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Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Baseball

This sounds interesting and I thought some of us might be looking for something baseball to do next Wednesday, July 11.

The Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Baseball will be a meeting of the baseball, industrial, and academic worlds.
The focus is on how Statistics and Operations Research methodology is used within baseball and associated businesses and on how baseball inspires the expansion of the frontiers of Statistics and Operations Research as scientific fields.
The Symposium will have a panel discussion moderated by Mike Siano of MLB.com's Baseball Channel in the morning, which will be edited for broadcast on MLB.com later in the week.
In the afternoon, there will be short seminars. After a brief introduction at 10, the panel will begin. An hour and a half break for lunch will follow the panel, at about 11:45. The Symposium is scheduled to end at 5.

General Information - http://mitch.watnik.com/symposium.html  
Detailed program - http://mitch.watnik.com/abstracts.html

Star-divide

California State Univ., East Bay
Valley Business and Technology Center Presentation Room
Hayward, CA
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
more info : Mitch Watnik at symposium@mlbradiofans.com
$12 at door,

Speakers:
Cory Schwartz, Director of Statistics, MLB.com
Chris Long, Senior Quantitative Analyst, San Diego Padres
Sig Mejdal, Senior Quantitative Analyst, St. Louis Cardinals
Nate Silver, Columnist, Baseball Prospectus
Jeffrey Ma, Vice President of Research, and Mark Kamal, Statistical Analyst, Protrade.com
Hal Stern, Professor of Statistics, Univ. of California, Irvine
Joel Sokol, Associate Professor of Operations Research, Georgia Tech
Eric Bickel, Director of the Decision Analysis Systems Lab, Texas A&M Univ.
Mitchell Watnik, Assistant Professor of Statistics, CSU East Bay
Henry Reichman, Professor of History, CSU East Bay

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sounds boring...
I'd rather listen to old scouts get drunk and swap stories...
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars." -Charles Kuralt

by The Pilots Dared Me To Die on Jul 6, 2007 3:54 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

sounds like they want me to

pay $12 for the privilege of being in the presence of summer break college teachers talking among their esteemed selves.

me and marco down by the ballyard.

by oakath on Jul 6, 2007 4:59 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Jennifer, bring a couple blankets

They'll be sure to have the a/c cranked to keep everyone awake.

... sorry, LTF, I couldn't resist joining the catcalls from the peanut gallery. I think this actually sounds pretty darn interesting.

If Jack Cust doesn't think it's a strike, then you better too. ~ alox @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 6, 2007 6:24 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I'd go

if I wasn't 3000 miles away.  Met a handful of people who were doing the PhD's in OR on sports-related topics.  It definitely sounds interesting.

Signatures? We don't need no stinking signatures.

by jubjub on Jul 6, 2007 7:25 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Absolutely

Here's hoping it will be so successful that they start a national tour!  

-Sad and delusional Operations Research major

by dscel on Jul 6, 2007 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Thanks for the heads-up LTF.

A Fan-Fest for the Cerebrum!

Or is it the Cerebellum?  Medevva Oblongoria?  Isles of, gasp, Langerhans??  

Not sure I'll be able to go, but I'd like to.  And I would never have known about it otherwise.  

The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus

by The Dogfather on Jul 7, 2007 12:02 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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