IceLab's 15th anniversary
Join us on the 21st-23rd of May as we celebrate 15 years of innovation and collaboration at IceLab! Our anniversary event features a variety of activities, including open house tours, alumni panels, and multidisciplinary talks. This includes a public lecture by Ricard Solé at Aula Nordica on May 22 16:30!
Everyone is welcome to join us for a special anniversary event featuring inspiring talks from leading researchers, interactive activities, and a retrospective look at our journey. Discover how IceLab has fostered interdisciplinary research and creative problem-solving over the past decade and a half. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with our vibrant community and become a part of IceLab's future.
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Keynote speakers
Ala Trusina
Associate Professor in Biocomplexity at the Niels Bohr Institute.
Fariba Karimi
Professor of Social Data Science at Graz University of Technology and Faculty at Complexity Science Hub, Austria
Ricard Solé
Professor, Complex Systems Lab, Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jevin West
Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the Information School at the University of Washington
The 15 years of IceLab
On April 16, 2010, IceLab opened its physical doors for the first time. Researchers from the departments of Physics, Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, and Ecology and Environmental Science, keen on answering questions that crossed traditional scientific boundaries found a home there. Since then, we have had an open-door policy - guests are always welcome to come to our activities and spend time in our space.
When researchers with wide-ranging backgrounds, questions and ways of thinking are brought together, they may come up with innovative ideas if conditions are favourable for generating outside-the-box thinking. To create these conditions, IceLab and its researchers, from fields as diverse as mathematics, physics, ecology, biology, plant physiology and computer science, promote events and activities where researchers from different disciplines meet to identify and discuss connections and synergies between their research projects.
We aim to be a place where the focus is on ideas, where anyone can contribute with a suggestion, a question, or even a new project direction, and those contributions are received with open arms and followed up. Icelabbers lead by example, showing other interested researchers how to be open and collaborative to help make new exciting research happen. We want to help each other be better researchers by providing the opportunities and guidance to learn how to reach out to each other and beyond to create and follow up opportunities.
Our openness and focus on interdisciplinary work have led to IceLab consisting of over 60 connected researchers, an evergrowing number through initiatives such as the multidisciplinary postdoctoral programme in 2020, funded by Kempestiftelserna, and the stress response modeling at IceLab 2024, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Celebrate with us!
This event celebrates our journey and the 15th anniversary of our mindset of openness and cross-boundary research. We hope you want to take part in the event, which will not only showcase our journey as an interdisciplinary science centre, but also try to inspire the participants in rewarding cross-boundary science!
We thank our funders for both supporting IceLab and this event
When and where?
The celebration extends over three days in May from the 21st to 23rd - join us for one, two or all three events! Everyone is welcome.
The activities will be held in IceLab and at Rotundan in Universum on Campus. For more details, check out the detailed schedules below!
May 21: IceLab Open House
Join us on May 21st in the afternoon as we officially open a new section in IceLab, with more space for our new researchers connected to our Stress Response Modeling excellence center. There will be plentiful fika, a ribbon cutting, and a fireside chat with IceLab members past and present.
May 22: 15th anniversary celebration conference
We have invited distinguished alumni and international researchers to join us in a conference retrospective covering the wide array of research questions and approaches that have emerged from our experiment in collaborative, interdisciplinary science. Besides the talks, there will be fun activities inspired by our IceLab Camp experience designed to get everyone talking. We will wrap the event up with a special anniversary dinner.
May 23: Full-day neuroscience of creativity workshop with Morten Friis-Olivarius
We finish the week by taking the whole day to stretch our creativity to the maximum, guided by Morten Friis-Olivarius. Guaranteed to be different and fun, this session will have limited spaces so be sure to register early to secure your spot!
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Latest update: 2025-03-26