Previous Lectures

Anniversary year 300 years of weather statistics – from Celsius until today

Celsius

Christina Goldschmidt, Professor of Probability, University of Oxford.
Around the Brownian continuum random tree.

Jenny Nelson, Royal Society Research Professor, Physics Department, Imperial College, London.
Understanding solar energy conversion using molecular electronic materials.

Sonia I. Seneviratne, Professor for Land-Climate Dynamics, ETH Zurich.
Droughts and heatwaves in a changing climate: Why every year matters.

Linnaeus

Jeremy K. Nicholson, Director of the Australian National Phenom Center, Murdoch University.
Exploring Host, Microbiome and Immuno-Matabolic Interactions in Health and Disease using Molecular Phenomics.

Svante Pääbo, Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Archaic Genomics.

Celsius

Neil Lawrence, Inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, UK
Laplace’s Gremlin: Uncertainty and Artifical Intelligence

Linnaeus

Melanie Sanford, the Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
New Synthetic Methods for Carbon-Fluorine Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications in Agrochemical Synthesis and Medical Imaging

Celsius

Zhong Lin Wang, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia USA, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
The origin of contact-electrification – how can the 2600 years old physics phenomenon contribute to the world energy in the future?
Celsius lecture with Zhong Lin Wang

Linnaeus

Angela M. Gronenborn, Distinguished Professor, Department of Structural Biology and Pittsburgh Center for HIV- Protein Interaction, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
The Art of Border Crossings: Integrative Multidisciplinarity in the Natural Sciences and the All Atom Model of a Native HIV Capsid
Linnaeus lecture with Angela M. Gronenborn

Celsius

Martin Blunt, Shell Professor of Reservoir Engineering at the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
A tale of X-ray vision, rocks, oil and carbon dioxide storage
Celsius lecture with Martin Blunt

Linnaeus

Linda S. Birnbaum, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program, North Carolina, USA
1.5° Celsius: our climate, our environmental health, our future
Linnaeus lecture with Linda S. Birnbaum

Celsius

Natalie Batalha, Astrophysicist and Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center and NASA’s Kepler Mission, USA
Exoplanet Frontiers: Kepler & the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Celsius lecture with Natalie Batalha

Linnaeus

Aviv Regev, Biology Professor at MIT and the Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard, USA
Using experimental and computational approaches to decipher cellular identity and regulation
Linnaeus lecture with Aviv Regev

Celsius

John Guckenheimer, Professor emeritus of Mathematics, Cornell University, USA
The Remarkable Universality of Nonlinear Dynamics
Celsius lecture with John Guckenheimer

Linnaeus

Peter L. Strick, Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Using Rabies Virus to Investigate the Mind-Body Problem
Linnaeus lecture with Peter L. Strick

Celsius

Eli Yablonovitch, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, USA
Photovoltaic conversion of black body radiation to electricity: solar and non-solar
Celsius lecture with Eli Yablonovitch

Linnaeus

Lene Vestergaard-Hau, Mallinckrodt Professor, Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University, USA
Wizardry with light
Linné lecture with Lene Vestergaard-Hau

Celsius

Dan McKenzie, Professor emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, U.K
Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Seismic Risk
Celsius lecture with Dan McKenzie

Linnaeus

Jennifer A. Doudna, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley, USA
CRISPR-Cas Genome Surveillance: From Basic Biology to Transformative Technology
Linné lecture with Jennifer A. Doudna

Celsius

George Efstathiou, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, UK
The Birth of the Universe
Celsius lecture with George Efstathiou

Linnaeus

Marlene Zuk, Professor of Biology, University of Minnesota, USA
What Our Evolutionary Past Really Tells Us About Modern Life
Linné lecture with Marlene Zuk

Celsius

William J. Dally, Professor, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, NVIDIA Professor of Engineering, Stanford University, USA.
The Challenge of Future High-Performance Computing
Celsius lecture with William J Dally

Linnaeus

Gene Myers, Professor, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
Molecular Cell Biology via Bio-Image Informatics
Linné lecture with Gene Myers

Celsius

Henry Chapman, Professor, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, and University of Hamburg, Germany
Imaging Molecules with Brilliant X-ray Laser Pulses

Linnaeus

Susan Lindquist, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
How protein folding interfaces with the environment to drive evolution

Celsius and Linnaeus lectures 2012

Celsius

Geoffrey W. Marcy, Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA
The Discovery of the First Earth-Size Planets and the Prospects for Life in the Universe

Linnaeus

Robert M. Hazen, Dr., Carnegie Institution, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
Mineral Surfaces, Geochemical Complexities, and the Origins of Life

Celsius

Anton Zeilinger, Professor, University of Vienna and Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Quantum Information and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Linnaeus

J. Craig Venter, Dr., The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, USA
From Reading to Writing the Genetic Code

Celsius

Douglas Hofstadter, Professor, Indiana University, USA
Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Linnaeus

James H. Brown, Professor, University of New Mexico, USA
Metabolism is to Ecology as Genetics is to Evolution

Celsius

Edward W. Kolb, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, USA
The Dark Side of the Universe

Linnaeus

Frances H. Arnold, Professor, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA
Engineering by Evolution

Celsius

Persi Diaconis, Professor, Department of Statistics, Sequoia Hall, Stanford University, USA
Mathematics and magic tricks

Linnaeus

Frans B.M. de Waal, Professor, Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Center, Atlanta, USA
On the Possibility of Empathy in Other Animals

Celsius

Reinhard Genzel, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
Massive Black Holes

Linnaeus

Jack W. Szostak, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
The Transition from Chemical Evolution to Darwinian Evolution

Celsius

Lennart Bengtsson, Professor, University of Reading, UK, and Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
The Modelling of the Climate System

Linnaeus

Douglas Schemske, Professor, Dept of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA
Evolution in the Tropics: Dobzhansky Revisited

Celsius

John B Pendry, Professor, The Blackett lab, London, UK
The Perfect Lens: resolution beyond the limits of wavelength

Linnaeus

Venki Ramakrishnan, Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
The cell’s protein factory and how antibiotics sabotage it

Celsius

Jean Serra, Professor, Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Fontainebleau, France
Mathematical Morphology and its Uses

Linnaeus

Jonathan Marks, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Consider the Ape

Celsius

Michele Parrinello, Professor, ETH Zurich, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS), Switzerland
Computer simulation: a virtual microscope for physics and chemistry

Linnaeus

Keith John Beven, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, UK
Environmental modelling: an uncertain future?

Celsius

Ugo Amaldi, Professor, University of Milano Bicocca and TERA Foundation, Italy
Particle accelerators: from fundamental research to cancer therapy

Linnaeus

Gerald F. Joyce, Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
RNA Evolution and the Origin of Life

Celsius

Mildred Dresselhaus, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
The Remarkable Structure and Properties of Carbon Nanothubes

Linnaeus

Richard A. Fortey, FRS, Professor, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Progression and Accident in the History of Life

Celsius

Ahmed H. Zewail, Professor, California Institute of Technology, USA
The Femtosecond Epoch of Chemistry, Physics and Biology

Linnaeus

Jared M. Diamond, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents for the Last 13,000 Years?

Celsius

Ho-Kwang Mao, Professor, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA
High Pressure – A New Dimension in Physical Science

Linnaeus

Robert Foley, Dr., University of Cambridge, England
From Homo Sapiens (Linnè 1758) to the Naked Ape: the Human Species in Modern Evolutionary Perspective

Celsius

Benoit Mandelbrot, Dr., IBM and Yale, USA
The Many Faces of Fractals

Linnaeus

Carol J. Bult, Dr., University of Maine, USA
From Information to Understanding: The Present and Future of Comparative Genomics

Celsius

Jean-Marie Lehn, Professor, Collège de France, Paris and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Supramolecular Chemistry: Chemistry Beyond the Molecule

Linnaeus

Dianne Edwards, Professor, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Exploring Early Terrestrial Ecosystems: Glimpses of a Brave New World

Celsius

David Gross, Dr., Princeton University, USA
Physics from 10-19 Degrees Celsius to 1019 Degrees Celsius

Linnaeus

Carl R. Woese, Professor, University of Illinois, USA
Whither Microbiology

Celsius

Herbert Walther, Professor, Max-Planck-Institut, München, Germany
Experiments with Singel Atoms and the Investigation of Basic Quantum Phenomena

Linnaeus

Lynn Margulis, Dr., University of Massachusetts, USA
Origins of Species: Evolution by Symbiosis

Celsius

Giorgio Parisi, Professor, University of Rome II, Tor Vergata, Italy
Attractor Neural Networks

Linnaeus

Stephan Grossberg, Professor, Boston University, USA
Neural Dynamics of Learning, Attention and Recognition

Celsius

Gerhard 'tHooft, Professor, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Can the Ultimate Laws of Nature be found?

Linnaeus

William S. Fyfe, Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Understanding the Life Support System: The Need for a New Science

Celsius

Martin Rees, professor, University of Cambridge, England
The Emergence of Cosmic Structure of the Fate of Universe

Linné

Daniel E. Koshland Jr, professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Biochemical Basis of Memory