1. Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium
October 6, 2009
9:00am – 9:05am: Opening Remarks
Viktor Prasanna, Professor – Electrical Engineering, USC
9:05am – 9:10am: Welcome
Yannis Yortsos, Dean – Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
9:10am – 9:20am: Program Overview
Rajit Gadh, Professor and Director - WINMEC, UCLA
9:20am – 10:00am: The Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges
Paul De Martini, Vice President - Advanced Technology, SCE
10:00am – 10:40am: The 21st Century Energy Workforce
Rajit Gadh, Professor and Director - WINMEC, UCLA
10:40am – 11:00am: Break: Refreshments
11:00am – 11:40am: Ubiquitous Sustainable Cities
Roger Ghanem, Professor – Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
11:40am – 12:20pm: Research in IT and the Smart Grid
Peter Will, Division Director, Information Sciences Institute
12:20pm – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm – 2:10pm: Cyber Security
Clifford Neuman, Project Leader – Computer Networks, ISI-USC
2:10pm – 2:50pm: Tools for Simulating the Grid - TBD
2:50pm – 3:30pm: Energy-Efficient Transport in 2020 – TBD
3:30pm – 3:45pm: Break: Refreshments
3:45pm – 5:00pm: Panel Discussion
Research Opportunities in Smart Grid and Societal Response to
Crises (Fires, Earthquakes, Windstorms, etc.)
- Albright, Julie – Department of Sociology, USC
- Chandy, Mani – Computer Science, Caltech
- Estrin, Deborah – Computer Science, UCLA
- Mehrotra, Sharad – Computer Science, UCI
- Additional Participants, TBD
5:00pm – 7:00pm: Coffee and Dessert Bar concurrent with Poster Session and
ad hoc Birds of a Feather meetings
The final agenda will be distributed on the day of the Symposium.