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CenSES annual report 2011
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2011 has been a year where we have focused on ini-
tiating cooperation with the individual internation-
al research partners. Some highligts are described
here:
International winter school at Oppdal
In March 100 international researchers met for one
week to study managment of uncertainty in energy
infrastructure investments. Topics were:
− Modelling uncertainty: focusing on investments,
options, energy markets, etc
− Multi-stage stochastic programming
− Stochastic equilibrium and capacity expansion
PhD candidates that chose to hand in an essay re-
ceived 7.5 ECTS based on 30 hours of lectures over
the busy week. The winter school had participants
from 40 universities in 25 countries. Lectures on the
topics where given by a mix of CenSES researchers
and leading international professors.
Lecturers were: Suvrajeet Sen (Ohio state Univier-
sity), Stein W. Wallace (Lancaster University),
Maria Theresa Vespucci (Bergamo Univeristy),
Stein-Erik Feten (NTNU), Asgeir Tomasgard (NTNU),
Ruud Egging (NTNU), Mette Bjørndal (NHH), Anto-
nio Conejo (Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha),
Xiang Li (Massachusetts Insititute of Technology),
Daniel Kuhn (Imperial College), Friedrich Kunz and
Daniell Huppmann (DIW, Berlin) and Afzal Siddiqui
(University College London).
The school was organized by CenSES in cooperation
with Petromaks and the Research School in Business
Economics and Administration (NFB). For more in-
formation on the program and material (see www.
iot.ntnu.no/winterschool11).
International research cooperation on
energy modelling
In the LinkS project under RA 2 we have initialized a
cooperation on energy system models for scenario
studies. NTNU, SINTEF, University of Maryland, Joint
Global Change Research Institute and Tsinghua are
the partners. This is a project that started already
before CenSES received FME -
Lectures at Oppdal. Photo: Ruud Egging
International Cooperation