McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

William Kath

Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Co-Director of Institute on Complex Systems

Education

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

S.B. Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Research Interests

Computational neuroscience; fiber optics; wave propagation; nonlinear dynamics; complex systems

Significant Recognition

• Fellow, Optical Society of America
• ASEE Mathematics Division Distinguished Educator and Service Award
• McCormick School Teaching Award

Significant Professional Service

• Editor of Wave Motion

Selected Publications

• MEJ Sheffield;TK Best;BD Mensh;WL Kath;N Spruston, “Slow integration leads to persistent action potential firing in distal axons of coupled interneurons”, Nature Neuroscience, (2011)
• V MENON;N SPRUSTON;WL KATH, “A state-mutating genetic algorithm to design ion-channel models”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, (2009)
• ET SPILLER, WL KATH, “A Method for Determining Most Probable Errors in Nonlinear Lightwave Systems”, SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, (2008)