Starts at: October 25, 2012 4:30 PM
Location: Scaife Hall Auditorium
Speaker: Boris Defourny
Affiliation: Princeton
Refreshments provided: Yes
Details:
If you would like to meet with Prof. Defourny during his visit to CMU on Thursday, Oct. 25th please email Claire Bauerle cbauerle@ece.cmu.edu.
Seminar details:
- Thurs. Oct. 25th, 4:30-5:30pm EST, Pittsburgh Campus: Scaife Auditorium (Room 125),
Refreshments at 4pm.
- Silicon Valley campus: Rm 118, Building 23 at 1:30 PST
Speaker: Boris X. Defourny, Ph.D., Associate Professional Specialist, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Title: New computational techniques for the stochastic unit commitment problem
Abstract:In this seminar, I will talk about ongoing work on a simulator we are building for evaluating unit commitment strategies in a way that complies with the dynamics of the information available to the system operator when decisions are optimized.
Then I will discuss approaches that we have identified as the most promising for improving, in a computationally practical way, the robustness of unit commitment decisions in face of high-dimensional uncertainty. I will first present an efficient technique for determining a single planning scenario that can significantly reduce the value of the stochastic solution (VSS) of the stochastic MIP model. I will also discuss the idea of optimizing several reserves for hedging against wind uncertainty, by accurately solving auxiliary stochastic programs posed on aggregated models.
Bio: Boris Defourny is an Associate Professional Specialist at Princeton University, in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. He received his PhD in December 2010 from the University of Liege, in Belgium. His main research interests lie at the interface of stochastic optimization and machine learning, and more broadly in approximation methods that lead to robust solutions while being computationally efficient. He is also actively participating to several collaborative research projects as a scientific advisor, all related to current challenges and debated questions in energy systems and energy markets, such as demand response or large-scale wind integration.
