ABOUT ME
I was born and raised in the Chicago area, went to college in Colorado (go Buffs!), and then returned to Chicago for my PhD. With the flexibility pursuing a quantitative degree gives me though, I still manage to spend a lot of time working remotely in Colorado.
I love math and science, and working with people. In graduate school this has involved teaching calculus, collaborating with experimentalists, and meeting phenomenal people at a course in computational neuroscience in Woods Hole (a major highlight!), as well as at neuroscience conferences.
In my free time, I enjoy running (sometimes far but never all that fast), playing ice hockey on a team with my mom, finding the best fancy cocktails in Chicago, and begging and bribing fellow applied math nerds to play intramural sports with me.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dendritic Integration
How neurons receive and integrate information.
2014 - Present
Northwestern University
Currently pursuing my PhD in Applied Mathematics.
Grid Cells and Place Cells
Found in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, respectively. How do they work together to tell you where you are?
Math Education
Continuously seeking optimally effective teaching methods to engage students.
2013 - 2014
University of Colorado Boulder
Master of Science in Applied Mathematics. Thesis was in Math Education.
2009 - 2013
University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics.
2005 - 2009
New Trier High School
Memory and Learning
Again, spatial navigation is one slice of this. How do we access memories? How do we zero in on one instance without replaying an entire day, hour, minute?
CONTACT INFORMATION
Northwestern University
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
2145 Sheridan Road
M410
Evanston, IL 60208
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britaschneiders (at) u (dot) northwestern (dot) edu