April 9, 2013 – AHEC meeting in Silicon Valley to welcome member Tibor Pacher, leader of our main project sponsored by AHEC in 2013

Please join the members and friends of the Hungarian American Chamber of Commerce in the US, Spring Networking Lunch

To welcome and hear a presentation by Dr. Tibor Pacher, founder and CEO of the Hungarian PULI Space Initiative
Tuesday, April 9, 2013, noon-2pm
Oracle Plaza Restaurant, at Oracle Corporation, 10 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, California, (corner of Twin Dolphin Dr., & Oracle Parkway). Parking entrance on Twin Dolphin Drive @ Lagoon Drive
It is cafeteria style, but please RSVP Eva E. Voisin evoisin@ix.netcom.com. Tel: 650.341.0167

Dr. Tibor Pacher was born in Hungary. He now shares his time mainly between Hungary and Germany. Trained as a physicist (PhD., Heidelberg 1991 s.c.l.), during his academic career, he worked on different topics of General Relativity, Cosmology (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) and Quantum Chemistry (University of Heidelberg) as well as on ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) mission (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg).

In 2006, he initiated the organization  Peregrinus Interstellar,  dedicated to the topic of interstellar travel: The PI Club. Dr. Parcher also runs the project  Faces from Earth, which focuses on creating interstellar message artifacts to be carried on future deep space missions, and MiniSpaceWorld, which aims at the creation of a big, lively scale-model layout for Spaceflight and Astronomy.