School of Chemistry (University of Sydney)

A/Prof Scott Kable (Cricket Ball / Ball Coating)
Are of study is Laser Induced Chemistry
Developing new coatings for cricket balls to increase longevity of white colouring. Also looking at coatings for bats.

Dr Timothy Schmidt (Cricket Ball / Ball Coating)
Works with Scott Kable on cricket ball project (developing new coatings to increase longevity of white colouring).

Plant Breeding Institute (University of Sydney)

Dr Peter Martin (Turf, Sports Ground)
Leader of the Amenity Horticulture Group
Dr Martin consulted on the turf aspects of the Sydney Olympic Stadium. He has an interest in interacting with sports medicine in the possible development of better turfs and turf substrates that will reduce injuries.

Department of Civil Engineering (University of Sydney)

Dr Graeme Wood (Wind Engineering, Venue Design)
Biomedical Engineering Group
Worked on a project titled Wind Engineering the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. This project modelled wind levels around the Olympic Games venues.

School of Information Technologies (University of Sydney)

Dr Masahiro Takatsuka (Video Conferencing / Reality)
Director of ViSLAB
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is embarking on a proof-of-concept pilot study, the High-speed Digital Information Transfer Study, that has the potential to revolutionise the way coaches communicate with other coaches and athletes at a distance. This project is in collaboration with Keith Lyons at the AIS. This project will also have applications as a tool for videoconferencing. They are developing a system for multi-site video conferencing. This allows more nodes than normal conferencing and also a higher video resolution. This could be beneficial for off-site educational products. ViSLAB is also interested in developing virtual reality devices. These may be useful for real time kinematic measurement.

Mr Steve Smith (Networking, Data Transfer)
AccessGrid Project Manager at ViSLAB
AccessGrid is the video transfer system for High Speed Swimming. The high-speed network provider GrangeNet provides a system where multi-site video conferencing can be achieved. This is higher resolution and more nodes than normal video conferencing.

Prof Jon Patrick (Computer Game Analysis)
Chair, Language Technology
Prof Patrick has previously worked on computer game analysis projects. These were directed towards AFL and Waterpolo. He is currently working on language processing, unrelated to sport or exercise.

School of Electrical and Information Engineering (University of Sydney)

Dr Andre van Schaik (Electronic Sensors)
Reader
Recommended by head of school as having relevant expertise in "sensors". This can be valuable across a range of Sport Science research projects.

A/Prof Stephen Simpson (Electronic Sensors)
Recommended by head of school as having relevant expertise in "sensors". This can be valuable across a range of Sport Science research projects.

School of Mathematics and Statistics (University of Sydney)

Dr Rosemary Thompson (Applied Mathematics)
The Applied Mathematics research group has skills that can be applied to many areas. While they have no direct sporting projects at present, they are keen to expand their contacts. Dr Thompson has offered to act as a liaison person for people wishing to identify relevant expertise within the school.

Faculty of Information Technology (University of Technology, Sydney)

Dr Robert Steele (Mobile Sensors, Networking)
Senior Lecturer
Research areas: mobile computing, mobile services, wireless web services /semantic web, XML and distributed computing ontology-based systems, web search and information retrieval.