[04/07/2024] CIMNE Seminar by Guillermo Duran

📖 ABSTRACT

In this talk, we took a tour of the optimization and data science applications carried out by our groups at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Chile in the field of sports in general, and football in particular. From the beginning almost 20 years ago with the soccer scheduling in Chile, a project that still continues today, to other experiences throughout these years such as the soccer programming in Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, and the South American World Cup qualifiers, and the basketball and volleyball from Argentina.

We also showed some advances in the prediction of sports results and their application to football, basketball, and rugby; as well as other projects that combined mathematics and sports, such as the one we had just started in collaboration with Racing de Santander, from the Second Division of Spain.

We discussed the practical results and academic challenges behind these types of problems.


👤 SPEAKER

Dr. Guillermo Duran is Dean of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, has a degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. He is Principal Investigator of CONICET, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the FCEN-UBA and Adjoint Professor of the DII-U. de Chile. His research areas are operations research, combinatorial optimization and graph theory. He has published 75 scientific works in important international journals in his discipline, supervised four doctoral theses (with four more in development), nine master's degrees and more than 30 bachelor's degrees. He has directed various scientific projects and development groups at both the University of Chile and the University of Buenos Aires that developed optimization tools in the public and private sectors over the last 20 years.