The Graduate Schools at Imperial College are delighted to host the Ig Nobel Awards Tour Show for the fifth consecutive year.
The show will be presented by Marc Abrahams, organiser of the Ig Nobel prizes, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and Guardian columnist, and will feature a whole host of Ig Nobel Prize winners and other ‘improbable’ researchers. Many of the speakers are new to the tour and others are returning, armed with some surprising new topics!
The list of speakers for this year’s event is as follows,
- Elena Bodnar, a physician, is a 2009 Ig Nobel Prize winner in public health, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.
- Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University shared the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in veterinary medicine for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless.
- Erwin Kompanje studies overlooked spectacular medical history. He is a clinical ethicist at Erasmus University Rotterdam. On this year’s tour he will show scientific investigations of Rudolph’s red nose.
- John Hoyland created and edits the “Feedback” column in New Scientist Magazine. He will present a fresh batch of oddities.
- Dan Meyer, a swordswallower, shared the 2007 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize for the penetrating medical report “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects.” In 2010 he will present evidence of some of the unexpected physical objects people have swallowed.
- Sarah Redmond & Dan Gillingwater are singers/musicians/actors based in London. They will perform songs from Ig Nobel mini-operas.
Entry to the show is strictly by ticket only and tickets are limited to two per person.
How to Book: To book tickets, please email events@imperial.ac.uk stating your name, postal address and number of tickets required (maximum of 2).
Further information about the Ig Nobel Awards and details of this year’s performers can be found at, http://improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/ig-uk-tour