Fwd: FW: TODAY! R&D Lecture Series - Jan 24 - Mathematical and astronomical texts from ancient Mesopotamia (fwd)

[Hema Murthy]

This talk might interest some of you.

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From: Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:40 AM
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Subject: TODAY! R&D Lecture Series - Jan 24 - Mathematical and astronomical
texts from ancient Mesopotamia
Dear All,

Do keep the momentum going, and join us at the Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences today for an intriguing lecture on the interpretation of
astronomical and mathematical knowledge from ancient Mesopotamia with Prof.
Lis Brack-Bernsen from the University of Regensburg. This will be of
interest to a wide variety of the campus community, so please do come by and
bring friends, students, and colleagues.

         Mathematical and astronomical texts from ancient Mesopotamia

                  Tuesday, January 24, 2017; 4:00 t0 5:30 pm

                              Lis Brack-Bernsen


             HSB 356, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras



The talk will start with a short historical introduction to Mesopotamia,
followed by the history of how mathematical texts were deciphered. Then the
history of deciphering the astronomical text follows, and finally
Prof.Brack-Bernsen will talk about actual research on how Babylonian
astronomy was developed.


Prof.Lis Brack-Bernsen teaches history of science at the University of
Regensburg. Her research interests include the history of astronomy and
mathematics with special emphasis on Babylonian astronomy and its
development. A mathematician by training, with physics and astronomy as
subsidiary subjects, she was trained in the history of ancient astronomy and
mathematics by Olaf Schmidt during her studies at the University of
Copenhagen. She switched to the history of Mayan Astronomy for her PhD
studies at the University of Basel, whereby she was sponsored by the Swiss
National Foundation. After few years as a lecturer (Privatdozentin) at the
University of Frankfurt and a stay as Visiting Fellow at the Dibner
Institute, she became lecturer at Regensburg University in 1999. Three
consecutive DFG research projects have enabled her to investigate the
development of Babylonian Astronomy and to understand and reconstruct many
empirical prediction rules written in Babylonian procedure texts. In 2006,
she became a Professor at the University of Regensburg.


We look forward to seeing you there. For questions or queries, please write
to me (math...@iitm.ac.in) or Prof.V.R.Muraleedharan (v...@iitm.ac.in).

Best regards,
Mathangi
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Mathangi Krishnamurthy, PhD
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600 036
+91-44-22574530 | math...@iitm.ac.in
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