The Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center sponsors a weekly seminar series
at noon on Tuesdays in the EPP conference room. 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 |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
| 6/16/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Rangan Banerjee
Visiting Faculty EPP
|
Comparison
of Options for Distributed Generation in India |
| 5/13/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Anshu Bharadwaj
Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Dept of Engineering and Public
Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
|
Solid
Oxide fuel cells - An engineering economic analysis |
| 5/06/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Santosh Ananthraman
Chief Executive Officer, Pulse Metrics
|
Market
Surveillance at Stock Exchanges: Lessons for the Electricity Industry |
| 5/01/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Rattan Lal
School of Natural Resources
The Ohio State University |
Soil Sequestration of
Carbon |
| 4/22/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Ed Rubin
Alumni
Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science, Carnegie
Mellon University
|
Coal Gasification and the
Meaning of Life |
| 4/15/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Kalyan K. Sen
Fellow Engineer at Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation and IEEE
Distinguished Lecturer |
Recent
Developments in Electric Power Transmission Technology |
| 4/08/03 |
EPP
Conference Room |
Dr. Rahul Tongia
E.P.P.
|
India's
power sector: (de)regulation and reforms |
| 4/01/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Dallas
Burtraw
Senior Fellow, Quality of the Environment Division,
Resources For The Future |
Integrated
Assessment of Science and Economics for Designing Air Pollution Policies |
| 3/18/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Audun Botterud
Visiting doctoral candidate, MIT
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment |
Investment
in generation assets under uncertainty in restructured power markets |
| 3/11/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Joule Bergerson
CEIC, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy |
Transport
of Coal by Rail vs. Transmission for Electricity Generation: An Application of
Hybrid LCA Comparative Analysis |
| 3/4/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Shalini Vajjhala
CEIC, Engineering and Public Policy |
Metrics
for understanding transmission line siting |
2/24/03
Monday
2 PM |
EPP Conference Room |
Bert N. Davis, Ph.D.,
P.E.
Bert Davis & Associates Consulting Engineers |
An
engineering/economic analysis of solar photovoltaic power |
| 2/18/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Dalia Patiño-Echeverri
CEIC, Engineering and Public Policy |
The
effects of uncertainty on investment in emissions control for power plants |
| 2/11/03 |
EPP Conference Room |
Tim Johnson
CEIC, Engineering and Public Policy |
Multipollutant
Emissions Reduction and CO2 Control: The Costs of Regulatory Uncertainty |
2/3/03
Monday |
EPP Conference Room |
Marija Ilic
CEIC, Engineering and Public Policy and Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Making
electric power systems both secure and efficient: Protocols for dynamic energy
control (PDEC) |
| 12/5/02 |
EPP Conference Room |
Richard Silberglitt
RAND |
Analysis
of distributed generation in metropolitan Chicago, including load flow analysis |
| 11/25/02 |
EPP Conference Room |
Ellen Ewart
Senior Consultant, Platts/RDI |
Structure
and Outlook for the U.S. Coal and power industries |
| 11/5/02 |
EPP Conference Room |
Shimon Awerbuch
International Energy Agency |
Valuing
Renewables and Other New Technology (Coupled With a Digression on T&D
Network Organization, Regulation and Pricing) |
| 11/1/02 |
EPP Conference Room |
Bruce Wollenberg
University of Minnesota |
Optimizing
the Operation of Power System Open Markets |
| 10/21/02 |
EPP Conference Room |
Tom Schneider
Private Consultant (ex-EPRI) |
R&D
Strategies for the Electricity Industry |
| 10/15/02 |
GSIA - CBI Lounge |
Kate Jackson
Exeuctive Vice President,
River System & Environment,
Tennessee Valley Authority |
Introduction to TVA and
power supply planning, plus issues for Standard Market Design |
| 10/10/02 |
GSIA - CBI Lounge |
Alex Farrell
E.P.P. |
Energy
Supply Options for CMU |
| 9/30/02 |
EPP Conference Room |
Bill Lukin
The Bolton Institute |
Regulatory Reform in the U.K.
Electricity Industry
(Co-Sponsored with the History Department) |
| 9/26/02 |
EPP Conference Room |
Dave Loucks
P.E., EATON|Cutler-Hammer |
Power
quality and Distributed Generation: What Problem Are You Asking It To Solve? |
| 9/23/02 |
GSIA 3rd Floor – CBI Lounge |
Seth Blumsack and
Lester Lave
GSIA |
Pivotal Firms and Market
Power |
| 9/19/02 |
EPP Conference room |
Anshu Bharadwaj
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Mechanical Engineering
& Engineering and Public Policy |
Biomass
gasification for rural distributed generation: engineering and economic
analysis
|
| 9/9/02 |
Carnegie Bosch Institute
Lounge (GSIA 3rd floor) |
Barbara Barkovich
Principal, Barkovich & Yap |
Politics
and Markets: The situation in California and its implications for the future |
| 9/5/02 |
GSIA 388 |
Dimitri Perkehodstev,
Seth Blumsack, and Lester Lave, Tepper |
Measuring Market Power in
Deregulated Generation Markets |
