November 15th

 

Friday, November 15th

Time Event
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
Recent Advances in Optimal Power Flow Control and Computation 2
Moderator: Sakis Meliopoulos
9:00 – 9:30 Xiaoming Huo (Georgia Tech)
New Optimization Approaches in Power Flow Analysis and Robust State Estimation
9:30 – 10:00 Hassan Hijazi (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
From the ACOPF to the ARPA-E Go Competition
10:00 – 10:30 Sakis Meliopoulos (Georgia Tech)
Real Time Optimal Control of A Universal Power Flow Controller
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
Distributed Energy Resources and Storage
Moderator: Santanu Dey
10:45 – 11:15 Michael Starke (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Optimization and Control of a Smart Neighborhood
11:15 – 11:45 Santiago Grijalva (Georgia Tech)
Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Analytics
11:45 – 12:15 Warren Powell (Princeton)
Models and Algorithms for Energy Storage
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch (ISyE Main Building Atrium)
Dealing with Uncertainty, Contingency, and Health Considerations in Power Grids
Moderator: Xiaoming Huo
2:00 – 2:30 Jeff Baker, Elise Ferrer, R. Craig Higgins (Southern Company)
Lending an Industry Vantage Point
2:30 – 3:00 Johanna Mathieu (University of Michigan)
The Value of Including Unimodality Information in Distributionally Robust Optimal Power Flow
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 – 3:45 Valerie Thomas (Georgia Tech)
Optimal Electricity Dispatching with Hourly Health Considerations
3:45 – 4:15 Hatim Djelassi (RWTH Aachen University)
Contingency Screening for Power Grids Using Worst-case Analyses and Hierarchical Programming
4:15 – 4:30 Wrap-up Discussion