Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures 2025

Location: Sonja Lyttkens, Ångströmlaboratoriet

09.00: Welcome to the Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures 2025
Vice-rector Charlotte Platzer-Björkman and the Chairman of the Celsius-Linnaeus Committee Máté Erdélyi.

09.15: CELSIUS-LECTURE: Two and a Half Millennia of Irrationality in Mathematics
Professor Francesco Calegari, Algebraic Number Theory, University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics

10.15: Break

10.30: Symposia lecture: Diophantine Tales
Julia Brandes, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola and University of Gothenburg

11.00: Symposia lecture: How heat distribution in networks leads to new formulas for certain important values in number theory
Professor Anders Karlsson, Uppsala University, Department of Mathematics

11.30: Panel discussion
Francesco Calegari, Julia Brandes and Anders Karlsson.
Moderator: Prof. Silvelyn Zwanzig, Department of Mathematics

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Location: Hambergsalen, Geocentrum

13.30: LINNAEUS LECTURE: Reflected in Water - Development, Resilience, Inequalities
Andrea Rinaldo, Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, EPFL and Università di Padova.

14.30: Break

14.45: Symposia lecture: The hidden costs of adapting to drought for plants, soil microorganisms, and ecosystems
Stefano Manzoni, Professor in Ecohydrology, Stockholm University

15.15: Symposia lecture: The Health Status of Lakes Around the World: A Growing Threat to Humankind?
Professor Gesa Weyhenmeyer, Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Genetics

15.45: Panel discussion
Andrea Rinaldo, Stefano Manzoni and Gesa Weyhenmeyer
Moderator: Professor Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Department of Earth Science

16.15: Closing words
Chairman of the Celsius-Linnaeus Committee Máté Erdélyi.