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and Professor Angela Wu, who gave me much advice. The departmental secretary,Yana Shabaev was very kind to me on numerous occasions and I am grateful forall her help.I also received valuable teaching advice from my future father-inlaw,Emeritus Professor Albert Studdard, of the Philosophy Department at theUniversity of North Carolina at Pembroke.My admission to the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation (AMSC)Program at the University of Maryland was unusual. I had been working as a PhDstudent in Computer Engineering for several years when I decided to add a Mastersin AMSC as a side task. Later, I switched, and made it the focus of my PhD.Several faculty members were important in helping me make that transition, includingProfessor Virgil D. Gligor, Professor Richard Schwartz, and Professor JonathanRosenberg. But without the program chair, Professor David Levermore, and myadvisor, Professor Lawrence C. Washington, this would have been impossible. I amgrateful that many rules were bent.Several governmental agencies have contributed to my education. In reversechronological order,ˆ The National Science Foundation (NSF) VIGRE grant to the University ofMaryland provided the Mathematics Department with funds for “DissertationCompletion Fellowships.” These are exceedingly generous semester-long giftsand I had the pleasure to receive two of them. I am certain this dissertationwould look very different without that valuable support.ˆ I furthermore received travel funding and access to super-computing under thevii

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