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Skoltech Colloquium at Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems

Guest Speaker: Michael Chertkov, Skoltech (on vacation from LANL)

When: Sept. 5; 4:00pm

Where: Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems; Seminar Room

What: In this talk aimed at applied mathematicians, physicists and network scientists, Professor Chertkov briefly reviews the history of electrical grids and then introduces a few of the physical, optimization and control principles and phenomena in today’s grids and those that are expected to play a major role in tomorrow’s grids.

Abstract:

Today’s electric power grids, the largest engineered systems ever built, already demonstrate complex nonlinear dynamics where, e.g., localized collective effects of thousands of small consumer appliances may produce serious malfunctions of sections of the grid. These collective dynamics are not well understood and are expected to become more complex in tomorrow’s grids as consumer appliances become more intelligent and autonomous.

In the future, we will have to integrate the intermittent power from wind and solar farms whose fluctuating outputs create far more complex perturbations. Guarding against the worst of those perturbations will require taking protective measures based on ideas from probability and statistical physics.

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Chertkov’s areas of interest include statistical and mathematical physics applied to energy and communication networks, machine learning, control theory, information theory, computer science, fluid mechanics and optics. Dr. Chertkov received his Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1996, and his M.Sc. in physics from Novosibirsk State University in 1990. After his Ph.D., Dr. Chertkov spent three years at Princeton University as a R.H. Dicke Fellow in the Department of Physics. He joined Los Alamos National Lab in 1999, initially as a J.R. Oppenheimer Fellow in the Theoretical Division. He is now a technical staff member in the same division. Dr. Chertkov has published more than 130 papers in these research areas. He is an editor of the Journal of Statistical Mechanics (JSTAT) and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a Founding Faculty Fellow at Skoltech – young graduate school built in Moscow (Russia).

If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.

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