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The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony
September 9, 2021 @ 12:00 am - 1:00 am PDT
Free
- Presenters include Frances Arnold and Barry Sharpless
- Sponsored by Improbable Research
- 3pm-4pm, Online on YouTube, Free, Learn more (no registration required)
The 2021 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony & Webcast
“The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen on Thursday, September 9, 2021, beginning at 3 pm (Pacific Time). Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ceremony will again be entirely online. There will be a special livestream in Japanese (on the Nico Nico network). There might also be a special livestream in Spanish (that’s not definite yet, but we are hopeful.)
Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be introduced. Each has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
The prizes will be handed out by this gaggle of Nobel laureates:
- Rich Roberts (physiology or medicine, 1993)
- Frances Arnold (chemistry, 2018)
- Marty Chalfie (chemistry, 2008)
- Eric Maskin (economics, 2007)
- Barry Sharpless (chemistry, 2001)
- Robert Lefkowitz (chemistry, 2012)
- Carl Weiman (physics, 2001)
- Eric Cornell (physics, 2001)
- Jerome Friedman (physics, 1990)
The theme of this year’s ceremony is ENGINEERING. A new mini-opera, called “A Bridge Between People”, amplifies that theme.
The ceremony will also include the 24/7 Lectures, in which the lecturers explain their topic first in 24 SECONDS, then in seven WORDS.
This year’s lecturers and their topics:
- Gwinyai Masukume: Drinking Coffee
- Françoise Brochard: Soft Matter
- Chaouki Abdallah: Feedback Control
- Patricia Yang: Excretion Dynamics
- Iman Farahbakhsh: Baby-Washing Technology”
For details, see the ceremony web page: https://www.improbable.com/ig/2021-ceremony/