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Past Seminars

Mining Smart Meter Data for Improving Distribution Grid Observability

Zhaoyu Wang, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

11:00am – 12:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Real-time, Measurement-based Identification of Voltage Instability Onset

Constantine (Costas) Vournas, Professor (Retired), National Technical University of Athens

11:00am – 12:00pm in Phoenix Memorial Laboratory 2000A

Modeling Frameworks to Enable New Opportunities in Grid Optimization and Control

Christopher DeMarco, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

3:00pm – 4:00pm in 1017 Dow Building

Resilient Distributed Optimization and Control Algorithms for Multi-Agent Power Grids

Masoud Nazari, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Functional Integration of Power Electronics and Electric Machines to Advance Energy Conversion

Arijit Banerjee, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

10:00am – 11:00am in Boulevard Room at Pierpont Commons

Optimal Steady-State Control with Application to Secondary Frequency Control of Power Systems

John Simpson, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo

Energy Assurance with Renewable Generation

Joydeep Mitra, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Growing Electric Networks from the Bottom-Up: Circuits and Systems for Decentralized Power Conversion

Jason Poon, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley

Restricted Isometry, Low-Rank Matrix Recovery, and Power System State Estimation.

Richard Y. Zhang, Post Doctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

Power System Reliability Simulation Incorporating Renewable Energy Sources

Carmen Borges, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Mean field games and their application to energy systems

Roland Malhamé, Professor, ‰cole Polytechnique de Montréal

Grid of the Future: Controlling the Edge

Sonja Glavaski, Program Director, ARPA-E

Information Geometry for Parameter Estimation in Large Energy Systems

Aleksandar M. Stankovic, Professor, Tufts University

Optimizing the Participation of Distributed Energy Resources in Inertial and Primary-frequency Response

Sairaj Dhople, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Three Snippets of Taming the Nonconvex: QCQP, MIP, and MSIP

Andy Sun, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Clean Energy for All…Using Loads

Sila Kiliccote, Managing Director, Stanford University

Convex Relaxations of AC Optimal Power Flow under Uncertainty

Andreas Venzke, PhD Student, Argonne National Laboratory

New findings on variable renewable energy and the electricity grid

Jay Apt, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Convex Relaxations for Severe Damage Analysis in AC Power Networks

Carleton Coffrin, Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Solar Energy and its Future Beyond Cost Parity

Philip T. Krein , Professor and Executive Dean, UIUC and Zhejiang University

Carrots, Sticks and Other Smart Grid Tricks: The Capacity Value of Retail Demand Response

Seth Blumsack, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, EMS Energy Institute

Power System Transitions for Decarbonization

Paulina Jaramillo, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Representing power system security in the demand space: Challenges and opportunities

Francois Bouffard, Associate Professor and Assoc. Chair of Undergraduate Affairs, McGill University

Electricity demand management for networked infrastructure systems

Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Two-Edged Sword of Democratizing Grid Control: Distributed Inertia Control as a Cyber-Physical Attack Path

Chris DeMarco, Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin Energy Institute

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