Complete Schedule
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| May 15, 2012, Tuesday, 6:00 pm (or so) |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. — Marc Abrahams will talk about the Ig Nobel Prizes. The event will also include a 24/7 Lecture competition for medical science writing students; The competition judges are Diana Sugg (Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist), Albert Wu (director of JHU’s Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research), and Marc Abrahams. Info: Mary Knudson. |
| May 18, 2012, Friday, 3:45 pm |
“Science Friday” program on National Public Radio. — Marc Abrahams‘s monthly appearance on the program to discuss some improbable research. |
| May 22, 2012, Tuesday |
Seoul Digital Forum, Seoul, Korea. — Marc Abrahams will talk about “Research that makes people laugh, then think”. |
| May 24, 2012, Thursday |
Kolon Company, Seoul, Korea. — Marc Abrahams will talk about “Creativity related to the Ig Nobel Prizes”. |
| June 1, 2012, Friday |
Langer Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. — Marc Abrahams will talk about Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes. |
| June 5, 2012, Tuesday. |
Dead Duck Day, Rotterdam, The Netherlands — Annual commemoration of the incident documented in the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize-winning report “The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos“, followed by traditional group walk to a nearby restaurant to enjoy a duck dinner. [Here’s a look back at an earlier Dead Duck Day). Details TBA. |
| June 6, 2012, Wednesday |
Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA. — Marc Abrahams will talk about Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes. |
| June 26-29 2012 |
Ig Nobel Tour of the The Netherlands — Eindhoven (June 28). Other details TBA. |
| September 16, 2012, Sunday |
Publication day for the new book This Is Improbable. |
| September 20, 2012, Thursday, 7:30 pm. |
The 22nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA — Tickets will go on sale around August 1. Details TBA. |
| September 22, 2012, Saturday, 1:00 pm. |
Ig Informal Lectures, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — Details TBA. |
| February 2013 |
AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Annual Ig Nobel show will be a featured part of the meeting. Details TBA. |
| March 2013 |
Ig Nobel Tour of the UK — Details TBA. |
| March 2013 |
Ig Nobel Tour of Scandinavia — Details TBA. |
And a list of some past events…
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