Powering Social Work Through AI

Amulya Yadav | College of Information Science & Technology

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into social work practices presents an innovative pathway to address complex social issues with greater precision, efficiency, and personalized care. This talk delves into the transformative potential of AI in redefining the landscape of social work, offering insights into how cutting-edge technologies can augment traditional methodologies to better serve individuals and communities in need.

Bioinspired Nanoparticles for Next-Generation Sensors

Nairiti Sinha | Materials Science & Engineering

Chirality, or non-superimposable mirror image structures are common across the natural world (think left and right hands). Even at the nanoscale, proteins are chiral molecules where their specific structure (left or right hand) drives function.  In my group, we leverage sequence-definition and enantiomeric-control of synthetic peptides to tune the chirality and shape of nanoparticles. I will discuss how such nanoparticles can enable discovery of next-generation sensors.

*** After Café:  “How Rough is my Surface?  It Depends”  Immediately following the Cafe on Tuesday will be next After Café.  The specific technique, details of the acquisition method, along with how data is processed all influence the quantification of surface roughness.  Furthermore, the commonly reported roughness parameters of average roughness and RMS roughness are often inadequate to fully characterize the texture of a surface.  In this 30min talk immediately following the Café we will provide an overview of what differences you should expect between surface roughness data coming from AFM, OP, and even stylus profilometry as well as an introduction to advanced surface texture parameters.

The Millennium Café runs 10-11am in the 3^rd floor Café Commons of the MSC Bldg.  Join researchers from across campus for a stellar cup of coffee and two <10 min interdisciplinary talks