LORER Summer School
August 4-8, 2025 in Montréal
LORER Summer School
Montréal, Québec, 4 — 8 August 2025
Program
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Location | Terrasse Saint-Ambroise | Polytechnique Montréal | HEC Montréal | Polytechnique Montréal | Mila | HEC Montréal |
| 08:00 | Registration | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 | Breakfast | Large-scale Optimization for Power Systems | Integrating Energy Policy into Optimization Models | AI for Power Systems | Optimization for Demand Response | |
| 10:00 | Welcome and Presentation | |||||
| 11:00 | ||||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | MAG Energy Solutions Activity | |
| 13:00 | Power System Simulation | Optimization, Control, and Uncertainty in Power Systems | Social activity | Machine Learning for Power Systems: Is it time to trust it? | ||
| 14:00 | ||||||
| 15:00 | ||||||
| 16:00 | Reception | Posters | ||||
| 17:00 | Networking Activity | |||||
| 18:00 | ||||||
| 19:00 |
Program details
Sunday, August 3, 2025
- Registration of participants and reception in a friendly atmosphere at Terrasse Saint-Ambroise.
Monday, August 4, 2025
Location: Polytechnique Montréal, room M-1010
- Registration.
- Breakfast
- Introduction & Welcome session:
- Patrick Jeandroz, Hydro-Québec, 'AI at the heart of Hydro-Quebec's action plan'.
- Sanjula Kammammettu and Elizaveta Kuznesova, ESMIA, 'Supporting energy transition decisions through economy-wide modelling under intermittent supply'.
- Lunch.
- Course 1 : Power System Simulation, Professor Jean Mahseredjian, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada.
- Presentation of scientific posters by the participants of the Summer School. An award for the best presentation and poster will also be presented at this session.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Location: HEC Montréal, room Walter Capital
- Breakfast.
- Course 2: Large-scale Optimization for Power Systems, Professor Andreas Wätcher, Northwestern University, USA.
- Lunch.
- Course 3: Optimization, Control, and Uncertainty in Power Systems, Professor Iman Shames, Australian National University, Australia.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Location: Polytechnique Montréal, room M-1010
- Breakfast.
- Course 4: Integrating Energy Policy into Optimization Models, Professor Kristen Schell, Carleton University, Canada.
- Lunch
- Social activity: Rooftop ball hockey tournament and views at Espace Waverly.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
- Breakfast.
- Course 5: AI for Power Systems, Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
- Lunch
- Course 6: Machine Learning for Power Systems: Is it time to trust it?, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark.
- Evening with the energy ecosystem industry.
Friday 8 August 2025
Location: HEC Montréal, room Walter Capital
- Breakfast.
- Course 7: Optimization for Demand Response, Professor Johanna Mathieu, University of Michigan, USA.
- Lunch: MAG Energy Solutions will host a lunch and a closing ceremony of the event in dowtown Montreal.
General information on the program
- The Summer School will be held in English. Of course, the whole organizing team will be happy to communicate with you in French.
- All activities will take place on the campuses of Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal, and at the research centre Mila.
- The breakfast and lunch will be provided to participants by the Summer School.