This spring, we are once again hosting Public Lectures in Natural Sciences. So you can look forward to 6 exciting lectures which will be streamed live from Aarhus University.
It is completely free to participate, but registration is required at info@tonnisgaard.dk or 74755257.
It will be possible to buy coffee, tea and cookies during the break.
The doors open at 6:40 p.m. and the lecture begins at 19.00.
You can read more about the lecture series at www.ofn.au.dk

This evening we have reached the 5th lecture in this round.
This lecture is a little different from the ones we usually have. Because it is in a special genre, a cocktail of science and humor: experience four lecturers based on the crazy prize 'Ig Nobel Prize', which is known under the slogan 'first laugh, then think'. You will first hear the award's founder, Marc Abrahams, talk about the award and then three of the award winners will present the research for which they received the award. It is difficult to describe the Ig Nobel Prize in words – consider taking the chance and experience it. (The lecture takes place in English).

They describe it themselves like this:
Meet some of the researchers who have received the alternative Nobel Prize – the Ig Nobel Prize.
It is hard to describe the Ig Nobel Prize and the lectures of the prize winners in particular – you need to experience it.
The award ceremony takes place every year in a blaze of publicity at a great gala ceremony at Harvard University, USA, and is orchestrated by the founder of the prize, Marc Abrahams.

The Ig Nobel Prize highlights ten research results of the year that are exceptionally creative, unlikely and bizarre, although still serious. To put it in another way: The prize is awarded to "peculiar research" that initially makes us laugh and afterwards gives us food for thought.
The prize covers a wide range of sciences, yet with the main emphasis on natural science, medicine, and social science. In general, the prizes are given to respected and serious research that has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

The evening begins with a short lecture from the founder, Marc Abrahams, who will talk about the prize, the ceremony at Harvard University and some of the recent prize winners and their research "which neither can or should be repeated". Later on, three Ig Nobel Prize winners will explain and perhaps demonstrate their prize-winning achievements:

Mariska Kret and Eliska Prochazkova, Leiden University, the Netherlands – for seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize.
The research won The Ig Nobel Applied Cardiology Prize in 2022.

Jonathan Williams, Dr. and professor at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany – for chemically analyzing the air inside movie theaters, to test whether the odors produced by an audience reliably indicate the levels of violence, sex, antisocial behavior, drug use, and bad language in the movie the audience is watching.
The research won The Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize in 2021.

CW (Kees) Moeliker, biologist and director of the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands – for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.

Warning: The lectures are not suitable for the humorless 🙂
The event will be held in English.

The team at Tønnisgaard is looking forward to seeing you for another fun and educational evening.