Upcoming Events

—> All scheduled people-gathering-in-a-physical-location events are of course subject to what happens with the COVID-19 pandemic. We will update details here as soon as we know them.

December 17 2023, Sunday, 1 pm. Ig Nobel Face-to-Face, Miraikan, Tokyo, Japan — Several Ig Nobel Prize winners, some current, some from past years, will ask each other questions about their work. Kiyoshi Furusawa will emcee. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS are available from the Miraikan web site.
January 12 2024, Friday, 8:30 pm. Arisia, Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Improbable Dramatic readings. Open to all Arisia attendees.
January 26, 2024, Friday. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria — Marc Abrahams will give the first annual ‘Vienna Lecture on Science Communication’.
January 27, 2024, Saturday. Ball of Sciences, Townhall, Vienna, Austria — Marc Abrahams, equipped with the historic Ig Nobel chapeau claque, will make a return appearance at the ball.
February 17 2024, Saturday evening, 8 pm. AAAS Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA —  After three pandemic years when the annual special Improbable Research session was done online, it will return in 2024 to having lots of people all together in a room at the AAAS meeting. Featuring Marc Abrahams, Nicole Sharp (creator of the fluid dynamics site FYFD), and several Ig Nobel Prize winners.

Date TBA.

[Ig Nobel EuroTour 2024 event]

 University of Oxford, UK —  Details TBA

April 9, 2024, Tuesday.

[Ig Nobel EuroTour 2024 event]

University of Aarhus, Denmark — with Marc Abrahams and:

  • 2022 Ig Nobel Applied Cardiology Prize winners Eliska Prochazkova and Mariska Kret (seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize)
  • 2021 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Jonathan Williams (chemically analyzing the air inside movie theaters, to test whether the odors produced by an audience reliably indicate the levels of violence, sex, antisocial behavior, drug use, and bad language in the movie the audience is watching)
  • 2021 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner Susanne Schötz (analyzing variations in purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat–human communication)

April 10, 2024, Wednesday.

[Ig Nobel EuroTour 2024 event]

Copenhagen, Denmark —  Details TBA.

  • 2022 Ig Nobel Applied Cardiology Prize winner Mariska Kret
  • 2021 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Jonathan Williams
  • 2021 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner Susanne Schötz

Date TBA.

[Ig Nobel EuroTour 2024 event]

EPFL, Lausanne, switzerland —  Details TBA.

Date TBA.

[Ig Nobel EuroTour 2024 event]

Rome Science Festival, Rome, Italy —  Details TBA.

Dates TBA.

[Ig Nobel EuroTour 2024 event]

Other Ig Nobel EuroTour events — Details TBA.

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