• Congratulations to Arun Venkatesh Ramesh, Mingjian Tuo, Cunzhi Zhao, Jin Lu, Thuan Pham, and Jesus Silva-Rodriguez.

• Location: Salt Lake City (North American Power Symposium)

Figure 1. Photo taken at NAPS in Utah. (People from left to right: Jin Lu, Jesus Silva-Rodriguez, Mingjian Tuo, Arun Venkatesh Ramesh, Cunzhi Zhao, and Thuan Pham)

Figure 2. Arun is presenting his paper at NAPS.

Figure 3. Visiting the combined cycle power plant organized by NAPS. (People from left to right: Jin Lu, Thuan Pham, Mingjian Tuo, Cunzhi Zhao)

Figure 4. Photo of the combined cycle power plant.

Paper Presentation Schedule as follows (presenting student authors are in bold):

Session 2A (11:30am – 13pm, Monday, October 10, Room: Alpine)

• Thuan Pham and Xingpeng Li. “Reduced Optimal Power Flow Using Graph Neural Network”
• Cunzhi Zhao and Xingpeng Li, “An Alternative Method for Solving Security-Constrained Unit Commitment with Neural Network Based Battery Degradation Model”

Session 2E: (11:30am – 13pm, Monday, October 10, Room: Granite South)

• Jin Lu and Xingpeng Li, “The Benefits of Hydrogen Energy Transmission and Conversion Systems to the Renewable Power Grids: Day-ahead Unit Commitment”

Session 4A: (15:45pm – 17:15pm, Monday, October 10, Room, Room: Alpine)

• Mingjian Tuo and Xingpeng Li, “Deep Learning based Security-Constrained Unit Commitment Considering Locational Frequency Stability in Low-Inertia Power Systems”

Session 4C: (15:45pm – 17:15pm, Monday, October 10, Room, Room: City Creek)

• Jesus Silva-Rodriguez and Xingpeng Li, “Centralized Networked Micro Water-Energy Nexus with Proportional Exchange Among Participants”

Session 5C: (9:00am – 10:30am, Tuesday, October 11, Room: Granite North)

• Arun Venkatesh Ramesh and Xingpeng Li, “Machine Learning Assisted Model Reduction for Security-Constrained Unit Commitment”

Session 6C: (10:45am – 12:15pm, Tuesday, October 11, Room: Granite North)

• Cunzhi Zhao and Xingpeng Li, “A 100% Renewable Energy System: Enabling Zero CO2 Emission Offshore Platforms”