June 2026 IAB Agenda

Meeting Location: Colorado School of Mines – Green Center, Friedhoff Hall Room 1-3
924 16th Street
Golden, CO 80401

Monday, June 22

 

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast – Friedhoff Hall
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Director’s Update
Kory W. Hedman, PSERC Director, Arizona State University
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Welcome to Colorado School of Mines & Guest Speaker
TBD
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Project M-47 (Markets Stem)
Title: Enhancing Resource Adequacy Accreditation and Operational Incentives for Energy-Limited Resources 
Project Leader: Jacob Mays (Cornell)
Team Member: Elnaz Kabir (Texas A&M)
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Project S-110 (Systems Stem)
Title: Data Driven Resilience Modeling, Prediction, and Enhancement
Project Leader: Ian Dobson (Iowa State)
Team Members: Zhaoyu Wang (Iowa State), Anamika Dubey (Washington State)
11:30 – 12:00 p.m. Project S-111 (Systems Stem)
Title: Multiple Event Recordings for Grid Evaluation
Project Leader: Mladen Kezunovic (Texas A&M)
Team Member: Vijay Vittal (Arizona State), Mani Venkatasubramanian (Washington State), Anamitra Pal (Arizona State)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – Friedhoff Hall
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Project T-68 (T&D Stem)
Title: Advancing Control, Protection, and Stability in Hybrid AC/DC Grids
Project Leader: Maryam Saeedifard (Georgia Tech)
Team Member: Dominic Groß (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Project T-69 (T&D Stem)
Title: Grid Integration and Interoperability Evaluation of Multi-Vendor IBRs and Protection Systems for Reliable Power Grid Operation
Project Leader: Saeed Lotfifard (Washington State)
Team Member: Mladen Kezunovic (Texas A&M)
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Project T-71G (T&D Stem)
Title: Realistic Injection Time Series for Node-Breaker Representations of Transmission Systems 
Project Leader: Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Tech)
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Student Poster Session
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting – Friedhoff Hall

 

Tuesday, June 23 

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast 
8:30 – 10:30 a.m. FGI-2 Finalist Presentations
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. FGI-2 EC & IAB Meeting
11:30 – 12:30 p.m. Closed IAB Meeting
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch – Friedhoff Hall
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. T&D Working Session
Sakis Meliopoulos (Georgia Tech), Chair
Kurt LaFrance (Consumers Energy), Vice-Chair
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. T&D Working Session (Continued)
Sakis Meliopoulos (Georgia Tech), Chair
Kurt LaFrance (Consumers Energy), Vice-Chair
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Break
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Dinner – Friedhoff Hall

 

 

Wednesday, June 24

7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast 
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Systems Working Session
Venkataramana Ajjarapu (Iowa State), Chair
Bo Gong (SRP), Vice-Chair
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Systems Working Session (Continued)
Venkataramana Ajjarapu (Iowa State), Chair
Bo Gong (SRP), Vice-Chair
11:45 – 12:00 p.m. IAB Chair Report
Bo Gong (SRP), IAB Chair
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – Friedhoff Hall
1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Markets Working Session
Kory Hedman (Arizona State), Chair
Tongxin Zheng (ISO NE), Vice-Chair
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Director’s Closing Remarks
Kory W. Hedman, Arizona State University
3:00 p.m. Adjourn