Workshop Themes will include (but are not limited to):

  • Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Power Electronics Circuits:
    • Advances in circuit topologies for hard switching converters, resonant converters, switched capacitor circuits, matrix converters and multilevel circuits, modeling of passive components and sensing elements.
  • Control of Power Electronics:
    • Advances in smart power control and power management techniques;
    • Linear and nonlinear control algorithms, digital control, implementation techniques (DSP, microcontroller, etc.).
  • Power Electronic Devices:
    • Modeling of power semiconductors, wide bandgap devices, semiconductor driving circuits and their application in modern converter topologies/circuits, reliability, thermal degradations, etc.
  • Design, Simulation and Hardware-In-the-Loop Design Tools:
    • Multi-domain and multi-level modeling;
    • Electro-thermal models;
    • Modeling of EMI, reliability and failures;
    • Optimization-oriented simulations;
    • Real-time simulation and co-simulation;
    • Virtual prototyping;
    • Modeling of devices/circuits/systems, FPGA, HIL.                  
  • Power ICs:
    • Application driven features and benefits, low power, or low cost;
    • Analog, digital or mixed signal realizations;
    • System integration and applications.
  • Smart AC-DC Systems and Future Grids:
    • Analysis, modeling and control of power electronics, efficient energy systems with renewable sources and storage, advance transmission and distribution, energy harvesting and interfacing, smart electronic loads, DC lighting, telecom and backup power systems, data centers.
  • Education:
    • Laboratories, equipment, innovative teaching methodologies, multimedia tools, interactive simulation, symbolic analysis tools.