The 10th Australasian Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Sport



Darwin, Northern Territory

5-7 July, 2010


Final Call for Papers

You are cordially invited to submit papers

This conference will bring together sports scientists, mathematicians and statisticians who are interested in:

  • The use of computers in sport;
  • statistics and statistical modeling in sport;
  • mathematical modeling in sport;
  • teaching of mathematics, computers and sport;
  • the application of these to improve coaching and individual performance

Keynote

Professor Ray Stefani, Califonia State University.

Ray has contributed a number of papers and chapter on prediction, modeling and analysis on sport. We are proud to annouce Ray as our opening day keynote speaker.

Guest 2 to be confirmed.

Paper Submissions

Up to 300 word abstracts should be emailed to anthony.bedford@rmit.edu.au. Due to a large demand for extensions, all abstracts must be submitted by Wednesday, 17th of February. Consequently, Full Papers are due April 2nd. Acceptance notifications for abstracts shall be returned by 1st of March. Templates will be made available shortly.

  • template for an abstract, in LaTeX (7 kb) or Word (7 kb) format
  • template for a full paper, in LaTeX (25 kb) or Word (92 kb) format

Conference papers will be formally reviewed for significance, correctness and appropriateness to the conference themes. Conference Proceedings will be published in a collection which will be available to all at the beginning of the conference. Only those papers considered by the Conference Scientific Committee to be acceptable in content and presentation will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Other papers may be included on the program, with abstracts provided beforehand by the authors.

The conference directors are:

Previous conferences were held at Bond University (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6), University of Technology Sydney (No. 5), Massey University NZ (No. 7) and Coolangatta Qld. (No. 8, 9).

Negotiation are underway for selected papers to appear in a special addition of the Journal of Sports Sciences and Medicine.

Registration

Registrations are now open. Conference early bird fees are

  • AustMS: – AUD $375.00
  • Non-member: – AUD $425.00
  • Student: – AUD $325.00
  • Proceedings only (non-attendee): – AUD $50.00

Payments can be made via http://www.trybooking.com/cnn (+ a small booking fee)
Any payments made after the 14/06/2010 will cost an additional AUD $50.00.

Travel/Accommodation

The event will be held at Crowne Plaza, Darwin.

Accommodation rates are $229 per night for 2 people in a King Superior room including full buffet breakfast.

Please quote “CMC” when booking your room to receive this special rate.
Bookings can be made on the website http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/160/en/hd/drwms.

Darwin central is a short taxi-cab ride from the airport. Major airlines flying into Darwin include:

Airline Web site
Virgin Blue www.virginblue.com.au
Qantas www.qantas.com.au
Jetstar www.jetstar.com
Airnorth www.airnorth.com.au


Flights to Darwin are available from all Australia’s capital cities, and with many international airlines.

More information on Darwin is available at: http://www.darwineguide.com/ and http://en.travelnt.com/explore/darwin.aspx

Airport information: http://www.darwinairport.com.au/default.aspx

Presentations

Speakers will have approx. 30 minutes to present their papers and answer questions. The keynote speakers will have approx. 60 minutes to present their papers and answer questions. There will be no parallel sessions.

Student Awards

This year we are proud to announce the Neville De Mestre Award for the best student presentation. Students will be rated by the scientific committee on presentation clarity, technical aspects of paper, paper quality and response to questions.

Executive/Scientific Committee

Anthony Bedford; Tim Heazelwood; Neville De Mestre; Denny Meyer; Steven Stern; Bob Buckley

Scientific Committee

Additonal members to contacted shortly.

Tours/Social program

Tour can be organised on arrival. More details will be posted closer to the date.

To join the mailing list, please email anthony.bedford@rmit.edu.au
with ::JOIN in message title.


Updated: 11 Feb 2010
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