DIMACS/CCICADA Workshop on Cascading Failures of Power Transmission Systems: Models and Algorithms

February 23, 2013
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University, dano at columbia dot edu

Michael Chertkov, Los Alamos National Lab, chertkov at lanl.gov

Workshop Program:

Saturday, February 23, 2013

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and registration
 
 9:00  - 9:15  Opening Remarks

 9:15 - 10:00  Sampling and Speed for Cascading Outage Simulations
               Ian Dobson, University of Iowa                        

10:00 - 10:45  Lyapunov Functions to Characterize Cascading Failure Vulnerability in Dynamic Power Grid Models
               Chris De Marco, University of Wisconsin     
             
10:45 - 11:15  Break   

11:15 - 12:00  Modeling and prevention of cascading outages
               Kostya Turitsyn, MIT                                                        

12:00 - 12:45  Estimating Cascading Failure Risk with Random Chemistry
               Paul Hines, University of Vermont
                       
12:45 -  2:15  Lunch               

 2:15 -  3:00  Power Grid Vulnerability to Geographically Correlated Failures Analysis and Control Implications
               Gil Zussman, Columbia University

 3:00 -  3:45  Network Resilience to Correlated and Cascading Failures: A Percolation View
               Edmund Yeh, Northeastern University

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