Ig Nobel tickets go on sale today

Tickets for the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony go on sale today — July 31, 2009 — at noon (Boston time) from the Harvard Box Office. They are available online and at the Box Office in Holyoke Center in Harvard Square.

The ceremony will happen on Thursday night, October 1, at Sanders Theatre, honoring ten new winners whose achievements make people laugh then think.

This year’s theme: RISK. Benoit Mandelbrot will give the risky keynote address. The ceremony will include the premiere of The Big Bank Opera, a 4-act mini-opera in which Stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big bankers.

For further details, see the 2009 ceremony home page.