The Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, established in 2008, is an annual award supported by the Swartz Foundation 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 A theory is a rational type of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the results of such thinking. The process of contemplative and rational thinking is often associated with such processes as observational study or research. Theories may be ...

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

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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 * 2012: John J. Hopfield * 2013: William S. Bialek * 2014: Tomaso Poggio * 2015:

Terry Sejnowski Terrence Joseph Sejnowski (born 13 August 1947) is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and is the director of the Crick-Jacobs center for theoretical ...

* 2016: Nancy Kopell * 2017: * 2018: Kenneth D. Miller * 2019: John Rinzel * 2020: Emery N. Brown * 2022: Ila R. Fiete

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Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience - Society for Neuroscience.
Info and winner list. Neuroscience awards American science and technology awards

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