Ig Nobel Night at UiO
Channel: UiO Realfagsbiblioteket
Date: 2016-03-04

As part of their Europe tour founder of the IG Nobel award Marc Abrahams is visiting UiO with a selected team of previous winners.

The show will begin with a short lecture from the founder of the prize Marc Abrahams  who, with a twinkle in the eye, will tell about the prize, the ceremony at Harvard University and some of the latest years prize winners and their research “which makes people LAUGH, then THINK”. After this, the Ig Nobel Prize winners below will explain and perhaps demonstrate their prize-winning achievements!

- Dr. Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria – for using mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children. (Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics, 2015)

- Dr. Eigil Reimers, University of Oslo, Norway – for understanding how reindeer respond to humans disguised as polar bears (Ig Nobel Prize in Arctic Science, 2014) 

- Dr. Andrea Rapisarda, University of Catania, Italy– for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promote at random. (Ig Nobel Prize in Management, 2010) 

Bonus talk:

- Dr. Anneleen Kool (UiO) and Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), 1-minute about her science and her hair

http://www.ub.uio.no/om/aktuelt/arrangementer/ureal/science-debate/2016/160304ignobel.html