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.