Cox and Ince at AstroFest
Cox and Ince at AstroFest 2013
Brian Cox and Robin Ince bring their irreverent blend of wit and science to AstroFest. Live on stage, they will ponder the meaning of parallel universes, quantum physics, the anthropic principle and no doubt much more. Warning: contains jokes of a scientific nature.
About Brian Cox
Brian Cox is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, but is better known to the public as a presenter of popular science programmes such as Wonders of the Universe. He obtained a first-class honours degree in physics from the University of Manchester and his PhD in high-energy particle physics at the DESY particle physics laboratory in Hamburg. He works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.
About Robin Ince
Robin Ince is a stand-up comedian who, according to one reviewer, has been responsible for a “whole sub-genre of science-nerd comedy”. He presents the Radio 4 programme The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox. Robin is currently touring Britain with his show The Importance of Being Interested, which was also the title of his 2012 Voltaire Lecture at the British Humanist Association.