The Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry
Center sponsors a weekly seminar series in the EPP conference room (Baker
Hall 129). These seminars provide an informal means of presenting
research, listening to outside speakers, and learning about the
electricity industry. Upcoming and past seminar speakers and topics are
listed below. When possible the slides for the talk are also available.
If you would like to give a seminar, or
have a good idea for a seminar topic, please contact Jay
Apt (apt@cmu.edu or 412-268-3003).
|
Date/Day/Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Wednesday
10/23/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Alan J. Fleissner
Manager Transmission Line Engineering
DiGioia Gray and Associates | "Transmission Line Projects from the Utility Perspective" |
Wednesday
9/25/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Zak Kuznar
Duke Energy | "Grid Scale Applications for Bulk and Distributed Electrochemical Energy Storage" |
Wednesday
7/17/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Tim Fox
Head of Energy and Environment
Institution of Mechanical Engineers | "Realising the Value of Storing Electricity to Enable Decarbonisation; Technology in a UK/EU Policy Context" |
Friday
5/3/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | David Khemakhem
Energy and Technology Advisor
ExxonMobil | "The Exxon Mobile Energy Outlook: A View to 2040" |
Wednesday
4/24/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Bruce Boland
Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations & Environment
Ontario Power Generation Inc. | "Electricity Generation Optimization in a Period of Surplus Baseload Generation" |
Thursday
4/11/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Mads Almassalkhi
PhD Candidate, Power & Control Systems Laboratory
University of Michigan | "Temperature-based Model-predictive Cascade Mitigation in Electric Power Systems" |
Wednesday
4/10/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Ingmar Sterzing
Director, Commercial Operations for Nuclear Power Plants
Westinghouse Nuclear | "UK Electric Market Reform Application to Texas Power Market" |
NEW DATE
Wednesday
3/27/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room
(via videoconference) | Rangan Banerjee
Forbes Marshall Chair Professor in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | "Grid Connected Solar Power in India: Status and Prospects" |
Wednesday
2/20/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Pulkit Grover
Assistant Professor, ECE
Carnegie Mellon University | "Understanding 'Informational-Friction' for Green Communication and Computation" |
Wednesday
2/13/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Matteo Muratori
Ph.D. Candidate & Graduate Research Associate
Center for Automotive Research, The Ohio State University | "Dynamic Management of Integrated Residential Energy Systems" |
Monday
1/28/2013
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Erin Mansur
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
Research Associate
National Bureau of Economic Research | "Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity in Marginal Emissions: Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies" |
Wednesday
12/12/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Daniel Kirschen
Donald W. and Ruth Mary Close Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington | "Taking the Information Infrastructure and the Human Factors into Account when Assessing the Risk of Blackouts" |
Thursday
12/6/2012
10:30 AM | Baker 129 | Dr. Monica Lupion
International Affairs Director
CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage Technology Programme | "Oxycombustion CCS Demonstration Technology Development Center at CIUDEN (Spain)" |
Wednesday
11/28/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Nick Siefert
Mechanical Engineer
Separation and Fuels Division, DOE/NETL/ORD | "Economic Analysis of Baseload Power Plants Meeting Current & Possible Future GHG Regulations" |
Wednesday
11/14/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Chris Trueblood
Sr. Project Engineer
Electric Power Research Institute | "Distributed PV Monitoring Plant Performance and Voltage: Observations Using High Resolution Field Data" |
Wednesday
10/24/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Erin Baker
University of Massachusetts at Amherst | "Energy Technology R&D Policy in Response to Climate Change" |
Wednesday
10/17/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Erin Baker
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of Massachusetts, Amherst | "Climate Change Energy Technology R&D Policy under Uncertainty" |
Wednesday
10/10/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Rich Bayless
Director of Transmission Services and Technical Spokesman
Northern Tier Transmission Group (NTTG)
Principal
Comprehensive Power Solutions (CPS), LLC | "Transmission Issues and Planning in the Western Grid" |
Friday
10/5/2012
Noon | Baker 129 | Rahul Walawalkar
VP, Emerging Tech & Markets
Customized Energy Solutions | "Insights From the Recent India Blackout – Opportunities for Energy Storage, DR and Microgrids" |
Wednesday
9/26/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | J. Zico Kolter
Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon | "Building an Informatics of Personal Energy Consumption" |
Wednesday
9/12/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Roger Duncan
Research Associate
University of Texas at Austin
President
Pecan Street Project | "The Pecan Street Project" |
Wednesday
8/29/2012
Noon | EPP Conference Room | Stephen E. Zitney, Ph.D.
Director, AVESTAR Center
Advanced Virtual Energy Simulation
Training and Research
Office of Research & Development
U.S. Department of Energy
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) | "AVESTAR Center for Operational Excellence of Electricity Generation Plants" |
