- Below is a list of our upcoming Energy & Power Group events.
- For all Electrical & Computer Engineering department events, click here.
- For all Smart Grid Center events, click here.
August 2026
EPG Seminar – Course Introduction
- Friday, August 28, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Xin Chen
- Description: Introduction of Seminar Course
September 2026
SGC Short Course – Primer on the Planning and Operation of Large-Scale Electric Grids
- Tuesday–Thursday, September 15–17, 2026 at 8:00am in Center for Infrastructure Renewal, Room 3339
- Speaker: Dr. Tom Overbye, Dr. Miroslav Begovic, Don Morrow, Dr. Kate Davis, and Dr. Jonathan Snodgrass
- Description: For more information and to register – Click Here
October 2026
EPG Seminar –Toward Performance-Guaranteed Synthetic Inertia from Inverter-Based Resources
- Friday, October 2, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Yichen Zhang
- Description: This seminar presents a collection of analysis and control methods toward performance-guaranteed synthetic inertia from IBRs.
SGC Webinar – Physics and ML/AI Meet to Manage Uncertainties on the Path to Reliable and Affordable Decarbonization
- Wednesday, October 8, 2026 at 3:00pm, via Zoom
- Speaker: Ms. Marija Ilic, D.Sc
- Description: In this talk, we first describe different new major sources of uncertainties, such as intermittent resources, and (N-k) equipment outages caused by climate effects on the infrastructure during extreme weather conditions, and even by the cyber-attacks on the grid.
SGC Short Course – Fundamentals of Electric Transmission Planning
- Tuesday–Thursday, Oct 6-8, at 8:00am in Center for Infrastructure Renewal, Room 3339
- Speaker: Dr. Tom Overbye, Tracy Rolstad, Matt Davis, and Dr. Jonathan Snodgrass
- Description: For more information and to register – Click Here
NAE enPower Webinar –Physics and ML/AI Meet to Manage Uncertainties on the Path to Reliable and Affordable Decarbonization
- Friday, October 8, 2026 via Zoom
- Speaker: Ms Marija Ilic, D.Sc
- Description: We discuss about ion of analysis and control methods toward performance-guaranteed synthetic inertia from IBRs.
EPG Seminar – On the Resolvability of Linearized Eigenmodes from Ringdown Data in Large-Scale Power Systems
- Friday, October 9, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Owen Cornmesser
- Description: Modes identified from time-domain data are routinely interpreted as direct representations of a power system’s underlying eigenmodes. This seminar shows that such a mode can reconstruct the data accurately yet correspond to no individual eigenmode – even at maximum estimator model order, with no noise and a nearly linear response – because closely spaced eigenmodes may be unresolvable, leaving an estimated mode that represents a cluster and shifts with how those eigenmodes are excited.
EPG Seminar – Protection of PV-Penetrated Distribution Feeders: Design, Data-Driven Analysis, and Protection Recommendations
- Friday, October 9, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Khalid Alassaf
- Description: This seminar presents research on distribution protection for PV-penetrated feeders, including development of a benchmark radial overcurrent protection scheme, analysis of PV-induced misoperations, and development of utility-oriented protection recommendations. The work combines QSTS-derived operating conditions, load-flow and short-circuit studies, and interpretable data-driven analysis to examine reverse load-current and reverse fault-current misoperations and inform practical protection modifications.
EPG Seminar – Recursive Self-Improvement LLM Agents for Dynamic Model Identification of Inverters
- Friday, October 23, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Xiaoyang Wang
- Description: This seminar presents a recursive self-improvement framework in which large language model agents identify interpretable dynamic models of inverter-based resources with undisclosed internal controls.
Seminar Topic – Advanced power conversion needs for future electrified aircraft
- Friday, October 30, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Mustansir Kheraluwala
- Description: This seminar presents advanced power conversion needs for future electrified aircraft
November 2026
SGC Webinar – TBA
- Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 3:00pm on Zoom
- Speaker: TBA
- Description: TBA
EPG Seminar – TBA
- Friday, November 6, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Masoud Hajiaghajani
- Description: TBD
EPG Seminar – TBA
- Friday, November 13, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Carlos Ramirez
- Description: TBA
EPG Seminar – TBA
- Friday, November 20, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Bart Szymanowski
- Description: TBA
EPG Seminar – Dynamic Performance Design and Validation in Large, IBR-Heavy Synthetic Grid
- Friday, November 20, 2026 at 11:30am in ZACH 241
- Speaker: Jongoh Baek
- Description: This seminar presents a systematic framework for designing and validating the dynamic performance of large-scale, inverter-based resource (IBR)-heavy synthetic grids. The framework enables more realistic frequency, voltage, and oscillatory responses, providing a stronger foundation for studying the stability of future power systems.
DEADLINE: Call for Papers for the Texas Power & Energy Conference (TPEC) 2027
- Full paper submissions deadline Sunday, November 1, 2026
- Call for Papers – link coming soon!
- Note – this deadline is FINAL and will not be extended.
- The TPEC 2027 is an IEEE Industry Application Society (IEEE-IAS) sponsored conference, so all accepted and presented papers are eligible to be invited for review for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications or the IEEE Industry Applications Magazine.
- TPEC 2027 will be held on Sunday–Tuesday, TBA, at the Memorial Student Center (MSC) at Texas A&M University. For more information on TPEC – link coming soon!