Ig Nobel Award Tour Show 2025

Mar 31, 2025, from 18:00 until 20:00, EPFL, Forum 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 Tess Heeremans, Marjolaine Willems, Roman Khonsari, Alexandra Sarafoglou, and Frantisek Bartos. We will be talking about coin flipping, chromatography used to separate drunk and sober worms, or swirling of the hair of people in different hemispheres. A great evening ahead! All tickets are gone, but the show will also be lived-streamed.

A few free tickets may be still available here. Moreover about 50 tickets will be available directly at the entrance of the Forum Rolex just before the show at 5.00pm, and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. The show will also be lived-streamed here.

If you no longer wish to take part in the event, please cancel your ticket(s) by sending an email to info@nccr-marvel.ch so that others can participate.

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make 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
Tess Heeremans, AMOLF, NL
2024 Chemistry Prize winner — "Using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms"
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 are available here (max. 2 tickets per person).

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