Complete Schedule

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September 6, 2010, Monday, 7:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Cinema, Brookline, MA, USA

Marc Abrahams (the man in the blue suit — an Ig Nobel Prize-winning self-perfuming business suit) will introduce a special showing of the classic Alec Guinness film “The Man in the White Suit“. Daniel Rosenberg (the man in the white lab coat) will add insights about the chemistry of the white suit. Special appearances by Human Spotlight Jim Bredt (the man in the silver suit) and Boston Globe Miss Conduct columnist Robin Abrahams (the woman in the little black dress).

September 23, 2010, Thursday, 4:30 pm Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,
Bornstein Family Amphitheater.

Marc Abrahams will do a talk for National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Details to be announced.

September 30, 2010, Thursday, 7:30 pm.

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Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Twentieth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.

The event will be webcast live.

October 2, 2010, Saturday, 1:00 pm.

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Ig Informal Lectures, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

The new Ig Nobel Prize winners (and also a few past winners) explain, as best they can, what they did and why they did it. Details to be announced.

November 3, 2010, Wednesday, 6:00 pm
Agronomy, Crops, and Soil Science Societies International Annual Meetings, Long Beach, CA, USA

Marc Abrahams will do a talk about the Ig Nobel Prizes, completely contradicting everything said by the previous speaker, Jared Diamond.

November 5, 2010,
Friday evening
National Association of Science Writers 75th Anniversary Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Marc Abrahams will emcee the evening cabaret that stars some of America’s most performance-oriented science writers. Details to be announced.

November 10, 2010,
Wednesday evening
Raytheon Employees Assn, Waltham, MA, USA
Marc Abrahams will discuss the Ig Nobel Prizes.
February, 2011 AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA

Annual Improbable Research show at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Details to be announced.

March, 2011 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK

Ninth annual tour for National Science & Engineering Week. Details to be announced.

April, 2011 Edinburgh Science Festival

Details to be announced.

April, 2011 Ig Nobel Tour of Scandinavia

Details to be announced.

June 27-29, 2011 Cairo, Egypt

Details to be announced.

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