Author Of “Physics of Star Trek” To Speak At UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Lawrence M. Krauss, author of "The Physics of Star Trek," "Beyond Star Trek," "Fear of Physics" and numerous other books and articles on physics and astronomy, will deliver the annual Moti L. Rustgi Memorial Lecture at UB.

His presentation, "The Physics of Star Trek," will be held at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 9 in Room 225 of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Building on the UB North Campus. The talk will be free and open to the public.

Krauss, who viewed hundreds of episodes of the popular series while writing his "Star Trek" books, will discuss the plausible and not-so-plausible technical aspects of the programs.

The lecture honors the late Moti Rustgi, who was director of graduate studies for the UB Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences when he died in 1992.

Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Krauss is active in the emerging field of particle astrophysics, which explores the cosmological implication of ideas concerning fundamental interactions and astrophysical and cosmological constraints on particle physics.

He is the recipient of a Gravity Research Foundation First Prize Award and a Presidential Investigator Award, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

More information about the lecture is available at the physics department's Web site at http://www.physics.buffalo.edu/Events/RustgiLecture.html.