opening of the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia, one of sport’s largest global events, we present a collection of research papers
presented by leading sports economists. These papers all either have a particular application to football or use football as a context in which to study
economic theories and behaviour in more detail.
Speakers:
Professor Stefan Szymanski (keynote) – Stephen J. Galetti Collegiate Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
Professor Adrian R Bell – Chair in the History of Finance and Head of ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Professor Alex Bryson – Chair of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Dr Babatunde Buraimo – Senior Lecturer in Sports Management, University of Liverpool
Dr Adam Cox – Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance, Portsmouth Business School
Prof Bernd Frick – Professor of Organizational and Media Economics, University of Paderborn

Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference
2018-06-21 | University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, United States
The Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is a one-day conference showcasing the latest concepts, research and innovations in the fast-growing field of sports analytics. Featuring speakers and presenters from professional and college sports organizations, the business sector and the academic community, the conference will cover innovations and evolutions in strategy, technology, training and more.
Who Should Attend

Students interested in pursuing a career in sports and athletics: competing, coaching, training, management, media.
Students interested in pursuing a career in data analytics.
Students and faculty interested in presenting research related to sports, athletics, or data analytics.
Coaches and administrators looking to gain a competitive advantage by staying abreast of the latest developments in the fast-growing field of sports analytics.
Professionals in the sports analytics field interested in new research ideas.
Businesses looking for analytics talent to add to their team.

Research Presentations
The conference will feature an opportunity for students and faculty to present posters or oral presentations on sports analytics topics in fields as diverse as mathematics, athletic training, business, psychology, biology, computer science, GIS, technnology, journalism and data visualization. To submit a talk or poster, click here. Deadline is April 16.
Registration
Registration fees for the Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference are:

$29 Student
$79 Non-student

Discounts are available for groups of 3-5 or 6 or more attendees.

MathSport International 2017
2018-06-26 - 2018-06-28 | Orto Botanico (Botanical Garden) (UNESCO site) of University of Padova, Padua, Italy
MathSport International is a biennal conference dedicated to all topics where mathematics and sport meet.
Mathsport International 2017, will be hosted by hosted by Padua University (Italy), from Monday 26th June to Wednesday 28th June 2017. It will be the 6th conference in Europe that brings together Maths and Sport. Previous conferences have been organised by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), by KU Leuven and by Loughborough University.
Important dates:
January 30th, 2017: Abstraction submission deadline
February 24th, 2017: Notification of acceptance
April 24th, 2017: Submission of proceedings paper
May 15th, 2017: Early registration deadline
June 26th-28th, 2017: Conference
Check out the conference poster.
For more info: mathsportinternational2017@math.unipd.it

EURO - OR in Sports stream
2018-07-08 - 2018-07-11 | Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Our EURO working group “OR in Sports” is organizing a stream on OR in Sports, as part of the EURO Conference, 8-11 July in Valencia, Spain.
We are aiming for a sports track covering various applications and methodologies (e.g. optimization, statistics, analytics, …), much like the sessions we had at the previous EURO conferences in Poznan and Glasgow.
The deadline of the conference has been extended to 19 March, so until that day you can still submit an abstract. You can do this by going to the abstract submission page https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro29/ and use the following invitation code: d5d9de06.

2nd International Academic Conference on Economics of Football
2018-07-09 - 2018-07-11 | Moscow, Russian Federation
New Economic School (NES) and Higher School of Economics (HSE) are organizing a conference on the economics of football. The conference will take place during the FIFA World Cup 2018. It is aimed to highlight high-quality research of the football industry as well as to facilitate the cooperation between academics and practitioners.
Organizers invite researchers to submit papers for presentation. Theoretical and/or empirical research papers that deal with economic, social, and managerial problems of football industry are welcome. The list of possible topics includes: success factors in football, football leagues regulation, financial fair-play, tournament design, contest theory, tournament and match strategies development, corruption, betting, spectator interest studies, financial and social issues of the World Cup, scheduling, competitive balance, and other.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is January 31, 2018. To apply for the conference, please send an email including your name and affiliation to Dmitry Dagaev (ddagaev@hse.ru), and attach your abstract, or, preferably, the full paper. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors by February 28, 2018. Full text must be submitted by June 1, 2018. Each paper will be assigned a discussant.
Working language of the conference is English. For more information about the conference, please visit the website https://www.footballeconomics.ru/ If you have any questions, please contact Dmitry Dagaev (ddagaev@hse.ru).

10th Conference of the European Sport Economics Association
2018-08-29 - 2018-08-31 | University of Liverpool Management School, Liverpool , United Kingdom
Researchers are invited to submit a paper for the 10th annual meeting of the European Association of Sport Economics, to be held from August 29-31, 2018 at the University of Liverpool Management School. Submissions are welcome relating to any area of sports economics, and including theoretical, empirical and conceptual papers. Completed research and research in progress are equally admissible but manuscripts already accepted for publication should not be submitted. The conference language is English.
Submission
Please submit an extended abstract: 3 pages (12-point font) including detailed information on the theoretical background of the study, the methods used and the major findings
Submissions should be made in the period January 1- March 31, 2018.
Please submit your abstract(s) to the following address: esea@liverpool.ac.uk
Abstracts which pass the double-blind review process will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Should the number of papers passing the review process be larger than the number of available slots for presentations, only one abstract per submitting author will be accepted (regardless of whether co-authors have submitted other papers). The submitting author is expected to present the paper.
Abstracts submitted by graduate students may be considered for the ‘Best Young Researcher Paper Award’. Please indicate in the submission whether your paper should be considered, in which case it is mandatory to submit a full paper (30 pages maximum in APA style incl. references, tables, and figures) by July 1, 2018 to PD Dr. Pamela Wicker (Email: p.wicker@dshs-koeln.de). For a paper to be eligible, all authors of the research paper must be graduate students, and the young researcher must agree to present the paper at the Conference.
Papers presented at the Conference will be invited to be submitted to the conference issue of the International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF).
PhD workshop
Prior to the Conference (August 28-29), there will be a workshop for PhD students, with a special focus on academic writing and empirical research methods.

OR60 - OR in Sports stream
2018-09-11 - 2018-09-13 | Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom
We will be organizing a stream on “OR in Sports stream” at OR60, the annual OR Society conference.
Abstracts can be submitted here, with 31 May 2018 as a deadline. Please contact Phil Scarf (p.a.scarf@salford.ac.uk) if you require further information.

XII World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport
2018-09-19 - 2018-09-23 | Hotel Ambasador, Opatija, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
On behalf of the host, the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and the Congress Organizing Committee, we announce with great pleasure the upcoming XII World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport to be held in Opatija, Croatia, on 19-23 September, 2018. Workshops, exhibitions and joint meetings are planned in addition to the conference programme. The social program and less formal events will not be forgotten either. Looking forward to welcoming you at the Congress!
Deadline for abstract/paper submission: June 15, 2018
Abstract/paper acceptance/revision notification: July 15, 2018
Abstracts/papers are invited in the stated congress themes and/or any discipline involving the analysis of any aspect of sport & exercise performance.
Each submission must be original work that has not been previously presented or published.
Congress themes:

Sports performance
Analysis of referees
Coaching process
Coach behaviour
Biomechanics
Analysis of technique
Technical effectiveness
Tactical evaluation
Patterns of play
Neuromotor control
Movement in sport
Motor learning and feedback
Work rate, physical demands
Performance analysis technology
Analysis of elite athletes and teams
Effectiveness of performance analysis support
Performance analysis in health and senior sport
Performance analysis in youth sport
Observational analysis of injury risk
Technology and performance analysis systems
Gymnastics & Dance

Sports Analytics Workshop 2018
2018-11-26 - 2018-11-27 | Athens, Greece
AUEB Sports Analytics Group organizes an annual conference dedicated to all topics where mathematics and sport meet. AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop 2018 is hosted by Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and organized by the Department of Statistics from Monday 26th of November to Tuesday 27th of November 2018. It will be the 3rd conference in Greece that brings together professionals and academics with a common interest in applying cutting-edge quantitative methods on Sports.
Invited speakers for this year:
 Paola Zuccolotto, University of Brescia, ITA (Basketball Data Science)
 Leonardo Egidi ,University of Trieste, ΙΤΑ (Hierarchical Models in Football)
 Stefan Kesenne, Emeritus Prof. of Sport Economics at the University of Antwerp and University of Leuven (Competitive imbalance, transfer market and youth training & Free-entry football market and the number of professional teams)
 Ioannis Papadopoulos , Fanbeat, FRA (Creating value from data generated by football fans using a mobile app)
Keynote talks will be also given by the AUEB group & external contributors:
 Dimitris Karlis, AUEB, GRE (In Game Performance)
 Ioannis Ntzoufras, AUEB, GRE (Football Analytics)
 Panos Repoussis, AUEB, GRE (Sports Scheduling)
 Eugenia Tsoumaka, American College of Greece, GRE (Marketing of Celebrity Athletes)
 Manisera Marica, University of Brescia, ITA (High Pressure Performance Big-Data Analytics)
