November 16th

 

Friday, November 16th

Time Event
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
Dynamics and Distributed Control in Transmission and Distribution Systems
Moderator: Andy Sun
9:00 – 9:30 Saverio Bolognani (ETH)
A feedback approach to real-time power system operation
9:30 – 10:00 Dong Jin (ORNL)
Adaptive Building Load Control to Enable High Penetration of PV in Residential Neighborhoods
10:00 – 10:30 Sakis Meliopoulos (Georgia Tech)
Real Time Voltage Control of Active Distribution
10:30 – 10:45 Break
Recent Advances in Optimal Power Flow
Moderator: Valerie Thomas
10:45 – 11:15 Miguel Anjos (Polytechnique Montreal)
Tight-and-Cheap Conic Relaxations for the AC Optimal Power Flow and the Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch Problems
11:15 – 11:45 Russell Bent (LANL)
Tight Piecewise Convex Relaxations for Global Optimization of AC Optimal Power Flow
11:45 – 12:15 Daniel Molzahn (Argonne/Georgia Tech)
Optimal Adaptive Approximations of the Power Flow Equations
12:15 – 1:45 Lunch (Nano Marcus)
Energy Infrastructure Planning and Operation
Moderator: Shijie Deng
1:30 – 2:00 Valerie Thomas (Georgia Tech)
A mixed-integer optimization model for electricity infrastructure development
2:00 – 2:30 Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Tech)
Unit Commitment with Gas Network Awareness
2:30 – 3:00 Andy Sun (Georgia Tech)
A convergent distributed algorithm for nonconvex nonsmooth optimization with applications in optimal power scheduling
3:00 – 3:15 Break
Innovations in Stochastic Programming and Applications in Power Systems
Moderator: Pascal Van Hentenryck
3:15 – 3:45 Jean-Paul Watson (Sandia)
Stochastic Multi-Period Economic Dispatch at Industrial Scale
3:45 – 4:15 Chaoyue Zhao (Oklahoma State)
Distributionally Robust Optimization on Power System Resilience
4:15 – 4:45 David Morton (U. Northwestern)
Distributionally Robust Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming
4:45 – 4:45 Ending remarks