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

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