Time: Wednesday, 4-5 pm
Place: Math and CS Building, room 331 (seminar room)
Date | Speaker | Title |
19 Marcheshvan (Nov. 3) |
Yaaqov Loewinger (Tel-Aviv) |
The 8th in the 19-year cycle of the Hebrew calendar: another look at "Al ha-Sheminit" |
11 Kislev (Nov. 24) |
Simcha Velner, Barak Vardi, and Ami Halperin (Bar-Ilan University) |
A solar system simulator (software demonstration) |
18 Kislev (Dec. 1) |
Roy Hoffman (Hebrew University) |
Rational design of lunar visibility criteria |
3 Tevet (Dec. 15) |
Simcha Velner (Bar-Ilan University) |
Spherical trigonometry, the sun's path in the sky, and Halachic times |
17 Tevet (Dec. 29) |
Ariel Cohen (Hebrew University) |
On the connection between Astronomy and Chronology in the Bible and Talmud |
2 Shvat (Jan. 12) |
Eran Raviv (Revava) |
A comment in "Yesod Olam" by Rabbi Yitzhaq Hayisreeli Hebrew abstract English abstract |