The 1st H2020 SUCCESS Innovation Event took place in Terni, Italy on 22 September.

The Conference "Zukunftsfähige Stromnetze" 2016 by BMBF and BMWi in cooperation with the lead partner Projektträger Jülich took place in Berlin. There have been several panel discussions with representatives from economy, politics, and science as well as a poster session and presentations of 82 research projects like SINERGIEN, SWARMGRID, etc. in which ACS is involved. All projects are supported by the BMBF / BMWi "Förderinitiative Zukunftsfähige Stromnetze" with over 140 million euros. From ACS Marco Cupelli and Lukas Razik attended the Conference.

The 2nd H2020 SUCCESS Project Meeting took place in Terni, Italy on 20-21 September.

The half project review of FLEXMETER has been successfully held in Brussels on September 20th. ACS has a main role in the project for the off-line testing of the project solutions and presented a demo on Demand Response and a software tool aimed at the random generation of residential load profiles.

Abhinav Sadu will attend the  Sommerakademie 2016 (E.ON Stipendienfonds ) in the beginning of August

End-of project race of 4th semester project with barbeque .

Multi-Meeting of the Helmholtz-funded Project ES2050 for research topic 5: Toolbox with Databases at ACS with several participants from ERC and from KIT in Karslruhe.

Xiang Wu defends his dissertation “New Approaches to Dynamic Equivalent of Active Distribution Network for Transient Analysis“.

On the 5th and 6th of July, Lisette Cupelli (ACS) and Pooyan Jahangiri (EBC) presented the third year advancements of EU FP7 Project GEYSER (http://www.geyser-project.eu) to the European Commission in Brussels

Timo Isermann defended his dissertation „A Multi-Agent-based Component Control and Energy Management System for Electric Vehicles “

Participation to matchmaking with Deutsche Bahn: after two selection stages we were invited to participate to the matchmaking event with Deutsche Bahn where startups (in our case Gridhound) could propose their innovative solutions for the railway systems (in our case the railway Energy Management System developed during Merlin); http://fiware-business.eu/event/matchmaking-with-deutsche-bahn/

“From the converter to the cloud: challenges in the automation architecture of future power systems” Dr. Cupelli presented "From the converter to the cloud: challenges in the automation architecture of future power systems" at Workshop 2: Optimization and Control for Tomorrow’s Power Systems der European Control Conference (ECC) 2016 , Aalborg, Dänemark. http://www.ecc16.eu/workshops.shtml

27.-30.06.2016: Antonino Riccobono and Markus Mirz attended COMPEL 2016 conference in Trondheim, Norway. Special Emphasis was on "Stability of power electronics dominated systems and impact of converter control strategies on system stability". Our institute presented three papers and Antonino Riccobono gave a tutorial about "Research on Modern Power Systems supported by Hardware-In-the-Loop Technology".

Presentation of the paper “Migrating LinuX Containers Using CRIU” by S. Pickartz et al. at 11th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing.

The shop washeld in conjunction with International Supercomputing Conference - one of the two most important international HPC conferences

The ACS team spent two days at Wildenhof (RWTH Rursee location) for a doctoral workshop.

Dr. Lankes presented the talk "HermitCore – A Unikernel for Extreme Scale Computing" at the "International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2016)", Kyoto, Japan. He presented first results of the project "HermitCore".

19./20. May 2016 – Kick-off Meeting EU Horizon 2020 project SUCCESS (Securing Critical Energy Infrastructures). Prof. Monti as Technical Manager of the project joins the Kick-Off Meeting with his team.

The participants of IDE4L project meet in the offices of Unareti distribution System Operator in Brescia, Italy, to discuss the demonstration phase and to discuss the status of the project with the EU officer. Prof. Ponci, presented on the 18^th the architecture for smart grid at the public event named “IDE4L Symposium” with hundreds of guests from European academy and industry.

Start of the BMWi project eSafeNet (Energieeffizientes und sicheres Kommunikationsnetz für das Internet der Energie) as part of the reseach initiative STROMNETZE promoted by the Federal Government. Bettina Schäfer and Padraic McKeever join the Kick-Off Meeting.

Dr. Lankes is co-organizer of the 4th Workshop on "Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era" (ROME 2016), which will be held in conjunction with the Euro-Par 2016, Grenoble, France.

Teh new opening hours of the secretary is here: Öffnungszeiten or on the door of room number 10.01.

Dr. Lankes presented the talk "Revisiting Co-Scheduling for Upcoming ExaScale Systems" at the "International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation" (HPCS'15), Amsterdam, Netherland.

On May 26th and 27th or June, 18th and 19th 2015 the third workshop of the FEN-Consortium Low Voltage will take place in Aachen.

For registrations please turn to www.fen.rwth-aachen.de.

The meeting is organized as follows:
WP Workshops
Review of Status and Progresses and of Dissemination Activities
Implementation Committee (IC) meeting
Steering Committee (SC) meeting
Advisory Board meeting

Dr. Lankes is co-organizer of the 3rd Workshop on "Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era" (ROME 2015), which will be held in conjunction with the Euro-Par 2015, Vienna, Austria.

ACS hosts the 3rd international conference ESARS 2015 on electrical systems for aircraft, railway, ship propulsion and road vehicles.

For further information, please see www.esars2015.org/.

Almost one year has passed from the start of project FAST (http://www.en.fast-project.de) and yet FAST is going to be presented at 4th HPC Status Conference of the Gauß-Allianz on the 9th of December 2014 in Aachen. Professor Brinkmann is going to give the talk. The talk will cover the latest results of the project, project road map and FAST impact on the public community.

Simon Pickartz presented the talk "Migration Techniques in HPC Environments" at the 9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC'14), which is helt in comjunction with Euro-Par 2014, Porto, Portugal 

Dr. Lankes is co-organizer of the 2^nd Workshop on "Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era" (ROME 2014), which will be held in conjunction with the Euro-Par 2014, August 25-29, Porto, Portugal.

The student award for the best participation at the exercise “Foundations of Computer Science 4” is presented to Niklas Eiling, Sebastian Peters, Kim Franken und Tobias Piwczyk.

Junjie Tang defended her dissertation "Probabilistic Analysis and Stability Assessment for Power Systems with Integration of Wind Generation and Synchrophasor Measurement".

Prof. Monti, Ivelina Stoyanova and Michael Diekerhof participates at the VDE task force Smart City meeting in Frankfurt.

Sara Khayyamin attended the Merlin Conference in Antwerpen.

Prof. Monti, Padraic McKeever and Bettina Schäfer attended the Ericsson Innovation day, where Prof. Monti ran a creative session on smart grids.

The General Meeting of the EU FP7 project FINESCE was held in Aachen.

Prof. Monti, Bettina Schäfer and Marija Stevic visited from 05.06. until 06.06.2014 the EDF R&D lab close to Paris.

Prof. Monti, Ivelina Stoyanova and Michael Diekerhof participates at the VDE task force Smart City meeting in Frankfurt.

Prof. Monti and Marco CUpelli attended on 21. and 22.05.2014 the General Meeting of EU FP7 Project GEYSER in Dublin.

The Forschungscampus for Flexible Electrical Networks was visited by the reviewers from University Kassel (Prof. Braun) and TU Ilmenau (Prof. Westermann) as well as representatives from Siemens and Projektträger Jülich.

EU FP7 First Year Review in Malmö.

Prof. Monti attendet the Smart Grid Summit in Malaga and presented the project "FINESCE".

Prof. Monti at TU EIndhoven as External Committee Member of a PHD Defence.

Prof. Monti gives a Seminar on Future Grids at FH Aachen in Jülich.

Prof. Monti, Padraic McKeever and Mohsen Ferdowsi attends ECFI in Brussels in support of FINESCE. Prof. Monti gives a talk in the Energy Session.

The yearly E.ON ERC Annual Meeting took place on 02.04. and 03.04.2014 with the focus upon "Innovation and Energy Markets".

Prof. Monti visited the Joint Research Council Facilities of the European Commission in Petten (NL).

Bettina Schäfer and Alexander Helmedag participated in the industry workshop on the Center for Wind Power Drives (CWD) held in Aachen on Campus.