EPES Seminars

Spring 2014 seminars

Date Speaker Topic
14-Jan PSERC seminar by Dr. Le Xie , Texas A&M University Quantifying Benefits of Demand Response and Look-ahead Dispatch in Systems with Variable Resources: ERCOT Case Study
21-Jan PSERC seminar by Dr. James D. McCalley, Iowa State University New Approaches to Balancing Security and Economy: Risk-Based Security Constrained Economic Dispatch [slides]
28-Jan TCIPG seminar by Dr. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Semantic Security Analysis of SCADA Networks to Detect Malicious Control Commands in Power Grid
4-Feb PSERC seminar by Dr. Tom Overbye, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Development of Attribute Preserving Network Equivalents [slides]
10-Feb ERCOT seminar by Alex Sills, ERCOT Engineering Challenges of Operating the Electric Power Grid of Texas
18-Feb PSERC seminar by Dr. Vijay Vittal, Arizona State Univ. Controlled Islanding and its Application to Mitigate Impact of Cascading Outages in Large Power Systems
25-Feb David Mindham, ITC Incorporating HVDC Transmission in Regional Planning Processes
4-Mar PSERC seminar by Dr. Bill Schulze, Cornell Univ. Mapping Energy Futures
11-Mar Dr. Sarai Mendoza-Armenta, Post Doctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University A formula for damping interarea oscillations with redispatch of generation
25-Mar Dr. Jeff Dykstra, Smart Energy Analytics Manager at Black & Veatch What A Smart Grid Can Do – High-Level Overview
1-April PSERC seminar by Drs. Eilyan Bitar and Tim Mount, Cornell Univ. The System Benefits of Managing Demand Flexibility and Storage Efficiently
15-April Dr. Ying Chen, Tsinghua University, China. Cyber Security Assessment of Wide Area Control in Power System based on Co-simulations
16-April Dr. Javed Lavaei, Laboratory for Control, Optimization, and Power, Columbia Univ. Convex Relaxation for Polynomial Optimization: Application to Power Systems and Decentralized Control
22-April PSERC seminar by Dr. Ben Hobbs, John Hopkins Univ. Transmission Investment Assessment Under Uncertainty
29-April Dr. Yonghong Chen, Principal Advisor, Market Development and Analysis, MISO Advanced Modeling and Computational Needs for Electricity Market
6-May PSERC seminar by Dr. Anurag Srivastava, Washington State Univ. Testing and Validation of Synchrophasor Devices and Applications

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