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Ig Nobel EuroTour 2019—Events in Scotland, England, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and perhaps elsewhere.
- March 9, Saturday—University of St. Andrews, Scotland—Details TBA
- March 13, Wednesday—University of Manchester, UK, in the Zochonis Building (entrances are on Brunswick Street/Dover Street)—Marc Abrahams will do 2 events:
- 2 pm—Workshop [for MRC doctoral students] about “how to decide what is important and what’s not, and what’s real and what not”
- 4 pm—A talk [open to everyone] about “Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes“, preceded by tea, coffee, and cake at 3:30). TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS are free (but limited in number).
- March 16, Saturday, 3:00 pm—Imperial College London, UK, in the Great Hall—This is the first half of a special double-event day, together with BAHFest London (BAHFest begins at 7:00 pm). TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS are on sale; there is the option to purchase tickets for both events, or for just one.]—Marc Abrahams and
- March 19, Tuesday, 6:00 pm—University of Graz, Austria—Marc Abrahams and
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Minna Lyons (Comparison of psychopathic traits in night owls versus early risers)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Hynek Burda (Free-roaming dogs, when urinating, align themselves with earth’s magnetic lines)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Stephan Bolliger (Is it better to be hit on the head with a full bottle of beer, or a with an empty bottle of beer?)
- March 22, Friday, 11:00 am—Stadtsaal, Vienna, Austria—Special Ig Nobel Prizes event for classes from Vienna-area schools. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS are available. Marc Abrahams and Ig Nobel Prize winner Elisabeth Oberzaucher (Can one man father 888 children?)
- March 25, Monday, 6:00 pm—EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, in the Rolex Forum—This is part of EPFL’s 50th anniversary celebration! TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS will become available in mid-March—Marc Abrahams and
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Claire Rind (Monitoring a brain cell of a locust while that locust watches selected highlights from the movie Star Wars)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Marc Fardin (Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Mark Dingemanse (The word “huh?” seems to exist in every human language)
- March 28, Thursday, 7:30 pm—The Value of Improbable Research: An Ig Nobel Evening, Nijmegen, The Netherlands—TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS are available. Marc Abrahams and
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Mark Dingemanse (The word “huh?” seems to exist in every human language)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Nadia Dominici (People can run across the surface of a pond, if that pond is on the moon)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Kees Moeliker (Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck)
- April 1, Monday, 6:00 pm—Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland—Marc Abrahams and Ig Nobel Prize winner Kees Moeliker (Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck).
- April 3, Wednesday—University of Catania, Italy—Marc Abrahams will talk about the Ig Nobel Prizes and Improbable Research
- April 9, Tuesday, 3:00 pm—Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden—Marc Abrahams and
- April 10, Wednesday, 3:00 pm—Alba Nova, University of Stockholm, Sweden—Marc Abrahams and
- Ig Nobel Prize winners Peter Witzgall, Paul Becher, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenström, Marie Bengtsson (detecting, by smell, the presence of a single fly in a glass of wine)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner James Cole (Nutritional value of human cannibalism)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Emily Baird (Dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate)
- The 24/7 Lectures
- April 11, Thursday, 3:00 pm—University of Oslo, Norway—Marc Abrahams will talk about the Ig Nobel Prizes and Improbable Research
- April 12, Friday, 8:00 pm—Ig Nobel Night in Berlin—Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany—Marc Abrahams, with special guest celebrity forensic entomologist Mark Benecke (analysis of some forensic-science-related Ig Nobel Prize winners). TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS are now on sale. [Some background, about the Ig Nobel Prizes.]
- …and perhaps MORE EVENTS, TBA
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