Events

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Spring 2022

  • Gregor Verbič, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Information Engineering at The University of Sydney, Aggregation of Distributed Energy Resources: From Theory to Practice (recording, slides)
  • Arijit Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Integrated Permanent-Magnet-Synchronous-Generator-Rectifier Architecture for Offshore Wind (recording)
  • Matthias Preindl, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, Software-Defined Power Electronics for Grid-Interactive Electric Vehicles (recording, slides)
  • Kyri Baker, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder, Towards Reliable Hybrid Data-Driven and Physics-Based Optimal Power Flow (recording, slides)
  • Lingling Fan, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of South Florida, Analysis of Inverter-based Resourced Dynamic Events - The beauty of Laplace Transform (recording, slides)
  • Claudio Canizares, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Waterloo, Definition and Classification of Power System Stability - Revisited & Extended (recording, slides)

Fall 2021

  • Daniel Kirschen, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Washington, Risk in Power Systems (recording, slides)
  • Steven Low, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, Optimal Power Flow and Smart EV Charging (recording, slides)
  • Line Roald, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Burning Issues: Modeling Risk of Wildfire Ignitions and Power Outages in the Electric Grid (announcement, recording)
  • Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of California, Santa Barbara, Learning to price demand in safety-critical infrastructure systems, co-hosted with Berkeley’s DREAM/CPAR seminar (announcement, recording, slides)

Spring 2021

  • Ross Baldick, Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, Investigating Texas' Extreme Weather Blackouts (announcement, recording)
  • Daniel Molzahn, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, A Review of Recent Developments in Nonlinear Optimization of Electric Power Systems (announcement, recording, slides)
  • Federico Milano, Professor, University College Dublin, and Pedro Rodriguez, Professor, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Future Power Grids, From Converter Control to System-wide Behavior (announcement, recording)
  • Christine Chen, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Data-driven Optimal DER Dispatch Using Estimated Sensitivity Models (announcement, recording)
  • Grayson Zulauf, CEO of Resonant Link, MHz Frequency Power Electronics: Revolution, Panacea, or Niche? (announcement, recording)
  • Brian Johnson, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Decentralized Methods of Switch Interleaving in Multi-converter Systems (announcement, recording, slides)
  • Emiliano Dall'Anese, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Feedback-Based Online Optimization of Power Grids with Users in the Loop (announcement, recording)

Fall 2020

  • Leroy Westerling, Professor of Management, UC Merced
  • Jessica Boles, Ph.D. candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Duncan Callaway, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley
  • Carleton Coffrin, Staff Scientist, Advanced Network Science Initiative, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ben Kroposki, Director of the Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • Andrea Staid, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Discrete Math & Optimization Department, Sandia National Laboratories