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. twitter: #IGNOBEL |
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. twitter: #IGNOBEL |
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. |
And a list of some past events…
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