We invite you to submit an abstract for the 5th International Conference on Mathematics in Sport. Submissions in all areas where sports and mathematics meet are welcome. The term sport is interpreted liberally and includes games, gambling, and lotteries.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Econometrics in sport

Optimal tournament design and scheduling

Competitive strategy

Match outcome models

Decision support systems

Analysis of sporting technologies

Statistics and statistical modeling in sport

Analysis of rules and adjudication

Performance measures and models

Optimisation of sport performance

Mathematics education and sport

Computationally intensive methods

Financial valuation in sport

Abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msp2015 .  You will first need to create an EasyChair account, if you do not already have one.  Abstracts should be 100 - 300 words long, in English.  The final date for abstract submission is 13 February 2015, and you will be notified of acceptance by 13 March 2015. A full list of abstracts will be published with the conference schedule on 2 June 2015.  At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference.  Registration is at the conference website, http://www.mathsportinternational2015.com/registration.html , and is at a discounted rate until 1 May 2015.  Accommodation for the conference may be booked at http://www.mathsportinternational2015.com/accommodation.html .  Please note that accommodation at Loughborough University has been reserved until 28 April 2015, and we cannot guarantee that all preferences will be available after that date.

Authors are encouraged to submit their paper for the conference Proceedings (even if it is work in progress). Papers must be prepared using LaTeX: you should first go to http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690 to download the EasyChair LaTeX class and related files. These files include easychair.pdf which contains all the information you need for preparing your paper, and its source file easychair.tex which can be used as a template for your paper.  To submit your paper, all files must be compressed as a .zip archive and submitted through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msp2015 by 1 May 2015.  The Proceedings will be distributed to all delegates on USB stick, and will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index.  

A special issue of Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jqas) will be devoted to papers from MathSport International 2015, and contributors are invited to submit their work for publication in this.  Instructions for doing so will be circulated after the conference.  Papers submitted to JQAS should contain work beyond that published in the conference proceedings.

Deadlines:

   Abstract submission: 13 February 2015

   Latest notification of acceptance: 13 March 2015

   Submission of papers for Proceedings: 1 May 2015

   Early registration: 1 May 2015

Keynote speakers:

Mr David Kendix (Actuary and cricket statistician): "Modeling uncertainty in finance and sport" 

Organizing Committee:

Anthony Kay (Loughborough University), Alun Owen (University of Worcester), Ben Halkon (Loughborough University), Mark King (Loughborough University), Phil Scarf (University of Salford)