Please join us, if you will (and don’t join us, if you won’t) for these upcoming events in Berlin, Germany:
- FRIDAY, November 6, 2026: Falling Walls Science Summit
- SUNDAY, November 8, 2026: Berlin Science Week — Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS to the Science Week event are free, but you need to register while they are still available.
The main participants:
- Marc Abrahams: (Ig Nobel founder): Why the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony moved to Europe
- Keira Lee Rice (nose-spray researcher and Ig Nobel organizer): How to live-draw improbable research
- Ilona Croy (psychologist and Ig Nobel Prize winner): Smelling babies and teenagers
- Nicole Sharp (fluid dynamicist and Ig Nobel organizer): Designing a splash-free urinal
- Kees Moeliker (ornithologist and Ig Nobel Prize winner): The rise and fall of the pubic louse [at Falling Walls]; and How a dad duck changed my life [at Berlin Science Week]
The image you see here was created by Keira Lee Rice. It combines, reflects, or consumes some of the facts and notions that will be explored during these events. Each fact or notion is related to something that has been honored by an Ig Nobel Prize.
Additional events in additional places are listed on our upcoming events page.