Nancy Kopell is co-director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology.
14 Facts About Nancy Kopell
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Nancy Kopell organized and directs the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative.
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Nancy Kopell held visiting positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France, MIT, and the California Institute of Technology.
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The techniques Kopell uses include extensions of invariant manifold theory, averaging theory, and geometric methods for singularly perturbed equations.
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Nancy Kopell was born on November 8,1942, and grew up on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx.
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Nancy Kopell's father was an accountant and her mother and older sister majored in mathematics.
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Nancy Kopell later met her husband, Gabriel Stolzenberg, at Northeastern University.
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Nancy Kopell was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1990 for her work developing methods of dynamical systems to attack problems of applied mathematics.
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Nancy Kopell is currently Director and Co-Founder of the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative, which consists of a group of over two dozen labs, mostly in the Boston Area, working on brain dynamics and their cognitive implications.
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Nancy Kopell is Co-Director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology.
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Nancy Kopell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Nancy Kopell was recently selected to be an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society, a distinction given to one or two mathematicians per year worldwide.
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Nancy Kopell has been awarded Sloan Guggenheim, and McArthur Fellowships, and has an honorary Ph.
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Nancy Kopell has given the Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture, the von Neumann Lecture, and the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, as well as multiple other named lectureships.