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 | Saturday | |
| 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 | Outdoor Activity | |
| 10:00 | Welcome and Presentation | ||||||
| 11:00 | |||||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 | Power System Simulation | Optimization, Control, and Uncertainty in Power Systems | Social activity (or industrial visit) | 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, location to be confirmed.
Monday, August 4, 2025
- Registration of participants, welcomem and presentation of the Summer School
- 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
- Course 2: Large-scale Optimization for Power Systems, Professor Andreas Wätcher, Northwestern University, USA.
- Course 3: Optimization, Control, and Uncertainty in Power Systems, Professor Iman Shames, Australian National University, Australia.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
- Course 4: Integrating Energy Policy into Optimization Models, Professor Kristen Schell, Carleton University, Canada.
- Industrial visit related to the theme of the Summer School or social activity, details to come.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
- Course 5: AI for Power Systems, Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
- Course 6: Machine Learning for Power Systems: Is it time to trust it?, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark.
- Networking evening with the energy ecosystem industry.
Friday 8 August 2025
- Course 7: Optimization for Demand Response, Professor Johanna Mathieu, University of Michigan, USA.
Saturday, August 9, 2025
- An optional outdoor social activity in the Montreal area will be organized for participants who wish to participate, details to come.
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.