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Short biography: Eleftherios Kofidis received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees both from the Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in 1990 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 to 1998 he served in the Hellenic Army. In the period 1998 to 2000, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut National des Telecommunications (INT), Evry, France (now Telecom SudParis). From 2001 to 2004, he was a research associate at the University of Athens, and adjunct professor at the Universities of Peloponnese and Piraeus, Greece. In 2004, he joined the Dept. of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece, where he is now Assistant Professor. He is also affiliated with the Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Greece. His research interests are in signal processing for communications, with emphasis on MIMO systems and multicarrier communications. Dr. Kofidis has served as technical program co-chair in international conferences (CIP-2008 and DSP-2009) and as a technical program committee member and reviewer in a number of conferences and journals. He currently serves as Associate Editor in the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP) and the IET Signal Processing journal. He (co-) organized two special sessions on filter bank-based multicarrier systems (ISWCS-2012, EW-2014) and is lead guest editor for a JASP special issue on this subject. : Filter Bank-based Multicarrier Systems: Fundamentals and Signal Processing Challenges Abstract: Filter bank-based multi-carrier (FBMC) communications have recently attracted increased interest in both wireline (e.g., xDSL, PLC) and wireless (e.g., TVWS, PMR) applications, due to their enhanced flexibility, higher spectral efficiency, and better spectral containment compared to conventional cyclic prefix (CP)-based OFDM. Thus, FBMC is currently considered as the most prominent candidate solution of choice for modulation in future wireless communications. This talk aims at providing a short overview of the main FBMC schemes, and their pros and cons with respect to CP-OFDM. Emphasis will be put on the so-called FBMC/OQAM (or OFDM/OQAM) system, which has been receiving increased attention due to, among other features, its ability to attain maximum spectral efficiency. It suffers, however, from an inherent intercarrier/inter-symbol interference effect, which makes common signal processing tasks such as channel estimation and equalization significantly more challenging than in CP-OFDM (and other FBMC schemes). Recent interference-aware solutions to FBMC/OQAM channel estimation are briefly reviewed. Simulations results are presented that demonstrate the gains over CP-OFDM offered by FBMC/OQAM as well as the manifestation of the interference problem in this modulation system, calling for solutions to a number of interesting and still open research problems.

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Short biography: G. B. Giannakis (IEEE Fellow'97) received his Diploma in EE from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was with the Univ. of Southern California, where he received his MSc. in EE, 1983, MSc. in Math, 1986, and Ph.D. in EE, 1986. Since 1999 he has been a professor with the Univ. of Minnesota, where he now holds an ADC Chair in Wireless Telecom. in the ECE Dept., and serves as director of the Digital Technology Center. His general interests span are in communications, networking, and statistical signal processing - subjects on which he has published more than 350 journal papers, 600 conference papers, 20 book chapters, two edited 2

books and two research monographs (h-index 106). Current research focuses on big data analytics, wireless cognitive radios, mobile ad hoc networks, power grid, renewable energy, gene-regulatory, and social networks. He is the (co-) inventor of 21 patents issued, and the (co-) recipient of 8 best paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Communications Socs. He also received Tech. Achievement Awards from the SP Society (2000), from EURASIP (2005), a Young Faculty Teaching Award, and the G. W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow of EURASIP, and has served the IEEE in a number of posts, including that of a Distinguished Lecturer. : Monitoring and Learning Algorithms for Future Power Grids Abstract: The pressing need to modernize the aging power grid has culminated into the smart grid vision, which entails the widespread use of state-of-the-art sensing, control, and information technologies. Instrumental for leveraging these smart technologies are novel approaches to monitoring and grid data analytics. In this context, the present talk starts with pertinent signal processing algorithms for power system state estimation based on semi-definite relaxation, decentralized solvers and circuit breaker reconfiguration tools, as well as optimal placement of phasor measurement units. Machine learning paradigms are also presented for identifying line outages, which is a critical task for preventing cascade failures. By accounting for the consumers responsiveness to prices, real-time pricing is also performed via online convex optimization to elicit desirable demand response and thus reduce peaks in load curves. The efficacy of the novel approaches is assessed using standard IEEE power grid benchmarks.

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Short biography: Nikos D. Hatziargyriou is professor at the Power Division of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the National Technical University of Athens. From February 2007 to September 2012, he was Deputy CEO of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) of Greece, responsible for Transmission and Distribution Networks, island DNO and the Center of Testing, Research and Prototyping. He is Fellow Member of IEEE, past Chair of the Power System Dynamic Performance Committee and Chair of CIGRE SC C6 Distribution Systems and Distributed Generation. He is vice-chair of the EU Advisory Council of the Technology Platform on SmartGrids. He has participated in more than 50 R&DD Projects, and was coordinator of the EU funded Care, More Care, Rise, Merge, Microgrids and More Microgrids projects. He is author of the book Microgrids: Architectures and Control and of more than 160 journal publications and 500 conference proceedings papers. His research interests include Smartgrids, Microgrids, Distributed and Renewable Energy Sources and Power System Security. : Microgrids: The Building Blocks of Smartgrids Abstract: The main characteristics of Microgrids will be introduced, their benefits, technical and commercial challenges. Next, centralized and decentralized control of Distributed Generators and Flexible Loads in Microgrids will be discussed and the key features of intelligent Multi Agent Systems will be briefly described. Results from the first pilot application of MAS on an isolated settlement of 12 houses powered solely by solar power on the Greek island of Kythnos will be presented. In this application intelligent load controllers with Embedded processors have been used to host the agents, in order to achieve a more efficient use of energy. Further experiments will be described highlighting the applicability of Decentralized Intelligent Control approaches.

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Short biography: Antonio T. Alexandridis received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece, in 1981. In 1987, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the W. Virginia University, USA. In 1988, he joined the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the University of Patras where he is now a Professor and Head of the Power Systems Division. During the spring semester of 1998 he joined the Control Engineering Research Centre of the City University in London, UK, as a Visiting Researcher. His research interests include control theory, nonlinear dynamics, optimal control, passivity and advanced control applications on power systems and drive systems. His current interests are focused on Renewable Power Generation Control and Stability (wind generators, PV systems, microgrids, etc.). He has authored more than 130 international journal and conference papers in the above fields. He serves as a reviewer in about 30 International Journals and in much more International Conferences. Also, he served as General Chair, Tutorial Co-Chair and Technical Program Committee member in different International Conferences on Control and Industrial Technology. Since 2009 he is the Student Training Program Leader of all the Departments of the University of Patras while since 2010 he serves as Deputy President at the Technical Council of the University of Patras. : Distributed generation and smart grids: New challenges on the control and stability of modern power systems Abstract: A smart grid is an evolved grid system that manages electricity demands in a sustainable, reliable and economic manner. It is built on the new scheme of distributed generation in the deregulated electricity market, it is based on advanced infrastructure and is tuned to facilitate the integration of all involved. This fact, except from the new management problems, also creates new challenges on the real time dynamic performance of the grid at the prime level of control and stability. Therefore, a novel scheme for modern power system analysis and control design and implementation, suitable for distributed generation and microgrid/smart grid applications is needed. In this frame, a new systematic modeling approach has to be developed for the entire dynamic nonlinear system with basic features the open structure that can easily include i) variable grid topology and different units and loads, ii) different switching devices such as power electronic converters, iii) almost all the renewable energy sources (such as wind energy systems, PV systems), iv) conventional or small power generators (CHP) and v) grid-connected or isolated operation with the aid of storage devices. Also, for the control design and implementation, the basic module has to be constructed on simple local controllers with open structure that can guarantee: stability and convergence of the entire system to the desired steady-state, independently from the system topology changes, parameters variations, maximum power extraction from the renewable sources, active and reactive power production, frequency and voltage regulation.

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