Since 2016, the arrival of spring heralds the coming of the Ig Nobel Award Tour Show to EPFL. The event is supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research MARVEL, Materials’ Revolution: Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials. This is the opportunity to discover a line-up of researches that make people laugh, then think, as is the aim of every research honoured by an Ig Nobel Award. When you hear about such a research, you might first laugh, saying either that it is not serious or of no use. But a week later, you are still thinking about it… It might not be so laughable or useless after all.
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Program:

• 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, FR) 2017 Physics Prize winner “Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?”
• Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL) 2015 Literature Prize winner “The word ‘huh?’ seems to exist in every human language”

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 info@nccr-marvel.ch