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You can also find more details about specific sessions:

• Meet&Greet with Andy Schleck, Jonathan Laugel, Anne Simon and Laurent Carnol
• 4 high-profile experts will give a keynote speech

Session details

Date	SessionName	Time	Speaker	Title
June 4th	Sports Analytics 1	10.20 - 10.40	Marica Manisera	Basketball Data Science: Statistical Methods for Shooting Performance Mapping
		10.40 - 11.00	Ambra Macis	Using shooting trajectories for basketball predictions
		11.00 - 11.20	Gabriel Calvo	Data-Driven Lineup Optimization in Wheelchair Basketball
		11.20 - 11.40	Florian Felice	AI for Handball: predicting and explaining the 2024 Olympic Games tournament with Deep Learning and Large Language Models
		11.40 - 12.00	Rouven Michels	Forecasting In-Game Win Probabilities in Handball: Evaluating the Impact of Goalkeeper Substitution
	Sports Scheduling 1	10.20 - 10.40	Tankut Atan	Round-Robin Tournament Scheduling Under Total Game Attractiveness Objective
		10.40 - 11.00	Sebastián Urrutia	Break minimization in incomplete round-robin schedules
		11.00 - 11.20	András Gyimesi	Increasing competitiveness by imbalanced groups in the FIFA World Cup
		11.20 - 11.40	Jessica Hargreaves	The Split: Analysing Contest Design in the Scottish Premier League
		11.40 - 12.00	Dóra Gréta Petróczy	The myth of declining competitive balance in the UEFA Champions League group stage
	Sports Analytics 2	14.00 - 14.20	Luca Benga	Mathematical models for speed climbing applied to data collected on competitors in recent World Cup events
		14.20 - 14.40	Paolo Vidoni	A dynamic extension of the Massey's rating system based on a multivariate score-driven time series model
		14.40 - 15.00	Tristan Barnett	Teaching probability theory through tennis
		15.00 - 15.20	Pascal Bauer	Revisiting Clutch Performance Among Elite Players in Tennis
		15.20 - 15.40	Manuel Duran	Optimizing Goal-Scoring Decision-Making with Machine Learning: A Real-World Use Case for Racing de Santander of the Spanish Second Division Football League
	Sports Scheduling 2	14.00 - 14.20	László Csató	Trade-off between attractiveness and equal treatment in tournament draws: A case study from handball
		14.20 - 14.40	Dimitris Karlis	The league phase in UEFA competitions
		14.40 - 15.00	Jonas Andersson	Integrating score predictions in prescriptive sports scheduling models
		15.00 - 15.20	Michael A. Lapré	The impact of imbalanced groups in UEFA Euro 1980–2024 and comparison with the FIFA World Cup
		15.20 - 15.40	Alex Krumer	The Effect of a Structural Change in Round-Robin Tournaments with Four Teams: Evidence from Beach Volleyball
	Sports Analytics 3	16.10 - 16.30	Tim Swartz	Identifying Soccer Styles
		16.30 - 16.50	Ioannis Ntzoufras	Bayesian modeling of goal arrival times
		16.50 - 17.10	Mirko Carlesso	Scoring probability maps on the basketball court through Spatial Point Pattern analysis
		17.10 - 17.30	Matthias Kempe	Training Periodization and Load Coupling in Speed Skating
		17.30 - 17.50	Ruud Koning	So the last will be the first
		17.50 - 18.10	Rodolfo Metulini	Statistical Analysis of Action Player Contribution in Soccer
	Sports Scheduling 3	16.10 - 16.30	Julien Guyon	Drawing and Scheduling Matchups in the New UEFA Champions League Format
		16.30 - 16.50	Mario Guajardo	A multi-league traveling tournament problem for FIFA and UEFA’s main tournaments: Do they really minimize distances?
		16.50 - 17.10	Stephen Hill	Implications of the UEFA Champions League's New Swiss-Style Format: A Simulation Study
		17.10 - 17.30	Jari Kyngäs	Optimizing professional sports league games based on spectators and traveling
		17.30 - 17.50	Eiji Konaka	Optimization of the Tournament Format for the Nationwide High School Kyudo Competition in Japan
		17.50 - 18.10	Iain Souttar	Hierarchical fair draws: a Champions league case study.
June 5th	Sports Medicine 1	10.20 - 10.40	Serena Pizzocaro	Fatigue Monitoring as a Tool for Sport Injury Prevention
		10.40 - 11.00	Katarzyna Szczerba	AI-informed Non-linear Cox Model for Survival Analysis of Running-Related Injuries
		11.00 - 11.20	Laurent Malisoux	Moving toward the single-session paradigm for the prevention of running-related injury
		11.20 - 11.40	Aude Aguilaniu	Bridging Gaps in Injury Prevention: Insights from National Sports Stakeholders
		11.40 - 12.00	Thorben Hülsdünker	The Cognitive Basis of Sport Injuries - Using SKILLCOURT Technology to reduce Injury Risk and support Rehabilitation in Sport
	Sports Analytics 4	10.20 - 10.40	Argyro Damoulaki	Lasso Multinomial Performance Indicators for in-play Basketball Data
		10.40 - 11.00	Ross Lauterbach	Evaluating NBA Player Win Contribution with Machine Learning Techniques
		11.00 - 11.20	Justin Ehrlich	Team Dynamics and Home Continent Advantage: Europe’s Dominance in the Ryder Cup
		11.20 - 11.40	Graham Pollard	Some alternate scoring systems to a test cricket series
		11.40 - 12.00	Luca Grassetti	A bivariate extension of the regularised adjusted plus-minus model for Basketball match prediction.
	Sports Analytics 5	10.20 - 10.40	Michele Lambardi di San Miniato	Predicting the probability of breaking a world record
		10.40 - 11.00	Chinmay Divekar	Efficiency of live-betting markets in tennis
		11.00 - 11.20	Ryoga Yamaguchi	Performance Evaluation and Ranking of Drivers in Multiple Motorsports Using Massey’s Method
		11.20 - 11.40	Matthias Schilling	Comparison of Rectangular and Hexagonal Grids for Spatial Analysis of Target Regions in NFL Passing Plays
		11.40 - 12.00	Rita Norbutaitė	Tennis model in betting: Grand Slam analysis
	Sports Medicine 2	13.10 - 13.30	Lorena Martin	Predicting Injury and Career Longevity in Baseball Pitchers Using Workload Metrics and Biomechanical Data
		13.30 - 13.50	Gabriella Vinco	Wearable Sensor Monitoring of Walking on Different Surfaces as a Digital Outcome: Deep Learning Model Performance with Sensor and Class Reduction
		13.50 - 14.10	Sebastian Dyrup Skejø	What is chronic load? Exploring different definitions of the chronic load in relation to running-related injuries
		14.10 - 14.30	Arthur Guillotel	Modeling the evolution of athletic abilities in young elite soccer players considering injury history
	Sports Economics 1	13.10 - 13.30	Robert Bajons	A statistical view on xG and GAX
		13.30 - 13.50	Maria Amaro	Sentiment Dynamics in (Social) Media Coverage of the Olympics and Paralympics Across Five Cycles
		13.50 - 14.10	Daam Van Reeth	Balancing Olympic broadcasts and viewer demand: an empirical analysis of Belgian TV audiences
		14.10 - 14.30	Milica Maričić	Sports meet sharing economy: Acceptance of equipment rentals platforms
	Sports Analytics 6	13.10 - 13.30	G.A. Oonk	The Right Way to Synchronize Tracking and Event Data: Using Domain Knowledge to Optimize Algorithms
		13.30 - 13.50	Gayatri Chakkithara	Detecting Movement Patterns That Lead To Poor Performance With Sportlets
		13.50 - 14.10	Chuqi Chen	Quarterly Changes in Player Movement and Positional Dispersion in NBA Games
		14.10 - 14.30	Leszek Szczecinski	Ranking algorithms for games with multilevel results
	Sports Medicine 3	14.50 - 15.10	Caroline Mouton	The meniscus injury pattern varies with the type of sports in primary ACL reconstructed knees in non-professional athletes.
		15.10 - 15.30	Rosaria Simone	Model-based analysis of the Eurobarometer Survey on Sport participation and Engagement in Physical Activity
		15.30 - 15.50	Barbaros Yet	A Bayesian Network Model to Monitor the Risk of Overreaching and Overtraining
		15.50 - 16.10	Myriam Jacobs	Fueling Excellence: The Integral Role of Sport Nutrition Services in a High-Performance Institute.
		16.10 - 16.30	Manuel Huth	Informed Injury Prediction in Elite Football: Decision Theory meets Machine Learning
	Sports Analytics 7	14.50 - 15.10	Guillaume Abran	Acute effect of running retraining interventions on high-frequency signals of impact variables.
		15.10 - 15.30	Jan Held	Enhancing Football Refereeing with AI: VARS and X-VARS for Assisted Decision-Making
		15.30 - 15.50	Nobuyoshi Hirotsu	Consideration of Transition Probability Matrices in Markov Models: Applications to Baseball and Soccer
		15.50 - 16.10	Daniel Fernández	Identifying Extreme Representative Tennis Players and Match External Load in Grand Slam Tournaments Using Clustering and Archetypoid Analysis
		16.10 - 16.30	Dmitry Dagaev	Implicit Centipedes, or Do the Racers Compete Strategically?
	Sports Analytics 8	14.50 - 15.10	Sadanand Venkataraman	Multisport YODA: Leveraging LLMs for Cognition Based Comprehensive Performance Analytics
		15.10 - 15.30	Anthony Bedford	Models for prediction and analysis in horseracing
		15.30 - 15.50	Lawrence Clegg	Tennis match outcome prediction using temporal directed graph neural networks
		15.50 - 16.10	David Winkelmann	Detecting match-fixing in professional football: The potential of in-game betting data
		16.10 - 16.30	Soujanya Dash	Prediction-based evaluation of back-four defense with spatial control in soccer
	Sports Analytics 9	16.40 - 17.00	Jeroen Belien	Does fatherhood impact the performance of professional cyclists?
		17.00 - 17.20	Takuma Narizuka	Evaluating Soccer Player Movements Using the Attacker-Defender Model
		17.20 - 17.40	Iuliia Alekseenko	The Impact of Geoclimate Factors on Performance of Football Teams
	Sports Scheduling 4	16.40 - 17.00	David Van Bulck	A Column Generation Approach for First-Break-Then-Schedule
		17.00 - 17.20	Sten Wessel	Fair Schedules for Dreierturnier Competitions
		17.20 - 17.40	Javier Marenco	Exploring the 2024/2025 format of the UEFA Champions League
	E-sports 1	16.40 - 17.00	Mikhail Usanin	The Effect of Home Advantage in eSports
		17.00 - 17.20	Elijah Sumernikov	Choking Under Pressure in Online Chess: Performance Decline Among Elite Players in High-Stakes Matches
		17.20 - 17.40	Egor Ivanov	Strategic Choice in eSports: An Analysis of Team Decisions During Map Vetoes
June 6th	Sports Analytics 10	10.40 - 11.00	Ebrahim Patel	Evaluating player influence and team synergy in Soccer
		11.00 - 11.20	Dries Goossens	Brains or legs: How to organize a fair rogaining competition?
		11.20 - 11.40	Audrey Difernand	A Survival Analysis of Dropout among French Swimmers
		11.40 - 12.00	Antonio Lucadamo	Kinematic Variables and Match Outcomes in Serie A: Evaluating Their Impact With and Without Ball Possession
		12.00 - 12.20	Daria Tabashnikova	Gender differences and peer effects: The case of marathons
	Sports Analytics 11	10.40 - 11.00	Takumi Miura	Detection of front-door and back-door pitches in baseball and the characteristics that make them effective
		11.00 - 11.20	Gordon Hunter	A System for Tracking Players and the Ball in Association Football Matches using Regular TV Footage in conjunction with “Deep Learning” and Transformational Geometry
		11.20 - 11.40	Hugo Fabrègues	De-compactification of Soccer Formations
		11.40 - 12.00	Vladimír Holý	What Drives Success in Men's Ice Hockey World (Junior) Championships?
		12.00 - 12.20	Praveen D Chougale	Data-Driven Performance Profiling of Club-Level Football Players in Mumbai
	Sports Analytics 12	13.20 - 13.40	Ali Iltaf	Predicting International Success Based on Domestic Performance in T20 Cricket
		13.40 - 14.00	Fabian Wunderlich	Rethinking the evaluation of performance in football: A novel mathematical framework to quantify the quality of key performance indicators.
		14.00 - 14.20	Hannah Bartmann	Estimation of match abilities for tennis players via a maximum likelihood approach
		14.20 - 14.40	Laurentiu C. Hinoveanu	Performance Monitoring in Middle and Long Distance Running and its Application to the Athlete Biological Passport
		14.40 - 15.00	Andrei Smirnov	From Advantage to Action: How Managers Adapt to External Conditions Strategically
	Sports Analytics 13	13.20 - 13.40	Karel Devriesere	Evaluation of the new Champions League format
		13.40 - 14.00	Qi Gan	Advancing Sports Performance Analysis with Pose Sequences and Time-Series Deep Learning
		14.00 - 14.20	Gordana Marmulla	Probing the gender divide in soccer: can technical and tactical features distinguish men’s and women’s soccer net of physiological differences?
		14.20 - 14.40	Koen W. van Arem	The trade-off between model flexibility and accuracy of Expected Threat models in football
		14.40 - 15.00	John A. Trono	Evaluating the Improved Linear Model (and its successor) with regards to the Expanded College Football Playoff