The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes: Act I (Webcast)

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The 2023 ceremony will happen entirely as a webcast, not in a theatre. 

Livestream options will be made available here.

The ceremony itself will include these and other traditional elements:

• Winners — Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be introduced. Each winner (or winning team) has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK
• Presenters — A gaggle of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel laureates will hand the Ig Nobel Prizes to the new Ig Nobel winners. Here are some of this year’s prize presenters:
  • Frances Arnold (chemistry, 2018)
  • Marty Chalfie (chemistry 2008)
  • Peter Doherty (physiology or medicine 1996)
  • Esther Duflo (economics 2019)
  • Jerry Friedman (physics 1990)
  • Wolfgang Ketterle (physics, 2001)
  • Eric Maskin (economics 2007)
  • Ardem Patapoutian (physiology or medicine, 2021)
  • Al Roth (economics 2012)
  • Rich Roberts (physiology or medicine 1993)
  • Barry Sharpless (chemistry 2001 and chemistry 2022)
• Theme — the theme of the 2023 ceremony, evinced in the non-opera and other bits, is: Water.
• Mini-Non-Opera — A new mini-non-opera — about water — will premier as part of the ceremony, starring:
  • Alexey Eliseev, book
  • Ivan Gusev, piano
  • Barbara Allen Hill, soprano
  • Thomas Michel, accordion
  • Julie Reimann, cello
  • Scott Taylor, baritone
• 24/7 Lectures — Several of the world’s great thinkers will tell us, briefly, what they are thinking about (first in 24 seconds, then in 7 words) in the 24/7 Lectures. Here are this year’s 24/7 lecturers:
  • Nadia Dominici & Alberto Minetti & Yury Ivanenko — TOPIC: Running on water on the moon
  • David Hu — TOPIC: Water in the human body
  • Erika Johnson — TOPIC: Hydrodynamics
  • Jasmine Nirody — TOPIC: Gekkos running on water
  • Andrea Sella — TOPIC: Medium density amorphous ice
• Paper Airplanes — Paper airplanes will be thrown, by people in many countries and many walks of life.
• Welcome, Goodbye — The traditional Welcome, Welcome Speech and the traditional Goodbye, Goodbye Speech will maintain the standard for what welcome speeches and goodbye speeches should be.
• And other things