Conference for F.R. "Buck" McMorris

On Friday and Saturday, May 9-10, 2008, the Department of Applied Mathematics and College of Science and Letters hosted "BuckFest!: A Conference in Honor of F.R. 'Buck' McMorris," in celebration of the 65th birthday and retirement of Dean McMorris. Fourteen invited speakers delivered talks in fields related to McMorris's specialties in discrete applied mathematics and computational biology. McMorris has spent the past nine years at IIT, serving first as the Chair of the Applied Mathematics department before being named Dean of the College of Science and Letters in 2003.