47th NORTH AMERICAN POWER SYMPOSIUM (NAPS) 2015
October 4-6, 2015
Energy Production and Infrastructure Center
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Dear Colleagues,
The NAPS 2015 organizing committee cordially invites you to attend and present at the
47 North American Power Symposium, which will be held at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte on October 4-6, 2015. NAPS welcomes papers on analytical,
computational, experimental studies aimed at solving problems related to operation,
control, monitoring, protection, reliability as well as economics of power and energy systems
and components.
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NAPS is held every year at a different university in North America and provides an
international open forum for participants from academia and industry to exchange innovative
ideas and solutions with each other. NAPS will continue the long held tradition of
encouraging presentation of papers by students and recognizing their best efforts by awards
at the end of the symposium.
Important dates are as follows:
• April 15, 2015:
Paper Submission Opens
• May 31, 2015:
Deadline for Paper Submission
• June 30, 2015:
Decision Notification
• July 15, 2015:
Final Paper Submission
• Oct. 4-6, 2015:
North American Power Symposium in Charlotte, NC
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Major focus areas include, but are not limited to:
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Transmission Systems
Distribution Systems
Modeling and Simulation
Power System Optimization and Control
Power System Analysis and Computation
Power System Stability
Power System Security and Reliability
Electricity Markets and Energy Forecasting
Synchrophasor Applications
Micro Grids
Demand Response and Energy Efficiency
Cyber Physical Systems
Utility Applications of Power Electronics
Please consider and/or forward to the appropriate groups the opportunity to submit and
publish original scientific results to NAPS 2015.
For additional information and further updates, please visit
http://naps2015.uncc.edu/
NAPS 2015 Organizing Committee
Symposium Co-Chairs:
Dr. Valentina Cecchi
Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan
Technical Program Chairs:
Dr. Badrul Chowdhury
Dr. Robert Cox
Dr. Madhav Manjrekar
Student Program Chairs:
Dr. Yamilka Baez-Rivera
Dr. Madhav Manjrekar
Dr. Maciej Noras
EPIC Liaison:
Dr. Johan Enslin
Symposium Coordinators:
Ms. Karen Ford
Ms. Beverly Guessford
Ms. Robin Moose
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