Program

Thursday, November 9th
Callaway, MARC  Building

Time	Event
8:00 – 8:45	Reception and Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00	Edwin Romeijn (H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair and Professor, Georgia Tech) Welcome and Opening Remarks
Challenges in Pricing and Planning in Integrated Power Systems Moderator: Andy Sun
9:00 – 9:30	Keynote Greg Roberts (Georgia Power) Challenges of Planning and Pricing an Electric System
9:30 – 10:00	Jeff Baker (Southern Power) Southern Power’s Renewable Hedging Program
10:00 – 10:30	Clifton Black (Southern Company) Transmission, Monitoring, Diagnostics and Visualization & Generation Asset Fault Signature Identification
10:30 – 10:45	Break
Challenges in Deregulated Energy Markets Moderator: Sakis Meliopoulos
10:45 – 11:15	Richard O’Neill (FERC) Computational Issues in ISO market models
11:15 – 11:45	Tongxin Zheng (ISO – New England) Wholesale Electricity Market Pricing – Experiences and Challenges
11:45 – 12:15	Santiago Grijalva (Georgia Institute of Technology) Decentralized Coordination in Energy Prosumer Networks
12:15 – 2:00	Lunch (Callaway MARC)
Resiliency, Optimization, and Learning in Electric and Related Energy Systems Moderator: Valerie Thomas
2:00 – 2:30	Sakis Meliopoulos (Georgia Institute of Technology) Resiliency and Autonomous Optimization
2:30 – 3:00	Le Xie (Texas A&M University) Scenario-based Dispatch in Power Systems with Adaptable Level of Risks
3:00 – 3:30	Michael Chertkov (Los Alamos) OIL for District-Energy Systems
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3:30 – 4:30	Open discussion
5:00 – 6:00	Poster Session and Reception
7:00	Dinner (Renaissance Hotel, by invitation only)

 

Friday, November 10th
Nano Marcus Conference Room, Marcus Building

Time	Event
8:00 – 8:45:00	Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00	Opening
Recent Advances in Optimal Power Flow Moderator: Santanu Dey
9:00 – 9:30	Andy Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology) Minor Formulation and Relaxation for the Optimal Power Flow Problem
9:30 – 10:00	Antonio Conejo (Ohio State University) Robust Security-Constrained ACOPF via Conic Programming
10:00 – 10:30	Daniel Molzahn (Argonne National Lab) AC Optimal Power Flow with Robust Feasibility Guarantees
10:30 – 10:45	Break
Dynamics, Distributed Control, and Stochasticity in Power Systems Moderator: Shabbir Ahmed
10:45 – 11:15	Steven Low (California Institute of Technology) Spectral Characterization of Controllability and Observability for Frequency Regulation Dynamics
11:15 – 11:45	Na Li (Harvard University) Distributed Feedback Voltage Control under Limited Communication and Limited reactive power
11:45 – 12:15	Daniel Bienstock (Columbia University) Controlling Variance in Power Flows Under Stochastic Injections
12:15 – 2:00	Lunch (Nano Marcus)
Energy Markets Coordination and Operations under Uncertainty Moderator: Shijie Deng
2:00 – 2:30	Jianhui Wang (Southern Methodist University/Argonne National Lab) Clearing and Pricing for Coordinated Gas and Electricity Day-ahead Markets Considering Wind Power Uncertainty
2:30 – 3:00	Lang Tong (Cornell University) Operations under Uncertainty: Forecasting and Optimization
3:00 – 3:15	Break
Innovations in Stochastic Programming and Applications in Power Systems Moderator: Andy Sun
3:15 – 3:45	Jeff Linderoth (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sampled Subgradient Methods for the Lagrangian Dual in Stochastic Mixed Integer Programming
3:45 – 4:15	Shabbir Ahmed (Georgia Institute of Technology) SDDiP: Stochastic Dual Dynamic Integer Programming
4:15 – 4:45	Jean-Paul Watson (Sandia National Lab) On the Rigorous Evaluation of Stochastic Approaches to Power Systems Operations
4:45 – 5:00	Ending remarks