The Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, established in 2008, is an annual award supported by the

Swartz Foundation Swartz may refer to: ;Places *Swartz, Louisiana *Swartz Creek (disambiguation) *Swartz Bay, British Columbia on the north end of the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island **Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal *Swartz Nunataks, in Antarctica ;People *Swartz ...

and administered by the

Society for Neuroscience The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is a professional society, headquartered in Washington, DC, for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the brain and nervous system. It is especially well kn ...

. The award "honors an individual whose activities have produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or computational methods in

neuroscience Neuroscience is the science, scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a Multidisciplinary approach, multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, an ...

or who has made a particularly noteworthy recent advance in theoretical or

computational neuroscience Computational neuroscience (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a branch of neuroscience which employs mathematical models, computer simulations, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to ...

." The winner receives a cash prize of US$25000 and expenses to attend the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.

Awardees

*Source
Society for Neuroscience
* 2008: Wilfrid Rall * 2009:

Horace Barlow Horace Basil Barlow FRS (8 December 1921 – 5 July 2020) was a British vision scientist. Life Barlow was the son of the civil servant Sir Alan Barlow and his wife Lady Nora (granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin). He was educate ...

* 2010: Larry Abbott * 2011:

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 ...

* 2012:

John J. Hopfield John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is now more commonly known as the Hopfield network. Biography Hopfield was born in 1933 to Pol ...

* 2013:

William S. Bialek William Samuel Bialek (born 1960, in Los Angeles, California) is a theoretical biophysicist and a professor at Princeton University and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Much of his work, which has ranged over a wide variety of theoretical problems at t ...

* 2014: Tomaso Poggio * 2015: Terry Sejnowski * 2016: Nancy Kopell * 2017: * 2018: Kenneth D. Miller * 2019: John Rinzel * 2020:

Emery N. Brown Emery Neal Brown (born 1957) is an American statistician, neuroscientist, and anesthesiologist. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a practicing anesthesio ...

* 2022: Ila R. Fiete

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Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience - Society for Neuroscience.
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