Nancy Kopell

Nancy Jane Kopell (born November 8, 1942 New York City) is an American mathematician, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University,^[1] and Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics.^[2][3]

She grew up in the Bronx.^[4] She graduated from Cornell University with an A.B., and from the University of California, Berkeley, with an M.A. and a Ph.D.^[5] Her research interest is the dynamics of the nervous system.^[6]

Awards

• 1990 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• Gloveli T., Dugladze T., Rotstein H., Traub R., Heinemann U., Monyer H., Whittington M. and Kopell N., "Orthogonal arrangement of rhythm generating microcircuits in the hippocampus", PNAS 102:13295-300 (2005)
• Steve Kunec, Michael E. Hasselmo and Nancy Kopell "Encoding and Retrieval in the CA3 Region of the Hippocampus: A Model of Theta-Phase Separation", J Neurophysiol 94:70-82 (2005)
• Horacio G. Rotstein, Dmitri D. Pervouchine, Corey D. Acker, Martin J. Gillies, John A. White, Eberhardt H. Buhl, Miles A. Whittington, and Nancy Kopell "Slow and fast inhibition and an h-current interact to create a theta rhythm in a model of CA1 interneuron network ", J Neurophysiol 94:1509-1518 (2005)
• Christoph Börgers and Steven Epstein and Nancy J. Kopell "Background gamma rhythmicity and attention in cortical local circuits: A computational study ", PNAS 102(19):7002-7007 (2005)
• Mette S. Olufsen, Miles A. Whittington, Marcelo Camperi, Nancy Kopell "New Roles for the Gamma Rhythm: Population Tuning and Preprocessing", J. Comput. Neurosci 14:35-54 (2003)
• N. Kopell and G.B. Ermentrout "Mechanisms of phase-locking and frequency control in pairs of coupled neural oscillators", Handbook on Dynamical Systems: Toward applications. Ed. B. Fiedler, Elsevier 2:3-54 (2002)

References

1. ^ http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2009/06/24/two-more-warren-distinguished-professors-announced
2. ^ http://www.bu.edu/bme/people/joint/kopell/
3. ^ http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Kopell
4. ^ http://www.math.sunysb.edu/posterproject/biographies/kopell.html
5. ^ http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/Kopell92.html
6. ^ http://cbd.bu.edu/members/nkopell.html

External links

• "Nancy Jane Kopell", Mathematics Genealogy Project
• "Nancy Kopell", Scientific Commons

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