Background
Nancy Kopell was born on November 8, 1942 and grew up in the Bronx.
mathematician university professor
Nancy Kopell was born on November 8, 1942 and grew up in the Bronx.
She graduated from Cornell University with an Bachelor of Arts, and from the University of California, Berkeley, with an Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy
Kopell received her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1963 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Berkeley in 1967.
Her work is in Applied mathematics and neuroscience. She is currently William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, and co-director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet). She organized and directs the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative (Cyclic Redundancy Check), a group of over two dozen labs, mostly in the Boston Area, working on brain dyanmics and their cognitive implications.
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. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1990 for her work developing methods of dynamical systems to attack problems of applied mathematics.
She is currently Director of the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative, which involves more than two dozen labs, and Company-Director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet). 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).
1975 Sloan Fellowship 1984 Guggenheim Fellowship 1990 MacArthur Fellowship 1996 National Academy of Sciences 1996 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture (American Mathematical Society) 2006 Weldon Memorial Prize (Oxford) 2007 John von Neumann Lecture (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) 2015 Israel Brain Technologies Mathematical Neuroscience Prize 2015 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society B. Bachelor of Arts Doctorate.
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2011 Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society.
