The Ig Nobel Awards – honor research that makes people laugh, then think
After a 5-year break, EPFL and NCCR MARVEL have the pleasure to invite you to this show in English.
This event is part of the Ig Nobel EuroTour 2024.
Program:
- Marc Abrahams – Father of the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of Annals of Improbable Research
- Chris Moulin, Université Grenoble Alpes, FR – 2023 Literature Prize winner — « Studying the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times »
- Damien Bouffard, Eawag, Kastanienbaum, CH – 2023 Physics Prize winner — « Measuring the extent to which ocean-water mixing is affected by the sexual activity of anchovies »
- Minna Lyons, Liverpool John Moores University, UK – 2014 Psychology Prize winner — « Amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning »
Free tickets: available online from 8 April (max. 2 tickets per person)