Star Trek Soiree in Your Home with Dr. Dirk Morr

Did you ever wonder how close we are in realizing all the neat things that makes Star Trek so interesting: beaming technology, warp drive, wormholes, nanites, and let's not forget the holodecks? If so, then invite Prof. Morr to your home for a fun-filled lecture on the (crazy?) scientific ideas behind these technologies, and the physical laws that we have to "bend" to make them work.

Dirk K. Morr is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an associate of the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. His research in the area of theoretical condensed matter physics focuses on the evolution of complexity from the nano- to the macroscale. From 2003 to 2010, Dr. Morr was a member of the task force that developed the new Science Storms exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Dr. Morr is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and was appointed Leibniz chair at the University of Leipzig (Germany) for 2011/12. His public engagements include popular science talks, in which he does not only discuss the "mysteries of the quantum world", but also examines the relation between art and physics.