Nancy Kopell
| Nancy Jane Kopell | |
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| Born | November 8, 1942[1] New York City[1] |
| Citizenship | American |
| Institutions | Boston University |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Commuting diffeomorphisms[2] (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Smale |
| Known for | Mathematical neuroscience |
| Notable awards | Sloan Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship |
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Nancy Jane Kopell (born November 8, 1942, New York City) is an American mathematician and professor. Her work is in Applied mathematics and neuroscience.
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Biography
Nancy Kopell was born on November 8, 1942 and grew up in the Bronx.[3] She graduated from Cornell University with an A.B., and from the University of California, Berkeley, with an M.A. and a Ph.D.[4]
In 1967, she joined Northeastern University as faculty, becoming a full professor in 1978. In 1986, she became a professor of mathematics at Boston University where, in 2009, she became the first woman at Boston Universityto be named a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor.[5][6] She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1990 for her work developing methods of dynamical systems to attack problems of applied mathematics.[6] She is currently Director of the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative, and Co-Director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet).[7][8][9]
Her research interest is the dynamics of the nervous system: how does the brain produce its dynamics (physiological mechanisms), how do brain rhythms take part in cognition (sensory processing, attention, memory, motor control), and how can pathologies of brain dynamics help to understand symptoms of neurological diseases (Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy) as well as alternate states of consciousness (anesthesia).[7]
Awards and Memberships
- 1975 Sloan Fellowship[4]
- 1984 Guggenheim Fellowship[10]
- 1990 MacArthur Fellowship[11]
- 1996 National Academy of Sciences[12]
- 1996 American Academy of Arts and Sciences[13]
- 1999 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture (American Mathematical Society)[14]
- 2006 Weldon Memorial Prize (Oxford)[15]
- 2007 John von Neumann Lecture (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)[16]
- 2011 Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society[17]
- 2015 Israel Brain Technologies Mathematical Neuroscience Prize[18]
- 2015 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[19]
Selected publications
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See also
References
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- 1942 births
- People from New York City
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Women mathematicians
- Women neuroscientists
- Boston University faculty
- MacArthur Fellows
- Cornell University alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Living people
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
