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DESCRIPTION:Cheer on the Jackets with friends and fans as they take on the 
 Demon Deacons of Wake Forest!\n\nBut wait! Don't miss our pregame talk by g
 uest speaker\n\nJoel Sokol\nAssociate Professor\, Industrial and Systems En
 gineering (ISyE) \n\n*Picking the Winners: Mathematical Modeling for the NC
 AA Tournament* \n\nHow did three Tech professors\, none of whom is taller t
 han 5 feet 8 inches\, end up on ESPN.com's college basketball Web page on t
 he day the NCAA Tournament started? Beginning with its prediction that Geor
 gia Tech would advance to the 2004 Final Four\, the Logistic Regression Mar
 kov Chain (LRMC) method for forecasting the NCAA Tournament has outperforme
 d all of its major competitors. Last year\, it correctly predicted the nati
 onal champion\, runner-up\, Final Four and even the NIT Tournament champion
 . Come hear the LRMC story: how it works\, which pieces of conventional wis
 dom it disproves and how these Tech professors made it from the blackboards
  of campus to the pages of ESPN and The New York Times. \n\nTime:\n7 p.m. P
 regame talk with Joel Sokol\n8 p.m. Tip-off\n
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SUMMARY:Metro Atlanta Clubs Basketball Game Watching and Pregame Talk
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