An interview with Professor G. Bard Ermentrout

Abstract

Bard Ermentrout is a mathematician and theoretical biologist known for his influential work in computational neuroscience and networks of coupled oscillators. Born in 1954, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1975, and obtained his PhD in Biophysics and Theoretical Biology from the University of Chicago in 1979 advised by Jack Cowan. He has been recognized with a SIAM fellowship, a Sloan fellowship, the Math Neuroscience Prize, and most recently the Moser Prize.