Ig Nobel Prize: first laugh, then think

Aarhus Universitet, Søauditorierne, Wilhelm Meyers Allé, bygning 1250
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Mandag, 9. april 2018 - 12:00
v/Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize og v/three price winners.
 
The Ig Nobel Prize is awarded for “peculiar research” that at first make us laugh and then think deeply. Attend this lecture for a humor-filled dive into the prize-winning research and find the vital answers to e.g. “Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?”
 
The lecture is taught in English
 
We are again able to invite some of the researchers who have received the alternative Nobel Prize – the Ig Nobel Prize – to Aarhus University. It is hard to describe the Ig Nobel Prize and not least lectures of the price winners – it needs to be experienced. Here is a try though:
The award ceremony takes place every year in a blaze of publicity at a great gala ceremony at Harvard University, USA and is orchestrated by the founder of the prize, Marc Abrahams. The Nobel 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 short lecture from the founder of the prize Marc Abrahams who, with a twinkle in the eye, will talk 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, the Ig Nobel Prize winners below will explain and perhaps demonstrate their prize-winning achievements: 
 
Marc-Antoine Fardin, Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon, France – for using fluid dynamics to probe the question "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?". (2017 PHYSICS PRIZE). 
 
Alex Garcia-Faura, Institut Marquès, Spain – for showing that a developing human foetus responds more strongly to music that is played electromechanically inside the mother's vagina than to music that is played electromechanically on the mother's belly. (2017 OBSTETRICS PRIZE). 
 
Susanne Åkesson, Lunds Universitet, Sweden – for discovering why white-haired horses are the most horsefly-proof horses, and for discovering why dragonflies are fatally attracted to black tombstones. (2016 PHYSICS PRIZE). 
 
Warning: The lectures are not suitable for the humourless. :-) 
 

Seminaret afholdes i samarbejde med Offentlige foredrag i Naturvidenskab, Aarhus og livestreames i flere byer.

Seminaret begynder kl. 19.00, men billetten er bortfaldet ved fremmøde efter kl. 18.45. Afkrydsning sker i nærheden af elevatoren på etagen på samme niveau som søen.

Er der livestreaming, du kan tage til, som er tættere på end Søauditorierne i Aarhus, er du velkommen til det. Du skal ikke tilmelde dig her på siden, men efter foredraget skrive til anne@atumidt.dk, at du har været til seminaret, og det vil blive registreret på din aktivitetsoversigt.

 

 

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