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Sandia. I was able to get a better understanding of the type of work mathematicians<br />

do at a government lab and would not have been as successful at incorporating LOCA<br />

into the RTD simulation as well as parallelizing the RTD simulation without their<br />

help.<br />

Eric Sills and Gary Howell deserve many thanks for answering my numerous com-<br />

puter questions and installing Trilinos (several times) on a cluster of computers at<br />

N.C. State University. I also want to thank Denise Seabrooks, Brenda Currin, Rory<br />

Loycano, Lesa Denning, and Mary Byrd for helping me through all the red tape and<br />

administrative processes involved with the graduate school. I would also like to thank<br />

my fellow graduate students Quinton Anderson, Todd Coffey, Dan Finkel, Katie Ka-<br />

vanagh Fowler, Nathan George, Rachel Levy, and Jill Reese for helping me through<br />

classes and showing me the ropes with using Matlab and LaTex.<br />

I want to thank my mom, dad, and brother Michael and my close friends Bill<br />

Bryan, Danielle Parker, and Jeremy Slatton for all their support through graduate<br />

school. Finally, my girlfriend Myra Durham’s daily care and devotion helped me keep<br />

my sanity when school was daunting and taxing, and I will forever appreciate her for<br />

that.<br />

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