Thursday, December 10th
| Time EST | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome Dr. Edwin Romeijn (Chair of H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech) |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Workshop Logistics Andy Sun |
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Power System Optimization and Risk Management in Day-Ahead Electricity Markets
Moderator: Pascal Van Hentenryck |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Michael Caramanis (Boston University) Modeling and Managing Risky Assets in Day Ahead Power Markets |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Richard O’Neill (ARPA-E) Power Systems Optimization at ARPA-E |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Yury Dvorkin (New York University) Risk Quantification and Trading in Electricity Markets |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Discussion |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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Recent Advances in Solving Large-Scale AC OPF
Moderator: Santanu Dey |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Carleton Coffrin (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Solving Multi-Contingency AC Power Flow Problems with Convex Relaxations |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Andreas Wächter (Northwestern University) A Two-Stage Decomposition Approach for AC Optimal Power Flow |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Cosmin Petra (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) On solving ACOPF and SCACOPF problems using nonlinear programming and high-performance computing |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Discussion |
| 12:45 – 1:45 | Lunch Break |
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Demand Side Management, Storage, and Coordination of Power and Water Networks
Moderator: Daniel Molzahn |
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| 1:45 – 2:15 | Miguel Anjos (University of Edinburgh) Electricity Demand Side Management via Time-and-Level-of-Use Pricing |
| 2:15 – 2:45 | Ross Baldick (University of Texas, Austin) Optimization formulations for storage devices |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Niko Gatsis (University of Texas, San Antonio) Optimization methods for coordination of power and water distribution networks |
| 3:15 – 3:30 | Discussion |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Coffee Break |
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Uncertainty and machine learning in energy systems operations and planning
Moderator: Mathieu Dahan |
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| 3:45 – 4:15 | Guzin Bayraksan (Ohio State University) Data-Driven Sample Average Approximation with Covariate Information |
| 4:15 – 4:45 | Andy Philpott (University of Auckland) Capacity Planning with JuDGE |
| 4:45 – 5:15 | Spyros Chatzivasileiadis (Technical University of Denmark) Using Optimization to remove barriers for Machine Learning Applications in Power Systems |
| 5:15 – 5:30 | Discussion |
Friday, December 11th
| Time EST | Presentation |
|---|---|
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Estimation, Control, and Efficient Computation for Autonomous Resilient Systems
Moderator: Andy Sun |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Florian Dörfler (ETH Zurich) Data-driven control in autonomous energy systems |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Saurabh Amin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Generalized Benders Decomposition for Resilient Electricity Networks |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Andrey Bernstein (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) Online State Estimation for Systems with Asynchronous Sensors |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology) Competitive control of energy systems via online optimization |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Discussion |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
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Economics, Environmental Justice, and the Future of Energy System Transition
Moderator: Valerie Thomas |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 | Ben Leibowicz (University of Texas, Austin) The Economic Value of a Centralized Approach to Distributed Resource Investment and Operation |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Inês Azevedo (Stanford University) Distributional and environmental justice accounting for the U.S. electricity sector |
| 12:30 – 1:00 | Jesse Jenkins (Princeton University) Guiding innovation: using optimization methods to evaluate the design space for novel low-carbon energy technologies |
| 1:00 – 1:15 | Discussion |
| 1:15 – 1:30 | Wrap-up |