Breakthrough Prize Recipients Present Their Latest Findings [Live Video Feed]

The Breakthrough Prize is the richest award in science, conferring $3 million on each winner or winning team. In a series of symposia, current and previous winners discuss the science that earned them their honors

By Eliene Augenbraun

This year, the Breakthrough Prize honored scientists who are teasing out the genetics of common diseases, a mathematician who solved long-standing topology problems, a team of 1370 physicists who overturned many physics theories when they proved that neutrinos can swap types, and two scientists who found a way to literally shine a new light on how the brain works.

Below you can find a playlist of all the live video streams:

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These live streams are co-hosted by UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, Stanford, and the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and are streaming on YouTube. For more information, check out Scientific American’s in-depth report.

Links to individual symposia are below:

Life Sciences:
11am - 12:15pm Pacific time, 2:00 PM EST: 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium, Life Sciences: How the Brain Operates: Development and Disease

1:20pm – 3pm Pacific time, 4:20 PM EST: 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium, Life Sciences: Genetic Origin and Manipulation of Disease

Fundamental Physics:
11am - 12:10pm Pacific time, 2:00 PM EST: 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium: Introducing the 2016 Laureates in Fundamental Physics

1pm - 3:05pm Pacific time, 4:00 PM EST: 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium, Fundamental Physics: The Future of Particle Physics

Mathematics:
11am - 12:20pm: 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium: Mathematical Horizons I

1:10pm - 3:10pm: 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium: Mathematical Horizons II

A Multilingual Conversation in Science
3:30pm - 5pm: 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium: A Multilingual Conversation in Science: From Quantum Mechanics to CRISPR to Chaos.

Evening Panel Moderated by Yuri Milner:
5:30pm - 7pm: 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposuim, Panel Discussion: Moderated by Yuri Milner

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