Ig Nobel Award Tour Show 2025
Mar 31, 2025, from 18:00 until 20:00, EPFL, Rorum Rolex
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.




Ig Nobel Award Tour Show on 16 April 2024 at EPFL. © for all pictures: EPFL - Alain Herzog.

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