Professor Frank Krauss, a leading academic and Director of the Institute for Data Science at the UK’s Durham University, will present a seminar on the opportunities of data simulations for tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The event, on Thursday 7 December at Victoria University’s Government Building Lecture Theatre, will shed light on the importance of overcoming the mismatch between data science and complex human behaviour.
When ESR microbiologist Jackie Wright made the first case report of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1993 – along with collaborators Dianne Fraser and Michael Baker – she wasn’t aware just how much she was making history.