Selected Talks/Posters
I am available to give presentations about mathematics in sports and business, as well as football in general. If you would like me to speak at an event please contact me at ericeager82@gmail.com. Due to availability, speaking fees may apply.
A list of notable talks I've given is below:
Using Tracking Data to Betting Evaluate Football Players. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX, March 2024.
The SumerSports Draft Dashboard. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Competitive Advantage Session. Boston, MA, March 2024.
Using Data Science to Better Evaluate American Football Players Open Data Science East Conferece. Boston, MA, May 2023.
Mathematics for Data Science Open Data Science East Conference. Boston, MA, May 2023.
Introduction to Modern Football Analytics Using Play-by-Play Data Workshop. - Presented with Sean Clement MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Workshop. Boston, MA, March 2023.
Play from the Sideline: Sports Analytics Minicourse National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) Guest Speaker. New York, NY, November 2022 (Remote)
Towards a Better Evaluation of Football Players Brigham Young University's ACME Careers in Math Seminar. Provo, UT, November 2022
Using Machine Learning to Better Evaluate American Football Players. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Lincoln, NE, October 2022.
From Football to Math and Back. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Lincoln, NE, October 2022.
Using Tracking and Charting Data to Better Evaluate NFL Players: A Review. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Research Paper Competition. Boston, MA, March 2022
Towards a Better Evaluation of Football Players Institute for for Applied Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, February 2022
Using R to Build Models for National Football League Projections satRday Columbus 2021, Columbus, OH, October 2021 (Remote)
Leveling Up: Modeling College Prospects Using Data. Midwest Sports Analytics Meeting, Pella, IA, November 2020 (Remote)
PFF WAR: Modeling Player Value in American Football. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Boston, MA, March 2020 (Remote)
My Journey from MSUM Football to Mathematics and Back - Minnesota State University - Moorhead Student Academic Conference (Keynote Speaker), Moorhead, MN, April 2019
What Math Can Teach Us About Football - Marian University, Indianapolis, IN, November 2018
Using PFF Grades to Study NFL Coaches and Coordinators - Carnage Mellon University Sports Analytics Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2018
Using Machine Learning to Classify Quality and Style of Play at the Quarterback Position - Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference, Stevens Point, WI, May 2018
The University of Wisconsin - La Crosse REU in Mathematical Ecology - Midwest Mathematical Biology Conference, La Crosse, WI, May 2018
Application and Analysis of Specifications Grading in an Upper-Division Applied Mathematics Course - University of Wisconsin System OPID Spring Conference on Teaching and Learning, Madison, WI, May 2018
Using Machine Learning to Classify Quality and Style of Play at the Quarterback Position - MinneAnalytics SporCon, Minneapolis, MN, February 2018
Case Studies in Mathematical Biology - The University of Nebraska - Lincoln Mathematics Department Colloquium, Lincoln, NE, September 2017 pdf
NFL Team Ranking Methods and Their Abilities to Predict Games - The Inaugural Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, July 2016 link
Analysis of Transient Dynamics for Autocorrelated Population Dynamics - Presented by Jordan Pellett* at the Univeristy of Wisconsin - La Crosse Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creativity, La Crosse, WI, April 2017
Undergraduate Research in Mathematical Biology at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse - 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Contributed Paper Session in Mathematical Biology, Atlanta, GA, January 2017
Pro Football Analytics - University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, La Crosse, WI, November 2016
PBR Modeling and Analysis of the Indiana Bat Population - Presented by Humza Haider* and Rosa Moreno* (REU students) University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Summer Celebration of Undergraduate Research, La Crosse, WI, August 2016
Demographic Modeling of an Indiana Bat Population Subject to Wind-Energy Stress - Presented by Sarah Oldfield* and Tiffany Tu* (REU students) University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Summer Celebration of Undergraduate Research, La Crosse, WI, August 2016
Modeling and Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks Using Finite Dynamical Systems - Midwest Mathematical Biology Conference, La Crosse, WI, May 2016
Undergraduate Research in Mathematical Biology - Mathematical Association of America - Wisconsin Sectional Meeting, La Crosse, WI, April 2016
How Infectious was #Deflategate? - Presented by Megan Eberle* (Former CURM and Eagle Apprentice Student) International Symposium on Biomathematics, Ecology Education and Research (BEER), Normal, IL, October 2015
Modeling and Analysis of the 2014-2015 Measles Outbreak Subject to Sociological Dynamics - Presented by Kaitlin Healy* (Former CURM Student) International Symposium on Biomathematics, Ecology Education and Research (BEER), Normal, IL, October 2015
Flipping Differential Equations: An Initial Analysis - 17th Annual UW-L Conference on Teaching & Learning, La Crosse, WI, August 2015
Modeling and Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks Using Finite Dynamical Systems - Presented by Alex Garza* (Former Dean's Distinguished Fellowship and CURM Student) University of Wisconsin - Crosse College of Science and Health Summer Celebration of Undergraduate Research, La Crosse, WI, July 2015
Modeling and Analysis of Avian Populations Vulnerable to Wind Energy - 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Natural Resource Modeling, San Antonio, TX, January 2015
Modeling and Analysis of Disturbance Specialist Plants - 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session on Computing Intensive Modeling in Mathematical and Computational Biology, San Antonio, TX, January 2015
An Overview of Mathematical Biology - University of Wisconsin - Whitewater Biology Colloquium, Whitewater, WI, October 2014
Modeling and Analysis of a Disturbance Specialist Plant in a Random Environment - SAMSI Program on Mathematical and Statistical Ecology Opening Workshop, Raleigh, NC, August 2014
MathBio or BioMath? Flipping the Mathematical Biology Classroom - Winter UW-L Conference on Teaching and Learning, La Crosse, WI, January 2014
A Survey of Stochastic Population Dynamics - University of Wisconsin – La Crosse Mathematics Colloquium, La Crosse, WI, October 2013
Modeling and Analysis of the Population Dynamics of Fungus-Infected American Chestnut Populations - 2013 Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 2013
Modeling and Mathematical Analysis of Plant-Seed Bank Models - North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University-Moorhead and Concordia College’s Tri-College Colloquium, Fargo, ND, March 2013
The Effect of Experimental Design on Network Inference - Presented by Jacqueline Marie Yanchuck* (former REU student) at the AMS Session on Undergraduate Research in Applied Mathematics at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 2013
Global Stability of Plant-Seed Bank Models - University of Nebraska-Lincoln Conference on Mathematical Ecology, Lincoln, NE, April 2012
Metapopulation Modeling and Analysis with Demographic Stochasticity - Presented by Elise Hellwig* (former REU student) at the AMS Session on Undergraduate Research at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA, January 2012
A Stochastic Model for the Plant-Seed Bank Dynamics of a Disturbance Specialist - AMS Fall 2011 Central Sectional Meeting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, October 2011
The Effects of the Nonlinearity in the Transient Dynamics of Structured Population Models - 2010 Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 2010
* Denotes undergraduate student
