Heriot-Watt University

Workshop on
Mathematics and the Management of Energy Systems

The University of Edinburgh Crest


 

The The Maxwell Institute of Mathematical Sciences (made up of the maths departments of the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University) hosted a practitioners' workshop in “Mathematics and the Management of Energy Systems”. The purpose of the workshop was to help in the exchange of ideas between mathematicians and the staff managing the energy industries. The workshop was held at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, in Edinburgh's New Town, on 29 January 2008.

Programme

 

9:30 – 10:00


 

Registration

 

10:00 – 10:45


 

Dr Melvin Brown, The Smith Institute

10:45 – 11:00


 

Break

11:00 – 11:30


 

Dr Anna Aslanyan, BP,
“Power Station Control and Optimisation”

11:30 – 12:00


 

Dario Ghazi, Centrica
Gas Storage Valuation

12:00 – 12:30


 

Michael Wagner, IPA
"Portfolio Generation Investment Under Uncertainty "

12:30 – 13:30


 

Lunch

13:30 – 14:00


 

Dr Stephen Elsby, Mathematics Programme Portfolio Manager, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

14:00 – 14:30


 

Prof Janusz Bialek, Dr Tim Johnson, Prof Ken McKinnon
"The Capabilities of the Edinburgh Research Partnership"

14:30 – 14:45


 

Break

14:45 – 15:15


 

Oliver Rix, Redpoint Energy,
“Domestic Customer Portfolio Risk Management”

15:15 – 15:45


 

Jonathon Stamp, RWE-npower
Managing Volume Risk in a Retail Energy Business”

The following attended

Academia

Professor Janusz Bialek
Dr Melvin Brown (Smith Institute and Industrial Maths KTN)
Professor Jack Carr
Dr Chris Dent
Professor Peter Duck (Manchester)
Dan Eager (Research student)
Dr Stephen Elsby (EPSRC)
Professor Chris Eilbeck
Dr Julian Fennema
Dr Tom Fischer
Dr Andreas Grothey
Dr Syd Howell (Manchester Business School)
Natalia Issaeva (Research student)
Dr Tim Johnson
Dr Mark Owen
Professor Xuerong Mao (Strathclyde)
Professor Ken McKinnon
Dr Alfred Mueller
Dr Sotirios Sabanis
Zitong Song (Research student)
Dr Anke Wiese

Industry

Dr Anna Aslanyan (BP)
Dario Ghazi (Centrica)
Adrian Kirkby (Centrica)
Alice Delahunty, (E-on)
Michael Wagner (IPA)
Oliver Rix (Redpoint Energy)
Derek Abernethy (Royal Bank of Scotland)
Alexander Gifon (RWE-npower)
Jonathon Stamp (RWE-npower)
Craig Brand (Scottish Power)
Collin Fullerton (SSE)


 

 

The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University have created the Edinburgh Research Partnership that consists of a number of “Joint Research Institutes. Two of these JRIs are in Mathematics, in the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Science, and in Energy. An objective of the ERP is to promote and develop inter-disciplinary research between the JRIs.

 

The departments within the ERP offer MSc's in

 

·         Financial Mathematics

·         Operations Research

·         Quantitative Risk Management (from 2008)

 

·         Applied Mathematical Sciences

·         Sustainable Energy Systems

·         Petroleum and Renewable Engineering