The conference was held from 13-15 July 1998 at BOND UNIVERSITY, QUEENSLAND The fourth conference in this series was held at Bond in July under the joint directorship of Neville de Mestre and Kuldeep Kumar. There were 34 attendees and 22 papers presented. Overseas attendance included 2 from NZ, one from England and one from Canada. The conference was opened by Grant Hackett, a student at Bond and currently World and Commonwealth 1500 metres champion. Invited speakers were Professor John Croucher (Macquarie), who spoke on "Using Computers and scientific method to determine optimal strategies in tennis", Dr Tony Lewis (West of England) on "Developments in the Duckworth-Lewis method of target resetting in one day cricket matches", and Associate Professor Chris Harman (Southern Queensland) on "'Who's on first!' 'What?' 'What's on second!' and how 'What' got there on an optimal base-running path" accompanied by the appropriate video featuring Abbot and Costello. Neville de Mestre was a joint author for 3 papers, Kuldeep Kumar was a joint author for another paper, while Sean Innes and Steve Sugden presented a cricket paper based on Sean's project work as an undergraduate in the School. Other talks centred on golf, rowing, cricket, athletics, the AFL, sports' injuries, bicycling and using sport as an application of mathematics in undergraduate courses. The Conference Proceedings were published and are available from the IT School.
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