Events

This special industry-academia symposium will bring together leading architects, engineers, researchers, and industry experts to explore how AI, sustainability, and emerging technologies are transforming the built environment.

Why do people protect themselves from extreme heat, and why do intentions not always translate into action? This seminar examines urban heat adaptation through the COM-B framework, with particular attention to motivation: risk perceptions, concern, attitudes, intentions and self-efficacy.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Yao Xiao – Adapting large language models to downstream tasks and to human preferences has become the dominant cost in the model development pipeline. This thesis argues that the binding constraint in adaptation is not the volume of parameters, data, or computation available, but the fraction of that budget which carries usable learning signal – and that this holds in both parameterisation and post-training data.

The environmental footprint of global meat consumption has led to extensive focus on a possible protein transition towards less meat-intensive diets. The idea that other forms of protein can more or less seamlessly replace meat has occupied an increasingly central position in these debates.