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(IBT). It is endowed with $100,000 for each laureate and honors researchers who have significantly advanced the understanding of the neural mechanisms of

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and

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through the application of mathematical analysis and modeling.

Laureates

* 2013 Larry Abbott (Columbia University) and

Haim Sompolinsky Haim Sompolinsky (born 1949, in Copenhagen, Denmark), is the William N. Skirball Professor of Neuroscience at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (formerly the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation), and a professor of ph ...

(Hebrew University Jerusalem) * 2015

Nancy Kopell Nancy Jane Kopell (born November 8, 1942, New York City) is an American mathematician and professor at Boston University. She is co-director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet). She organized and directs th ...

(Boston University) and Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh) * 2017 Fred Wolf ( Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization) and Misha Tsodyks ( Weizmann Institute of Science) * 2019

Naftali Tishby Naftali "Tali" Tishby ( he, נפתלי תשבי; 28 December 1952 – 9 August 2021) was a professor of computer science and computational neuroscientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Early life and education Tishby was born in 1 ...

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