Finally, I want to encourage more participation from our faculty colleagues in the PERK conference. There are a number of good reasons to want faculty presenters at our conference. For one, a broader base of participation makes the conference more valuable to other faculty. I enjoy and look forward to hearing about the research of my colleagues. Additionally, faculty participation provides better experiences for our students.
Faculty provide role models and enhance the professionalism of our conference.
I would like to strongly encourage faculty submissions of research papers as well as theoretical papers. In closing, let me wish you all a terrific year 2001. We at Baker are pleased as punch to have the opportunity to host PERK this year, and we will do our best to make it a terrific conference. Until then, may the wind always be at your back, and may the road rise up to meet you .