Thursday, November 14th
| Time | Event |
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| 8:00 – 8:45 | Reception and Breakfast |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks Pascal van Hentenryck (A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor, Georgia Tech) |
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Challenges in Operations of Large-Scale Electricity Markets
Moderator: Pascal Van Hentenryck |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Jessica Harrison (MISO) Wholesale Markets: Recent Successes and Emerging Needs |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Feng Qiu (Argonne) Decomposable Formulation of Security Constraints for Power System Optimization and Optimal Energy Exchange |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Shmuel Oren (U.C. Berkeley) Mobilizing Grid Flexibility Renewables Integration through Topology Control and Dynamic Thermal Ratings |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| New Approaches for Managing Risks and Stochasticity in Electricity Markets Moderator: Valerie Thomas |
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| 10:45 – 11:15 | Tongxin Zheng (ISO New England) Managing Risk in Market Operation – Practice and Challenges |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Yue Zhao (Stony Brook) Indirect Mechanism Design for Efficient Integration of Uncertain Resources in Power System Operations |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Jacob Mays (Cornell) Quasi-Stochastic Electricity Markets |
| 12:15 – 2:00 | Lunch (Callaway MARC) |
| Contingency Analysis, Probabilistic Operation, and Machine Learning Moderator: Shijie Deng |
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| 2:00 – 2:30 | Jean-Paul Watson (Sandia) Optimization and Power Systems Resilience – Overview, Challenges, and Opportunities |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Efthymios Karangelos and Louis Wehenkel (University of Liège) Leveraging Machine Learning to Make Probabilistic SCOPF More Tractable/Scalable/Interpretable |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Daniel Molzahn (Georgia Tech) Convex Relaxation of the Power Flow Equations: Recent Advances and Emerging Applications |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Coffee Break |
| Recent Advances in Optimal Power Flow Control and Computation 1 Moderator: Andy Sun |
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| 3:45 – 4:15 | Masoud Barati (University of Pittsburgh) Globally-Optimal Solution Algorithm for LCQP-based Security Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow in Electric Power Grids |
| 4:15 – 4:45 | Line Roald (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Convex Restrictions for Optimal Power Flow |
| 4:45 – 5:15 | Cedric Josz (Columbia University) Moment/Sum-of-Squares for Optimal Power Flow and Transient Stability |
| 5:15 – 6:30 | Poster Session and Reception |