"hyper2" package - for competitive games

As per usual the talk will be approx. 1 hour including Q&A. Refreshments will be provided Thanks to our sponsor Rstudio and venue sponsor: UoA

Abstract:

In this non-technical talk, I will demonstrate the new "hyper2" R package for competitions and use it to estimate individual players' strengths in a range of competitive situations including Formula 1 motor racing, Australian MasterChef, and e-sports such as Counterstrike.

Speaker Bio:

Robin Hankin is a mathematician specializing in computational statistics. His first degree was in pure and applied mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge. After working in the UK's Health and Safety Executive, Robin returned to Cambridge for a PhD in theoretical fluid mechanics, specializing in stratified atmospheric diffusion. He then worked at The University of Auckland as a lecturer in environmental science, and after returning to Cambridge to study global climate change as a senior research associate, is now a senior lecturer at AUT working in combinatorics and game theory.