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BkBeats is the largest faculty party in the Netherlands. During this faculty festival, various acts and side-acts can be seen and experienced in various halls and locations in the monumental building of the faculty.

The Academic Fringe Festival - Nithya Sambasivan: The Myopia of Model Centrism

The Academic Fringe Festival - Nithya Sambasivan: The Myopia of Model Centrism 11 April 2022 17:00 till 18:00 - Location: Online by Nithya Sambasivan Abstract AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present results from my multi-year inquiry into how fundamentals of AI systems---data, expertise, and fairness---are viewed in AI development. I pay particular attention to developer practices in AI systems intended for low-resource communities, especially in the Global South, where people are enrolled as labourers or untapped DAUs. Despite the inordinate role played by these fundamentals on model outcomes, data work is under-valued; domain experts are reduced to data-entry operators; and fairness and accountability assumptions do not scale past the West. Instead, model development is glamourised, and model performance is viewed as the indicator of success. The overt emphasis on models, at the cost of ignoring these fundamentals, leads to brittle and reductive interventions that ultimately displace functional and complex real-world systems in low-resource contexts. I put forth practical implications for AI research and practice to shift away from model centrism to enabling human ecosystems; in effect, building safer and more robust systems for all. Speaker Biography Dr. Nithya Sambasivan is a sociotechnical researcher whose work is in solving hard, socially-important design problems impacting marginalised communities in the Global South. Her current research re-imagines AI fundamentals to work for low-resource communities. Dr. Sambasivan's work has been widely covered in venues like VentureBeat, ZDnet, Scroll.in, O’Reilly, New Scientist, State of AI report, HackerNews and more, while influencing public policy like the Indian government’s strategy for responsible AI and motivating the NeurIPS Datasets track. As a former Staff Research Scientist at Google Research, she pioneered several original, award-winning research initiatives such as responsible AI in the Global South, human-data interaction, gender equity online, and next billion users, which fundamentally shaped the company’s strategy for emerging markets, besides landing as new products affecting millions of users including in Google Station, Search, YouTube, Android, Maps & more. Dr. Sambasivan founded and managed a blueprint HCI team in Google Research Bangalore, and set up the Accra HCI team, in contexts with limited existing HCI pipelines. Simultaneously, her research has received several best paper awards at top-tier computing conferences. Homepage: https://nithyasambasivan.com/ . More information In this second edition on the topic of "Responsible Use of Data", we take a multi-disciplinary view and explore further lessons learned from success stories and examples in which the irresponsible use of data can create and foster inequality and inequity, perpetuate bias and prejudice, or produce unlawful or unethical outcomes. Our aim is to discuss and draw certain guidelines to make the use of data a responsible practice. Join us To receive announcements of upcoming presentations and events organized by TAFF and get the Zoom link to join the presentations, join our mailing list . TAFF-WIS Delft Visit the website of The Academic Fringe Festival

Loek Andriessen joined ImPhys as MSc student

Loek Andriessen started his thesis for the Nanobiology Masters in the lab of Hylkje Geertsema under the supervision of Myron Hensgens. We are trying to understand the spatial organization of the cell nucleus. Specifically, we investigate the distribution of nuclear lamin proteins using DNA-PAINT. The focus of his project is on investigating local differences in lamin protein distribution in 3D.

Boyd Peters joined ImPhys as MSc student

Boyd Peters is a Nanobiology MSc student and he joined the lab of Hylkje Geertsema for his thesis project. The main goal of this project is to establish an expansion microscopy protocol and utilize it to reveal the organization of the nuclear lamins and several other proteins.

Awarded projects

TU Delft Library Open Education Stimulation Fund 2023 4TU.ResearchData FAIR data fund autumn call 2022 TU Delft Library Open Education Stimulation Fund 2022

Requests

The Board of Examiners deals with individual requests from students concerning the curriculum and issues rulings on these. Examples of such requests include: wanting to take a non-standard programme (self-composed minor, double degree), admission to or exemption from a certain course, being granted permission for an individual resit. Students can submit individual requests via the secretary of the Board of Examiners . Please state your name and student number. If you are considering lodging a complaint or objection, you should first contact one of the academic counsellors . The academic counsellor will advise you on how to formulate your request and inform you about the correct procedures. Contact Board of Examiners Industrial Design Engineering Email: educationregulations-ide@tudelft.nl The Board of Examiners decides on a request from a student within 40 working days upon receipt of the request. Take notice: the aforementioned email address is only for the Industrial Design Engineering faculty

Creating an R package (the sequel)

Creating an R package (the sequel) 23 February 2024 12:00 till 13:30 - Location: TU Delft Library, Orange Room | Add to my calendar Register Check https://delft-rcafe.github.io/home/#sec-upcoming for current content. Have you always wanted to know more about the programming language R? Join the TU Delft informal R Café on February 23. You are welcome from 12.00 – 13.30 hours. Themed: ‘Creating an R Package (the sequel)’. No prior experience with R is necessary. Please feel free to join this multidisciplinary group of R enthusiasts that run a supportive community of practice for PhDs and researchers who are working with R, or who want to begin. Their informal get-togethers are open to anyone who wishes to join. R Café started two years ago. It’s a community of people interested in the programming language called R, a versatile and powerful tool for statistical computing and data analysis. Don’t hesitate! Let’s catch up on February 23! This session follows the previous R Café held in January. Missed the previous session? No problem, you can still join us! If you want, you can view the presentation from the previous session. Organised by: TU Delft R Café

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BK-Launch bk-launch@tudelft.nl Prof.dr.ir. Hans Wamelink J.W.F.Wamelink@tudelft.nl General questions Falco Zeekaf F.L.E.Zeekaf@tudelft.nl Community Manager Marilotte Stemerdink M.L.C.Stemerdink@tudelft.nl BK-Launch questions Laurèl de Gier L.N.deGier@tudelft.nl MSc Design Studio MSc Elective Entrepreneurship Jip Leendertse J.Leendertse@tudelft.nl PostDoc | Start- & scale-ups in the construction industry

The Landscape as a Starting Point for Sustainable Urbanisation

Sustainable urbanisation, climate adaptation and biodiversity require a design approach that takes the landscape as its starting point. In short, that is what new professor Steffen Nijhuis focuses on within his teaching and research on Landscape-based Urbanism. “The landscape offers structure, ecological coherence and variety, but is also flexible and multifunctional.” Steffen further explains his research and ambition in an interview.

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BkBeats

BkBeats is the largest faculty party in the Netherlands. During this faculty festival, various acts and side-acts can be seen and experienced in various halls and locations in the monumental building of the faculty.

The Academic Fringe Festival - Nithya Sambasivan: The Myopia of Model Centrism

The Academic Fringe Festival - Nithya Sambasivan: The Myopia of Model Centrism 11 April 2022 17:00 till 18:00 - Location: Online by Nithya Sambasivan Abstract AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present results from my multi-year inquiry into how fundamentals of AI systems---data, expertise, and fairness---are viewed in AI development. I pay particular attention to developer practices in AI systems intended for low-resource communities, especially in the Global South, where people are enrolled as labourers or untapped DAUs. Despite the inordinate role played by these fundamentals on model outcomes, data work is under-valued; domain experts are reduced to data-entry operators; and fairness and accountability assumptions do not scale past the West. Instead, model development is glamourised, and model performance is viewed as the indicator of success. The overt emphasis on models, at the cost of ignoring these fundamentals, leads to brittle and reductive interventions that ultimately displace functional and complex real-world systems in low-resource contexts. I put forth practical implications for AI research and practice to shift away from model centrism to enabling human ecosystems; in effect, building safer and more robust systems for all. Speaker Biography Dr. Nithya Sambasivan is a sociotechnical researcher whose work is in solving hard, socially-important design problems impacting marginalised communities in the Global South. Her current research re-imagines AI fundamentals to work for low-resource communities. Dr. Sambasivan's work has been widely covered in venues like VentureBeat, ZDnet, Scroll.in, O’Reilly, New Scientist, State of AI report, HackerNews and more, while influencing public policy like the Indian government’s strategy for responsible AI and motivating the NeurIPS Datasets track. As a former Staff Research Scientist at Google Research, she pioneered several original, award-winning research initiatives such as responsible AI in the Global South, human-data interaction, gender equity online, and next billion users, which fundamentally shaped the company’s strategy for emerging markets, besides landing as new products affecting millions of users including in Google Station, Search, YouTube, Android, Maps & more. Dr. Sambasivan founded and managed a blueprint HCI team in Google Research Bangalore, and set up the Accra HCI team, in contexts with limited existing HCI pipelines. Simultaneously, her research has received several best paper awards at top-tier computing conferences. Homepage: https://nithyasambasivan.com/ . More information In this second edition on the topic of "Responsible Use of Data", we take a multi-disciplinary view and explore further lessons learned from success stories and examples in which the irresponsible use of data can create and foster inequality and inequity, perpetuate bias and prejudice, or produce unlawful or unethical outcomes. Our aim is to discuss and draw certain guidelines to make the use of data a responsible practice. Join us To receive announcements of upcoming presentations and events organized by TAFF and get the Zoom link to join the presentations, join our mailing list . TAFF-WIS Delft Visit the website of The Academic Fringe Festival

Loek Andriessen joined ImPhys as MSc student

Loek Andriessen started his thesis for the Nanobiology Masters in the lab of Hylkje Geertsema under the supervision of Myron Hensgens. We are trying to understand the spatial organization of the cell nucleus. Specifically, we investigate the distribution of nuclear lamin proteins using DNA-PAINT. The focus of his project is on investigating local differences in lamin protein distribution in 3D.

Boyd Peters joined ImPhys as MSc student

Boyd Peters is a Nanobiology MSc student and he joined the lab of Hylkje Geertsema for his thesis project. The main goal of this project is to establish an expansion microscopy protocol and utilize it to reveal the organization of the nuclear lamins and several other proteins.

Awarded projects

TU Delft Library Open Education Stimulation Fund 2023 4TU.ResearchData FAIR data fund autumn call 2022 TU Delft Library Open Education Stimulation Fund 2022

Requests

The Board of Examiners deals with individual requests from students concerning the curriculum and issues rulings on these. Examples of such requests include: wanting to take a non-standard programme (self-composed minor, double degree), admission to or exemption from a certain course, being granted permission for an individual resit. Students can submit individual requests via the secretary of the Board of Examiners . Please state your name and student number. If you are considering lodging a complaint or objection, you should first contact one of the academic counsellors . The academic counsellor will advise you on how to formulate your request and inform you about the correct procedures. Contact Board of Examiners Industrial Design Engineering Email: educationregulations-ide@tudelft.nl The Board of Examiners decides on a request from a student within 40 working days upon receipt of the request. Take notice: the aforementioned email address is only for the Industrial Design Engineering faculty

Creating an R package (the sequel)

Creating an R package (the sequel) 23 February 2024 12:00 till 13:30 - Location: TU Delft Library, Orange Room | Add to my calendar Register Check https://delft-rcafe.github.io/home/#sec-upcoming for current content. Have you always wanted to know more about the programming language R? Join the TU Delft informal R Café on February 23. You are welcome from 12.00 – 13.30 hours. Themed: ‘Creating an R Package (the sequel)’. No prior experience with R is necessary. Please feel free to join this multidisciplinary group of R enthusiasts that run a supportive community of practice for PhDs and researchers who are working with R, or who want to begin. Their informal get-togethers are open to anyone who wishes to join. R Café started two years ago. It’s a community of people interested in the programming language called R, a versatile and powerful tool for statistical computing and data analysis. Don’t hesitate! Let’s catch up on February 23! This session follows the previous R Café held in January. Missed the previous session? No problem, you can still join us! If you want, you can view the presentation from the previous session. Organised by: TU Delft R Café

Contact

BK-Launch bk-launch@tudelft.nl Prof.dr.ir. Hans Wamelink J.W.F.Wamelink@tudelft.nl General questions Falco Zeekaf F.L.E.Zeekaf@tudelft.nl Community Manager Marilotte Stemerdink M.L.C.Stemerdink@tudelft.nl BK-Launch questions Laurèl de Gier L.N.deGier@tudelft.nl MSc Design Studio MSc Elective Entrepreneurship Jip Leendertse J.Leendertse@tudelft.nl PostDoc | Start- & scale-ups in the construction industry

The Landscape as a Starting Point for Sustainable Urbanisation

Sustainable urbanisation, climate adaptation and biodiversity require a design approach that takes the landscape as its starting point. In short, that is what new professor Steffen Nijhuis focuses on within his teaching and research on Landscape-based Urbanism. “The landscape offers structure, ecological coherence and variety, but is also flexible and multifunctional.” Steffen further explains his research and ambition in an interview.
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Green ammonia remains a challenge, but researchers make significant progress

The production of ammonia, essential for fertiliser production, is responsible for almost 1.5% of global carbon emissions. This needs to be greener, which is why researchers have been looking for sustainable alternatives for years.

NWO funding for flexible power demand in electrically driven industry

NWO is funding two projects to explore ways to make the power demand of industry more flexible, allowing it to better align with future energy supplies. One of these projects, “DEFLAME,” is led by Machteld van den Broek from TU Delft. Solar and wind power generate variable amounts of electricity, while today’s industry demands a relatively constant supply. Adjustments are needed to prepare industry for a power supply based on sun and wind. These adjustments include technical, economic, and social adaptations that are being researched collaboratively by academic institutions and industry partners in these two projects. They also aim to address the barriers that hinder such adaptations. About DEFLAME DEFLAME stands for Direct Electrification of Industrial Heat Demand supported by Flexibility at Multiple Levels and their Exchanges (DEFLAME). This project aims to make the Dutch process industry—particularly the chemical and food industries—more resilient and climate-neutral by electrifying industrial heat using flexible solutions. Van den Broek explains, “For instance, we could scale installations up or down, store heat in underground systems, and/or store electricity in batteries, so that industry can better respond to fluctuations in the energy network.” This effort requires collaboration across multiple levels: technology, individual plants, industrial clusters, and national and international energy systems. DEFLAME focuses on removing obstacles to electrifying low-temperature heat (up to 400°C) with efficient technology. “This kind of heat is used in many processes. It’s essential to drive the right chemical reactions, and it’s also needed for drying, distillation, and evaporation processes. For example, in the crystallisation process to turn sugar beets into sugar, or in salt extraction,” Van den Broek explains. In crystallisation processes, for instance, mechanical vapour recompression can be used. In this process, vapours are compressed by an electrically driven compressor and then reused to heat the evaporator. “This saves energy, as it uses residual heat and allows for electricity to be sourced cleanly. With solar and wind, unlike with gas, the power supply is variable. If we want to electrify industry, businesses and technology need to be able to respond flexibly to this, for example, by storing heat as a cluster or building flexibility into the electrical system.” DEFLAME will identify strategies and institutional arrangements to unlock these solutions from multiple levels and with an interdisciplinary approach. Van den Broek states, “I look forward to taking an important step together with our partners to advance industrial electrification in the Netherlands. This is an essential part of the energy transition.” Consortium Partners The consortium partners include Atlas Copco, Cosun, ISPT, Nobian, Oranje Wind Power II C.V./RWE, Smart Port, Stedin, Tennet, TNO, TU Delft, and TU Eindhoven. Read the NWO press release . Prof.dr.ir. M.A. (Machteld) van den Broek

Students Amos Yusuf, Mick Dam & Bas Brouwer winners of Mekel Prize 2024

Master students Amos Yusuf, from the ME faculty (Mick Dam, from the EEMCS faculty and graduate Bas Brouwer have won the Mekel Prize 2024 for the best extra scientific activity at TU Delft: the development of an initiative that brings master students into the classroom teaching sciences to the younger generations. The prize was ceremonially awarded by prof Tim van den Hagen on 13 November after the Van Hasselt Lecture at the Prinsenhof, Delft. They received a statue of Professor Jan Mekel and 1.500,- to spend on their project. Insights into climate change are being openly doubted. Funding for important educational efforts and research are being withdrawn. Short clips – so called “reels” – on Youtube and TikTok threaten to simplify complex political and social problems. AI fakes befuddle what is true and what is not. The voices of science that contribute to those discussion with modesty, careful argument and scepticism, are drowned in noise. This poses a threat for universities like TU Delft, who strive to increase student numbers, who benefit from diverse student populations and aim to pass on their knowledge and scientific virtues to the next generation. It is, therefore, alarming that student enrolments to Bachelor and Master Programs at TU Delft have declined in the past year. Students in front of the class The project is aimed to make the sciences more appealing to the next generation. They have identified the problem that students tend miss out on the opportunity of entering a higher education trajectory in the Beta sciences – because they have a wrong picture of such education. In their mind, they depict it as boring and dry. In his pilot lecture at the Stanislas VMBO in Delft, Amos Yusuf has successfully challenged this image. He shared his enthusiasm for the field of robotics and presented himself as a positive role model to the pupils. And in return the excitement of the high school students is palpable in the videos and pictures from the day. The spark of science fills their eyes. Bas Brouwer Mick Dam are the founders of NUVO – the platform that facilitates the engagement of Master Students in high school education in Delft Their efforts offer TU Delft Master Students a valuable learning moment: By sharing insights from their fields with pupils at high school in an educational setting, our students can find identify their own misunderstandings of their subject, learn to speak in front of non-scientific audiences and peak into education as a work field they themselves might not have considered. An extraordinary commitment According to the Mekel jury, the project scored well on all the criteria (risk mitigation, inclusiveness, transparency and societal relevance). However, it was the extraordinary commitment of Amos who was fully immersed during his Master Project and the efforts of Brouwer and Dam that brought together teaching and research which is integral to academic culture that made the project stand out. About the Mekel Prize The Mekel Prize will be awarded to the most socially responsible research project or extra-scientific activity (e.g. founding of an NGO or organization, an initiative or realization of an event or other impactful project) by an employee or group of employees of TU Delft – projects that showcase in an outstanding fashion that they have been committed from the beginning to relevant moral and societal values and have been aware of and tried to mitigate as much as possible in innovative ways the risks involved in their research. The award recognizes such efforts and wants to encourage the responsible development of science and technology at TU Delft in the future. For furthermore information About the project: https://www.de-nuvo.nl/video-robotica-pilot/ About the Mekel Prize: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/our-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethics-philosophy-of-technology/mekel-prize

The ENHANCE Diversity Seed Fund

Are you a student at TU Delft or another ENHANCE university with a passion for promoting diversity and inclusion? The ENHANCE Diversity Seed Fund is your chance to turn that passion into action. ENHANCE provides funding to support innovative, student-led projects that address key challenges related to inclusion and diversity within our academic communities. Key Details: Funding Available: Up to 1500 Euros per project in the 1st round! Eligibility: Students from ENHANCE member universities. Staff can also join student-led initiatives. Application Deadline: 8 January 2025. More information: Join the online Information Event on the 26 November 2024 16:00-17:00 CET on Zoom . More information: enhanceuniversity.eu/diversity/diversityseedfund/

New catheter technology promises safer and more efficient treatment of blood vessels

Each year, more than 200 million catheters are used worldwide to treat vascular diseases, including heart disease and artery stenosis. When navigating into blood vessels, friction between the catheter and the vessel wall can cause major complications. With a new innovative catheter technology, Mostafa Atalla and colleagues can change the friction from having grip to completely slippery with the flick of a switch. Their design improves the safety and efficiency of endovascular procedures. The findings have been published in IEEE. Catheter with variable friction The prototype of the new catheter features advanced friction control modules to precisely control the friction between the catheter and the vessel wall. The friction is modulated via ultrasonic vibrations, which overpressure the thin fluid layer. This innovative variable friction technology makes it possible to switch between low friction for smooth navigation through the vessel and high friction for optimal stability during the procedure. In a proof-of-concept, Atalla and his team show that the prototype significantly reduces friction, averaging 60% on rigid surfaces and 11% on soft surfaces. Experiments on animal aortic tissue confirm the promising results of this technology and its potential for medical applications. Fully assembled catheters The researchers tested the prototype during friction experiments on different tissue types. They are also investigating how the technology can be applied to other procedures, such as bowel interventions. More information Publicatie DOI : 10.1109/TMRB.2024.3464672 Toward Variable-Friction Catheters Using Ultrasonic Lubrication | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore Mostafa Atalla: m.a.a.atalla@tudelft.nl Aimee Sakes: a.sakes@tudelft.nl Michaël Wiertlewski: m.wiertlewski@tudelft.nl Would you like to know more and/or attend a demonstration of the prototype please contact me: Fien Bosman, press officer Health TU Delft: f.j.bosman@tudelft.nl/ 0624953733

Design and imagination as essential tools during the climate crisis

In Nature Partner Journals, ten researchers advocate the use of imagination in tackling the climate crisis. They focus specifically on urbanising river deltas, which are of great social and economic importance and highly vulnerable to climate change. "We scientists should not merely outline doomsday scenarios," says Professor Chris Zevenbergen. "Create a vision for people to believe in and work towards.”

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