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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Locally Adaptive Time Stepping in Numerical Simulations for Neuroscience A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Field of Applied Mathematics By Richard Alexander Kublik EVANSTON, ILLINOIS March 2011