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2021 Grid Science Winter School & Conference

**Please note this is a TENTATIVE schedule. Check back for updates to the schedule.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - Conference Day 1

7 - 7:15 a.m. — Welcome (Misha Chertkov - Power Grid)


7:15 - 8:45 a.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Misha Chertkov)

  • 7:15 - 7:45 a.m. — Antoine Marot, RTE | Learning to Run a Power Network in a Sustainable World: A NeurIPS 2020 AI Competition | Slides
  • 7:45 - 8:15 a.m. — Henrik Lund, Aalborg University | Smart Energy Systems and the Modelling of Sector Integrated National Energy Strategies | Slides
  • 8:15 - 8:45 a.m. — Avi Ostfeld, Technion | Uncertainty Inclusion in Optimization of Multi-quality Water Distribution Systems | Slides

8:45 - 9:00 a.m. — Break

9:00 - 10:30 a.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Hassan Hijazi)

  • 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. — Jessica Harrison, MISO | Data Analytics, Data Science and Machine Learning for Power Systems
  • 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. — Cedric Josz, Columbia | Verifying Global Optimality of Candidate Solutions to Polynomial Optimization Problems using a Determinant Relaxation Hierarchy | Slides
  • 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. — Carleton Coffrin, Los Alamos National Laboratory | A Brief Introduction to Mathematical Optimization in Julia (Part 1) | Slides

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. —  Break (Gather.Town)


12:30 - 2:00 p.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Russell Bent)

  • 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. — Bowen Li, Argonne National Laboratory | Balancibility: Existence and Uniqueness of Power Flow Solutions under Voltage Balance Requirements | Slides
  • 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. — Clayton Barrows, NREL | The Energy Water Nexus: Coupled Infrastructure Modelling Opportunities | Slides
  • 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. — Pierluigi Mancarella, University of Melbourne | The Fragile Grid: Security and Resilience Challenges in Low-carbon Power Systems | Slides
  • 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. - Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montreal | Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization: a Methodological Tour d'Horizon


2:30 - 4:00 p.m. — Collaboration Meetings (Gather.Town)

Thursday, January 14, 2021 - Conference Day 2

7:00 - 7:15 a.m. — Welcome (Deepjyoti Deka - Optimization/ML)


7:15 - 8:45 a.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Adam Mate)

  • 7:15 - 7:45 a.m. — Carleton Coffrin, Los Alamos National Laboratory | A Brief Introduction to Mathematical Optimization in Julia (Part 2) | Slides
  • 7:45 - 8:15 a.m. — Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, DTU | Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Power Systems | Slides
  • 8:15 - 8:45 a.m. — Enrique Mallada, Johns Hopkins University | Embracing Low Inertia in Power System Frequency Control: A Dynamic Droop Approach | Slides

8:45 - 9:00 a.m. — Break

9:00-10:30 a.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Sidhant Misra)

  • 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. — Sairaj Dhople, Minnesota | Reexamining the Distributed Slack Bus | Slides
  • 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. — Anurag Srivastava, WSU | Synchrophasor Data Analytics for Anomaly Detection, Classification, and Localization in the Electrical Grid
  • 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. — Laurent Pagnier, University of Arizona | Physics-Informed Machine Learning Applied to Power Systems: A Tool for Scarce Data Sets and Realistic Applications

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. —  Break (Gather.Town)


12:30 - 2:30 p.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Deepjyoti Deka)

  • 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. — Duncan Callaway, Berkeley | Examining Large-Scale Low Inertia Power System Stability | Slides
  • 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. — Mani Venkatasubramanian, WSU | Oscillation Monitoring and Control Using Synchrophasors
  • 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. — Line Roald, Wisconsin | Balancing Wildfire Risk and Power Outages Through Optimized Power Shut-Offs | Slides
  • 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. — Vassilis Kekatos, Virginia Tech | Machine Learning for Optimal Inverter Operation in Distribution Grids | Slides


2:30 - 4:00 p.m. — Collaboration Meetings (Gather.Town)

Friday, January 15, 2021 - Conference Day 3

7:00 - 7:15 a.m. — Welcome (Anatoly Zlotnik - Interacting Systems)


7:15 - 8:45 a.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Anatoly Zlotnik)

  • 7:15 - 7:45 a.m. — Martin Gugat, FAU | On Problems of Optimal Nodal Control for Gas Networks | Slides
  • 7:45 - 8:15 a.m. — Sara Grundel, Max Plank | Optimization and Stabilization of Hierarchical Electrical Networks | Slides
  • 8:15 - 8:45 a.m. — Michael Herty, Aachen University | Recent Developments in Stabilization of Gas Flow Under Uncertainty

8:45 - 9:00 a.m. — Break

9:00-10:30 a.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Harsha Nagarajan)

  • 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. — Arvind Ragunathan, MERL | Nonconvex Quadratic Cuts for Global Optimization of Mixed Integer Quadratic Programs | Slides
  • 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. — Ruiwei Jiang, Michigan | Projection Cuts for Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs, with Application in Unit Commitment | Slides
  • 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. — Anirudh Subramanyam, ANL | Rare Chance Constrained Optimization: Controlling Cascading Failures | Slides

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. —  Break (Gather.Town)


12:30 - 2:30 p.m. — Invited Lectures (Session Chair - Harsha Nagarajan)

  • 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. — Dan Molzahn, Georgia Tech | Applications of Convex Restriction Techniques to Electric Power System Optimization Problems | Slides
  • 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. — Souyma Kundu, PNNL | Assuring Transient Safety in Inverter-Based Microgrids via Local Control Adjustments | Slides
  • 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. — Kyri Baker, UC Boulder | Emulating AC OPF Solvers for Obtaining Sub-second Feasible, Near-Optimal Solutions
  • 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. — Haoxiang Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Distributionally Robust Optimization Applied to Distribution Network Operations Under Stochastic Disruptions | Slides


2:30 - 3:00 p.m.— Break (Gather.Town)


3:00 - 3:15 p.m.— Closing Remarks (Russell)

 

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This event is being brought to you by the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona.
This event has been declared "Open To The Public - With Registration".
 

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