Ig Nobel Prize - Denmark Tour 1

Ig Nobel Prize – Denmark tour

The lecture is taught in English/Foredraget afholdes på letforståeligt engelsk.

After several requests – and with generous support from Carlsbergs Mindelegat  – the alternative Nobel Prize – the Ig Nobel Prize -- are invited to Aarhus University again. Meet three researchers who have received the Ig Nobel Prize and the founder of the prize – mathematician Marc Abrahams.

It is hard to describe the Ig Nobel Prize and not least lectures of the prize winners – it needs to be experienced. Here is a try though:
The award ceremony: Orchestrated by Marc Abrahams the ten Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded for the 23rd time in a blaze of publicity at a great gala ceremony at Harvard University, USA on September 12, 2013. 

The prize brings into focus ten research results of the year that are exceptionally creative, unlikely and bizarre, though still serious. To put it in another way: The prize goes to “peculiar research” that in the first place makes us laugh and then afterwards gives us food for thought.

The prize covers a wide range of sciences yet with main emphasis on natural science, medicine and social science. In general the prizes are given to respected serious research which has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

• The evening will begin with a lecture from the founder of the prize Marc Abrahams who, with a twinkle in the eye, will tell about the prize, the ceremony at Harvard University and some of the latest years prize winners and their research “which neither can or should be repeated”. After this three Ig Nobel Prize winners will explain and perhaps demonstrate their prize-winning achievements:
• Professor of social psychology Laurent Bègue, l’Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble – who demonstrated that people who think they are drunkt also think they are attractive.(Ig Nobel Prize in psychology, 2013)
• MD, DPhil Masanori Niimi, Teikyo University, Tokyo – who probed the effect of listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice. (Ig Nobel Prize in medicine, 2013)
• Curator Kees Moeliker, the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam – who documented homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, and who will tell the strange recent history of public lice too. (Ig Nobel Prize in biology, 2003).

Warning: The lectures are not suitable for the humorless :-)

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OBS: Mød op i god tid, da pladsreservationer bortfalder kl 18.45. Der er dog tidligst adgang til auditorierne kl. 18.15