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Past Seminars

Canceled, To Be Rescheduled

Johanna Vorwerk , Assistant Professor, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Considering the Spatiotemporal Vulnerability of Low-Carbon Power Grids using a Case Study for New York State

Lindsay Anderson, Professor, Department Chair, Biological and Environmental Engineering

Real-world experience balancing the grid with demand-side flexibility

Stephanie Crocker Ross, Data Scientist,
Energy Hub

Paul Hines, VP, Power Systems,
EnergyHub

Control Seminar | MPEL Seminar

Grid Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: Aggregate Flexibility Quantification and Market Participation

Bai Cui, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University

Optimal Energy Rationing for Prepaid Electricity Customers

Maitreyee Marathe, PhD student in Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Other Event | MPEL Seminar

Clean Energy Mixer

Future Energy Challenge in Power Electronics Enabled Systems of Systems

Yue Cao, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University

Control Seminar | MPEL Seminar

Enabling a responsive grid with distributed load control and optimization

Mads Almassalkhi, L. Richard Fisher Professor of Electrical Engineering , The University of Vermont

Electric Powertrain: Energy Systems, Power Electronics and Drives for Hybrid, Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles

John G. Hayes, Professor, Automotive, Industrial and renewable energy systems, University College Cork

Control Seminar | MPEL Seminar

Control design based on deep learning

Draguna Vrabie, Chief Data Scientist, PNNL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Optimally Scheduling Public Safety Power Shutoffs

Antoine Lesage-Landry, Assistant Professor, Polytechnique Montréal

Convex Optimization of Bioprocesses

Joshua Taylor, Associate Professor, Energy Systems, University of Toronto

Mining Smart Meter Data for Improving Distribution Grid Observability

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

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

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

Modeling Frameworks to Enable New Opportunities in Grid Optimization and Control

Christopher DeMarco, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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

Masoud Nazari, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

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

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

Resilient Architectures and Algorithms for Generation Control of Inertial-Less AC Microgrids

Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana

Remote Community Microgrids

Claudio Canizares, Professor, University of Waterloo

Storage in Power Systems: Frequency Control, Scheduling of Multiple Applications, and Computational Complexity

When the Correct Technical Solution Is Not Good Enough

Bruce Wollenberg, Professor, University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The Capacity Value of Retail Demand Response

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

From Power Management to Energetic Intelligence: an evolutionary challenge for students and educators

Nicola Femia, Professor, University of Salerno, Italy

Energy Storage Performance Characterization for Microgrid Applications

Mariesa Crow, Vice Provost and Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Pricing Electricity through a Stochastic Non-Convex Market-Clearing Model

Antonio J. Conejo, Professor, Ohio State University

Optimal Electricity Planning and Dispatching Incorporating Health Impacts

Valerie Thomas, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Non-technology Barriers to the Deployment of Distributed Energy Storage

Ramteen Sioshansi, Associate Professor, Ohio State University

Grid Modernization: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions

Jianhui Wang, Computational Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory

Operating and Planning Battery Energy Storage in a Competitive Market Environment

Daniel Kirschen, Professor, University of Washington, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Communication-Cognizant Hybrid Voltage Control in Distribution Networks

Hao Zhu, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana

Evaluating Storage Technologies for Wind and Solar Energy

Jessika Trancik, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Realizing Dispatchable Virtual Power Plants

Emiliano Dall'anese, Senior Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Improving Environmental Performance of Grid-Integrated Renewable Energy and Storage

Jeremiah Johnson, Professor, University of Michigan, SNRE and the Center for Sustainable Systems

Tracing the Solutions to the Power Flow and Optimal Power Problems

Bernard Lesieutre, Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Robust Policies for Storage Used to Offset Renewable Variance

Daniel Bienstock, Professor, Columbia University

Distributed Control of Loads to Provide Virtual Energy Storage for Renewable Integration

Prabir Barooah, Associate Professor, University of Florida, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Transient Stability Aspects of Renewable Generation Integration

Tom Overbye, Professor, UIUC

Optimization and Equilibrium in Energy Economics

Michael Ferris, Professor , University of Wisconsin – Madison

Input-Output Characteristics of the Power Transmission Networks Swing Dynamics: A Graph-Theory Perspective

Sandip Roy, Professor, Washington State University

Optimal Power Flow: Online Algorithm and Fast Dynamics

Steven Low, Professor, California Institute of Technology

Computations in Riemannian space involving geodesics with their singularities and computing and visualizing singularities of dynamical systems using numerical methods based on differential geometry

Franz-Erich Wolter, Professor, Welfenlab, Institute of Man-Machine-Communication, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Robust Power System Stability Assessment with Extensions to Remedial Actions

Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Post Doctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Managing the Future Grid – Evolution of EMS Control Centers

Jay Giri, Director, Alstom Grid, Power Systems Technology and Strategic Initiatives

Secure and Stable Operation of Fluctuating Sustainable Power Systems

Hjortur J³hannsson , Senior Scientific Consultant, Technical University of Denmark

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