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FALL 2026
| AUG. 26 | NO CLASS, POWER AND ENERGY KICK OFF MEETING IN 3002 |
| SEPT. 2 | Michael Fisher, Visiting Professor, University of Waterloo, “Designing Dynamic Virtual Power Plants and Increasing Disturbance Safety Margins” Abstract | Video |
| SEPT. 9 | PSERC WEBINAR, Manimaran Govindarasu, Iowa State & Alejandro D. Domínguez-García, Univ. of Illinois, “Cybersecurity and Resilient Control for DERs and Microgrids,” Abstract | Video |
| SEPT. 16 | Finn Giardine, Post-Doctoral student in Stillwell Lab, formerly of University of California at Berkeley, “Analysis and Operation of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters: Single-Phase Applications and Fundamental EMI Scaling,” Abstract | Video |
| SEPT. 23 | PSERC WEBINAR, Alexandra Newman, Colorado School of Mines, “Iterative Methods to Solve Otherwise-Intractable Grid Optimization Models,” Abstract | Video |
| SEPT. 30 | Andrew Freeman, “An Isolated Flying-Capacitor Dual-Active Bridge Converter for High-Voltage DC Aircraft,” & Brian Wolhaupter, “A Power Isolation Topology for Cryogenic Gate Drive Application.” Abstracts |
| OCT. 7 | PSERC WEBINAR*, Meng Wu, Arizona State, “Planning Assistant: Human-Supervised Agentic AI for Power System Planning and IBR Model Verification” |
| OCT. 14 | Part 2 of Michael Fisher, Visiting Professor, University of Waterloo, “Designing Dynamic Virtual Power Plants and Increasing Disturbance Safety Margins” Abstract and Mudith Withamaralage |
| OCT. 21 | Hector Pulgar, University of Tennessee |
| OCT. 28 | PSERC WEBINAR*, Anna Stuhlmacher, Michigan Tech |
| NOV. 4 | Fernando Harmjanz & Nicole Stokowoski |
| NOV. 11 | Reserved for External Speaker |
| NOV. 18 | PSERC WEBINAR*, Flavio Costa, Michigan Tech |
| NOV. 25 | FALL BREAK |
| DEC. 2 | Reserved for External Speaker |
| DEC. 9 | Ryan Billings & Arda Guclu |
*NOTE TO PRESENTERS, PSERC Webinars may be scheduled over for compelling reasons, so consider those dates as well.
SPRING 2027
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| MARCH 17 | Spring Break |
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| MAY 5 | Instruction Ends |