George Bard Ermentrout

G. Bard Ermentrout is an American mathematician and distinguished professor at University of Pittsburgh. He is known for his contributions to computational and mathematical neuroscience including his joint work with Nancy Kopell in deriving the Ermentrout and Kopell canonical model,[2] his joint work with David Terman in writing the book Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience,[3] and for the development of the dynamical systems software XPPAuto.[4]

G. Bard Ermentrout
BornMarch 5, 1954[1]
CitizenshipUnited States of America
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Known forMathematical neuroscience
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh
ThesisSymmetry Breaking in Homogeneous, Isotropic Stationary Neuronal Nets (1979)
Doctoral advisorJack Cowan
Websitewww.pitt.edu/~phase/

Outside of work, he is fond of his many pets and has owned many pet parrots over the years. He most recently owns a galah and two corgis. He is also a lover of limericks.

References
  1. "Dr. Bard Ermentrout". Scholarpedia. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  2. Ermentrout, Bard; Kopell, Nancy (1984). "Frequency plateaus in a chain of weakly coupled oscillators, i.". SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. 15 (2): 215–237. doi:10.1137/0515019.
  3. Ermentrout, Bard; Terman, David (2010). Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-87708-2.
  4. Ermentrout, Bard (2002). Simulating, analyzing, and animating dynamical systems: a guide to XPPAUT for researchers and students. SIAM. ISBN 978-0-89871-506-4.


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