Manifold Show, episode 2: Bobby Kasthuri and Brain Mapping

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Our plan is to release new episodes on Thursdays, at a rate of one every week or two.

We've tried to keep the shows at roughly one hour length -- is this necessary, or should we just let them go long?

Corey and Steve are joined by Bobby Kasthuri, a Neuroscientist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. Bobby specializes in nanoscale mapping of brains using automated fine slicing followed by electron microscopy. Among the topics covered: Brain mapping, the nature of scientific progress (philosophy of science), Biology vs Physics, Is the brain too complex to be understood by our brains? AlphaGo, the Turing Test, and wiring diagrams, Are scientists underpaid? The future of Neuroscience.

Bobby Kasthuri Bio
https://microbiome.uchicago.edu/directory/bobby-kasthuri 

The Physicist and the Neuroscientist: A Tale of Two Connectomes
http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-physicist-and-neuroscientist-tale.html

COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE, A. M. Turing https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf


man·i·fold /ˈmanəˌfōld/ many and various.

In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally
resembles Euclidean space near each point.

Steve Hsu and Corey Washington have been friends for almost 30 years, and between them hold PhDs in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics. Join them for wide ranging and unfiltered conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.

Steve Hsu is VP for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University. He is also a researcher in computational genomics and founder of several Silicon Valley startups, ranging from information security to biotech. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Oregon before joining MSU.

Corey Washington is Director of Analytics in the Office of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University. He was educated at Amherst College and MIT before receiving a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford and a PhD in a Neuroscience from Columbia. He held faculty positions at the University Washington and the University of Maryland. Prior to MSU, Corey worked as a biotech consultant and is founder of a medical diagnostics startup.