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Dr. Shmuel S. Oren is Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley and former Chairman of that department. Over the last seven years he has served as the Berkeley site director of PSerc - a multi-university Power Systems Research Center sponsored by the National Science Foundation and industry members.

Prior to his current position he was on the faculty of The Engineering Economic Systems Department at Stanford University and worked as a Research Scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. At Xerox he was involved in the development of market analysis models for new products such as high-speed laser printers.

Dr. Oren has extensive expertise in Operations Research, particularly optimization, and in mathematical modeling and analysis of economic systems. His research and consulting activities over the last two decades have focused on the development of analytical models and tools and on the design and economic analysis of market mechanisms and pricing strategies in the context of the private and public sector and in regulated industries, particularly electric power. Dr. Oren has served as a consultant to New England Electric Systems, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Los Angeles Water and Power District, Xerox Corporation, SRI International, New Zealand Electro Corp., PG&E, Edison International, Entergy, Hagler Bailly Consulting Co., EPRI and to the Analysis Group/Economics on issues related to modeling, optimization, market design and pricing policies.

He also served as a consultant and reviewer of electricity market rules concerning congestion management, ancillary services and settlements, to the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL), the Polish Transmission company (PSE),the Alberta Energy Utility Board and he is currently a Senior Adviser to the Market Oversight Division of Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT). Dr. Oren served as an expert witness appearing before FERC on behalf of the Bay Area Rapid Transit and on behalf of PacificCorp. He has been a member of a DOE task force on the National Transmission Grid Study.

Dr. Oren has published extensively on the subjects of numerical optimization, nonlinear pricing and the application of such pricing in the context of telecommunications and electric power, incentive design, bidding, transmission pricing, electricity market restructuring and other related topics.

Dr. Oren hold B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion in Israel and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of INFORMS.

SHMUEL S. OREN - RESUME

CONTACT:

W: (510)642-1836 Home Address: 57 Hill Rd.

Fax (510)642-1403 Berkeley, CA 94708

E-mail: OREN@IEOR.Berkeley.Edu H: (510) 666-0561

Mobile: (510) 908-3102

EDUCATION:

B.Sc. (1965) Mechanical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), Technion,, Israel.

M.Sc. (1969) Materials Engineering, Technion, Israel

M.S. (1972) Engineering Economic Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Ph.D. (1972) Engineering Economic Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

RESEARCH AREAS:

Pricing Strategies and Market Mechanisms

Electric Power Economics, Planning and Operations

Coordination Theory

Optimization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1984 - Present Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations

Research, U.C. Berkeley.

1995 - Present Berkeley Site Director of Power System Engineering Research Center (PSerc)

1980 - Present Consulting and Expert Testimony: Electric Power Research Institute, SRI International, Applied Decision Analysis Inc., Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, New England Electric System, Trans Power New Zealand, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Hagler Bailly Consulting Co., Edison International, Entergy, Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency, Analysis Group/Economics, Electric Utility Board of Alberta, BART, PacificCorp, Texas Public Utility Commission, Polish system operator, California ISO, OSINERG Peru.

9/99 - 1/00 Visiting Professor, IIT, Madrid Spain.

8/93 - 10/93 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

1986 - 1992 Chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations

Research, U.C. Berkeley.

5/92 - 7/92 Visiting Professor, American University of Armenia, Yearvan, Armenia.

7/85 - 1/86 Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

1982 – 1984 Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations

Research, U.C. Berkeley.

1980 - 1982 Associate Professor, Engineering Economic Systems, Stanford University.

1972 - 1980 Consulting Professor Engineering Economic Systems, Stanford University.

1972 – 1980 Research Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

1970 – 1972 Teaching and Research Assistant, Stanford University.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP:

Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Fellow

International Association of Energy Economists

IEEE, Fellow

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

International Journal of Operations Research, Member of Editorial Board

Guest Co-Editor of a Special Issue of Decision Support System

Operations Research, Area Editor for Energy, Environment and Natural Resources

Shmuel S. Oren

Publications

I. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

A. Archival Journals:

1. Oren, Shmuel S. "Self-Scaling Variable Metric Algorithms Without Line-Search for Unconstrained Minimization," Math Comp., V. 27 (1973), pp. 885-973.

2. Oren, Shmuel S. and David G. Luenberger "Self-Scaling Variable Metric (SSVM) Algorithms: Part I: Criteria and Sufficient Conditions for Scaling a Class of Algorithms," Management Science, V. 20 (1974), pp. 845-862.

3. Oren, Shmuel S. "Self-Scaling Variable Metric (SSVM) Algorithms: Part II: Implementation and Experiments," Management Science, V. 20 (1974), pp. 863-874.

4. Oren, Shmuel S. "On the Selection of Parameters in Self-Scaling Variable Metric Algorithms," Mathematical Programming, V. 7 (1974), pp. 351-367.

5. Oren, Shmuel S. "A Mathematical Theory of Man Machine Text Editing," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, V. 4 (1974), pp. 258-267.

6. Oren, Shmuel S. "A Mathematical Theory of Man Machine Document Assembly," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, V. 5 (1975), pp. 520-526.

7. Oren, Shmuel S. and Michael H. Rothkopf, "Optimal Bidding in Sequential Auctions," Operations Research, V. 23, No. 6 (1975), pp. 1080-1090.

8. Oren, Shmuel S. and Emilio Spedicato, "Optimal Conditioning of Self-Scaling Variable Metric Algorithms," Mathematical Programming, V. 10, No. 1 (1976), pp. 70-90.

9. Oren, Shmuel S. "On Quasi-Newton and Pseudo-Newton Algorithms," J. Optimization Theory and Applications, V. 20, No. 2 (1976), pp. 155-170.

10. Rothkopf, Michael H. and Shmuel S. Oren, "A Closure Approximation for the Nonstationary M/M/S Queue," Management Science, V. 25, No. 6 (1979), pp. 522-534.

11. Morris, Peter A. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Multi-Attribute Decision Making by Sequential Resource Allocation," Operations Research, V. 8, No. 1 (1980), pp. 233-255.

12. Smith, Stephen A. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Reliability Growth of Repairable Systems," Naval Logistics Quarterly, V. 27, No. 4 (1980), pp. 539-547.

13. Oren, Shmuel S., Michael H. Rothkopf and Richard D. Smallwood, "Evaluating a New Market: A Forecasting System for Nonimpact Computer Printers, Interfaces, V. 10, No. 6 (1980), pp. 76-87.

14. Oren, Shmuel S., "A Conjugate Directions Method for Subjective Assessment of Normal Distributions," J. Optimization Theory and Applications, V. 33, No. 1 (1981), pp. 25-36.

15. Oren, Shmuel S. and Stephen A. Smith, "Critical Mass and Tariff Structure in Electronic Communications Markets," The Bell Journal of Economics, V. 12, No. 2 (1981), pp. 467-487.

16. Oren, Shmuel S., "Perspectives on Self-Scaling Variable Metric Algorithms," J. Optimization Theory and Applications, V. 37, No. 4 (1982), pp. 137-147.

17. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Linear Tariffs With Service Quality Discrimination," The Bell Journal of Economics, V. 13, No. 2 (Autumn 1982), pp. 455-471.

18. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Nonlinear Pricing in Markets with Interdependent Demand," Marketing Science, V. 1, No. 3 (1982), pp. 287-313.

19. Feinstein, Charles D. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Local Stability Properties of the Modified Hamiltonian Dynamic System," Journal of Economics, Dynamics and Control, V. 6 (1983), pp. 387-397.

20. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Competitive Nonlinear Tariffs," Journal of Economic Theory, V. 29, No. 1 (1983), pp. 49-71.

21. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Pricing a Product Line," Journal of Business, V. 57, No. 1, Pt. 2 (1984), pp. S73-S99.

22. Oren, Shmuel S., "Planar Quasi-Newton Methods for Unconstrained Saddlepoint Problems," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, V. 43, No. 2 (1984), pp. 167-204.

23. Borison, Adam B., Peter A. Morris and Shmuel S. Oren, "A State of the World Decomposition Approach to Dynamics and Uncertainty in Electric Utility Generation Expansion Planning," Operations Research, V. 32, No. 5 (1984), pp. 1052-1068.

24. Oren, Shmuel S. and Michael H. Rothkopf, "Market Dynamics Models for New Industrial Product Planning," Marketing Science, V. 3, No. 3 (1984), pp. 247-265.

25. Oren, Shmuel S., "Discussant's Comments on: Pricing Research in Marketing the State of the Art," Journal of Business, V. 57, No. 1, Pt. 2 (1984), pp. S61-S64.

26. Feinstein, Charles D. and Shmuel S. Oren, "A Newton Type Method for the Implicit Programming Problem," Mathematics of Operations Research, V. 9, No. 4 (1985) pp. 336-351 .

27. Feinstein, Charles D. and Shmuel S. Oren, "A 'Funnel' Turnpike Theorem for Optimal Growth Problems with Discounting," Journal of Economics, Dynamics and Control, V. 9, pp. 25-39 (1985).

28. Dhebar, Anirudh and Shmuel S. Oren, "Optimal Dynamic Pricing for Expanding Networks," Marketing Science, V. 4, No. 4 (1985) pp. 336-351 .

29. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Capacity Pricing," Econometrica, V. 53, No. 3, (1985) pp. 545-567.

30. Oren, Shmuel S. and Stephen G. Powell, "Optimal Supply of a Depletable Resource with Backstop Technology: Heals Theorem Revisited," Operations Research, V. 33, No. 2 (1985), pp. 277-292.

31. Oren, Shmuel S. and Shao Hong Wan, "Optimal Strategic Petroleum Reserve Policies: A Steady State Analysis," Management Science, V. 32, No. 1, (1986) pp. 14-29.

32. Dhebar, Anirudh and Shmuel S. Oren, "Dynamic Nonlinear Pricing in Markets with Interdependent Demand," Operations Research, V. 34, No. 3, (1986) pp. 384-394 .

33. Chao, Hung Po, Shmuel S. Oren, Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Multi-Level Demand Subscription Pricing for Electric Power," Energy Economics, (1986) pp. 199-217.

34. Arbel, Ami and Shmuel S. Oren, "Generating Search Directions in Multi-objective Linear Programming using the Analytical Hierarchy Process," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, V. 30, No. 6, (1986) pp. 369-373.

35. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Multiproduct Pricing for Electric Power," Energy Economics, V. 9, No. 2 (1987), pp. 104-114.

36. Chao, Hung Po, Shmuel S. Oren, Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Priority Service: Market Structure and Competition," The Energy Journal, Special Issue on Electricity Reliability, V. 9 (1988), pp. 77-104.

37. Schwartz, Rick G. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Using Analytic Hierarchies for Consumer Research and Market Modeling," Mathematical Computer Modeling, V. 11 (1988), pp. 266-271.

38. Oren, Shmuel S. and Rick G. Schwartz, "Diffusion of New Products in Risk Sensitive Markets Modeling," Journal of Forecasting, V. 7, No 4 (1988), pp. 273-287.

39. Powell, Stephen G. and Shmuel S. Oren, "The Transition to Nondepletable Energy: Social Planning and Market Models of Capacity Expansion," Operations Research, V. 37, No. 3 (1989), pp. 373-383.

40. Oren, Shmuel S. and Joseph A. Doucet, "Interruption Insurance for Generation and Distribution of Electric Power," Journal of Regulatory Economics, V. 2 (1990), pp. 5-19.

41. Oren, Shmuel S. and Stephen A. Smith, "Discussion of Paper by Rau and Hegazy," IEEE Transaction on Power Systems, V. 6, No. 2, (May 1991).

42. Oren, Shmuel S. and Stephen A. Smith, "Design and Management of Curtailable Electricity Service to Reduce Annual Peaks," Operations Research, V. 40, No. 2 (1992), pp. 213-238. Also in Service Opportunities for Electric Utilities: Proceedings of the EPRI/UERG Symposium, Held at UC Berkeley, September 1990. (Oren and Smith Ed.), Kluwer Publishing Co., (1993).

43. Kamien, Morton I., Shmuel S. Oren and Yair Tauman, "Licensing of Cost Reducing Innovation," Journal of Mathematical Economics, V. 21 (1992), pp. 483-508.

44. Doucet, Joseph A. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Onsite Backup Generation and Interruption Insurance for Electricity Distribution," Energy Economics, V. 12, No. 4 (1992), pp. 79-93.

45. Strauss, Todd P. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Priority Pricing of Interruptible Electric Power With an Early Notification Option," The Energy Journal, V. 14, No 2 (1993), pp.175-195.

46. Arbel, Ami and Shmuel S. Oren, "Generating Interior Search Directions for Multiobjective Linear Programming," Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, V. 2 (1993), pp. 73-86.

47. Bushnell, James B. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Bidder Cost Revelation in Electric Power Auctions," Journal of Regulatory Economics, V. 6, No. 1 (1994), pp. 5-26.

48. Strauss, Todd P. and Shmuel S. Oren., "Priority Ordering in Interruptible Electric Power Service with Irreversible Early Notification," Probability in Engineering and Information Sciences, V 8, (1994) pp. 287-290.

49. Bushnell, James B. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Incentives Effects of Environmental Adders in Electric Power Auctions," Energy Journal, V. 15, No. 3 (1994) pp. 55-73.

50. Braden, David J. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Nonlinear Pricing to Produce Information," Marketing Science, Vol. 13, No. 3 (1994) pp. 310-326.

51. Svoboda, Alva J. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Integrating Price-based Resources in Short-term Scheduling of Electric Power Systems," IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion, Vol. 9, No. 4, (1994) pp. 760-769.

52. Friedman, Eric J. and Shmuel S. Oren, "The Complexity of Resource Allocation and Price Mechanisms under Bounded Rationality," Economic Theory, Vol. 6, (1995) pp. 225-250 .

53. Min, K. Jo and Shmuel S. Oren, "Economic Determination of Spec. Levels and Allocation Priorities of Semiconductor Products," IIE Transactions, Vol 27, (1995) pp. 321-331.

54. Oren, Shmuel S., Pablo T. Spiller, Pravin Varaiya and Felix Wu, "Nodal Prices and Transmission Rights: A Critical Appraisal," Electricity Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3, (April 1995) pp. 24-35.

55. Bushnell, James B. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Internal Auctions for Efficient Sourcing of Intermediate Products," Journal of Operations Management, " Vol. 12 No. 3-4 ( June 1995) pp. 311-320.

56. Arbel Ami and Shmuel S. Oren, "Using Approximate Gradients in Developing an Interactive Interior Primal-Dual Multiobjective Linear Programming Algorithm", European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 89 (1996) pp. 202-211

57. Wu, Felix, Pravin Variya, Pablo T. Spiller and Shmuel S. Oren, "Folk Theorems on Transmission Open Access: Proofs and Counter Examples", Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 10, (July 1996), pp. 5-23

58. Oren Shmuel S., "Economic Inefficiency of Passive Transmission Rights in Congested Electricity Systems with Competitive Generation", Energy Journal, Vol. 18, No.1 (1997) pp. 63-83.

59. Johnson B. Raymond, Shmuel S. Oren, Alva J. Svoboda, "Equity and Efficiency of Unit Commitment in Competitive Electricity Markets.", Utilities Policy, Vol. 6. No. 1, (1997) pp.9-19

60. Tseng Chung-Li, Shmuel S. Oren, Alva J. Svoboda, Raymond B. Johnson, "A Unit Decommitment Method in Power System Scheduling," Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 19, No. 6, (1997) pp. 357-365

61. Oren Shmuel S. "Passive Transmission Rights Will Not Do The Job", Electricity Journal, Vol. 10, No. 5, (June 1997) pp. 22-33.

62. Bushnell James B. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Transmission Pricing in California's Proposed Electricity market", Utilities Policy, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1997) pp. 237-244.

63. Tseng Cung-Li, Shmuel S. Oren, Alva J. Svoboda and Raymond B. Johnson, "Price Based Adaptive Spinning Reserves Requirements in Power System Scheduling", Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 21 (1999), pp. 137-145

64. Tseng Cung-Li, Shmuel S. Oren, Carol S. Chang, Chao-an Li, Alva J. Svoboda and Raymond B. Johnson, "A Transmission-Constrained Unit Commitment Method in Power System Scheduling", Decision Support Systems, 24 (1999), pp. 297-310 also in Proceeding of the 31st Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Best Paper Award Winner (January 1998)

65. Elmaghrabi Wedad and Shmuel S. Oren, "Efficiency of Multi-Unit Electricity Auctions", Energy Journal, 20, (1999) 4, pp. 89-115. Also in Proceedings of the IAEE Conference, San Francisco, California, (September 1997) pp. 458-462.

66. Ugarte Armando and Shmuel Oren "Coordination of Internal Supply Chains in Vertically Integrated High-tech Manufacturing Organizations (HTMOs)" International Journal of Production V 67 (2000) pp. 235-252

67. Tseng Cung-Li, Chao-an Li, and Shmuel S. Oren, "Solving Unit Commitment by a Unit decommitment Method", Journal of Optimization Theory and vol. 105,

no. 3, June 2000

68. Oren Shmuel S., "Integrating real and financial options in demand-side electricity contracts", Decision Support Systems, V 30, (2001) 279-288 Also in Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, Hawaii (January, 1999)

69. Chao, Hung-po, Stephen Peck, Shmuel Oren and Robert Wilson, "Flow-based Transmission Rights and Congestion Management", Electricity Journal, (October, 2000)

70. Deng, Shijie and Shmuel S. Oren. "Priority Network Access Pricing for Electric Power Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol 19, No. 3, (2001) 239-270.

71. Kamat, Rajnish and Shmuel S. Oren. "Exotic Options for Interruptible Electricity Supply Contracts"  Journal of Operations Research Vol 50, No 5 (September-October) 2002 pp 835-850.

72. Kamat, Rajnish and Shmuel S. Oren. “Rational Buyer Meets Rational Seller: Reserves Markets Equilibrium Under Alternative Auction Design”, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 21:3 (2002) 247-288

73. Oren Shmuel S. and Andrew M. Ross, “Economic Congestion Relief Across Multiple Regions Requires Tradable Physical Flow-Gate Rights”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 17, No 1, pp 159-165 (2002)

74. Deng, Shijie and Shmuel Oren S., “Incorporating Operational Characteristics and Startup Costs in Option-Based Valuation of Power Generation Capacity”, Probability in Engineering and Information Sciences, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2003) pp. 155-182.

75. Adler Ilan, Shmuel Oren and Sheldon Ross, “The Coupon Collector's Problem Revisited”, Journal of Applied Probability, No 40, pp. 513-518 (2003)

76. Barmack Matthew, Peter Griffes, Edward Kahn, and Shmuel Oren, “Performance Incentives for Transmission”, The Electricity Journal, (April 2003) pp. 9-22.

77. Kamat, Rajnish and Shmuel S. Oren, “Two Settlements Systems for Electricity Markets under Network Uncertainty and Market Power”, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 25:1 5-37 (2004).

78. Bartholomew E. S, A. S., Siddiqui, C. Marnay, and S.S. Oren “The New York Transmission Congestion Contract Market: Is it Working Efficiently”, Electricity Journal, (November 2003), pp. 1-11.

79. Hurlbut D., K. Rogas and S. Oren, “Protecting the Market from ‘Hockey Stick’ Pricing: How the Public Utility Commission of Texas is Dealing with Potential Price Gauging”, Electricity Journal, (April 2004), pp. 26-33.

80. Wilson A. R, Kahn J. G, Oren S. S. “Targeting Interventions to High-risk Populations:  Benefits and Costs”.  Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 39 (2004) pp. 335-349.

81. Siddiqui, Afzal S., Emily S. Bartholomew Chris Marnay and Shmuel S. Oren, “On the Efficiency of the New York Independent System Operator Market for Transmission Congestion Contracts”, Journal of Managerial finance, Vol 31, No. 1, (2005) pp. 1-45.

82. Oren, Shmuel S. and Ramteen Sioshansi, “Joint Energy and Reserves Auctions with Opportunity Cost Payments for Reserves”, International Energy Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Part 4, pp. 35-45. (June 2005)

83. Oren, Shmuel S., and Andrew M. Ross, “Can we prevent the gaming of ramp constraints”, Decision Support Systems, 40 (2005) pp. 461-471 (Available online July 2004)

84. Chao H., S. Oren, A Papaloxopoulos, D. Sobajic and R. Wilson, “Interface between Engineering and Markets Operations in Restructured Electricity Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 93, No. 11, pp. 1984-1997, (2005)

85. Oren Shmuel S., “Generation Adequacy via Call Option Obligations: Safe Passage to the Promised Land”, Electricity Journal, November, 2005

B. Conference and Symposium Proceedings and Book Chapters:

86. Oren, Shmuel S. and David G. Luenberger, "The Self-Scaling Variable Metric Algorithm," Proceeding of the 5th Hawaii Conference on System Science (January 1972).

87. Oren, Shmuel S., "Self-Scaling Variable Metric Algorithms without Line-Search for Unconstrained Minimization," Proceedings of the Joint Automatic Control Conference, Columbus, Ohio (June 1973).

88. Oren, Shmuel S., "A Mathematical Model of Computer Assisted Document Creation," in Information Systems, COIN IV, (J. Tou, ed.), Plenum Publishing Corp. (1974), pp. 387-401.

89. Oren, Shmuel S., "A Combined Variable Metric-Conjugate Gradient Algorithm for a Class of Large Scale Unconstrained Minimization Problems," in Optimization Techniques: Part 2 (J. Stoer, ed.), Springer-Verlag (1978), pp. 97-115.

90. Oren, Shmuel S., "Quasi-Newton Algorithms: Approaches and Motivations," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA (Dec 1973).

91. Oren, Shmuel S. and Michael H. Rothkopf, "Optimal Bidding in Sequential Auctions," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, AZ (November 1974).

92. Oren, Shmuel S., Michael H. Rothkopf and Richard D. Smallwood, "Evaluating a New Market: A Forecasting System for Nonimpact Computer Printers," Proceedings of the First ORSA/TIMS Special Interest Conference on Market Measurement and Analysis, Stanford University (June 1980).

93. Oren, Shmuel S. and Stephen A. Smith, "Nonlinear Pricing and Network Externalities in Telecommunications," Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Communications, London, U.K. (September 1982).

94. Chao, Hung Po, Shmuel S. Oren, Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Priority Service: Managing Risk by Unbundling Electric Power Service," Proceedings of the XIII Energy Technology Conference, Washington, D.C., pp. 1610-1618 (March 1986).

95. Arbel, Ami and Shmuel S. Oren, "A Priority Based Interactive Multicriteria Optimization Algorithm," in Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical System Theory, Springer-Verlag, V. 285 (Part I) pp. 163-171, (1987) (Proceedings of the VII-th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making held in Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 1986).

96. Schwartz, Rick G., Shmuel S. Oren, Charles A. Dennis and Robert F. Debusk, "Measuring and Responding to Consumer Preferences for Medical Products and Services," Proceedings of the 1987 Annual Healthcare Systems Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada (February 1987). (Best paper award).

97. Schwartz, Rick G. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Using Analytic Hierarchies for Consumer Research and Market Modeling," in Proceedings of the Sixth Int'l Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Science and Technology," St. Louis, MO., pp. 229-240, (August 1987).

98. Min, K. Jo and Shmuel S. Oren, "Optimal Pricing of Allocation Priority and Spec. Level With Multiple Customer Groups," Proceedings of the 1993 NSF Design and Manufacturing Systems Conference, V. 2 (1993), pp. 1799-1808.

99. Bushnell, James B. and Shmuel S. Oren, "Two-dimensional Auctions for Efficient Franchising of Independent Power Generation" Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society of New Zealand, Auckland University, New Zealand, (August 1993).

100. Min, K. Jo and Shmuel S. Oren, "Optimal Pricing of Allocation Priority and Spec. Level With Multiple Customer Groups," Proceedings of the 1994 NSF Design and Manufacturing Systems Conference, V. 3 (1994), pp. 351-352.

101. Oren Shmuel S. "The Role of Financial Instruments in a Competitive Electricity Market" in Proceedings of the 1996 EPRI Conference on Innovative Approaches to Electricity Pricing, (March 1996) pp. 7:1-15.

102. Oren Shmuel S., "Economic Foundation of Unbundling and Product Differentiation with Application to Electric Power" in Proceedings of the NSF Conference on Unbundled Power Quality Services in the Electricity Power Industry, Key-west, Florida, (November 1997) pp. 138-143

103. Oren Shmuel S., Alva J. Svoboda and Raymond B. Johnson, "Volatility of Unit Commitment in Competitive Electricity Markets, " in Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, (January 1997) pp. 594-601

104. Oren Shmuel S. and Dennis Ray, "Services in an Unbundled and Open Electric Services Market Place" In The Virtual Utility: Accounting, Technology & Competitive Aspects of the Emerging Industry, (S. Awerbach and A. Preston Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers (1997) pp. 249-274.

105. Deng Shieji and Shmuel S. Oren, "Priority Network Access Pricing for Electric Power," In Proceedings of the Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control Conference IV - Restructuring, Santorini, Greece,August 24-28, (1998). Also in Proceedings of the POWER Conference, University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley, California (March, 1998)

106. Oren Shmuel S., "Transmission Pricing and Congestion Management", Proceedings of the EPRI Conference on Innovative Pricing, Washington DC, (June 17-19, 1998)

107. Oren Shmuel S. "Authority and Responsibility of The ISO: Objectives, Options and Tradeoffs", In Designing Competitive Electricity Markets, Chao and Huntington ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. (1999).

108. Oren Shmuel S. Contributor to: "Unlocking the Benefits of Restructuring: A Blueprint for Transmission" by Shimon Awerbuch, Leonard Hyman and Andrew Vesey, Public Utilities Reports Inc. , (Nov. 1999. )

109. Oren Shmuel S., "Capacity Payments and Generation Adequacy in Competitive Electricity Markets”, in Proceedings of SEPOPE IIV Conference, Curitiba, Brazil May 22-26, 2000.

110. Oren Shmuel S. , “Design of Ancillary Service Markets”, Proceeding of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences HICSS 34. Maui, Hawaii, January 5-8, 2001.

111. Kamat, Rajnish and Shmuel S. Oren, “Multi-settlement Systems for Electricity Markets: Zonal Aggregation under Network Uncertainty and Market Power”, Proceeding of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences HICSS 35. Big Island, Hawaii, January 7-11, 2002.

112. Oren, Shmuel, George Gross and Fernando Alvarado, “Alternative Business Model for Transmission Investment and Operation”, DOE National Transmission Grid Study Report, pp. C4-C34 (May, 2002)

113. Alvarado, Fernando and Shmuel Oren, “Transmission System Operations”, DOE National Transmission Grid Study Report, pp. A1-A34, (May, 2002)

114. Oren Shmuel S. and Andrew Ross, “Designs for Ramp-constrained Day-ahead auctions”, Proceeding of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences HICSS 36. Big Island, Hawaii, January 5-9, 2003.

115. Yao, J., S. Oren and I. Adler, “Computing Two Settlement Cournot Equilibria in Electricity Markets” Proceeding of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences HICSS 37. Big Island, Hawaii, January 5-8, 2004.

116. Deng Shijie, Shmuel S. Oren and Sakis Meliopoulous, “The Inherent Inefficiency of the Point-to-Point Congestion Revenue Right Auction”, Proceeding of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences HICSS 37. Big Island, Hawaii, January 5-8, 2004.

117. Oren, Shmuel and Ramteen Sioshansi “Joint Energy and Reserves Auction with Opportunity Cost Payment for Reserves”, Proceedings of the Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control VI, August 22-27, 2004, Cortina D’ Ampezzo, Italy.

118. Oren, Shmuel, “State of the Market based Mitigation vs. Conduct and Impact”, Proceedings of the Power System Conference and Exposition (PSCE), New York, NY, (October 10-13, 2004

119. Oren, Shmuel, “When is Pay as Bid Better then uniform Price“, Proceedings of the Power System Conference and Exposition (PSCE), New York, NY, (October 10-13, 2004)

120. Yao, J., B. Willems, S. Oren , I. Adler and , “Cournot Equilibrium in Price-Capped  Two-Settlement Electricity Markets” Proceeding of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences HICSS38. Big Island, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2005.

121. Yao, J., S. Oren and I. Adler, “Cournot Equilibria in Two-Settlement Electricity Markets with System Contingencies” Proceedings of the 6th ICPSOP Conference on Power Systems Operations and Planning, Praia, Cape Verde, May 22-26, 2005

122. Sauma, Enzo and Shmuel Oren, “Conflicting Investment Incentives in Electric Transmission”, Proceeding of the IEEE PES Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA June 12-16, 2005

123. Oren Shmuel, S., “Ensuring Generation Adequacy Through Centrally Procured Call Options Obligations”, Proceeding of the IEEE PES Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA June 12-16, 2005

124. Yumi Oum, Shmuel Oren and Shijie Deng, “Volumetric Hedging in Electricity Procurement”, Proceedings of the PowerTech 2005 Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-30, 2005

125. Oren Shmuel S., "Ensuring Generation Adequacy in Competitive Electricity Markets", Chapter 10 in: Electricity Deregulation: Choices and Challenges, Griffin, M. James and Steven L. Puller, editors, University of Chicago Press, June 2005.

126. Deng, Shijie and Shmuel S. Oren, “Valuation of Electricity Generation Capacity”, Chapter 31 in Applications of Stochastic Programming, Stein W. Wallace and William T. Ziemba, editors, SIAM and MPS Publication, June 2005. 

127. Sauma Enzo E. and Shmuel S. Oren., “Assessing the Economic Value of Transmission Investments in Restructured Electricity Markets”, Proceedings of the ICORAID-2005-ORS Conference, Bangalore, India, December 27-29, 2005.

128. Chao, Hung-po, Shmuel S. Oren and Robert B. Wilson, “Alternative Pathways to Electricity Market Reform: Risk Management Approach”, Proceeding of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences HICSS39. Kauai, Hawaii, January 4-7, 2006.

C. Books

Oren, Shmuel S. and Stephen A. Smith, (Editors) "Service Opportunities for Electric Utilities: Creating Differentiated Products," Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (1993).

II. NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

A. Technical Reports, Working Papers, Comments:

1. Oren, Shmuel S. "The Correspondence Principle in Viscoelastic Stress Analysis," M. Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Materials Engineering, Technion University, Haifa, Israel (in Hebrew) (July 1969).

2. Oren, Shmuel S. "Self-Scaling Variable Metric Algorithms for Unconstrained Minimization," Ph.D. Thesis, Dept of Engineering-Economics Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (1972).

3. Allan, Dan, Shmuel S. Oren et. al, "A Nationwide Communication System for the Hearing Impaired: Strategies Toward Commercial Implementation," Final Report, Project 3288, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (October 1981).

4. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Priority Service: Unbundling the Quality Attributes of Electric Power," EPRI Report EA-4871 (Nov. 1986).

5. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Selected Papers on Priority Service Methods," EPRI Report P-5350, (August 1987).

6. Oren, Shmuel S., "Product Differentiation in Service Industries," working paper presented at the First Annual Conference on Pricing, New York, NY (December 1987)

7. Oren, Shmuel S., Stephen A. Smith and Robert B. Wilson, "Service Design in The Electric Power Industry," EPRI Report P-6543, (1990).

8. Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, (April 21, 1997)

9. Interview in "Electricity's Big Bang", Public Utilities Fortnightly, (January 1, 1998)

10. Shmuel Oren "It takes One Counterexample to Disprove a Theory", Electricity Journal, (10) pp. 95-98, (October 1997)

11. Oren, Shmuel S. "Review of MAE rules for the Brazilian wholesale electricity market", Report to ANEEL - The Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (June 15, 2000)

12. Shmuel S. Oren, “Report to the Public Utility Commission of Texas on the ERCOT Protocols in Docket No. 23220”, February 9, 2001

13. Oren Shmuel S. and Pablo Spiller, “Wild Prices Out West: What Can Be Done”, Public Utilities Fortnightly, November 1, 2000, pp. 58-61.

14. Oren, Shmuel S, “Market Based Risk Mitigation: Risk Management vs. Risk Avoidance”, Proceedings of a White House OSTP/NSF Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies held in Washington DC, June 14-15, 2001.

15. J. Rabaey, E Arans, C. Dedespeil, A. Gadgill, D Masserschmidt, W. Nazaroff, K. Pister, S. Oren “Smart Energy Distribution and Consumption: Information Technology as an Enabling Force”, CITRIS White Paper, University of California at Berkeley (May 2001)

16. Chao H., S. Oren, A Papaloxopoulos, and R. Wilson, “An External Evaluation of Power Markets in Poland”, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: (December 2001), 1006547

17. Oren, Shmuel S. “The FTR vs. FGR Debate: Facts and Misconceptions”, Comments to FERC in Docket RM01-12-000 (Standard Market Design) (April 2002)

18. Oren, Shmuel S. “Comments on the FERC SMD NOPR”, Comments in Docket RM01-12-000 (November 15, 2002)

19. C. Mensah-Bonsu and S. Oren, “California Electricity Market Crisis: Causes, Remedies, and Prevention”, IEEE Power Engineering Review, Vol 22, No. 8 (August 2002) pp. 4-5.

20. Chao. H, R. Entriken, H. Huntington, S. Oren, A. Papaloxopoulos, S. Wan and R. Wilson “Review of the Current Status of Power Markets Reforms in the US and Europe”, Technical Report, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: (November, 2002). 1007332

21. Chao H., S. Oren, A Papaloxopoulos, D. Sobajic and R. Wilson, “Integrated Engineering and Economic Operation of Power Systems”, Technical Report, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: (December 2004), 1009483

22. Deng, Shijie, Shmuel Oren and Sakis Meliopoulos, “The Inherent inefficiency of Simultaneously Feasible Financial Transmission Rights Auctions”, Working paper, (Revised: February 12, 2005)

23. Deng, Shijie, Shmuel Oren, “Electricity Derivatives and Risk Management”, Accepted for publication in Energy (January 28, 2005)

24. Oum, Yumi, Shmuel Oren and Shijie Deng, “Hedging Quantity Risk with Standard Power Options in a Competitive Wholesale Electricity Market”, Working paper (March 3, 2005).

25. Yao, Jian, Shmuel Oren and Ilan Adler, “Two Settlements Electricity Markets with Price Caps and Cournot Generation Firms”, Accepted for publication in European Journal of Operations Research (January 27, 2005).

26. Yao, Jian, Shmuel Oren and Ilan Adler, “Cournot Equilibria in Two Settlement Electricity Markets with System Contingencies.” Accepted for a Special Issue of The International Journal on Critical Infrastructure (February 21, 2005).

27. Chao, Hung Po, Shmuel S. Oren and Robert B. Wilson, “Electricity Market Transformation: A Risk Management Approach”, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: (March, 2005), 1008549

28. Sioshansi, Ramteen and Shmuel S. Oren, “Do Supply Function Equilibrium Models Describe Behavior in Electricity Spot Markets: An Empirical Analysis of the ERCOT Market”, Working Paper (May 2005).

29. Chao, Hung Po, Shmuel S. Oren and Robert B. Wilson, “Restructuring Electricity Markets: A Risk Management Approach”, Working Paper, July 1, 2005.

30. Chao, Hung Po, Shmuel S. Oren and Robert B. Wilson, “Restructuring Electricity Markets: Reevaluation of Vertical Integration and Unbundling”, Working Paper, July 1, 2005.

31. Oren Shmuel. S., “Challenges of restructuring the power industry: Introduction to special issue of decision support system” Editorial, Decision Support System 40 (2005) pp 407-408.

32. Sauma Enzo E. and Shmuel S. Oren., “Alternative Economic Criteria and Proactive Planning for Transmission Investment in Deregulated Power Systems”, Working paper, September 2005.

33. Oren Shmuel S., Fernando Alvarado and George Gross, “Market Redesign: Incorporating the Lessons Learned for Enhancing Market Design”, PSERC Project Report, Available at

34. Sauma Enzo E. and Shmuel S. Oren., “Proactive Planning and Valuation of Transmission Investments in Restructured Electricity Markets”. Working Paper, October 2005.

35. Yao, Jian, Shmuel Oren and Ilan Adler, “Modeling and Computing Two-settlement Oligopolistic Equilibrium in Congested Electricity Networks, Working Paper, December 2005.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Public service and consulting to public organizations:

• Member of Technical Advisory Panel for the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee on Water Rates, City of Los Angeles, (1992-93)

• Testimony on Electricity Restructuring before the California Public Utility Commission (1996)

• International INFORM Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, Organizer of Energy Track (June 1998)

• Consulting to the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency on the Brazilian Wholesale Electricity Market rules (June 2000).

• IFORS meeting, Beijing, China, Organized of Competitive Electricity track (August 1999).

• Senior Advisor to the Market Oversight Division of the Texas Public Utility (2000-2002)

• Panel Member for the National Science Foundation SBIR (August 2000)

• INFORM Meeting: Organized the ENRI sponsored Energy cluster (seven sessions with 28 paper), San Antonio, TX (November , 2000)

• Invited speaker and panel moderator at a White House OSTP/NSF workshop on Critical Infrastructure Research (June 2001)

• Consultant to the Alberta Energy Utility Board on evaluation of the Alberta electricity market (June-September, 2001)

• External evaluation of the Polish electricity market (July-September, 2001)

• Panelist at FERC RTO workshop on Congestion Management and Forward Transmission Contracts (RTO week, October, 2001)

• Member of National Transmission Grid Study of DOE (September-December, 2001)

• California State Senate office of Research: Invited presentation on the Texas electricity market, Sacramento, CA (June , 2001)

• Member of organizing committee: International Conference on Ten Years of Electricity Deregulation, Madrid, Spain, December, 2001.

• Organized and Chair of Minitrack on Electricity Markets and Regulation, Hawaii International System Science Conference (HICSS 35): (January 2002)

• Panelist at FERC RTO workshop on Generation Adequacy and Long Term Reserves (February, 2002)

• Panel member for NSF ECS- Control, Networks & Computer Intelligence (February, 2002)

• IFORS meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland: Organized the Electricity Markets stream (5 sessions) , (July 2002)

• INFORMS meeting, San Jose California, Organized the Energy Cluster (8 sessions). (November 2002)

• Member of IEEE US Policy Committee (2002- )

• Testimony before the Public Utility Commission of Texas Docket 24770 (May 14, 2003)

• Organizer and Chair of Session on Electricity Markets, International INFORMS meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, (July 6-10, 2003)

• Organized and Chair of Minitrack on Computational Equilibrium Models of Electricity Markets, Hawaii International System Science Conference (HICSS 37): (January 4-8, 2004)

• Served as external examiner (opponent) at Ph.D. defense at Bergen School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway, (March 25, 2004)

• Served as NSF Career Awards Panelist, (November 5, 2004)

• Organized the PSERC ISO/RTO Research Forum, Chicago, IL (November 11, 2004).

• Organized and hosted the PSERC IAB meeting, Berkeley, CA (December 8-10, 2004)

• Organized session on Resource Adequacy and Risk Management in Competitive Electricity Markets, Hawaii International System Science Conference (HICSS 39): (January, 2006)

• Served as external examiner (opponent) at Ph.D. defense at Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland, (June 23, 2005)

• Guest Co-Editor of a two-volume Special Issue of Decision Support System on Challenges of restructuring the power industry

• Organized session on Market Design and Reliability, Hawaii International System Science Conference (HICSS 39): (January 4-7, 2006)

Doctoral Students and Theses

1 Adam Borison "Optimal Electric Utility Generation Expansion Under Uncertainty", 1982

2 Avshalom Horan-Hecker, "Air Defense Strategies by Differential Games", 1982

3 Stephen Powel, "The Transition to Nondepletable Energy", 1983

4 Anirudh Dhebar, "Dynamic Nonlinear Pricing in Markets with Positive Demand Externalities", 1983

5 Robert Phillips, "Solving Generalized Equilibrium Models", 1985

6 Rick Schwarts, "The Adoption and Diffusion of Technical Innovation", 1985

7 Kyung Keun Lee, "Inventory Management by Nonlinear Order Quantity Pricing", 1987

8 Joseph Doucet "Differential Pricing of Electricity Through Interruption Insurance", 1988

9 David Wood "A Study of Multiplicative Strategy Equilibia in Second-Price Multi-component Auctions", 1989

10 Jo Kyung Min, "Pricing Delivery and Spec. Level of Custom Semiconductor Chips", 1989

11 David Braden, "Nonlinear Pricing to Reduce Demand Uncertainty", 1989

12 Todd Strauss, "Interruptible Electricity Tariffs with Early Notification", 1992

13 Alva Svoboda "Simulation of Dispatchable Demand-side Management in Electric Power System Operation Planning", 1992

14 Eric Friedman "Topics in Coordination and Decentralization", 1993

15 James Bushnell, "Multi-Dimensional Revelation in Auctions for Electric Power Supply", 1993

16 Armando Ugarte, "Coordination Mechanisms for High-Tech Manufacturing Organizations" ,1995

17. Chung-Li Tseng, "On Power System Generation Unit Commitment Problems", 1996

18. Wedad Elmaghraby "Multi-unit Auctions for Electric Power with Nonconvex Costs", 1998

19. Shijie Deng "Financial Methods in Deregulated Electricity Markets", 1999

20. Ami Beth Craft "Market Structure and Capacity Expansion in an Unbundled Electric Power Industry" (Co-chaired), 1999

21. Ami Wilson "The Multiple Intervention Problem:  An Application to Preventing Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Injection Drug Users", 2000

22. Rajnish Kamat, “Market Mechanisms in Deregulated Electricity Markets”, 2002

23. Afzal Siddiqi “Equilibrium Analysis of Spot and Forward Markets for Energy and Reserves”, 2002

24. Enzo E. Sauma “Investment Incentives in the U.S. Electricity Transmission System”, 2005

Public lectures, Seminars and Conference Activities (since November 1992)

• ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. "Incentive Compatible Scoring Rules for Electric Power Auctions, (with Bushnell), November 1992

• ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. "A Polynomial Algorithm for Resource Allocation", (with Friedman) November 1992

• ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. "Pricing Specification Levels and Allocation Priorities for Semiconductor Products", (with Min), November 1992

• ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. "Generating Interior Search Directions for Multiobjective Linear Programming, (with Arbel) November 1992

• ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. "Alternative Methods for Decision Aiding", Panel member. November 1992.

• Tel Aviv University, School of Business Administration, "Bidder Cost Revelation in Two Dimensional Auctions," January 1993.

• Israel Electric Power Company, "Auctions for Electric Power Acquisition from Independent Producers", January 1993.

• Stanford University, EES Dept. Silver Symposium, "Efficient Coordination Through Market Mechanisms", March 1993.

• UC Berkeley Workshop on Keeping California Industry Competitive and Green, "Market Mechanisms for Environmental Regulation," May 1993.

• IFORS Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, "Let the Data Do the Talking", July 1993.

• School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sidney Australia, "Efficient Coordination Through Market Mechanisms", August 1993.

• 29th Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of New Zealand, "Two-dimensional Auctions for Efficient Franchising of Independent Power Generation", August 1993.

• Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, A five lecture series on Pricing, September-October, 1993.

• Electric Corporation of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, "Product Differentiation and Pricing in the Electric Power Industry", October 1993

• Management Foundation of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, "Product Differentiation and Pricing in the Electric Power Industry", October 1993.

• ORSA/TIMS meeting, Boston, Mass. "Two-dimensional Auctions for Efficient Franchising of Public Monopolies", April 1994

• International TIMS meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, "Incentives Effects of Environmental Adders in Electric Power Auctions," (with Bushnell), June 1994.

• INFORMS meeting, Los Angeles, CA., "Coordination Mechanisms for HiTec. Manufacturing Organizations," (with Ugarte). April 1995

• Conference on Technological Foundation for Customer Choice in the Electric Power Industry, Washington, DC. "PoolCo, Bilateral and Other Restructuring Alternatives," (with Wu). June 1995

• International INFORMS meeting, Singapore, "Electricity Forwards with Double Call Options," June 1995.

• 18th IAEE International Conference, Washington DC. "Nodal Prices and Transmission Rights: A Critical Appraisal", July 1995.

• International Symposium in Regulation and Industrial Organization: Transition from Regulation to Competition in Network Industries. "Nodal Prices and Transmission Rights: a Critical Appraisal" (With Pablo Spiller, Pravin Varaiya and Felix Wu), October 1995

• INFORMS meeting, New Orleans. "Nodal Prices and Transmission Rights: a Critical Appraisal" (With Pablo Spiller, Pravin Varaiya and Felix Wu), October 1995.

• INFORMS meeting, New Orleans. "Internal Auction for Efficient Sourcing of Intermediate Products" (With James Bushnell), October 1995.

• EMF 15 Working Group Meeting on A competitive Electricity Industry, Palo Alto CA. Panel member, November 1995.

• Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA "Policy Implications of Technologically-Induced Market Failure in Electric Power Networks", January 1996.

• University of California Energy Institute - POWER Symposium on Electricity Industry Restructuring " Equity and Efficiency of Unit Commitment in Competitive Electricity Markets" (with Raymond Johnson and Alva Svoboda), March 1996

• 1996 EPRI Conference on Innovative Approaches to Electricity Pricing, San Diego CA. "The Role of Financial Instruments in a Competitive Electricity Market", March 1996.

• Symposium on The Virtual Utility, Saratoga Springs, NY. "Services in an Unbundled and Open

• Electric Services Market Place" (with Dennis Ray), March 1996

• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Informatics Workshop, Berkeley CA. "Utility Operations Algorithms", April 1996.

• EPRI Workshop on: Underlying Technical Issues in Utility Deregulation, Tucson, Arizona. Panel member. April 1996.

• INFORMS meeting, Washington DC. "Market-Based Coordination of a Competitive Electricity System: Myths and Realities" , May 1996.

• NSF I/UCRC Planning Meeting, University of Wisconsin. "Market Mechanisms for a Competitive Electricity Market", May 1996

• EMF 15 Working Group Meeting on A competitive Electricity Industry, Washington DC. "Equity and Efficiency of Unit Commitment in Competitive Electricity Markets", June 1996.

• Invited Lecture to the Division of Ratepayers Advocates of the CPUC "Market Engineering for Competitive Electricity", June 1996.

• NSF Conference on Unbundled Power Quality Services in the Electricity Power Industry, Key-west, Florida. "Economic Foundation of Unbundling and Product Differentiation with Application to Electric Power" November 1996

• 30th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, "Volatility of Unit Commitment in Competitive Electricity Markets," January, 1997

• Berkeley, POWER Conference on Electricity Restructuring, organized by the University of California Energy Institute, March 97.

• Invited participation at NSF ITO Grantee Workshop, April 1997

• INFORMS Conference, San Diego CA. "A Multi-round Load-slice Auction for Electric Power", May 1997.

• Workshop organized by Technical University of Krakow and the Polish Institute for Energy Efficiency, Krakow, Poland.: "Alternative Market Structures for Competitive Electricity", June , 1997

• EURO/INFORMS Conference, Barcelona, "Load Slice Auctions for Electric Power" July 1997.

• Electrabell (Belgian electric utility), Brussels, Belgium "Alternative Market Structures for Competitive Electricity", July 1997.

• IAEE Conference, San Francisco, California, "Efficiency of Multi-Unit Electricity Auctions", (with Elmaghrabi) September, 1997.

• IAEE Conference, San Francisco, California, "Priority Network Access Pricing for Electric Power," (with Deng), September 1997.

• 31st Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, "A Transmission-Constrained Unit Commitment Method", January 1998, Best Paper Award Winner

• POWER Conference, University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley, California "Priority Network Access Pricing for Electric Power," (with Deng), March 1998.

• Stanford EMF15 semiannual meeting on Electricity Restructuring on "Priority Network Access Pricing for Electric Power" May 12, 1998

• Testimony before FERC on "Authority and Responsibility of the ISO", FEC hearing Portland, Oregon, June 5, 1998.

• EPRI Conference on Innovative Pricing, "Transmission Pricing and Congestion: Efficiency Simplicity and Open Access", June 17-19, 1998.

• Polish Grid Company, "The California Competitive Electricity Market", Warsaw, Poland June 23, 1998.

• FEWE (Polish Energy Efficiency Institute), " The California Competitive Electricity Market", Krakow, Poland June 24, 1998.

• International INFORM Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, Cluster chair for the energy track, Session chair and Invited lecture "An Option Pricing Approach to Network Access Pricing for Electric Power" (joint paper with S. Deng), June 28-July 1, 1998.

• 11th Annual Western Conference: Advanced Workshop in Regulation and Competition, Monterey, California, "An Illusory Market for Load Profile Pricing" (with HP Chao), July 9, 1998

• PSERC annual retreat, Del Mar, California, July 10-12, 1998.

• Rate Payers Advocates Division of the CPUC, "Alternative Congestion Management Approaches for the ISO", , July 15, 1998.

• Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control Conference IV - Restructuring, Santorini, Greece, "Priority Network Access Pricing For Electric Power", (joint paper with S. Deng), August 24-28, 1998.

• NSF workshop on Frontiers in Electronic Commerce, University of Texas, Austin, invited panel member, September 10-12, 1998.

• INFORM meeting, Seattle, WA - Chaired session on "Auctions in a Deregulated Electricity Market", member of panel on "Building Relationships between Universities, Business and Government", member of panel on "Do Management Scientists and Economists Think about Auctions Differently", October 25-28, 1998.

• Joint US-Japan Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing - Invited presentation "Interior Point approaches to Multi-Objective Linear Optimization", Ashikaga, Japan, November 10-12, 1998.

• Joint Japan-Australia Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems - Invited presentation " Interior Point approaches to Multi Objective Linear Optimization", Kyoto, Japan, November 12-14, 1998.

• NEPOOL Congestion Management Subcommittee - Presentation on “Congestion Management and Transmission Rights”, December, 3, 1998.

• PSERC Industry Advisory Board Meeting - Progress report presentation on Market Mechanism Project, Washington State University, December 10-11, 1998.

• 32nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences - Chaired session on "Financial Risk Management Approaches in Competitive Electricity Markets", Invited presentation "Combining Financial Double Call Options with Real Options for Early Curtailment of Electricity Service, January 5-8, 1999.

• Stanford EMF17 semiannual meeting on Electricity Restructuring - Panel member, Stanford, January 28-29, 1999.

• Haas Business School, Berkeley - Gether Seminar in Marketing: "Electricity Pricing", February 26, 1999.

• Workshop on Coordination in Deregulated Industry - Invited presentation: "Integrating Real and Financial Options in Demand Side Electricity Contracts", Organized by Helsinki University of Technology, Ivalo, Finland, March 21-25, 1999.

• Workshop on planning and operation of electric power systems organized by the Colombian Electricity Regulatory Commission and the University of the Andes: Invited presentation on "Alternative Approaches to Congestion Management in Competitive Electricity Markets", Bogotá, Colombia, May 13-14, 1999

• Special Conference on Capacity Payments in Competitive Electricity Markets organized by the Spanish regulatory Commission: Invited as one of the five speakers on "Assuring generation adequacy in competitive electricity markets", Madrid, Spain June 7-8, 1999

• PSERC Industry Advisory Board Meeting - Progress report presentation on Market Mechanism Project, University of Wisconsin, June 25-26. 1999

• Workshop on Electricity Restructuring at UNICAMP university for Brazilian regulator and industry: Invited as lead speaker (12 hours of lectures), Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 29-July 2, 1999

• ONS (Brazilian Independent System Operator): Invited lecture on "The California electricity reform", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 5, 1999

• CEPEL (Electrobrass research center on electric power): Invited lecture on "Financial engineering methods in electric power planning", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 6, 1999.

• MAE Brazilian Wholesale Electricity Market: Invited lecture on "The California electricity reform", Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 7, 1999.

• EPRI/Stanford workshop on Planning Under Uncertainty: Invited talk " Incorporating physical constraints in option-based valuation of generation capacity" (with Deng), Palo Alto, California, July 12-16, 1999.

• IFORS meeting, Beijing, Cluster chair on competitive electricity markets, Invited presentation " Incorporating physical constraints in option-based valuation of generation capacity" (with Deng), August 16-20, 1999.

• EES-UETP workshop on Electric Reliability Under Restructuring at IIT, Madrid: Invited talk, "Congestion Management and Transmission Pricing", October 6-9, 1999.

• Workshop on Environmental Implications of Competitive Electricity, University of Krakow, Poland: Invited lecture, "Congestion Management and Transmission Pricing", October 11-14, 1999.

• PSERC Industry Advisory Board Meeting - Progress report presentation on Market Mechanism Project, TVA, Chattanooga, October 28-29, 1999

• Stanford EMF17 semiannual meeting on Electricity Restructuring - Panel member, Washington DC, November 4-5, 1999.

• INFORMS meeting, Philadelphia, PA: Session chair on “Valuation of Real Options in Competitive Electricity Markets”, Invited presentation " Incorporating physical constraints in option-based valuation of generation capacity" (with Deng), Invited presentation "Ensuring Generation Adequacy in Competitive Electricity Markets”, November 7-10, 1999.

• EDF, French Electric Power Comp.: Invited workshop on market design and the California electricity market., Paris, France, December 15, 1999.

• Univ. Castilla - La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain: Invited seminar "Capacity Payments and Generation Adequacy in Competitive Electricity Markets", December 15, 1999.

• IEA (International Energy Agency) Regulatory Forum, Invited lecture "The California Electricity Market", London, UK, March 9-10, 2000

• UCEI annual POWER Conference, Discussant, March 17, 2000.

• EES-UETP workshop on Water and Fuel Management in Competitive Electricity Markets, at IIT, Madrid: Invited talk, "Incorporating Spot Price Information in Water Value Calculation", April 10-13, 2000.

• DOE - CERTS project review: "Designing Ancillary Service Markets", April 27, 2000.

• PSERC Industry Advisory Board Meeting - Progress report presentation on Market Mechanism Project, Iowa State University, May 15-16, 2000

• SEPOPE IIV Conference, Invited lecture "Capacity Payments and Generation Adequacy in Competitive Electricity Markets, member of Panel on “International Market Design Experience”, Curitiba, Brazil May 22-26, 2000.

• Stanford EMF17: Invited lecture "Economic Congestion Relief Across Multiple Regions Require Physical Flowgate Rights", June 1-2, 2000

• ANEEL (Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency) workshop on the new rules for the Brazilian wholesale electricity market (MAE): Invited presentations on "Review of MAE pricing" and "Review of MAE capacity payment calculation", Brasilia, Brazil, June 14-15, 2000.

• Texas Public Utility Commission - Stakeholders Workshop on Ancillary Service Markets - Invited presentation "Evaluation and proposed modifications of ERCOT ancillary service market protocols", July 7,2000

• EPRI/EMF workshop on Flow-based approaches to congestion management: Invited presentation "TLR Across Multiple Regions and Flowgate Transmission Rights", August 17-20, 2000.

• EEI Workshop on RTOs and Market Design: Invited lecture “Design of Ancillary Service Markets”, Washington DC., September 28-29, 2000

• UCEI-POWER seminar, “Rational Buyer Meets Rational Seller and Other Stories”, October 20, 2000.

• INFORM Meeting: Chair of energy cluster, Invited talk “Design of Auctions for Hierarchically Substitutable Ancillary Services”, Invited talk “Pay as Bid Auctions for Ancillary Services” (with Kamat), Invited talk “Flow-Base Transmission Rights and Congestion Management” (with Chao, Peck and Wilson), San Antonio, TX November 5-8, 2000

• PSERC IAB Meeting: Tutorial on “FTRs and Flowgate rights”, Colorado School of Mines, November 30, 2000

• HICSS 34: Invited talk “Design of Ancillary Service Market”, Maui, Hawaii, January 3-8, 2001.

• IEEE PES Winter Meeting: Panel Speaker “Market Structure, Market Rules and Market Behavior in a Competitive Electricity Industry” January 28-February 1, 2001.

• NSF ENG-SBE Workshop: Invited presentation “Layered Networks and Networked Markets: Challenges to Information Processing and Decision Making”, Arlington VA April 5-6, 2001

• Arizona State University, Workshop on the California Energy Crisis: Invited presentation “Ensuring Generation Adequacy in Competitive Electricity Markets”, Tucson, Arizona April 13, 2001.

• PSERC IAB Meeting: Member of panel on Challenges to Independent System Operators, Chicago, IL, June 1, 2001

• California Senate office of Research: Invited presentation on the Texas electricity market, Sacramento, CA June 5, 2001

• White House OSTP/NSF workshop on Critical Infrastructure Research: Moderator of session on Risk Assessment/Economics and presenter of invited talk on “Market Based Risk Mitigation: Risk avoidance vs. Risk Management”, Washington DC, June 15, 2001.

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• Stanford EMF Conference on Retail Competition in Electricity: Invited talk on “Pricing Interruptible Electricity Supply Contracts: A Real Option Approach”, Stanford, CA, June 21-22, 2001

• 14th Annual Western Conference, Invited talk on “Market Design for Competitive Electricity: Experiences, Flaws and Remedies” San Diego, CA, June 27-29, 2001

• IEEE Power Engineering Systems Summer Meeting, “Organized and moderated a panel on “The California Energy Crisis, Causes and Remedies”, Vancouver, Canada, July 15-19, 2001

• Public Utility Commission of Texas workshop on generation adequacy: Invited talk on “Ensuring generation adequacy in a competitive electricity market”, Austin, Texas, September 24, 2001

• Federal Regulatory Energy Commission, Invited panelist, Congestion Management Workshop – RTO week, October 16, 2001.

• Latin American Economic Association Annual Conference. Invited lecture “Market Design for Competitive Electricity: Experiences, Flaws and Remedies”, Montevideo, Uruguay, October 18, 2001

• University of California Energy Institute: Invited seminar on “The ERCOT electricity market”, Berkeley, November 30, 2001.

• International Conference: Ten Years of Electricity Deregulation., invited lecture lecture “Market Design for Competitive Electricity: Experiences, Flaws and Remedies”, Madrid, Spain, December 17-18, 2001.

• San Carlos the III University: Invited lecture, “Designing Ancillary Service Markets – Market Equilibria Under Alternative Auction Structures”, Madrid, Spain, December 19, 2001

• International Energy Agency: Invited lecture, lecture “Market Design for Competitive Electricity: Experiences, Flaws and Remedies”, Paris, France, December 21, 2001.

• HICSS 35: Chair of Minitrack on Electricity Markets and Regulation Hawaii, Invited talk “Multisettlement Systems and Zonal Aggregation in Competitive electricity Markets”, January 5-8, 2002.

• CITRIS workshop on Energy Related Research: “Potential Applications of IT in Improving Energy Efficiency”, UC Berkeley, California, January 17, 2001

• IEEE Power Systems Engineering Winter Meeting: Organized and moderated a panel on “A market Is Born – The ERCOT Electricity Market”, New York, NY, January 27, 2002

• NSF/EPRI Workshop on Economics Power Engineering and Adaptive Systems: Invited talk “Ensuring Generation Adequacy through Hedging Obligations”, Washington DC, March 28-29,2002

• ERCOT Congestion Management Working Group: presentation on “Direct Assignment of Local Congestion”, April 5, 2002

• DARPA workshop on Game Theory and Information Technology, “Agency Theory over Networks”, San Mateo CA, April 9-10, 2002.

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical Conference: presentation on “Ensuring Generation Adequacy Through Call Options”, April 12, 2002

• Stanford University: Workshop on Market Design in the Tradition of Bob Wilson, “Design Flaws and Gaming in Electricity Markets”, Stanford California, May 18, 2002.

• NY ISO, CERTS Working Group meeting, “Design of Reserve Markets and the ERCOT experience”, Albany, NY, May 29, 2002.

• IFORS triannual meeting: Chair of Electricity Markets stream, invited talk: “Mulisettlement Systems and Zonal Aggregation in Competitive Electricity Markets”, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 8-12, 2002.

• EPRI Advisory Council Meeting: Invited plenary speaker on “Alternative Business Models for Transmission”, San Diego, CA , June 17, 2002.

• EPRI Advisory Council Meeting: Invited talk on “Alternative The ERCOT Market”, San Diego, CA, June 17, 2002.

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical Conference: Testimony and presentation of “The Market Oversight Division Proposal for Mitigation of Ancillary Service Market Failure”, Austin Texas, July 19, 2002

• IEEE Power Systems Engineering Summer Meeting: Invited panelist presentation “The Reliability at a Price Concept”, Chicago, Ill. July 21-25, 2002

• IEEE Power Systems Engineering Summer Meeting: Invited panelist presentation “Auction Design for Ancillary Services ”, Chicago, Ill. July 21-25, 2002.

• Workshop on Electricity Industry Regulation and Restructuring: Invited presentation “Design Flaws and Gaming in Deregulated Electricity Markets”, Organized by the University of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona October 11, 2002.

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on market design: Invited presentations 1) “Congestion Management and Transmission rights”, 2) “Day ahead and real time spot markets”, Austin Texas, November 1, 2002.

• National Energy SuperGrid Workshop: Invited participation, Palo Alto California, November 6-8, 2002.

• INFORMS meeting, Organizer and Chair of the Energy Cluster, session chair and co-presenter of invited paper “Two settlement systems for electricity in the presence of transmission constraints”, San Jose California , November 16-20, 2002.

• IDEI Conference on “Wholesale Electricity Markets for Electricity”, Invited presentation “Cross Border Trading and Zonal Congestion Management: Lessons from Texas”, Toulouse, France, (November 22-23, 2002)

• HICSS 36: Invited talk “Designs for Ramp-constrained Day-ahead auctions” (with Adrew Ross), Hawaii, January 5-9, 2003.

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on congestion management: Invited presentations 1) “Market-based congestion management”, 2) “The MOD proposal for direct assignment of local congestion cost”, Austin Texas, January 13-14,2003

• EPRI Workshop on Electricity Market Design Research: Chair and introductory presentation on “Demand response and generation adequacy” Palo Alto, California, January 16-17, 2003

• Texas A&M Conference on Electricity Restructuring: Session Chair, College Station, Texas, April 4, 2003

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on Market Mitigation. Invited presentations “The MOD proposal for Market Failure Mitigation”, Austin Texas, May 14,2003

• The 22th Annual Eastern Conference on Regulation and Competition, Invited talk on “Forward and Spot Prices in Electricity Markets: Market Power and Congestion Effects” Skytop, PA, May 21-23, 2003

• PSERC Industrial Advisory Board Meeting, Invited presentation on “The FERC White Paper on Wholesale Market Platform for Electricity”, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington May 28-30, 2003.

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on Forward Electricity Markets. Invited presentations “Forward Electricity Markets and System Operations”, Austin Texas, June 13, 2003

• Edison Electric Institute Transmission Business School. Invited lectures 1) Market Design 2) Congestion Management, Chicago, IL., June 25, 2003

• International INFORMS meeting, Invited paper “Using Swing Options for Managing Intrazonal Congestion Risk”, Istanbul, Turkey, July 6-10, 2003

• IEEE PES general meeting, Invited panel presentation “The FGRs vs. FTRs Debate: Facts and Misconceptions”, Toronto, Canada, July 13-17, 2003.

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on Forward Markets. Invited presentations “Day Ahead Market and Systems Operations”, Austin Texas, August 14, 2003

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on Transmission Rights. Invited presentations “Transmission Rights for the Texas Nodal Market”, Austin Texas, September 5, 2003

• The 23rd Arne Ryde Symposium on “The Nordic Electricity Market”, Invited keynote speaker “Market Design and Gaming in Competitive Electricity Systems”, Lund, Sweden, October 3-4, 2003

• INFORMS meeting, invited talk (with Yao and Adler) “Computing Two Settlement Cournot Equilibria in Electricity Markets”, Atlanta, Georgia October 18-22, 2003.

• OSINERG: Electric Utility Regulatory Agency of Peru: Invited presentation on “Capacity Markets and generation Adequacy in Competitive Electricity markets”, Lima Peru, December 5, 2003.

• ESAN - Graduate School of Business, Lima, Peru, Invited public lecture “Market Design and Gaming Opportunities in Competitive Electricity Markets, December 5, 2003.

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on Transmission Rights. Invited presentations “Derating of Transmission Rights”, Austin Texas, December 9, 2003

• HICSS 37: Invited talk “Computing Two Settlement Cournot Equilibria in Electricity Markets” (with Yao, and Adler), Hawaii, January 5-8, 2004.

• HICSS 37: Invited talk “The Inherent Inefficiency of the Point-to-Point Congestion Revenue Right Auction”, (with Deng and Meliopoulous), Hawaii, January 5-8, 2004.

• AIT workshop on Electricity Interconnection, Invited presentation, “The PSerc Market Stem”, Bangkok, Thailand, January 13, 2004.

• Electric Supply Energy in Transition: Issues and Prospects for Asia, Session Chair and Invited talk, “Integrating Energy and Reserves Markets Through Opportunity Cost Payments”, (with Ramteen Sioshansi), AIT, Bangkok, Thailand, January 14-16, 2004

• Conference on Competition and Coordination in the Electric Power Industry, Session Chair and invited panel member on “Market Design”, Toulouse, France, January 16-17, 2004.

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on Market Mitigation. Invited presentations “Market Mitigation for the Texas Nodal Markets”, Austin Texas, February 27, 2003

• Panelist at UCB College of Engineering annual event for contributor on energy efficiency

• Caltech Department of Economics SISL Seminar. Invited talk on “Design of Ancillary Service Markets”, April 15, 2004.

• PSerc IAB Meeting “Inherent Inefficiency of Point to Point Simultaneously Feasible Transmission Rights Auctions” , Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, May 20,2004.

• IEEE PES General Meeting invited panel presentation, “Changing the Generation Adequacy Paradigm from Cost Recovery to Investment Incentives, Denver, Colorado, June 6-10, 2004

• CPUC, Invited lecture “Congestion Management and Congestion Revenue Rights in an LMP Based Market”, San Francisco, CA, July 6, 2004

• NSF EPNES Grantee Workshop, “Forward Contracts, Multisettlement Equilibrium and Risk Management in Competitive Electricity Markets”, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, July 12-14, 2004.

• IREP Symposium, Presentation “Joint Energy and Reserve Auctions with Opportunity Cost Payment for Reserves”, Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, August 22-27

• ERCOT Economists workshop on the Texas Nodal Market. Invited Panelist, Austin, Texas, September 16-17, 2004

• CPUC Conference on Generation Adequacy, Invited presentation, “Ensuring generation adequacy in competitive electricity markets”, San Francisco, California, October 4-5, 2004

• DIMACS Workshop on Computational Issues in Auction Design, Invited talk, “Multi-item Auctions with Credit Limits”, Rutgers University, NJ, October 7-8, 2004

• PSCE Conference, Invited panelist, “State of the Market based Mitigation vs. Conduct and Impact”, New York, NY, October 12, 2004

• PSCE Conference, Invited panelist, “When is Pay as Bid Better, New York, NY, October 12, 2004.

• Montreux California Clean Energy Roundtable, Invited talk, “Orderly Retreat from the Promised Land: Assuring Generation Adequacy through Call Options Obligations”, Half Moon Bay, CA January 19-21, 2005

• ICUBE and F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Lecture, “Market Design and Gaming in Competitive Electricity Markets”, Iowa State University, February 4, 2005

• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Technical workshop on Generation Adequacy, Invited talk on “Review of alternative approaches to Generation Adequacy”, Austin, Texas, April 20, 2005

• EPRI International Conference on Global Electricity Industry Restructuring, Invited presentation, “Resource Adequacy via Call Options Obligations”, San Francisco, CA May 11-12, 2005

• 6th ICPSOP Conference on Power Systems Operations and Planning, presentation: “Cournot Equilibria in Two-Settlement Electricity Markets with System Contingencies”, Praia, Cape Verde, May 22-26, 2005

• IDEI Conference on The Economics of Electricity Markets, Paper presentation (with Sioshansi): “Do Supply Function Equilibrium Models Describe Behavior in Electricity Spot Markets: An Empirical Analysis of the ERCOT BES Market”, Toulouse, France, June 2-3, 2005

• IEEE PES Annual Meeting, Invited Panel Presentation, “Ensuring Generation Adequacy Through Centrally Procured Call Options Obligations“, San Francisco, CA, June 12-16, 2005

• IEEE PES Annual Meeting, Invited Panel Presentation, “Conflicting Investment Incentives in Electricity Transmission”, San Francisco, CA, June 12-16, 2005

• CPUC Invited Seminar, “Ensuring Generation Adequacy via Call Options Obligations”, San Francisco, California, June 20, 2005

• PowerTech Conference, Invited Panel Presentation “Alternative Valuation Objectives for Transmission Investment in Deregulated Electricity Markets” St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-30, 2005

• PowerTech Conference, Paper presentation “Volumetric Hedging in Electricity Procurement”, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-30, 2005

• International Conference on Complementarity Problems (ICCP 20005), Paper presentation (with Yao and Adler): “An EPEC Algorithm for a Two Settlement Electricity Market Equilibrium Model”, Stanford, CA August 9-12, 2005

• Lawrence Berkeley Lab – Scientific Computing Seminar, “Modeling and Computing two settlement oligopolistic market equilibrium in a congested electricity network”, (with Yao and Adler), October 28, 2005.

• International Symposium on the Regulatory and Monitoring Design for Power System Operator Under Deregulation, Invited keynote lecture, “Market Design and System Operations in the US Restructured Electricity Industry, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 2005.

• Conference on Developing the modern Grid, Invited presentation, “Power Market Economics and the Modern Grid: Pserc Activities”, Mesa, Arizona, November 9, 2005.

• INFORMS meeting, invited talk (with Sauma) “Proactive Transmission Investment in Power Systems”, San Francisco, CA, November 13-16, 2005.

• PSERC IAB Meeting, Invited presentation, “Market Redesign: Incorporating the Lessons Learned for Enhancing Market Design: Final Report”, Raleigh, North Carolina, December 7-9, 2005

• ICORAID-2005-ORSI, Contributed talk, “Assessing the Economic Value of Transmission Investment in Restructured Electricity Market”, Recepient of Best Application paper award in the name of Prof B G Raghavendra, Bangalore, India, December 27-29, 2005.

• ICORAID-2005-ORSI, Invited plenary lecture, “Computing Two-settlement Equilibrium in a Transmission Constrained Oligopolistic Electricity Market”, Bangalore, India, December 27-29, 2005.

• HICSS39, Invited talk (with Chao) “Alternative Pathways to Electricity Market Reform: Risk Management Approach”, Kauai, Hawaii, January 4-7, 2006.

• HICSS39, Invited talk “Generation Adequacy via Call Options Obligations: Safe Passage to the Promised Land”, Kauai, Hawaii, January 4-7, 2006.

• 2nd Carnegie Mellon Conference in Electric Power Systems, Invited talk, “Proactive Economic Assessment of Transmission Investment in Restructured Electricity Markets”, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, January 11-12, 2006.

Updated January 7, 2006.

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