题目：From Smart Grid to Social Energy:Opportunities and Challenges in the New-IT Era 时间：2016年6月22日(周三)上午10:30-11:30 地点：玉泉校区行政楼111会议室 报告人：Jun Jason Zhang, University of Denver

专家介绍：Jun Jason Zhang (S’06–M’09–SM’14) received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, U.S.A, in 2008. He is currently an Assistant Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Denver. His research interests are in the areas of agile sensing, signal processing and implementation, time-varying system modeling, and their applications in intelligent power and energy systems. He has authored over 80 publications of book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, and received research funding from National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy on developing intelligent power grid technology.

报告内容：The inherent nature of energy, i.e., physicality, sociality and informatization, implies the inevitable and intensive interaction between energy systems and social systems. From this perspective, we define “social energy” as a complex socio-technical system of energy systems, social systems and the derived artificial virtual systems which characterize the intense intersystem and intra-system interactions. The recent advancement in intelligent technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, sensing and communication in Internet of Things technologies, and massive high performance computing and extreme scale data analytics technologies, enables the possibility of substantial advancement in socio-technical system optimization, scheduling, control and management. In this presentation, we provide discussion on the nature of energy, and then propose the concept and intention of social energy. A general methodology of establishing and investigating social energy is proposed, which is based on the ACP approach and parallel system concept. A case study on the University of Denver (DU) campus grid is provided and studied to demonstrate the social energy concept, involving campus power grid simulation, smart building modeling, distribution locational marginal real-time pricing, counting in their social impacts on the operation of the Ritchie Fitness Center. In the concluding remarks, we discuss the technical pathway, in both social and nature sciences, to social energy, and our vision on its future.