DIMACS Workshop on Energy Infrastructure: Designing for Stability and Resilience
February 20 - 22, 2013
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers:
- Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University, dano at columbia dot edu
- Steven Low, Caltech, slow at caltech dot edu
Presented under the auspices of the Special
Focus on Energy and Algorithms.
Workshop Program:
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast and registration
10:00 - 10:15 Opening remarks
Tami Carpenter, DIMACS
Session 1 - Market
10:15 - 11:00 Tradeoffs Between Efficiency and Risk in the Smart Grid,
Munzer Dahleh, MIT
11:00 - 11:45 A Price-Based Approach to Control of
Networked Distributed Energy Resources
Alejandro Domininguez-Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
Session 2 - Power flows
1:00 - 1:45 Large-Scale Optimal Power Flow (SuperOPF) with Stability
Constraints: Methodology and Implementation
Hsiao-dong Chiang, Cornell University
1:45 - 2:30 DC Power Flow in Rectangular Coordinates
Ross Baldick, The University of Texas at Austin
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee break
3:00 - 3:45 Solving the Economic Power Dispatch and Related Problems More
Efficiently (and Reliably)
Richard O'Neill, FERC
3:45 - 4:30 Branch Flow Model: Relaxations, Convexification, Equivalence
Steven Low, Caltech
Thursday, February 21, 2013
9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast & registration
Session 3 - Renewables
9:30 - 10:15 Reactive Power Support for Large-scale Wind Generation
Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan
10:15 - 11:00 Stochastic Unit Commitment for high penetration of
renewable resources
Shmuel Oren, University of California-Berkeley
11:00 - 11:45 Residential Demand Response via Stochastic Optimization
Lang Tong, Cornell University
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
Session 4 - Design
1:00 - 1:45 Hysteresis, Phase Transitions and Dangerous Transients in
Power Distribution Systems
Michael Chertkov
1:45 - 3:30 The Best-deterministic Method for the Stochastic Unit Commitment Problem
Boris Defourny, Princeton University
Session 5 - Optimization
3:00 - 3:45 Power Market Participation of Distributed Flexible Loads
that Require Energy and Provide Regulation Reserve Capacity
Michael Caramanis, Boston
3:45 - 4:30 Various Techniques for Nonlinear Energy-Related Optimizations
Javad Lavaei, Columbia University
4:45 Dinner at DIMACS
Friday, February 22, 2013
9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast & registration
Session 6 - Algorithms
9:30 - 10:15 Message Passing for Dynamic Network Energy Management
Stephen Boyd, Stanford University
10:15 - 11:00 Toward Making the Most out of Available Electric Energy
Technologies at Value
Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University
11:00 - 11:45 Robust and Chance-constrained Optimal Power Flow for
Integration of Renewables
Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Panel: Stephen Boyd, Michael Caramanis, Marija Ilic, Ian Hiskens
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