"Nakhle H. Asmar" received his Ph.D in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1986. After spending two years on the faculty of California State University, Long Beach, he joined the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1988, where he is currently Professor of Mathematics. He is the author of the book "Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems," published by Prentice Hall in 1999. He is also the author or co-author of over forty research articles in the areas of harmonic analysis, Fourier series, and functional analysis. His research received support from the National