סמינר הלוח העברי - תשס"ו

Jewish Calendar Seminar (05/06)

Time: Tuesday, 4-5 pm
Place: Mathematics Seminar Room (Teva-216 / 331)


Academic Year 5766 (05/06), Semester A
 

Date Speaker Title
5 Kislev
(Dec. 6)
Ariel Cohen
(Hebrew University)
The year of creation according to Pirkey deRabbi Eliezer, the Exilarch's letter and al-Khwarizmi
19 Kislev
(Dec. 20)
Yaaqov Loewinger
(Tel-Aviv)
Some severe unsolved textual problems in Rambam's Hilkhot Qiddush haHodesh
17 Tevet
(Jan. 17, 06)
Ari Belenkiy
(Bar-Ilan University)
The rising of Canopus, the Septuagint, and the encounter between Shimon the Just and Antiochus the Great
24 Tevet
(Jan. 24)
Simcha Velner
(Bar-Ilan University)
Software demonstration: position of the moon and its illuminated part, according to Hebrew or Gregorian date
2 Shvat
(Jan. 31)
Magdi Shamuel
(Ashdod)
Dehiyat Hakravat "Im Hashemesh" by R. Shmuel ben Avraham