Ig Nobel Award Tour Show 2025
Event details
| Date | 31.03.2025 |
| Hour | 18:00 › 20:00 |
| Speaker | Marc Abraham, Tess Heeremans, Marjolaine Willems, Roman Khonsari, Alexandra Sarafoglou, and Frantisek Bartos |
| Location | |
| Category | Public Science Events |
| Event Language | English |
The Ig Nobel Awards honor research that makes people laugh, then think.
EPFL and NCCR MARVEL have the pleasure to invite you again this year to this show in English.
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.
This event is part of the Ig Nobel EuroTour 2025. This year's program 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 winners — "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 winners — "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"
EPFL and NCCR MARVEL have the pleasure to invite you again this year to this show in English.
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.
This event is part of the Ig Nobel EuroTour 2025. This year's program 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 winners — "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 winners — "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"
Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
Organizer
- EPFL, NCCR MARVEL
Contact
- Lidia Favre-Quattropani, info@nccr-marvel.ch