Sponsors

College of Engineering, Virginia Tech Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech National Capital Region, Virginia Tech Dominion Resources Quanta Technology Alstom General Electric

Celebrating the Visions of Synchrophasor Pioneers

A Technical Symposium in Honor of the Life and Careers of Arun Phadke and James Thorp
May 9, 2013 Dominion Lincoln Park II

VIRGINIA TECH NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION

Presented by The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech and Dominion Virginia Power

Agenda
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Herndon, VA 6:00 8:00 pm Hors d'oeuvres, cocktails, networking, and technical talks Registration and Continental Breakfast Presentations & Q&A BREAK Presentations & Q&A Lunch Presentations & Q&A BREAK Presentations & Q&A Closing

Arun Phadke
Arun G. Phadke is a University Distinguished research Professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. His primary research area is the microcomputer based monitoring, protection, and control of power systems. He co-authored books on relaying: Computer Relaying for Power Systems, and Power System Relaying, and is the editor of and contributor to the book Handbook of Electrical Engineering Computations. He is a Fellow of IEEE and was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000, named the Outstanding Power Engineering Educator by the IEEE in 1991, and received the Power Engineering Educator Award of the EEI in1986. He received the IEEE Herman Halperin Transmission and Distribution award in 2000. He was the Chairman of the Technical Committee of USNC CIGRE, and Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. Not only was Dr. Phadke elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1993, but he was also awarded Honorary Doctorate by INP Grenoble, France in 2006 and received the Karapetoff award (with S.H. Horowitz) and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering in 2008 with J.S. Thorp.

Thursday, May 9, 2013 at Dominions Lincoln Park II Facility 7:30 8:15 am 8:15 10:25 am 10:25 10:40 am 10:40 am 12:20 12:20 1:00 pm 1:00 2:40 pm 2:40 2:55 pm 2:55 4:15 pm 4:15 4:30 pm

James Thorp
James S. Thorp is the Hugh P. and Ethel C. Kelley research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and former Department Head of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He was the Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering at Cornell University from 1994 to 2004.He was the Director of the Cornell School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1994 to 2001, a Faculty Intern, American Electric Power Service Corporation in 19761977, and an Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University in 1988. Prof. Thorp was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation National Scholar and was elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1996. He received the 2001 Power Engineering Society Career Service award, the 2006 IEEE Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering in 2008 with A. G. Phadke.

Presenters
Mark Adamiac, General Electric Miroslav Begovic, Georgia Tech Tianshu Bi, North China Electric Power University Anjan Bose, Washington State University, and DOE Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell Joe Chow, RPI Jay Giri, Alstom Ken Hopkinson and Seif Azghandi, Air Force Institute of Technology Stan Horowitz, American Electric Power (Retd) Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University Yilu Liu, University of Tennessee Chen-Chin Lu, Washington State University Ken Martin, EPG Damir Novosel, Quanta and Vahid Madani, PG & E Phil Overholt, DOE Manu Parashar, Alstom Robert Thomas, Cornell University Eric Udren, Quanta