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SUMMARY:The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes: Act I (Webcast)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Improbable Research\n3-4:30pm\, Online via Zoom\, Free\, Learn more\n\nThe 2023 ceremony will happen entirely as a webcast\, not in a theatre.   \nLivestream options will be made available here. \nThe ceremony itself will include these and other traditional elements: \n\nWinners — Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be introduced. Each winner (or winning team) has done something that makes people LAUGH\, then THINK\nPresenters — 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:\n\nFrances Arnold (chemistry\, 2018)\nMarty Chalfie (chemistry 2008)\nPeter Doherty (physiology or medicine 1996)\nEsther Duflo (economics 2019)\nJerry Friedman (physics 1990)\nWolfgang Ketterle (physics\, 2001)\nEric Maskin (economics 2007)\nArdem Patapoutian (physiology or medicine\, 2021)\nAl Roth (economics 2012)\nRich Roberts (physiology or medicine 1993)\nBarry Sharpless (chemistry 2001 and chemistry 2022)\n\n\nTheme — the theme of the 2023 ceremony\, evinced in the non-opera and other bits\, is: Water.\nMini-Non-Opera — A new mini-non-opera — about water — will premier as part of the ceremony\, starring:\n\nAlexey Eliseev\, book\nIvan Gusev\, piano\nBarbara Allen Hill\, soprano\nThomas Michel\, accordion\nJulie Reimann\, cello\n\n\nScott Taylor\, baritone\n\n\n24/7 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:\n\nNadia Dominici & Alberto Minetti & Yury Ivanenko — TOPIC: Running on water on the moon\nDavid Hu — TOPIC: Water in the human body\nErika Johnson — TOPIC: Hydrodynamics\nJasmine Nirody — TOPIC: Gekkos running on water\nAndrea Sella — TOPIC: Medium density amorphous ice\n\n\nPaper Airplanes — Paper airplanes will be thrown\, by people in many countries and many walks of life.\nWelcome\, 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.\nAnd other things
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/the-33rd-first-annual-ig-nobel-prizes-act-i-webcast/
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