Congratulations to Chris Kymn for receiving the Alan Bearden Book Award for Outstanding Research upon graduating from the Neuroscience PhD program!  Chris’s thesis work developed a model of entorhinal cortex and hippocampus that uses a novel associative memory (called a resonator network) over high-dimensional vectors to represent and compute in a residue number system.  The model is capable of robust path integration and demonstrates for the first time the advantage in 2D spatial precision achieved using a triangular coordinate system (as observed in grid cells).