372 The UMAP Journal 23.3(2002) About the author Dr William P. Fox is Professor and the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Francis Marion Univer- sity. He received his M.S. in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School and his Ph D in oper- ations research and industrial engineering from Clem son University. Prior to coming to Francis Marion, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy. He has co-authored several mathematical modeling text books and makes numerous conference presentations on mathematical modeling. He is a SIAM lecturer. He is currently the director of the High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM) He was a co-author of this years airline overbooking problem372 The UMAP Journal 23.3 (2002) About the Author Dr. William P. Fox is Professor and the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Francis Marion Univer￾sity. He received his M.S. in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School and his Ph.D. in oper￾ations research and industrial engineering from Clem￾son University. Prior to coming to Francis Marion, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy. He has co-authored several mathematical modeling text￾books and makes numerous conference presentations on mathematical modeling. He is a SIAM lecturer. He is currently the director of the High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM). He was a co-author of this year’s airline overbooking problem