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Pros, Cons and Challenges of the Next-generation Electric Grid: Establishing a Bridge between Theoretical Computer Science and Power Engineering
August 6, 2015 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm +04
Recent growing environmental awareness, ever increasing demand for power supply reliability and quality in combination with dramatic consequences of failures of large-scale electricity systems have raised public attention towards more convenient, safe and green means of power generation. Replacement of the century-old grid infrastructure with the future Smart Grid (SG) promises to solve the major drawbacks and vulnerabilities of the former and meet the rapidly growing global environmental concerns associated with it. Along with a wide range of promising enhancements on power grid, SG implementation with high level of Distributed Generation (DG) penetration brings in various challenges and problems. Among the fundamental problems is the distribution of power between the grid customers with inelastic complex-valued demands considering the grid operator’s financial benefits and losses. Power allocation mechanisms for the emerging SG cannot just learn from the predecessors intended for large-scale power systems because of the salient properties and functional mechanism of SG. In the face of these challenges there is a need for systematic and efficient power allocation mechanisms for the future grid. These mechanisms have attributed to the formation of a new class of NP-complete combinatorial optimization problems.
About the speaker: Areg Karapetyan
In 2010 Areg graduated from the Department of Cybernetics at State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) majoring in Electronic Engineering and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Diploma with Honor). Afterwards, he has joined Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIT Partner University) as a M.Sc. student at the Department of Computing and Information Science, and in 2015 has obtained Master’s Degree in Computing and Information science.
Currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the same university under the guidance and supervision of Dr. Khaled Elbassioni. My research activities and interests chiefly focus on Combinatorics, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Optimisation, Game Theory and their practical application in AC electric systems and networks.
This event is in English. No interpretation will be provided.
