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    F.R. McMorris, Ph.D.

    F.R. McMorris , Ph.D.

    Professor Emeritus

    Applied Mathematics
    Computer Science

    Office: Engineering 1, Room 114
    10 W. 32nd Street
    Chicago, IL 60616
    Phone: 312.567.8981
    Fax: 312.567.3135
    Email: mcmorris_AT_iit_DOT_edu

    Expertise

    • Discrete applied mathematics, computational and mathematical biology, classification theory, location theory.

    Education

    • Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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    Selected Publications

    Explosions and Hot Spots in Supertree Methods, with W.H.E. Day and M. Wilkinson, Journal of Theoretical Biology 253 (2008), 345-348.

    The Majority Decision Function for Trees with 3 Leaves, with R.C. Powers, Annals of Operations Research 163 (2008), 169-175.

    Topics in Intersection Graph Theory, with T.A. McKee, SIAM Monographs on Discrete Mathematics and Applications, Philadelphia, PA, 1999.

    Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics, with W.H.E. Day, SIAM Frontiers of Applied Mathematics, vol.29, Philadelphia PA, 2003.

    The T-Median Function on Graphs, with H.M. Mulder and R.C. Powers, Discrete Appl. Math. 154(2006), 2599-2608.

    "Consensus rules based on decisive families: the case of hierarchies," Math. Social Sci. 57(2009), 333-338 (with R.C. Powers).

    Constructing majority-rule supertrees, inWABI2009, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, vol 5724, S. Salzberg and T. Warnow, Eds., Springer, Berlin, 2009, pp.73-84 (with J. Dong and D. Fernández-Baca).

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    Spring 2012 Special Events

    2012 Karl Menger Lecture and Awards
    April 23, 2012
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    2012 Commencement Ceremony
    May 12, 2012
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