CURENT Power and Energy Industry Seminar Series
The monthly Industry seminar is now called the Power and Energy Industry Seminar (formerly the SLC Industry Seminar). The Power and Energy Industry Seminar invites CURENT students, industry leaders and academic experts to participate in monthly seminars at the center's lead institute, the University of Tennessee. These industry seminars are typically on the last Friday of each month from 12:20 pm to 1:10 pm and usually available for those offsite through ZOOM, WebEx or Webcast. Many of these seminars are recorded as well. The seminars cover a variety of topics related to the ongoing research and technical development of the nation's power grid.
Emails will go out a week in advance about the speaker and topic and the seminar will also be announced on the CURENT website in News and on the CURENT calendar. Again, most presentations can be streamed live or downloaded for future use. Here is a catalogue of the recorded seminars.
Due to certain scheduling opportunities, some seminars may be held at times other than the last Friday of the month.
Recorded Seminar Catalog
A catalog of all the Industry Seminars that were recorded by UT's OIT department are listed on this page. A list of the recorded seminars can be found below.
Upcoming Power and Energy Industry Seminars
Friday, April 24, 2020
Title: Bracing for EV Adoption
Presenter: Srijib Mukherjee, ORNL
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Spring 2020
Friday, March 6, 2020
Title: Diversity and Inclusion at TVA
Presenter: Said Sidiqi, Senior Program Manager, TVA
Friday, February 28, 2020 test
Title: TVA's Utilization of PMUs
Presenter: Tim Fritch, Manager of Reliability Analysis, TVA
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Fall 2019
Friday, September 27, 2019
Presenter: Dr. Fran Li, University of Tennessee
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Spring 2019
Friday, April 26, 2019
Title: Grid Mind: A Data-driven Autonomous Grid Dispatch and Control Framework Based on PMU Measurements
Presenter: Dr. Di Shi, GEIRINA
Friday, March 29, 2019
Title: MISO Market Design Overview and Evolution
Presenter: Dr. Yonghong Chen, MISO
Friday, March 1, 2019
Title: Real-Time Damping of Power Grid Oscillations Using Synchrophasor Feedback
Presenter: Dr. David Schoenwald, Sandia National Labs
Friday, January 25, 2019
Title: Graph Computing and Its Application in Power Systems
Presenter: Dr. Guangyi Liu, Chief Technology Officer, Geirina
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Fall 2018
Friday, October 26, 2018
Title: Protection and Control Issues associated with Shunt Compensated Transmission Lines
Presenter: Pratap G. Mysore, Pratap Consulting Services, LLC
Friday, September 28, 2018
Title: Architecting a Universal Sensor Analytics Platform for Utilities
Presenter: Mr. Sean Murphy, PingThings, and Mr. Michael Andersen, University of California Berkeley
Friday, September 14, 2018
Title: Optimization Methods for the Unit Commitment Problem
Presenter: Dr. Jim Ostrowski, University of Tennessee
Friday, August 24, 2018
Title: Maximizing the Potential of Wide-bandgap Devices for EV Battery Chargers
Presenter: Dr. Hua "Kevin" Bai, University of Tennessee
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Spring 2018
Friday, April 13, 2018
Title: Breaking Your Glass Ceiling
Presenter: Ms. Katherine Prewitt, Vice President Transmission, Southern Company
Friday, March 23, 2018
Title: Introduction To Power Quality
Presenter: Mr. Theo Laughner, PowerGrid-RX, Inc.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Title: Shared Attention: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence
Presenter: Dr. Garriy Shteynberg, University of Tennessee
Friday, January 26, 2018
Presenter: Dr. Faisal Khan, University of Missouri
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Fall 2017
Friday, December 15, 2017
Title: How to be a Successful Entrepreneur
Presenter: Mr. Tao Xia, Integrated Power Engineering
Friday, December 1, 2017
Title: Inclusivity in a Global Higher Education Community
Presenter: Dr. Dorian McCoy, UTK
Friday, October 13, 2017
Title: My Transition to Entrepreneurship: A Different Way to Perceive Work and Risk
Presenter: Dr. Kevin Jones, Grid Widget Labs
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Title: Engineering the Changing Resource Mix – Keeping the Grid Together
Presenter: Mr. Bob Cummings, NERC
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Title: Modeling and Simulation of Electrical Power Systems using OpenIPSL.org and GridDyn
Presenter: Dr. Luigi Vanfretti, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Dr. Philip Top, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Spring 2017
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Title: Leveraging Hardware-in-the-Loop for Energy Systems Integration Research
Presenter: Blake Lundstrom, Senoir Research Engineer and Acting Group Manager, NREL
Friday, March 31, 2017
Title: Carbon Capture Utilization Technologies for Carbon Dioxide
Presenter: Dale Bradshaw, CEO, Electrivation, LLC
Friday, February 24, 2017
Title: Status and Value Proposition of Energy Storage Technologies
Presenter: Dale Bradshaw, CEO, Electrivation, LLC
Friday, January 27, 2017
Title: Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Their Role in Future Power Generation
Presenter: Brent Shumaker, Senior Systems Engineer, AMS Corporation
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Fall 2016
Friday, October 14, 2016
Title: Analytical Capabilities at NERC - Modeling & System Analysis Initiatives
Presenter: Dr. Ryan Quint, NERC
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Title: OpenDSS Overview and Application
Presenter: Mr. Roger Dugan and Mr. Davis Montenegro, EPRI
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Spring 2016
April 29, 2016
Presenter: Dr. Nathan Pinney and Mr. Hudson Gilmer, Genscape, Inc.
February 26, 2016
Title: Shared Spectrum: Implications for Dense Deployment of IoT Devices and Systems in Utility Settings
Presenter: Mr. Peter Fuhr, ORNL
January 29, 2016
Title: Toward Fully Renewable Electric Energy Systems
Presenter: Dr. Antonio Conejo, Ohio State University
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Fall 2015
November 6, 2015
Title: Distributed Algorithms for Wide-Angle Monitoring of Power Systems Using Synchrophasors
Presenter: Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty
October 30, 2015
Title: GPA Open Source Software for the Power Industry
Presenter: Mr. J.Richie Carroll
August 28, 2015
Title: Applications of Precise Time in the Power Industry
Presenter: Mr. Bill Dickerson
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Spring 2015
April 23, 2015
Title: Computational Approaches to Smart Grid Operations
Presenter: Dr. Kumar Venayagamoorthy
March 20, 2015
Title: ABB’s HVDC and SVC Light - Technology and Applications
Presenter: Dr. Jan Svensson
March 6, 2015
Title: Operation of Distribution Systems with PEVs and Smart Loads
Presenter: Dr. Isha Shama
February 20, 2015
Title: Cultural Perceptions
Presenter: Dr. Araceli Espinoza
February 6, 2015
Title: Technical Conference Presentations: Best Practices and Suggestions
Presenter: Dr. Daniel Costinett
January 30, 2015
Title: Defining Big Data in the Utility Industry
Presenter: Mr. Stan McHann
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Fall 2014
November 21, 2014
Title: Adaptive PI Control for Dynamic Gain Tuning in Voltage Regulation
Presenter: Dr. Fran Li
October 31, 2014
Title: Future of the Grid
Presenter: Wanda Reder, Vice President, Power Systems Solutions, S&C Electric Company
September 26, 2014
Presenter: Dr. Mark Buckner, Power and Energy Systems Group Leader of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
September 4, 2014
Low Carbon Integrated Energy Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Presenter: Dr. Mark O'Malley, Founder and Director of the Electricity Research Centre and Director of the University College Dublin Energy Institute
August 12, 2014
The Inevitable Evolution of Smart Grids
Presenter: Andres Carvallo, CEO & Founder, CMG Consulting, LLC
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Spring 2014
April 4, 2014
Presenter: Jacinda Woodward, Senior Vice President, TVA; Karen Forsten, Director, Renewable Integration, Operations & Planning, Electric Power Research Institute
March 28, 2014
Overview of HVDC & Its Converter Technologies
Presenter: Fred Wang, Condra Chair of Excellence and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Tennessee
Feb. 28, 2014
Cyber Security - A Brief Introduction
Presenter: Joe Gipson, Senior Operation Manager, Advanced Securities Initiatives Group (ASIG), Cisco Systems Inc.
Jan. 31, 2014
Presenter: Kai Sun, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Tennessee
Past Power and Energy Industry Seminars Fall 2013
Nov. 22, 2013
Impact of Wind Active Power Control Strategies on Frequency Response of an Interconnection
Presenter: Vikas Singvhi, Senior Engineer, Electric Power Research Institute
Nov. 1, 2013
Utility Applications of Multilevel Converters
Presenter: Leon Tolbert, EECS Department Head & Min H. Kao Professor, University of Tennessee
Sept. 27, 2013
Integrating Magnetic Amplifiers into Power Systems Research
Presenter: Aleksandar Dimitrovski, Power and Energy Systems Group Leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Recorded Seminars in Catalogue
- Spring 2019
- Dr. Stephanie Bohon, University of Tennessee, The Science of Diversity: The Benefits of Inclusion for Your Research Career, March 26, 2019
- Dr. David Schoenwald, Sandia National Labs, Real-Time Damping of Power Grid Oscillations Using Synchrophasor Feedback, March 1, 2019
- Fall 2018
- Kelly Rubin and Allison Cole, University of Tennessee, Unconscious Bias and Inclusion, Nov. 20, 2018
- Pratap Mysore, Pratap Consulting Servies, LLC, Protection and Control Issues Associated with Shunt Compensated Transmission Lines, Oct. 26, 2018
- Spring 2018
- Dr. Harold Kirkman, PNNL, Reactive Power: The Shocking Truth Revealed, July 23, 2018
- Mr. Theo Laughner, PowerGrid-RX, Inc., Introduction to Power Quality, March 23, 2018
- Dr. Garriy Shteynberg, University of Tennessee, Shared Attention: Conceptual foundations and Empirical Evidence, Feb. 23, 2018
- Dr. Faisal Khan, University of Missouri, Degradation monitoring and failure analysis of high-power semiconductor devices using Spread Spectrum Time Domain Reflectometry, Jan. 26, 2018
- Fall 2017
- Dr. Tao Xia, Integrated Power Engineering, How to be a Successful Entrepreneur, Dec. 15, 2017
- Dr. Kevin Jones, Grid Widget labs, My Transition to Entrepreneurship: A Different Way to Perceive Work and Risk, Oct. 13, 2017
- Mr. Bob Cummings, NERC, Engineering the Changing Resource Mix - Keeping the Grid Together, Oct. 5, 2017
- Center-wide Perfect Pitch Competition, Sept. 15, 2017
