Recent Applied Math PhD Student wins Dissertation Award

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Recent Applied Math PhD graduate, Wilten Nicola, is one of twoÌýco-winners of this year's .

The award was announced at the CAIMS Annual General Meeting onÌýJune 28, 2016 at the University of Alberta.

The citation for Wilten's award reads:

In his thesis work, Wilten Nicola uses a creative integration of tools fromÌýdifferent areas of applied mathematics to obtain a wide range of contributionsÌýto the study of the dynamics of large scale neural models. The work combinesÌýrigorous mathematical analysis with careful computations to provide insightsÌýinto challenging applications in neuroscience.