November 15th

 

Thursday, November 15th

Time Event
8:00 – 8:45 Reception and Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Pascal van Hentenryck
(A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor, Georgia Tech)
Challenges in Operations and Decision Making in Electricity Markets
Moderator: Andy Sun
9:00 – 9:30 Yonghong Chen (MISO)
Development of Market Clearing Software for Future Industry Challenges
9:30 – 10:00 James Ostrowski (U.Tennessee)
Evaluating the (Computational) State of the Art in Unit Commitment Formulations
10:00 – 10:30 Warren Powell (Princeton)
A Unified Framework for Sequential Decision Analytics in Energy Systems
10:30 – 10:45 Break
Resiliency and Optimization in Electric Systems
Moderator: Santanu Dey
10:45 – 11:15 Steven Low (Caltech)
Failure Localization via Tree Partition
11:15 – 11:45 Santiago Grijalva (Georgia Tech)
Optimization for Resilient Transmission/Distribution Systems
11:45 – 12:15 Tongxin Zheng (ISO-NE)
Grid Resilience and Its Market Impact
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch (Nano Marcus)
New Planning and Control Schemes in European Markets
Moderator: Santiago Grijalva
2:00 – 2:30 Jean Maeght (RTE)
Model predictive control framework for congestion management with large batteries in subtransmission grid
2:30 – 3:00 Anthony Papavasiliou (UCL)
Transmission capacity allocation in zonal electricity markets
3:00 – 3:15 Break
Supporting Very High Penetration of Renewables by New Pricing and Coordination
Moderator: Sakis Meliopolous
3:15 – 3:45 Michael Ferris (U. Wisconsin at Madison)
Modeling 100% Renewable Electricity
3:45 – 4:15 Panagiotis Andrianesis (Boston University)
Pricing in Markets with Non-Convexities with Reference to Electricity Markets
4:15 – 4:45 Ram Rajagopal (Stanford)
5:00 – 6:30 Poster Session and Reception