David Tall : Israel, October 2007 |
David was invited by Avi Berman to visit the Technion Haifa for a few days in October 2007 to give a talk and have research meetings with the staff. He flew out on Thursday 11th October to arrive after midnight on the morning of the 12th, to be met by Ivy Kidron to stay with her overnight before being transferred by Chaim Tirosh to meet Ted and Polly Eisenberg to stay for two days over Shabat including a visit to the Negev to meet Michael Fried. On Sunday 14th October he caught the train to Haifa to be met by Boris Koichu who arranged his visit to the Technion with meetings with local academics and a one-day conference on Mathematical Thinking. On Friday he transferred to Tel Aviv, to give another talk on his research and to spend the final weekend with Dina Tirosh and Pessia Tsamir.
Shabat with Ted
... and Polly Eisenberg
A trip into the Negev desert
passing Bedouin villages
arriving at Revevim Kibbutz
meeting Michael Fried
David, Michael and Ted
Tree sculptures by Aharon Naveh, (Michael's father-in-law)
A tree in the shape of a Star of David
looking on in amazement
The tree in the foreground starting its training
Aleph tree
Bouquet
Braid
Grafted loop in the trunk
More grafted loops
Spectacles
Snake
The fortress
Israeli mainline from Ber Sheva to Haifa
arrival at Har Ha Carmel
Boris Koichu is there to meet me
Michael Moore comes for a talk
Igor Verner
Igor Verner & Khariah Massarwe
Miriam Reiner
Nitsa Moshwitz-Hadar and her students
Shaker Rasslan at the house of his mother-in-law
Amal his wife
The birthday party
Ready for a massive arab meal
Amal fills fills the fridge in my room
A job well done
Tuesday - at the conference with Thierry Dana-Picard
Ted Eisenberg introduces the conference at Haifa
The audience listens
David gives his main talk
Plenary discussion: Orit Hazzan, Avi Berman, Boris Koichu, Ted Eisenberg, David Tall, chaired by Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar
Boris Koichu
and a beer
Yaniv Biton
Michal Yerushalmy
Playing with Miriam Reiner's simulation of perception
Miriam Reiner
At the University of Haifa
with Michal Yerushalmy and colleagues
With Orit Zaslavsky
and her students
Speaking at conference in Tel Aviv on Friday
Maureen Hoch, who translated my slides into Hebrew
The audience listens
Closing Plenary
Reuven Babai
and pudding ...
dinner with Dina and Chaim Tirosh
It's shabat, so work is not allowed, even pushing a button. The lift on the right simply circulates up and down to allow people to get on and off.
Sunday morning ... A Bach concert before travelling home...
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