Recent Physics of Baseball Talks of Alan Nathan

This page contains links to powerpoint or pdf files of some of the talks I have given on the physics of baseball. Anyone is free to download these files. If you use them in a talk, paper, or web site of your own, please link back or otherwise reference this site.

Baseball and Physics: "You Can Observe A Lot By Watching". Public lecture given at the University of South Carolina and sponsored by Carolina Science Outreach along with the Mathematics and Physics Departments of USC, Columbia, SC, February 2013.

What Have We Learned from a Decade of Bat Research? Research presentation given at the annual SABR convention, Minneapolis, July 2012.

Using Pitch-Tracking Technology to Uncover the Mysteries of the Knuckleball Talk given at the 2nd annual Saberseminar Conference on Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball, Boston University, August 4-5, 2012.

Spin of a Batted Baseball Talk given at the 9th Engineering of Sport Conference, July 9-13, 2012, in Lowell MA.

What's the Deal with the Humidor?
Talk given at the Arizona SciTech Festival
Scottsdale AZ, February 2012.

Baseball and Mathematics: It's More Than Batting Averages
Department of Mathematics Colloquium, UIUC
Urbana, May 2011.



The Flight of a Baseball
Invited Talk, APS Division of Condensed Matter
Portland OR, March, 2010.

Baseball and Physics: An Intersection of Passions
Distinctive Voices@The Beckman Center: Insights on Science, Technology, and Medicine. The talk took place National Academies of Science and Engineering on the UC/Irvine campus, April 2009. You can watch the video here.

Alan Nathan being interviewed
Physics and Baseball: A Report to Red Sox Nation
Colloquium for the Department of Physics, MIT
Cambridge, MA, May, 2010.

What Are We Learning from PITCHf/x
Talk presented at SABR38, the annual meeting of the Society of American Baseball Research
Cleveland, June 27, 2008.

The Physics of Cheating in Baseball
Department of Physics "Physics for Everyone" series, UIUC
Urbana, October 2011.

Alan Nathan being interviewed
Modern Technologies for Tracking the Baseball
Talk at the First Annual Saberseminar
Harvard University, Cambridge, May 2011.
The event was a fund-raiser for the Jimmy Fund .

Studies of Batted Ball Trajectories
Talk at the fourth annual PITCHf/x Summit
San Francisco, August 2011.



Analyzing Fastpitch Softball from the 2011 WCWS
Talk at the fourth annual PITCHf/x Summit
San Francisco, August 2011.