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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Announcing the December 14, 2015, publication by SIAM of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Electrical Transmission System Cascades and Vulnerability:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">An Operations Research Viewpoint<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Daniel Bienstock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization 22<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The power grid can be considered one of twentieth-century engineering’s greatest achievements, and as grids and populations grow, robustness is a factor that planners must take into account.
Power grid robustness is a complex problem for two reasons: the underlying physics is mathematically complex, and modeling is complicated by lack of accurate data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This book sheds light on this complex problem by introducing the engineering details of power grid operations from the basic to the detailed; describing how to use optimization and stochastic
modeling, with special focus on the modeling of cascading failures and robustness; providing numerical examples that show “how things work”; and detailing the application of a number of optimization theories to power grids. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Audience<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This book is intended for operations researchers who want to learn about power grids and power engineers who seek a more in-depth understanding of optimization methodologies and of the rigorous
thinking used in optimization. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">About the Author<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Daniel Bienstock</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. He has a joint
affiliation with the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Prior to joining Columbia University, Professor Bienstock was in the combinatorics and optimization research group at Bellcore. He has also participated in collaborative research with
several industrial partners. He received the 2013 INFORMS Fellow award, a Presidential Young Investigator award, and an IBM Faculty award; he gave a plenary address at the 2005 SIAM Conference on Optimization and a semiplenary at the 2006 ISMP conference.
His research focuses on optimization and high-performance computing, and a second focus involves the use of computational mathematics in the analysis and control of power grids, especially the study of vulnerabilities and of cascading blackouts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Contents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Preface; Chapter 1: Power engineering basics; Chapter 2: Computations with the AC power flow model; Chapter 3: N-K problem; Chapter 4: Modeling transmission system cascades: A survey; Chapter
5: Toward more comprehensive cascade models; Chapter 6: Online cascade control; Appendix A: Glossary; Appendix B: Complete power flow derivations; Index.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2015 / viii + 294 pages / Softcover / 978-1-611974-15-7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">List Price $93.00 / MOS/SIAM Member Price $65.10 / MO22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To order or for more about this book, including links to its table of contents, preface, and index, please visit
</span><a href="http://bookstore.siam.org/MO22/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://bookstore.siam.org/MO22/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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