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| Event Title: |
Metro Atlanta Clubs Basketball Game Watching and Pregame Talk |
| Date: |
February 13, 2010 |
| Cost: | No charge! Pay as you go for food and beverages. |
| Location: | Taco Mac (Lindbergh Center) |
| Description: | Cheer on the Jackets with friends and fans as they take on the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest! But wait! Don’t miss our pregame talk by guest speaker Joel Sokol Picking the Winners: Mathematical Modeling for the NCAA Tournament How did three Tech professors, none of whom is taller than 5 feet 8 inches, end up on ESPN.com’s college basketball Web page on the day the NCAA Tournament started? Beginning with its prediction that Georgia Tech would advance to the 2004 Final Four, the Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LRMC) method for forecasting the NCAA Tournament has outperformed all of its major competitors. Last year, it correctly predicted the national champion, runner-up, Final Four and even the NIT Tournament champion. Come hear the LRMC story: how it works, which pieces of conventional wisdom it disproves and how these Tech professors made it from the blackboards of campus to the pages of ESPN and The New York Times. Time: |
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| Contact: | For more information, e-mail Meg Morris. |
