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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