Travel and Research Funding for Students and Faculty: Sports SIGMAA members and their students may request funding for travel to MAA supported conferences or for research related expenses such as database access. Additionally faculty may apply for conference hosting support such as sponsoring a coffee break or invited speaker. Requests will be accepted on a rolling basis with a maximum award of $200. Priority will be given to students or projects that involve students. Apply Now!
SCORE Network Talk: Link to talk
COL Andrew Lee, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Lee received his MA and PhD in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has expertise in a wide variety of operations research, probability, and optimization transportation models focusing on military applications, unmanned aerial systems, and disaster relief. He currently serves as the program director for the mathematical sciences program. He is also a Co-PI for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, a senior personnel member on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, and an executive committee member for the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM). In the classroom, he is an innovative educator implementing novel pedagogical approaches such as discovery learning assessments. He also leads summer faculty workshops to mentor and train new junior faculty members.
Teaching with Sports Data
Andrew Lee, West Point
Many students are athletes and/or avid sports fans who appreciate and find motivation in applications of statistics to issues that arise in sports. Where can instructors (or students) find relevant, accessible sports data? What are some sports questions that map well to typical course objectives? How can we structure sports-based examples to be accessible and interesting to non-fans? I will share information about the SCORE network, which is a national network for developing and disseminating Sports Content for Outreach, Research, and Education in data science, funded through the NSF.
MathFest 2025, https://www.maa.org/meetings/mathfest
Organizers:
Filippo Posta, Phoenix College
Amanda Harsy, Lewis University
The Sports SIGMAA typically holds contributed paper sessions focusing on the intersection of mathematics and sports at MathFest and JMM annually that are open to the entire mathematical community. Additionally, our members host and attend smaller sports-related conferences throughout the year.
September 2023: New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports
2023 MathFest Mathematics and Sports contributed paper session
2021 MathFest Mathematics and Sports contributed paper session (virtual)
2021 JMM Mathematics and Sports contributed paper session (virtual)
2020 Midwestern Sports Analytics Meeting, Central College (virtual)
2020 Sports SIGMAA Business Meeting with keynote by Jesse McNulty (virtual)
2020 JMM Mathematics and Sports contributed paper session, Denver, CO
2019 Sports SIGMAA Business Meeting with panel on mentoring undergraduate research
2019 MathFest Mathematics and Sports contributed paper session, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Carolinas Sports Analytics Meeting, Furman University, Greenville, SC
2019 JMM Mathematics and Sports contributed paper session, Baltimore, MD
2018 Sports SIGMAA Business Meeting with keynote by Tim Chartier