Department of Religious Studies, Florida International University
Professor Nathan Katz, Professor and Chair

The Shul of Bal Harbour and The Aleph Institute of Miami, Florida
Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar

B’Or Ha’Torah Journal of Science, Art & Modern Life in the Light of the Torah
Professor Herman Branover, Editor-in-Chief; Ilana Attia, Managing Editor

The Fourth Miami International Conference on Torah & Science

ABSOLUTE STANDARDS IN AN AGE OF RELATIVITY

18-20 December 2001
The Kovens Conference Center
Florida International University, Miami, Florida

No registration fee (free entrance to the lecture hall)  

For accommodations at the Beekman Hotel, please call Carmen at 305- 861-4801.  Glatt kosher delis and restaurants in walking distance from the Beekman Hotel.

"Torah & Science Shabbat Dinner" at The Shul, 9540 Collins Ave., on Dec. 21 @ 6:30 pm.  $25/person.  For reservations call 305-868-1411. "Melaveh Malka with the Scientists" at The Shul on Dec. 22 @ 8:30 pm.  Free admission. Live music & refreshments.

 

	Tuesday, December 18
	SESSION 1: THE UNITY OF CREATION
	Greetings
8:00 PM- 8:10 PM	Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar, The Shul of Bal Harbour, Surfside, FL, USA
8:10 PM- 8:15 PM	Prof. Erik Larson, Department of Religious Studies, FIU
8:15 PM- 8:30 PM	Remarks Prof. Herman Branover, Magnetohydrodynamics, Ben-Gurion University, Israel The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Torah & Science
8:30 PM- 9:10 PM	Keynote Speaker Presented in Professor Carmeli's absence upon his request by Professor Ruvin Ferber, Physics, University of Latvia The First Six Days of the Universe
9:10 PM- 9:50 PM	Keynote Speaker PROF. EMANUEL SEGAL, Physics, Rafael Armament Development Authority, and Adjunct Professor, Quality Assurance and Reliability, Technion, Israel The Concept of Time according to Maimonides
9:50 PM- 10:30 PM	Keynote Speaker Irving Dardik, Medical Technology, Director of Dardik Institute, USA Waves, Matter, and Torah
	Wednesday, December 19
	SESSION 2: TSIMTSUM (G-D’S TIME-SPACE)
9:00 AM- 9:40 AM	Keynote Speaker Prof. Nathan Aviezer, Physics, Bar Ilan University, Israel Time, Space & the Torah: An Emerging Harmony
9:40 AM- 10:05AM	David E. Rosenberg, PhD, Physics, NJ Institute of Technology, USA Negative Vacuum Energy from Unrecaptured Matter
10:05AM- 10:30AM	Jacob Zvi Brudoley, MD, Chicago, USA Tsimtsum and Science
10:30AM- 11:00AM	Coffee Break
	SESSION 3: KABBALISTIC & RABBINIC TIME-SPACE
11:00AM- 11:40AM	Keynote Speaker Prof. Eliezer Eduardo Zeiger, Biology, UCLA, USA Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, Gal Einai, Israel Time, Space, and Consciousness
11:40AM- 12:05PM	Tsvi Victor Saks, PhD, Mathematics, IBM, USA The Unity of Time
12:05 PM- 12:30PM	Prof. Ruvin Ferber, Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia What Is ‘I’?: Using Maimonides’ Guide to Interpret Paradoxes in Modern Physics
12:30 PM- 12:55PM	Menachem (MALCOLM) Kovacs, PhD, Sociology, Montgomery College, USA Who Am I? Torah and Sociological Views of the Self – Convergences and Divergences
12:55 PM- 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45PM- 2:00 PM	Minha
	SESSION 4: EARTH TIME-SPACE
2:00 PM- 2:4OPM	Keynote Speaker Prof. James E. Huchingson, Religious Studies, FIU, USA Celestial Journeying to Planet Earth: Space, Time, and Being in the Context of Space Flight
2:40 PM- 3:05PM	Yaacov (Jack) Hanoka, PhD, Physics, Evergreen Solar, USA Radioactive Rock Dating and the Age of the World
3:05 PM- 3:30PM	Aaron Leib Dukes, MSc, Computer Science, Breakthru Systems Development, USA Erev Shabbat Ahar Hatsot—The Imminent Y6K Problem
3:30 PM- 3:55PM	Avraham Schmidt, PhD, Physics and Ecology, Institute Aco de Paou, France The Double Tetrahydron Dimension of Genesis
3:55 PM- 4:20PM	Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, Toronto, Canada What Is Time? An Elucidation of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
	SESSION 5: TOPICS IN TORAH & SCIENCE
8:00 PM- 8:40PM	Keynote Speaker Lee Spetner, PhD, Physicist, (retired) Technical Director of Eljim, Ltd., Israel Organic Evolution in the Twenty-First Century
8:40 PM- 9:20PM	Elliot Pines, PhD, Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer, Raytheon Company, USA The Dark Side of the Scientific Model—An Understanding of Anti-Torah Bias in Modern Science
9:20 PM- 9:45 PM	Prof. Zecharia Dor-Shav, (retired) School of Education, Bar Ilan University, Israel The Psychology and Religion of Tahora and Holiness
9:45 PM- 10:10PM	Moshe Genuth, Philosophy of Science, Hebrew University, Israel Entropy, Self-Annulment and Immortality: Immortality in Science & Torah
	Thursday, December 20
	SESSION 6:  JEWISH MEDICAL ETHICS
9:00 AM- 9:40AM	Keynote Speaker Prof. Miryam Wahrman, Biology, William Paterson University of NJ, USA Judging Genes
9:40 AM- 10:050AM	Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Senior Rabbi Boca Raton Synagogue, Dean of the Boca Raton Community Kollel & Yeshiva High School, USA Society’s Hard Cell: Stem Cell Research Condemned, Condoned, or Encouraged by Jewish Law?
10:05AM- 10:30AM	Yakir Kaufman, MD, Neurology, Hadassah Hospital, Israel Psychoneuroimmunology: The Science Connecting Body and Mind
10:30 AM- 11:00AM	Coffee Break
	SESSION 7: BEING & ECOLOGY
11:25AM- 11:50AM	Akiva Wolff, MA, Judaism and the Environment, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel Judaism and the Modern Concept of "Sustainability"
11:50AM- 12:15PM	Mordechai (Marc) Olesky, MSc, Agricultural Consultant, Florida, USA The Blueprint of Creation: A Comparison between Genesis, and Ecology (Part I: Photosynthesis)
	SESSION 8: TOPICS IN TORAH & SCIENCE
12:15PM- 12:40PM	Matest Agrest, Dr Sci, (emeritus) Mikhail Agrest, PhD, Physics and Astronomy, College of Charleston, SC, USA Creation of the Tablets of the Ten Commandments and Laser Technology
12:40PM- 1:05PM	Prof. Isaac Elishakoff, Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, USA Probabilistic Analysis of the ‘Torah Codes:’ A False Premise?
1:05 PM- 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 PM- 2:00 PM	Minha
	SESSION 9: TOPICS IN TORAH & SCIENCE
2:00 PM- 2:40 PM	Keynote Speaker Rabbi Prof. Moshe Tendler, Dean of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS); Professor of Biology, Yeshiva University, USA On the Interface: Immutable Torah, Unchanging Laws of Nature, Ever Changing Understanding of these Laws
2:40 PM- 5:00 PM	PANEL DISCUSSION Moderator: Dr. Lee Spetner Panelists: Theoretical physics: Professor Herman Branover Applied physics: Dr. Yaacov Hanoka Cell biology: Prof. Eliezer Zeiger Genetics and general science: Prof. Miryam Wahrman Medical technology: Irving Dardik Rabbinic and hasidic thought: Rabbi Sholom Lipskar Law: Prof. Baruch Bush History, literature and art: Prof. Vera Schwarcz Topics of discussion: “Is your field of science or humanities leading to a Grand Theory of Everything?” “Is the philosophical outlook of your field of science or the humanities converging with that of the Torah?”
	SESSION 10: MYSTICAL, SOCIAL, HISTORICAL & CREATIVE BEING
8:00 PM- 8:40 PM	Keynote Speakers Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar, The Shul of Bal Harbour, Surfside, Florida, Prof. Carlos Warter, MD, Transpersonal Psychiatry, University of Miami School of Medicine, USA Neurotheology
8:40 PM- 9:05 PM	Prof. Baruch Bush, Law, Hofstra University, USA “Open Your Eyes and See:” Indeterminacy and Constructionism in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and the ‘Construction’ of the Redemption
9:05 PM- 9:30 PM	Prof. Vera Schwarcz, History, Wesleyan University, USA The Soil of Self: Historical Memory and Personal Identity
9:30 PM- 9:55 PM	Prof. Yossef (Marcio) Zukin, Industrial Design, PUC-Rio, Brazil reations from Something in the Light of Creation from Nothing
9:55 PM- 10:00 PM	Announcements about the Shabbaton and Melaveh Malka
10:00 PM	Conference closes

More information on the Third Miami International Conference

and its proceedings in issues 12E and 13E of B’Or Ha’Torah may be found at

http://www.borhatorah.org

• Click here for the complete program of the third conference.

• Click here to view the abstracts of the invited keynote speakers of our 2001 conference
• Click here to view the abstracts of the contributing lecturers of our 2001 conference