Ig Nobel Award Tour Show 2025

Mar 31, 2025, from 18:00 until 20:00, EPFL, Rorum Rolex

On Monday March 31, with the support of the NCCR MARVEL, EPFL will welcome for the sixth time the Ig Nobel Award Tour Show, with Marc Abrahams and the Ig Nobel Prize winners Mariska Kret, Marjolaine Willems, Roman Khonsari, Alexandra Sarafoglou, and Frantisek Bartos. We will be talking about coin flipping, synchronization of heart rates of new romantic partners, or swirling of the hair of people in different hemispheres. A great evening ahead!

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that makes people laugh, and then think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
— https://improbable.com/ig/about-the-ig-nobel-prizes/

This year's programme invites you to discover:

Marc Abrahams
Father of the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of Annals of Improbable Research
Mariska Kret, Leiden University, NL
2022 Applied Cardiology Prize winner — "Seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize"
Marjolaine Willems, CHU Montpellier, FR and Roman Khonsari, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades. Paris, FR
2024 Anatomy Prize winner — "Studying whether the hair on the heads of most people in the northern hemisphere swirls in the same direction — clockwise or counter-clockwise? — as hair on the heads of most people in the southern hemisphere"
Alexandra Sarafoglou and Frantisek Bartos, University of Amsterdam, NL
2024 Probability Prize winner — "Showing, both in theory and by 350'757 experiments, that when you flip a coin, it tends to land on the same side as it started"

Show in English.

Free tickets will be available online from mid-March (max. 2 tickets per person). Link will be provided here in due time.

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