Tuesday 30 January, 4:30-5:45 pm, Vrijhof Amphitheater, free admission
Science and serendipity
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Science flourishes through creativity and perseverance. In cases of success, we sometimes call this serendipity. Pek van Andel will show the unsung side of creativity in research: the talent to find unsought findings. He will discuss a series of patterns of serendipity, in order to show us how to anticipate what is unexpected and to find what is not sought. Pek van Andel is a researcher in the medical department at the University of Groningen. He won the Wubbo Ockelsprize in 1992 for his work on the cornea and the IgNobelprize in 2000 for this MRI scans of human copulation. He recently completed his dissertation, Serendipity at work.
