Trinidad and Tobago Events

Five graduate students from the Master in Sound and Music Computing (2025-26) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) will present their research projects. The presentations cover cutting-edge work at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts, focusing on the understanding, modelling, and generation of sound and music. The event will conclude with a private award ceremony recognising the best presentation.

This lecture presents a study which focuses on arguably the most contentious energy supply choice for decarbonizing general-purpose long-haul road freight: hydrogen. Ten requirements for an energy supply choice to be feasible are identified. It is concluded that it is very unlikely that hydrogen will become feasible in the lifespan of a truck bought today. This means it can be disregarded as a current vehicle purchase consideration, as hydrogen vehicles will not undermine the competitiveness or resale value of a vehicle using a different energy source bought today. There are two principal innovations in the study approach: the consideration of socio-technical and political as well as techno-economic factors; and the application of realist retroductive assessment."