Acknowledgements

Many thanks are in order to Dr. Ken Hawick, for invaluable programming tips, nifty algorithms, and life-saving code; to Dr. Paul C. Coddington, for help with programming, ing, scanning, and physics; to Dr. Wolfgang Christian, for piquing my interest in ion trapping and for continued support via e-mail; and to Dr. E.A. Bogucz, T.J. Willis, and all of the staff at NPAC for helping to make the 1994 REU program a positive experience.