This one-day workshop focuses on planning, operations, modeling, analysis, and implementation of transmission & distribution connected renewables & energy storage, and their impacts on the system. There will be 4 utility executives and 2 members from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to participate along with over a dozen of renowned speakers and panelists from utilities, vendors, consultants, universities, and national labs. Seven PDHs will be provided to attendees who attend the entire workshop in person or online. This is a great and uncommon opportunity for you to learn & discuss those cutting-edge technologies with experts from various perspectives. Please RSVP before April 21st with the correct email address. The registration fee (for both in-person and remote attendees) is only $20 for non-IEEE members and $15 for IEEE members, which will cover all food, refreshments, beverages, and PDH certificates if needed. Look forward to seeing you at Dayton! Logistic Notes: Free parking will be available in the AES Ohio facility following guidance. Lunch, morning refreshments, and coffee will be provided to in-person attendees and covered by the registration fees. Students and invited panelists/speakers can send an email to [email protected] for registration by waiving the registration fees. Agenda: [] Room: DT-LL-1 & DT-LL-2, Bldg: AES Ohio Office, 1065 Woodman Drive, Dayton, Ohio, United States, 45432, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/406059

This one-day workshop focuses on planning, operations, modeling, analysis, and implementation of transmission & distribution connected renewables & energy storage, and their impacts on the system. There will be 4 utility executives and 2 members from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to participate along with over a dozen of renowned speakers and panelists from utilities, vendors, consultants, universities, and national labs. Seven PDHs will be provided to attendees who attend the entire workshop in person. Remote attendees are welcome (without PDH certificates). This is a great and uncommon opportunity for you to learn & discuss those cutting-edge technologies with experts from various perspectives. Please RSVP before April 21st with the correct email address. Look forward to seeing you at Dayton!Logistic Notes:Free parking will be available in the AES Ohio facility following guidance.Lunch, morning refreshments, and coffee will be provided to in-person attendees and covered by the registration fees.Students and invited panelists/speakers can send an email to [email protected] for registration by waiving the registration fees.Agenda: Tentative Agenda:9:00 – 9:10 AM:Opening SpeechKen Zagzebski, President, AES US Utilities9:10 – 9:20 AM:Opening SpeechDr. Shay Bahramirad, IEEE PES President, Senior Vice President, Luma Energy9:20 – 9:40 AM:Keynote TalkRaiford Smith, Chief Utility Innovation Officer, AES US Utilities9:40 – 10:10 AM:Grid Modernization: Technological Advancements Beyond Smart GridJohn McDonald, Consultant, IEEE Fellow, NAE Member10:10 – 10:40 AM:Improving Resiliency with Batteries & othersDr. Antonio Conejo, Professor, OSU, IEEE Fellow, NAE Member10:40 – 11:40 AM:Innovating Grid Constraints: Modernizing Interconnection, Grid Technologies, and ModelsAlexina Jackson, Vice President, AES Next (Chair)11:40 – 12:20 AMLunch Break12:20 – 11:20 PM:Microgrid Analysis, Controls, and OperationsDr. Calvin Zhang, Director, Eaton R&D Center (Chair)Dr. Farid Katiraei, VP, Quanta TechnologyWade Malcolm, CEO, Open Energy Solutions1:20 – 2:20 PM:Engineering Consideration for Renewable & Storage InterconnectionsDr. Xuan Wu, Sr. Manager, AES US Utilities (Chair)Ben Echeverria, Energy Storage Expert, Burns & McDonnellPrudhvi Bhattiprolu, Senior Engineer, AEP2:20 – 2:30 PMCoffee Break2:30 – 3:45 PM:Inverter Responses to ContingenciesMike Simpson, Director, AES Clean Energy (Chair)Pending Panalist, National Renewable Energy LaboratoryDr. Xiaonan Lu, Associate Prof., Purdue UniversityDr. Deepak Ramasubramanian, Sr. Technical Leader, EPRI3:45 – 5:00 PM:High DER-penetrated Distribution System Modeling, Analysis, and OperationsDr. Zhaoyu Wang, Professor, Iowa State University (Chair)Barry Feldman, Director, Smart Grid, AES US UtilitiesDr. Feng Qiu, Section Manager, Argonne National LaboratoryDr. Farnaz Farzan, Manager, Quanta TechnologyRoom: DT-LL-1 & DT-LL-2, Bldg: AES Ohio Office, 1065 Woodman Drive, Dayton, Ohio, United States, 45432, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/406059

Insect- and hummingbird- inspired drones offer many advantages over conventional, rotor-based designs: they are safer thanks to their low weight and soft wings, the flapping wings offer higher tolerance to collisions, produce more pleasant, lower frequency sound and, last but not least, their resemblance to natural fliers makes them more appealing to most humans. These features make them a perfect fit for aerial robotic applications near humans and/or in cluttered environments. Despite our still limited understanding of the very complex flapping flight aerodynamics, we can already design hover-capable flapping wing drones that have sufficient flight endurance and payload capacity for first real-world applications. In this lecture, Dr. Karásek will talk about the design and performance of bioinspired drone platforms developed during his research at ULB Brussels and TU Delft as well as in his spinoff company Flapper Drones. In the last part, he will also discuss potential future applications for these lightweight and safe drones. Speaker(s): , Matěj Karásek Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/417499

Insect- and hummingbird- inspired drones offer many advantages over conventional, rotor-based designs: they are safer thanks to their low weight and soft wings, the flapping wings offer higher tolerance to collisions, produce more pleasant, lower frequency sound and, last but not least, their resemblance to natural fliers makes them more appealing to most humans. These features make them a perfect fit for aerial robotic applications near humans and/or in cluttered environments. Despite our still limited understanding of the very complex flapping flight aerodynamics, we can already design hover-capable flapping wing drones that have sufficient flight endurance and payload capacity for first real-world applications. In this lecture, Dr. Karásek will talk about the design and performance of bioinspired drone platforms developed during his research at ULB Brussels and TU Delft as well as in his spinoff company Flapper Drones. In the last part, he will also discuss potential future applications for these lightweight and safe drones.Speaker(s): , Matěj KarásekVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/417499

Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation: according to Hans Eysenck: "He tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered". Seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a postal correspondence with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy at the University of Cambridge, England. Recognising Ramanujan's work as extraordinary, Hardy arranged for him to travel to Cambridge. In his notes, Hardy commented that Ramanujan had produced groundbreaking new theorems, including some that "defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before", and some recently proven.During his short life, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations). Many were completely novel; his original and highly unconventional results, such as the Ramanujan prime, the Ramanujan theta function, partition formulae and mock theta functions, have opened entire new areas of work and inspired a vast amount of further research. Of his thousands of results, all but a dozen or two have now been proven correct. The Ramanujan Journal, a scientific journal, was established to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan, and his notebooks—containing summaries of his published and unpublished results—have been analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas. As late as 2012, researchers continued to discover that mere comments in his writings about "simple properties" and "similar outputs" for certain findings were themselves profound and subtle number theory results that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his death. He became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society and only the second Indian member, and the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Of his original letters, Hardy stated that a single look was enough to show they could have been written only by a mathematician of the highest calibre, comparing Ramanujan to mathematical geniuses such as Euler and Jacobi.In 1919, ill health compelled Ramanujan's return to India, where he died in 1920 at the age of 32. His last letters to Hardy, written in January 1920, show that he was still continuing to produce new mathematical ideas and theorems. His "lost notebook", containing discoveries from the last year of his life, caused great excitement among mathematicians when it was rediscovered in 1976.A deeply religious Hindu,Ramanujan credited his substantial mathematical capacities to divinity, and said his family goddess, Namagiri Thayar, revealed his mathematical knowledge to him. He once said, "An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."Speaker(s): , Discussion Moderator: Sharan KalwaniAgenda: 6:00 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update; break6:05 PM - Movie Start/Presentation7:20 PM - Q & A; group Discussion7:30 PM - Wrap UpVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/416631

[]Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation: according to Hans Eysenck: "He tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered". Seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a postal correspondence with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy at the University of Cambridge, England. Recognising Ramanujan's work as extraordinary, Hardy arranged for him to travel to Cambridge. In his notes, Hardy commented that Ramanujan had produced groundbreaking new theorems, including some that "defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before", and some recently proven. During his short life, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations). Many were completely novel; his original and highly unconventional results, such as the Ramanujan prime, the Ramanujan theta function, partition formulae and mock theta functions, have opened entire new areas of work and inspired a vast amount of further research. Of his thousands of results, all but a dozen or two have now been proven correct. The Ramanujan Journal, a scientific journal, was established to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan, and his notebooks—containing summaries of his published and unpublished results—have been analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas. As late as 2012, researchers continued to discover that mere comments in his writings about "simple properties" and "similar outputs" for certain findings were themselves profound and subtle number theory results that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his death. He became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society and only the second Indian member, and the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Of his original letters, Hardy stated that a single look was enough to show they could have been written only by a mathematician of the highest calibre, comparing Ramanujan to mathematical geniuses such as Euler and Jacobi. In 1919, ill health compelled Ramanujan's return to India, where he died in 1920 at the age of 32. His last letters to Hardy, written in January 1920, show that he was still continuing to produce new mathematical ideas and theorems. His "lost notebook", containing discoveries from the last year of his life, caused great excitement among mathematicians when it was rediscovered in 1976. A deeply religious Hindu,Ramanujan credited his substantial mathematical capacities to divinity, and said his family goddess, Namagiri Thayar, revealed his mathematical knowledge to him. He once said, "An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God." Speaker(s): , Discussion Moderator: Sharan Kalwani Agenda: 6:00 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update; break 6:05 PM - Movie Start/Presentation 7:20 PM - Q & A; group Discussion 7:30 PM - Wrap Up Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/416631