Live Webcast of the 2014 Kavli Prize laureates

Event: Live Webcast of the 2014 Kavli Prize laureates announcements
Date: May 29, 8:30-10:00am EDT

Webcast and program: http://www.kavlifoundation.org/kavli-prize

Program includes:

• Announcement of the 2014 Kavli Prize Laureates by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, hosted by scientist and science writer Adam Rutherford.
• Panel discussion about the Prizes led by ABC news journalist Richard Besser with: Astrophysics – Lord Martin Rees (Fellow of Trinity College,  Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge); Paul Weiss (Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles); and Ann Graybiel (2012 Kavli Prize Laureate in Neuroscience and investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT).
• Opening tribute to Fred Kavli, with Alan Alda (actor, writer, director and visiting professor, Stony Brook University); Brian Greene (professor of physics and mathematics, Columbia University) and Eric Kandel (Nobel Laureate, Kavli Professor and Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University)