Monday, 14 Oct 2013
International seminar
Featured speakers are Agus Pakpahan, chair of the Commission for the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms, who will present "Sustainability, Opportunities and Challenges in Indonesia." Adam Kighoma Malima, a Tanzanian politician and member of parliament since 2010, will speak about "The Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Agricultural Sector in Tanzania."
Statistics Seminar
"A workbench based approach for repeatable experiments in software", Shashi K. Gadia, Computer Science Department, Iowa State University, Ames
Scientific Discovery and the Fight to End Global Hunger
Marc Van Montagu, Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert T. Fraley are joint recipients of the 2013 World Food Prize for their research and achievements in agricultural biotechnology. Norman E. Borlaug Lecture