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What is a Simplicial Complex and how can it help us decode the brain’s neurological structure? This is Part 2 in our Your Brain as Math mini-series.
Check out Part 1 here: youtube.com/watch?v=M0M3srBoTkY
Check out Part 3 here: youtube.com/watch?v=akgU8nRNIp0
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Previous Episode
Your Brain as Math - Part 1
youtu.be/M0M3srBoTkY
Network Mathematics and Rival Factions
youtube.com/watch?v=qEKNFOaGQcc
Last episode we saw that your neural network can be modeled as a graph, which -- we’ll show in this episode -- can be viewed as a higher-dimensional simplicial complex. So… what is a simplicial complex??
Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Ray Lux
Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
Resources:
Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048/full
The Blue Brain Project:
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/
Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data
https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/barcodes.pdf
Network Neuroscience
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n3/full/nn.4502.html
Algebraic Topology
https://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html
Special thanks to Kathryn Hess and Florian Frick!
Special thanks to Matthew O'Connor and Yana Chernobilsky who are supporting us on Patreon at the Identity level!
And thanks to Mauricio Pacheco who is supporting us at the Lemma level!
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: to.pbs.org/donateinfi
What is a Simplicial Complex and how can it help us decode the brain’s neurological structure? This is Part 2 in our Your Brain as Math mini-series.
Check out Part 1 here: youtube.com/watch?v=M0M3srBoTkY
Check out Part 3 here: youtube.com/watch?v=akgU8nRNIp0
Tweet at us! @pbsinfinite
Facebook: facebook.com/pbsinfinite series
Email us! pbsinfiniteseries [at] gmail [dot] com
Previous Episode
Your Brain as Math - Part 1
youtu.be/M0M3srBoTkY
Network Mathematics and Rival Factions
youtube.com/watch?v=qEKNFOaGQcc
Last episode we saw that your neural network can be modeled as a graph, which -- we’ll show in this episode -- can be viewed as a higher-dimensional simplicial complex. So… what is a simplicial complex??
Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Ray Lux
Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
Resources:
Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048/full
The Blue Brain Project:
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/
Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data
https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/barcodes.pdf
Network Neuroscience
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n3/full/nn.4502.html
Algebraic Topology
https://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html
Special thanks to Kathryn Hess and Florian Frick!
Special thanks to Matthew O'Connor and Yana Chernobilsky who are supporting us on Patreon at the Identity level!
And thanks to Mauricio Pacheco who is supporting us at the Lemma level!
