Call for Participation and Papers

(Organized by ANZIAM MathSport)

Your Conference Committee

Your ANZIAM Mathsport organizing team includes:

• Steven Stern, Conference Co-Chair (sstern@bond.edu.au)
• Anthony Bedford, Conference Co-Chair (abedford@usc.edu.au)
• Erica Mealy, Conference Committee (emealy@usc.edu.au)
• Ray Stefani, Conference Committee (raystefani@aol.com)

Dates, Location and Activities

Plan to join your Mathsport friends for our 2026 meeting, 1-3 July. The meeting will be held near Bond University with presentations at the Sofitel Gold Coast Broadbeach, 81 Surf Parade, Broadbeach QLD, 4218 Australia and with social events held across the road at The Star Gold Coast, 1 Casino Dr, Broadbeach QLD 4218, Australia.The conference is co-organized by Bond University and University of the Sunshine Coast. The seven-acre complex includes conference facilities, restaurants, recreational facilities, a health spa, a theater and more than 1,000 hotel rooms. The facility is connected to the adjacent Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre. For each of the three days, your conference fee will include coffee/tea and snacks before we start, a morning break, lunch, and an afternoon break. Other activities are being planned for attendees to take part in as their time may permit.

Keynote Speakers

Keynote speakers will provide the Mathsport community with significant views and insights into a variety of interesting topics.

Keynoter David Kendix is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and has spent his career working for various global insurance groups, specialising in model risk, corporate strategy, and governance. As statistician for the International Cricket Council and member of their Cricket Committee, he is responsible for identifying statistical trends in the game and for drafting playing regulations.  In 1996, he peer reviewed the Duckworth Lewis method and recommended its adoption.  In 2002 he designed and still maintains the official team rankings, subsequently expanded to more than 100 countries, covering men’s and women’s cricket.  He was called as an expert witness in a major criminal trial, applying statistical techniques to detect evidence of match-fixing. He has been the official scorer in over 100 internationals including 50 Test matches (mostly at Lord’s) and has served as Board Director and Treasurer of Middlesex County Cricket Club.  He has been President of The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians since 2017. As statistician for World Netball, he designed and maintains their team ranking system and devised their world championship tournament structure.

Topics for the Conference

The conference will cover, but is not limited to, the following topics of interest to sports scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, coaches, and athletes. The term “sport” is interpreted liberally here and includes games and pastimes, gambling, general fitness, and health-related activities.

• Analysis of rules, adjudication, and referee decision-making
• Artificial intelligence in sport
• Application of gambling methodology
• Competitive strategy and methods for in-game strategy
• Computational analysis in sport
• Computer science in sport
• Computer vision in sport
• Data science in sport
• Econometrics in sport
• Identification, analysis, and mitigation of sports injuries
• Machine learning in sport
• Mathematical modeling in sport
• Optimal tournament design and scheduling
• Psychological methods that enhance performance in competition and enhance mental wellness during and after the competitive career
• Quantitative approaches to improve coaching and optimize individual performance
• Sports management
• Sports medicine
• Statistical and machine learning methods applied to motion capture and wearable technologies
• Statistics and statistical modeling in sport
• Teaching of mathematics and computers in sport
• The statistics of performance measurement

Speakers

Speakers will each have 25 minutes to present a talk and answer questions from the participants.

Abstracts

The deadline to submit an abstract, 15 March 2026, has passed for a maximum of 300 words, on one-page, titled with the topic and your name, using the template here , that was to be sent to Raystefani@aol.com for review by Ray Stefani and Adrian Schembri. The completed Abstracts Book is now available here. We use the abstracts to setup the conference schedule. 

Proceedings

The template for Proceedings papers is available here . Papers are limited to ten pages. Do not number the pages. When you have finished your paper, save and send your paper as a pdf file, with your last name included first in the file name. Full papers will be uploaded through the Microsoft CMT page https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MathSport2026 and will undergo peer review by the program committee. Full papers are due 30 April 2026. The results of peer reviews will be returned to authors by 30 May 2026. Authors are to complete review requirements by 15 June 2026, after which the Proceedings Book is to be finalized. The Proceedings will have an ISBN number and when completed, the Proceedings will be available here. The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support. The Organizing Committee welcomes all contributors. We look forward to a very informative and congenial meeting.

Conference Fees

The conference fees are shown below.

• AustMS or ANZIAM Members $375
• Non-members $425
• Students $325

Payment can be made with either Mastercard or Visa using this link . Please pay your fee by 1 June, to help the organizers with scheduling.

Hotels

The following are some of the nearby hotels

• Break Free Diamond Beach Broadbeach
• Broadbeach Savannah Hotel and Resort
• Dorsett Gold Coast
• Mantra Sierra Grand Broadbeach
• Menton Suites Broadbeach
• Peppers Broadbeach
• Sofitel Gold Coast Broadbeach
• The Darling at the Star Gold Coast
• The Star Gold Coast
• ULTIQA Signature at Broadbeach