Complete Schedule
Improbable Research Events
| February 19, 2010, Friday, 8:00 pm. | AAAS Annual Meeting, San Diego San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina, Seaview Room. Annual Improbable Research show at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting. With Marc Abrahams and Ig Nobel Prize winners Dr. Elena Bodnar (emergency bra/mask), Dr. Donald Unger (60 years of knuckle-cracking), Dorian Raymer (string inevitably tangles itself into knots); and Dr. Hagop Akiskal (romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from obsessive-compulsive disorder) as well as: Miriam Sach, Ph.D., who will dance her dissertation; Nick Spark, (historian of Murphy’s Law), Dr. Beatrice Golomb (objects found in patients’ rectums); and others to be announced. [NOTE: We have invited 1998 Ig winner Deepak Chopra (quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness), but do not yet know if he can join us.] (Click here for a press account of last year’s show.) Free, open to the public. PRESS NOTE: Most of these individuals will also appear at a special press briefing at 5:30 pm in the Press Briefing Room, in the San Diego Convention Center (restricted to registered journalists only) |
| March, 2010 | Ig Nobel Tour of the UK Eighth annual tour for National Science & Engineering Week. Dundee, Portsmouth, Bristol, Liverpool, London. See UK Tour page for details. |
| April 14, 2010, Wednesday | UK Serials Group Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland Marc Abrahams will talk about improbable research, for conference attendees. |
| April 17, 2010, Saturday, 6:00 pm. | Edinburgh Science Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland Marc Abrahams will discuss some of the most spectacular Ig Nobel Prize winners. Details TBA. |
| April, 2010 | Ig Nobel Tour of Sweden and Denmark Shows in Gothenburg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Odense, and elsewhere. Details to be announced.Research opportunity: If time permits, we might conduct research on The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent. |
| May 1, 2010, Saturday. | Cambridge Science Festival, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA., Cambridge Public Library.
Improbable Readings from the Ig Nobel Prizes. A series of events, throughout the day. Details to be announced. |
| May. Exact date to be announced | Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Improbable Research Cabaret. Details to be announced. |
| September 30, 2010, Thursday evening | Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Twentieth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Tickets will go on sale August 1. |
| October 2, 2010, Saturday afternoon | Ig Informal Lectures, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA The new Ig Nobel Prize winners explain, as best they can, what they did and why they did it. Details to be announced. |