The mathematics of energy systems
MES
3 January 2019 to 3 May 2019
Programme theme
The rapid advance of renewable generation brings fundamental interdisciplinary research challenges. On shorter timescales there are increasing problems of control and optimisation, while new questions of physical and economic design are emerging on the longer investment timescales. Network flows must be managed reliably under uncertain demands, uncertain supply, emerging network technologies and possible failures and, further, prices in related markets can be highly volatile. Drawn from mathematics, economics and engineering, the interdisciplinary participants in this programme will address a range of associated problems, including modelling, prediction, simulation, control, market and mechanism design and optimisation. Our aims are both to develop methodology which is urgent for the next several years and to sow the seeds of a lasting mathematical research agenda.
Research tracks
14 - 25 Jan: Look-ahead operational planning under uncertainty - organised by Pascal Van Hentenryck
28 Jan - 8 Feb: Budgeting and scheduling of maintenance and replacement of power system components - organised by Louis Wehenkel
11 - 15 Feb: Future Electricity Markets – From natural evolutions to disruptive proposals - organised by Pierre Pinson
25 Feb - 1st Mar: Data and analytics for short-term operations - organised by Yannig Goude and Pierre Pinson
11-15 March : Moving energy through time: storage and demand side response - organised by Golbon Zakeri and James Cruise
25 – 29 March: Equilibria and computation in markets with risk - organised by Michael Ferris
1 - 12 April: Pricing and optimization of intraday/day-ahead electricity and futures contracts - organised by Florentina Paraschiv
15 - 18 April: Planning Low-Carbon Electricity Systems under Uncertainty Considering Operational Flexibility and Smart Grid Technologies - organised by Pierluigi Mancarella and Rodrigo Moreno
22 - 26 April: Mechanism Design for the Economics of Future Energy Systems - organised by Ankur Kulkarni
Scientific Advisory Committee
- Rene Aid (Paris Dauphine)
- Clemence Alasseur (EDF)
- Eddie Anderson (Sydney)
- Sergey Foss (Heriot-Watt)
- Ben Godfrey (Western Power Distribution)
- Frank Kelly (Cambridge)
- Ruediger Kiesel (Duisburg-Essen)
- Thorsten Koch (Berlin)
- Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL)
- David Lenaghan (National Grid)
- Jan Maciejowski (Cambridge)
- Henrik Madsen (DTU)
- Sean Meyn (Florida)
- Guy Nason (Bristol)
- David Newbery (Cambridge)
- Mark O’Malley (Dublin)
- Shmuel Oren (Berkeley)
- Patrick Panciatici (RTE)
- Andrew Richards (National Grid)
- Philippe Vassilopoulos (EPEX SPOT)
Click here to download the programme's final scientific report
MES programme: interview with organisers John Moriarty and Almut Veraart
Workshops
Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems
7 January 2019 to 11 January 2019
100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems
23 January 2019 to 23 January 2019
Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment
18 March 2019 to 22 March 2019
Mean-field equations and their applications
1 April 2019 to 5 April 2019
Second Leeds meeting on stochastic control and games under ambiguity
8 April 2019 to 12 April 2019
Closing workshop: Looking forward to 2050
29 April 2019 to 3 May 2019
Managing Next Generation Energy Systems
1 May 2019 to 1 May 2019
The Organisers would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the event:
Seminars
| Monday 11th February 2019 | |||
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| 13:30 to 16:00 | Room 2 | ||
| Wednesday 20th February 2019 | |||
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| 15:00 to 16:00 |
Said Hamadene Université du Maine |
Room 2 | |
| Monday 25th February 2019 | |||
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| 09:30 to 12:00 |
Stephen Haben University of Reading |
Room 2 | |
| 14:00 to 16:00 |
Assisting control room operators with artificial intelligence : Antoine Marot |
Room 2 | 
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| Tuesday 26th February 2019 | |||
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| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Pierre Gaillard |
Room 2 |
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| 10:40 to 12:00 |
Robust and online learning with the BOA algorithm : Olivier Wintenberger |
Room 2 |
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| Wednesday 27th February 2019 | |||
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| 09:30 to 12:00 |
Qiwei Yao London School of Economics |
Room 2 |
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| 13:30 to 16:00 |
Jethro Browell University of Strathclyde |
Room 2 |
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| Thursday 28th February 2019 | |||
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| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Generalised additive models for electricity demand forecasting : Matteo Fasiolo |
Room 2 |
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| 10:30 to 12:00 |
Florian Ziel Universität Duisburg-Essen |
Room 2 |
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| 13:30 to 17:00 | Room 2 |
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| Monday 4th March 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 12:00 |
Janusz Bialek Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology |
Room 1 |
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| 14:00 to 16:00 |
Janusz Bialek Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology |
Room 1 |
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| Tuesday 9th April 2019 | |||
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| 16:00 to 17:00 |
Claudia Sagastizabal Universidade Estadual de Campinas |
Room 1 |
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| Wednesday 24th April 2019 | |||
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| 10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 | ||
Organisers
- John Moriarty Queen Mary University of London
- Andy Philpott University of Auckland
- Almut Veraart Imperial College London
- Stan Zachary Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh
- Bert Zwart Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI); Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Speakers
- Janusz Bialek Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
- Jethro Browell University of Strathclyde
- Pierre Gaillard
- Stephen Haben University of Reading
- Said Hamadene Université du Maine
- Claudia Sagastizabal Universidade Estadual de Campinas
- Qiwei Yao London School of Economics
- Florian Ziel Universität Duisburg-Essen
Participants
- Rene Aid Université Paris-Dauphine
- Clemence Alasseur EDF, France
- Amir Alikhanzadeh National Grid, Electricity System Operator
- Eddie Anderson University of Sydney
- José M. Arroyo Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha
- Angelos Aveklouris Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Fred Benth University of Oslo
- Janusz Bialek Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
- Endre Bjorndal NHH Norwegian School of Economics
- Trine Boomsma University of Copenhagen
- David Brayshaw University of Reading
- Jethro Browell University of Strathclyde
- Ana Busic INRIA; CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
- Michael Chertkov University of Arizona; Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Michael Coulon University of Sussex
- Valentin Courgeau Imperial College London; University College London
- James Cruise Heriot-Watt University
- Tiziano De Angelis University of Leeds
- Jacques de Chalendar Stanford University
- Chris Dent University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute
- Giulia Di Nunno Matematisk Institutt, Oslo; NHH Norwegian School of Economics
- Ian Dobson Iowa State University
- Florian Doerfler ETH Zürich
- Tony Downward University of Auckland
- Laurine Duchesne Université de Liège
- Roxana Dumitrescu King's College London
- Claudia D’Ambrosio CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
- Idris Eckley Lancaster University
- Natalia Fabra Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Michael Ferris University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sergey Foss Heriot-Watt University; Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
- Dennice Gayme Johns Hopkins University
- Ben Godfrey None / Other
- Yannig Goude EDF, France; Université Paris-Saclay
- Richard Green Imperial College London
- Elena Gryazina None / Other
- Abhishek Gupta Ohio State University
- Stephen Haben University of Reading
- Said Hamadene Université du Maine
- Adriaan Hilbers Imperial College London
- Ben Hobbs Johns Hopkins University
- Pär Holmberg Research Institute of Industrial Economics
- Elena Issoglio University of Leeds
- Maryam Kamgarpour ETH Zürich
- Stella Kapodistria Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Efthymios Karangelos Université de Liège
- Frank Kelly University of Cambridge
- Ruediger Kiesel Universität Duisburg-Essen; Universitetet i Oslo
- Rebecca Killlick Lancaster University
- Anupama Kowli Indian Institute of Technology
- Ankur Kulkarni Indian Institute of Technology
- Javad Lavaei University of California, Berkeley
- Jean-Yves Le Boudec EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Na Li Harvard University
- Emily Little RTE
- Steven Low CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
- Michael Ludkovski University of California, Santa Barbara
- Brenda López Cabrera Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Jan Maciejowski University of Cambridge; Nanyang Technological University
- Chiara Cecilia Maiocchi University of Reading; Imperial College London
- Pierluigi Mancarella University of Melbourne; University of Manchester
- Randall Martyr Queen Mary University of London
- Ben Mestel The Open University
- Sean Meyn University of Florida; University of Illinois
- John Moriarty Queen Mary University of London
- Francisco Muñoz Adolfo Ibanez University
- Myriam Neaimeh Newcastle University; The Alan Turing Institute
- Tommaso Nesti Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
- David Newbery University of Cambridge
- Shmuel Oren University of California, Berkeley
- Jan Palczewski University of Leeds
- Patrick Panciatici RTE
- Anthony Papavasiliou Université Catholique de Louvain
- Florentina Paraschiv NTNU
- Brendan Patch Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
- Goran Peskir University of Manchester
- Andy Philpott University of Auckland
- Pierre Pinson Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
- Danny Ralph University of Cambridge
- Goncalo Reis University of Edinburgh
- Chang-Han Rhee Northwestern University
- Paulina Rowinska Imperial College London
- Sarah Ryan Iowa State University
- Barbara Rüdiger-Mastandrea Bergische Universität Wuppertal
- Claudia Sagastizabal Universidade Estadual de Campinas
- Michael Schuerle University of St. Gallen
- Seva Shneer Heriot-Watt University
- Ronnie Sircar Princeton University
- Yves Smeers Université Catholique de Louvain
- Peter Tankov ENSAE (École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration)
- Luca Taschini London School of Economics; Università degli Studi di Verona
- Emma Tegling KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
- Simon Tindemans Delft University of Technology
- Harry van der Weijde University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute
- Luitgard Veraart London School of Economics
- Almut Veraart Imperial College London
- Marc Vincent National Grid, Electricity System Operator
- Louis Wehenkel Université de Liège
- Adam Wierman CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
- Amy Wilson University of Edinburgh
- Sonja Wogrin None / Other
- Stan Zachary Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh
- Golbon Zakeri University of Auckland
- Florian Ziel Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Alessandro Zocca CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
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