Nancy Kopell
| Nancy Jane Kopell | |
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November 8, 1942 New York City |
| Citizenship | American |
| Institutions | Boston University |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Commuting diffeomorphisms (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 at Boston University since 1986. She held visiting positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France (1970), MIT (1975, 1976-1977), and the California Institute of Technology (1976). She is one of the few mathematicians that focuses on the field of applied biomathematics. The focus of her research includes use of mathematical models to analyze biological and neurophysiological features of neuron firing. The techniques Kopell uses include extensions of invariant manifold theory, averaging theory, and geometric methods for singularly perturbed equations. From the peak of her career in 1990, she has contributed to over 200 published research articles in the field of biomathematics. Her current interests include topics such as: 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. She collaborates widely with experimentalists and clinicians in order to conduct research on these topics.
Kopell was born on November 8, 1942 and grew up on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx. Her father was an accountant and her mother and older sister also majored in mathematics. In 1963, she graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in mathematics. She then went on to earn an M.A. and Ph. D in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. From a young age, she was exposed to mathematics. Her mother was a mathematics major, her father worked as an accountant, and her older sister studied math.
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