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