Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics (EEA), Tsinghua University

November 7, 2024, 21:16, Beijing

Title: Applied Maths and Power Systems: 125 Years of Symbiosis

Speaker: Professor Antonio Gomez Exposito, IEEE Life Fellow, University of Seville

Date: November 12, 2024 (Tuesday), 10:00 AM

Location: Room 3-102, West Main Building

Antonio Gomez Exposito

Abstract:

The scientific foundations of electrical engineering date back to 1864, when James Maxwell published his famous electromagnetic field theory, capable of explaining any non-relativistic electromagnetic phenomenon. Since then, electrical engineering has benefited from many other scientific advances, including those related to applied mathematics and computer science. Not so well known is the fact that, reciprocally, electrical engineers have pioneered the development of several methodologies and algorithms that have had a significant impact on applied mathematics, including the phasor notion, and its application to solving sinusoidally excited linear systems, the Fast Fourier Transform and its derivatives in signal processing, the minimum degree algorithm to preserve the matrix sparsity when solving large-scale linear systems, or the efficient solution of nonlinear and nonconvex equation systems. This talk will succinctly summarize the major milestones and contributions characterizing the strong and fruitful relationship between applied maths and power systems since the dawn of the 20th century.

Speaker:

Antonio Gomez-Exposito is the Endesa Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Seville, Spain, which he chaired for twelve years. He has coauthored over 350 publications, including a dozen textbooks and monographs related to Power Systems. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and past editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Currently, he serves as Vice Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. He has received much recognition, such as the IEEE/PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award (2019), the Golden Insignia granted by the Spanish Association for the Development of Electrical Engineering (2013), and the Research and Technology Transfer Award from the Government of Andalusia (2011). Since 2013, he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Seville. He served on the Board of Managers of the Spanish TSO (REE) from 2018 to 2020.

Invited by: Professor Kang Chongqing

Contact: Assistant Researcher Guo Hongye

Contributed by: Guo Hongye