PhD student Priya L. Donti’s workshop paper on “Inverse Optimal Power Flow: Assessing the Vulnerability of Power Grid Data” was recognized recently as a highlighted paper at the AI for Social Good Workshop at NeurIPS2018. One of the workshop organizers also tweeted about it here: Tweet…
Date: 11 December 2018
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Baker Hall 129
Speaker: Valerie Karplus
Topic: Did scrubbing the government clean up the air? Polluter responses to China’s anticorruption campaign
Abstract: We ask whether or not investigating city mayors during a nationwide anticorruption campaign in China affected the concentration of sulfur dioxide …
Date: 19 November 2018
Time: 10:00am
Location: Baker Hall 129
Speaker: Marcin Korolec
Topic: Promoting Electric Vehicles in Poland
Abstract: Marcin Korolec is President of the Electric Vehicles Promotion Foundation, which seeks to develop the electric car industry and promote e-mobility in Poland and in Europe. He will present an …
Date: 29 October
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Baker Hall 129 Conference Room
Speaker: Thomas Deetjen
Topic: A simple generator dispatch method for stimulating marginal emissions factors and least-emissions dispatch for the US power sector
Abstract: This study develops an open-source, simplified generator dispatch tool and uses it to simulate emissions for …
Date: 22 October 2018
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Marquis Conference Room, Scott Hall 5201
Speaker: Michael Mann
Topic: The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries
Abstract: I will review work over the past decade aimed at establishing the nature of, and factors underlying, patterns of large-scale …
Date: 3 October 2018
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Baker Hall 129 Conference Room
Speaker: Gavin McCormick
Topic: WattTime: the “deep tech” nonprofit that’s rapidly eliminating the carbon footprint of entire industries…
Date: 1 October 2018
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Baker Hall 129, Conference Room
Speaker: Lucy Qiu
Topic: Electricity consumption rebound effects of residential solar panel adopters
Abstract: Customers who have adopted solar panels can reduce their energy bills and thus lower the effective average electricity prices they pay. When price falls, …
Date: 10 September 2018
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Baker Hall 129, Conference Room
Speaker: Joe DeCarolis
Topic: Modeling US Energy Futures Under Uncertainty
The planned US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement as well as uncertainty about federal climate policy has raised questions about the country’s future emissions trajectory. In this talk, …
In this video, Carnegie Mellon University Professor Neil Donahue explains what we need to know about climate change. Using animation, this video shows what happens to carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in a way that is easy to understand.…
In the article A fork in the road for U.S. power, Ben Geman of Axios discusses the nationwide trend toward a lower-carbon mix, while the Trump administration is preparing steps that would halt coal’s decline. The focus of the article resides heavily with the paper Assessing the evolution of power …