Ig Nobel Award Tour Show 2019

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Date 25.03.2019
Hour 18:0020:00
Speaker Marc Abraham, Claire Rind, Marc Fardin, Mark Dingemanse
Location
Category Public Science Events
The Ig Nobel Awards honor research that makes people laugh, then think.

With
Marc Abrahams
Father of the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of Annals of Improbable Research
Claire Rind, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, UK
2005 Peace Prize winner — Monitoring a brain cell of a locust while that locust watches selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars”.
Marc-Antoine Fardin, Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon, F
2017 Physics Prize winner — Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?
Mark Dingemanse, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL
2015 Litterature Prize winner — The word “huh?” seems to exist in every human language.

Show in English

Free tickets available from 14 March at the EPFL Esplanade reception desk upon presenting your Camipro card (max. 2 tickets per person)
For people outside EPFL, please contact [email protected]

Practical information

  • General public
  • Registration required

Organizer

  • EPFL, NCCR MARVEL

Contact

  • Lidia Favre-Quattropani

Tags

Grand public

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