Welcome to EITA-New Agriculture 2013

The First EITA Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology, Biosystems Engineering

"Precision Agriculture: Challenges and Future Directions"

College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.

Thursday-Friday, June 27-28, 2013

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Invitation

The EITA-New Agriculture 2013 - The first EITA Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology, Biosystems Engineering, coordinated by the Emerging Information and Technology Association (EITA), is an international forum. It will be held at College of Veterinary Medicine (Vet School), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. on Thursday-Friday, June 27-28, 2013. The conference theme for the EITA-New Agriculture 2013 is "Precision Agriculture: Challenges and Future Directions". Please visit the website of the EITA-New Agriculture 2013 for more conference details.

The main purpose of the EITA-New Agriculture 2013 is connecting the dots to form a big picture for vision and talents. This conference, bringing together a global network of today's best thinkers, visionaries and thought leaders, serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to Agricultural Science and Technology, Biosystems Engineering. The EITA-New Agriculture 2013, the premier international conference in the field, spans all disciplines and attracts more than a hundred high-tech titans from the World.

We are pleased to invite you to attend the EITA-New Agriculture 2013 and submit proposals for papers, panels, demonstrations, workshops, corporate showcases/demos, and SIG discussions. The Conference Review Policy requires that each proposal will be peer-reviewed by for inclusion in the conference program, and CD-ROM proceedings.

Workshops

The EITA-New Agriculture 2013 conference consists of three parallel workshops:

• Workshop 1: Agroecology, Agricultural Biotechnology
• Workshop 2: Precision and Information Agriculture, Renewable Energy and Smart Grid
  
• Workshop 3: Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
  

(Jungfrau, Switzerland - Alvin Wei-Cheng Wong)

Possible Workshop Topics

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics as they relate to the research and development aspects of Agricultural Science and Technology, Biosystems Engineering. The long list is not meant to be all-inclusive. Rather, it should be used to stimulate and encourage other ideas and possibilities.

• Agricultural economics and policy
• Agricultural and biosystems management
• Agroecology, sustainable and secure food systems
• Biometeorology
  
• Agriculture and climate change
• Ecological agriculture
• Green farming and organic agriculture
• Agricultural safety and health

• Food and process engineering

• Food science, quality and safety
• Emerging technologies in sterilization and pasteurization

• Biological engineering

• Forest engineering

• Metabolic engineering
• Protein engineering
• Synthetic biology
• Cellulose synthesis
  
• Biofuels
• Biomass and renewable energy
• Smart grid and smart grid security
• Artificial intelligence in power systems
• Power system stability, control, and optimization
• Management and behaviour of farm and companion animals
• Waste management and the protection of the environment
• Animal manure management
  
• Environmental microbiology
  
• Utilization of clean and renewable energy resources (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, etc.)
• Precision and information agriculture

• Information and electrical technologies

• Bio-sensors, bio-instrumentation, bio-informatics and bio-nanotechnology
• Sensors and information systems for precision agriculture, remote sensing
• Precision farming technologies, equipment and instruments
• Auto-guidance systems
• Mechatronics and robotics
  

• Power and machinery

• Agri-tourism and other new mode
  
• Alternative agricultural production
• Agricultural products processing
• Animal science
• Gamete biology
• Embryology
• Animal cloning
• Stem cell research
• Reproductive biology
• Pathobiology
• Molecular biology
• Gene regulation, comparative genomics, sequence analysis, evolution
• Bioinformatics and statistical genetics
• Next generation sequencing
• Developmental biology
• Developmental epigenetics
• Veterinary and biomedical sciences
• Biological sciences and biomedical engineering
• Physiology and immunology
• Reproductive physiology
• Infectious diseases (bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology) and public health
• Animal disease research and diagnostics, surveillance, epidemiology and control
• Avian medicine and pathology
  
• Avian diseases and biology
• Livestock farming
• Livestock genomics
• Sustainable farm animal breeding and reproduction technology
• Feed processing
• Carcass and meat science
• Chemical toxicology
• Crop and livestock biotechnology
• Nutrition and metabolism
• Nutritional immunology
• Aquaculture science and technology
• Fish research
  
• Fisheries science and management
• Fishing technology
• Entomology & nematology
• Weed science
  
• Mycology and mushroom science
  
• Crop management and physiology
• Plant physiology
  
• Plant pathology and plant microbe biology
• Microbial genomics
• Functional genomics
• Pathogens
• Molecular and cellular plant-microbe interactions
  
• Plant breeding & genetics
• Biology and epidemiology of foliar pathogens
  
• Plant disease management
  
• Gene-deletor technology
• Horticulture
• Viticulture and enology
  
• Agricultural transportation, distribution and marketing
• Environmental permitting and remediation
• Plant and animal environments
  
• Natural resources and environmental engineering

• Water resources management (hydrology, irrigation, drainage, water quality)

• Crop and soil sciences
• Soil management
• Soilborne pathogens
• Soil microbiology

• Structures and environment

• Standards and safety engineering

• Risk management

• New emerging areas
  

Presentation Categories

The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.

• Keynote Speakers
• Invited Panels/Speakers
• Papers
• Panels
• Demonstrations

(Grand Canyon, U.S.A. - Alvin Wei-Cheng Wong)

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings (CD-ROM formats) as well as on the EITA-New Agriculture 2013 website. You may download the Proceedings through the Internet. These proceedings serve as major sources in the global high-tech community, reflecting the current state of the art in the disciplines.