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Spring Networking Dinner

Spring Networking Dinner Open to all women of TU Delft 11 April 2024 18:00 till 21:00 | Add to my calendar Join us for a Spring Networking Dinner with special guest Margreet van Rixtel . We invite you to take this opportunity to network and be inspired by Margreet van Rixtel's wealth of experience. What sets her apart is her expertise in unravelling the complexities of political force fields and creating perspectives that resonate with those committed to making a meaningful impact in their respective fields.

[DMO] Nando Leijenhorst: Rounding SDP solutions to exact fields

In discrete geometry, we use semidefinite programming to bound quantities such as the maximum size of spherical codes. When these bounds are sharp (that is, there is a construction reaching the bound), complementary slackness can give us information about these constructions. However, to use the complementary slackness, we need exact optimal solutions to the SDP rather than numerical approximations. We improve the rounding procedure of Dostert, de Laat and Moustrou, which works well for small semidefinite programs but is too slow for larger examples. In this talk, I will explain the main difficulties when rounding, and how we approach them. This is joint work with Henry Cohn and David de Laat.

Azarakhsh Salem

PhD student Azarakhsh is a PhD researcher at SUM lab. she is a member of the Xcarcity project team. In this project she is working on “Knowledge Utilization” package which is mostly about practical solutions and implementation based on knowledge and research. She got her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and then completed her master’s degree in Transportation engineering in Iran. Since then, she has been working as a mobility specialist and researcher. Her working experience is in the field of urban mobility management, traffic data analysis, traffic simulation, and transportation planning .

We Are Family: The Gods Monologues

A performance presented by the participants of the Theatre Production course. Immerse yourself in a captivating story as they transport you to a divine therapy session set two millennia in the past.

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Please contact RDM Support for all your questions on research data management. E-mail: library@tudelft.nl or by telephone at +31 (0)15 27 88 600. RDM Support is managed by team Research Data Services of the TU Delft Library: Yan Wang Head Research Data and Software y.wang-16@tudelft.nl TU Delft | Library linkedin twitter Madeleine de Smaele Repository Manager +31 (0)15 27 85661 M.M.E.deSmaele@tudelft.nl Paula Martinez Lavanchy Research Data Officer +31 (0)15 27 84 881 P.M.MartinezLavanchy@tudelft.nl Aleksandra Wilczynska Data Manager Expertise : Data Management, Data Visualisation, Business Intelligence Iulia Popescu Communications Advisor at 4TU.ResearchData +31 (0) 15 27 85865 I.E.popescu@tudelft.nl Alessandra Soro Community manager at 4TU.ResearchData +31 (0) 15 27 84021 A.Soro@tudelft.nl Ashley Cryan Data Manager a.e.cryan@tudelft.nl Arie Braat Data Engineer +31 (0)15 27 89 316 A.Braat@tudelft.nl Carlos Utrilla Guerrero Trainer for Research Data Management and Digital Skills C.UtrillaGuerrero@tudelft.nl Carla Strubbia Trainer for Research Data Management and Digital Skills C.Strubbia@tudelft.nl Shoko Dauwels Educational Advisor S.Dauwels@tudelft.nl linkedin Raúl Ortiz Merino Data manager Raul.Ortiz@tudelft.nl 21. Fardad Maghsoudi Moud Data manager F.MaghsoudiMoud@tudelft.nl 21.1.54 linkedin twitter Maaike Smit M.S.Smit@tudelft.nl Cécile van Heukelom C.M.V.vanHeukelom@tudelft.nl Data Stewardship Coordinator and the Data Stewards within the faculties Yasemin Türkyilmaz-van der Velden Data Stewardship Coordinator y.turkyilmaz-vandervelden@tudelft.nl TU Delft | Library linkedin twitter Heather Andrews Data Steward H.E.AndrewsMancilla@tudelft.nl Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Nicolas Dintzner Data Steward Tel.: +31(15) 278 23 02 N.J.R.Dintzner@tudelft.nl Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, A2.270 linkedin twitter Lora Armstrong Data Steward L.S.Armstrong@tudelft.nl Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Xinyan Fan Data Steward X.Fan-1@tudelft.nl Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences linkedin Bjørn Bartholdy Data Steward B.P.Bartholdy@tudelft.nl Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE) linkedin Esther Plomp Data Steward +31 (0)15 27 81083 e.plomp@tudelft.nl Faculty of Applied Sciences Richard Grimes Data Steward R.W.G.Grimes@tudelft.nl Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Santosh Ilamparuthi Data Steward S.Ilamparuthi@tudelft.nl Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Janine Strandberg Data Steward 06 34 64 5222 datasteward-BK@tudelft.nl Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Arthur Newton QuTech Datasteward a.c.newton@tudelft.nl QuTech Jeff Love Data Steward j.s.love@tudelft.nl Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering

Raúl Ortiz Merino

Expertise: Bioinformatics and systems biology, biotechnology, genomics. Data wrangling, visualisation, repositories, workflows. R, python. I am a Research Data Manager part of the Digital Competence Center and the Library Research Data and Software Services. I started my scientific training as a biomedical researcher having mostly biochemistry projects. As my research interests grew, they became more and more data intensive so I became a bioinformatician. Most of my work was done with data obtained from microorganisms like brewing/baking yeast and some other fungi. I am very aware of the steady increase of data generation and (re)use by researchers creating data-related bottlenecks. As part of my job, I aim to help researchers, both established and still undergoing training, to deal with their specific data bottlenecks: management, analysis, visualisation, and so on. Raúl Ortiz Merino Data manager Raul.Ortiz@tudelft.nl 21. Expertise: Bioinformatics and systems biology, biotechnology, genomics. Data wrangling, visualisation, repositories, workflows. R, python. I am a Research Data Manager part of the Digital Competence Center and the Library Research Data and Software Services. I started my scientific training as a biomedical researcher having mostly biochemistry projects. As my research interests grew, they became more and more data intensive so I became a bioinformatician. Most of my work was done with data obtained from microorganisms like brewing/baking yeast and some other fungi. I am very aware of the steady increase of data generation and (re)use by researchers creating data-related bottlenecks. As part of my job, I aim to help researchers, both established and still undergoing training, to deal with their specific data bottlenecks: management, analysis, visualisation, and so on. Raúl Ortiz Merino Data manager Raul.Ortiz@tudelft.nl 21.

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Inaugural lecture René Pecnik

Inaugural lecture René Pecnik 19 January 2024 15:00 till 17:00 - Location: Aula TU Delft | Add to my calendar

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SLIMM Lab AI for smart materials modelling Materials of the future will rely on nanostructures painstakingly tailored to design constraints and reach unprecedented levels of performance. In order to design these new materials, accurate simulations of material behavior across the scales are needed. Yet, even one of these models currently takes months to run on conventional computers. The goal of the SLIMM lab is to facilitate virtual material testing across the scales by combining Bayesian machine learning and multiscale solid mechanics into new smart material models and learning frameworks. Why virtual testing through smart multiscale models? Speed: Designing new materials without waiting for years for simulations to run Accuracy: Precise nanostructure optimization and deeper knowledge on material behavior Sustainability: Fewer destructive experiments needed and lower energy use through faster simulations The SLIMM Lab is part of the TU Delft AI Labs programme.

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What trees teach us about sustainable production of materials

Trees are excellent teachers when it comes to making materials for load-bearing structures with as little resources and energy as possible. One of their secrets? When a tree grows, the direction of the wood grain adapts itself to fit the load that part of the tree is going to bear.

Exhale Sluitingsweek: A week of free events to say goodbye to Exhale and cosy up for Winter

De allerlaatste Exhale Week vindt plaats van 25 november tot 1 december en staat volledig in het teken van afscheid nemen van Exhale en het omarmen van de winter.

TIL student Laura Drechsel wins Q-Park thesis award

TIL student Laura Drechsel wins the 2024 Q-Park Student Award with her thesis called: Stories of Aging and Access - Exploring capabilities and challenges of accessibility for urban elderly through microstories. Her award-winning thesis can be found here .

TU Delft jointly wins in XPRIZE Rainforest competition in Brazil

TU Delft jointly wins in the XPRIZE Rainforest competition in the Amazon, Brazil Imagine using rapid and autonomous robot technology for research into the green and humid lungs of our planet; our global rainforests. Drones that autonomously deploy eDNA samplers and canopy rafts uncover the rich biodiversity of these complex ecosystems while revealing the effects of human activity on nature and climate change. On November 15, 2024, after five years of intensive research and competition, the ETHBiodivX team, which included TU Delft Aerospace researchers Salua Hamaza and Georg Strunck, achieved an outstanding milestone: winning the XPRIZE Rainforest Bonus Prize for outstanding effort in co-developing inclusive technology for nature conservation. The goal: create automated technology and methods to gain near real-time insights about biodiversity – providing necessary data that can inform conservation action and policy, support sustainable bioeconomies, and empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities who are the primary protectors and knowledge holders of the planet’s tropical rainforests. The ETHBiodivX team, made of experts in Robotics, eDNA, and Data Insights, is tackling the massive challenge of automating and streamlining the way we monitor ecosystems. Leading the Robotics division, a collaboration between TU Delft’s Prof. Salua Hamaza, ETH Zurich’s Prof. Stefano Mintchev and Aarhus University’s Profs. Claus Melvad and Toke Thomas Høye, is developing cutting-edge robotic solutions to gather ecology and biology data autonomously. “We faced the immense challenge of deploying robots in the wild -- and not just any outdoor environment but one of the most demanding and uncharted: the wet rainforests. This required extraordinary efforts to ensure robustness and reliability, pushing the boundaries of what the hardware could achieve for autonomous data collection of images, sounds, and eDNA, in the Amazon” says prof. Hamaza. “Ultimately, this technology will be available to Indigenous communities as a tool to better understand the forest's ongoing changes in biodiversity, which provide essential resources as food and shelter to the locals.” . . . .

Moving the Closet

You simply cannot miss it, it is big and magenta: the Pink Closet . On 12 November 2024 the Pink Closet will head to the Main Hall of the TU Delft Library for the first time! The Pink Closet will take its place at the Nook, where it will feature as part of the Studium Generale programme on loneliness. More information on events that coincide with and incorporate the Pink Closet at TU Delft Library will soon be available on the website of Studium Generale .

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.

"Measuring brain activity through the skull with ultrasound opens new doors"

PhD Candidate Rick Waasdorp is looking for ways to correct the distortion caused by the skull when using Ultrasound technology. ‘’My goal is to develop an adaptive method for skull corrections that automatically measures the skull of new patients.’’

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.

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.”

How comfortable are cargo bikes actually for children?

It’s impossible to imagine the Dutch street scene without the cargo bike. It’s ideal for transporting goods and especially popular for shuttling children from A to B. Surprisingly, however, no real research has been done on the comfort of children during cargo bike rides. Mechanical engineering students Jelmer, Renate, Dirk-Jan, Santo and Alexander set out to change this. The final project for their bachelor’s degree is the first step in this unexplored area of research.

Inaugural address: machine optimisation key to more efficient logistics system

The processing and transport of materials can be made much more efficient, says TU Delft professor Dingena Schott in her inaugural address, ‘Advancing Transport and Processing: from Model to Impact’. She will deliver her address on 15 November. Her research focuses on the interaction between machines and materials, with a special emphasis on granular materials.

FAST University Fund invites all TU Delft students

FAST University Fund invites all TU Delft students to apply for the Ambitious Project Grant or the Event Grant of up to €15.000!

Education demonstration in Utrecht cancelled

Safety cannot be guaranteed In our post of 22 October , we announced that students and staff of TU Delft will have the opportunity to take part in protests against the cabinet's plans to cut higher education. Today it has been announced that the demonstration against the cuts to higher education and science on 14 November in Utrecht has been cancelled because the safety of the demonstrators cannot be guaranteed. Read the reaction of Universiteiten van Nederland to the cancellation of the education demonstration in Utrecht (Dutch only).

Young Investigator Award for Gabrielle Laloy-Borgna

Gabrielle has won the technical Young Investigator Award at Euroson 2024 (congress of the European Federation of Ultrasound Societies in Medicine and Biology) with her presentation entitled: “Ultrasound imaging in bones: tissue characterization, anatomical images
and blood flow measurements”.

Ilaria Orsi joined ImPhys as PhD student

Ilaria started her PhD program in the Renaud group about ultrasound imaging inside bones, contributing to the advancement of such non-invasive technique to characterize tissue composition and to quantify blood flow.

First prize for ZhenZhen Wu at the 2024 NWO Biophysics poster awards

ZhenZhen Wu's poster, “Absolute Voltage Imaging in Developing Zebrafish,” won first prize in the 2024 NWO Biophysics poster awards, competing against over 150 posters. The BioPM Poster Prizes are awarded to the best posters presented at the NWO Biophysics Conference, and the winners are selected by a jury. ZhenZhen Wu z.wu-3@tudelft.nl

Enrolment for new courses open on 13 November

The new courses will start from Monday 18 November. Enrolment for these starts from Wednesday 13 November at 08.00! In the second quarter, a new series of courses awaits you. You can find out more on the website. Maybe you already know that you want to attend your favourite course again or maybe you want to discover and try something new; it's all possible. The enrolment moment for the course depends on the day the course takes place. At 08:00 enrolments for Monday's courses open, at 10:00 for Tuesday's courses, at 12:00 for Wednesday's courses, at 14:00 for Thursday's courses and at 16:00 for courses on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Enrolments go fast Enrolment for our courses always runs fast, so don't wait too long or be surprised by a course where spots are still available! Enrolment closes Enrolment closes on Friday 22 November at 16.00.