Session B1: Public Lecture

8:00 PM–9:00 PM, Friday, October 10, 2008
Oelman Hall - 109

Chair: Paul Wolf, Air Force Institute of Technology

Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.OSF.B1.1

Abstract: B1.00001 : Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes

8:00 PM–9:00 PM

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Author:

  Marc Abrahams
    (Improbable Research)

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, then make them think. Marc Abrahams, father of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, will show us some of the most outstanding Ig Nobel winners. He will also discuss why Ohio has been such a good producer of Ig Nobel Prize winners, and of improbable research.

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