Below are slides from selected talks (talks that reuse similar slides have been omitted):
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Ariadne-Szenarienreport 2.0: Energiewirtschaft & Infrastruktur, Webinar, März 2025
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Infrastrukturplanung auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Berlin, Oktober 2024
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Methanol for hard-to-electrify sectors: example of ultra-long-duration energy storage, International Energy Workshop, Bonn, June 2024
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Energy Imports and Infrastructure in a Carbon-Neutral European Energy System, Ariadne2 industry kickoff, April 2024
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Methanol for hard-to-electrify sectors, RESILIENT project kickoff, February 2024
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Ultra-long-duration energy storage anywhere: methanol with carbon cycling, Engineers Ireland, November 2023, video on YouTube
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Power Transmission Bottlenecks: A Deal-Breaker for a Renewable World?, MIT Energy Initiative, May 2023
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Does Europe Need a Hydrogen Network?, Florence School of Regulation, Insights Webinar, video on YouTube, November 2022
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Open Energy Modelling: Discussion & Examples from PyPSA Modelling for Europe, 1st Openmod Workshop in South Africa, video on YouTube, October 2022
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System-level impacts of 24/7 carbon-free electricity procurement in Europe, launch of Google-sponsored report, video on YouTube, October 2022
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Openness and Transparency: Discussion & Examples from PyPSA Modelling for Europe, STEERS Workshop, Brussels, October 2022
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Modelling 24/7 Carbon-Free Procurement in Europe, Eurelectric Power Summit, Brussels, video on YouTube, June 2022
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PyPSA: Modelling Energy System Infrastructure for Climate-Neutral Scenarios to the Energy Modelling Meetup in Sydney, December 2021
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Can a Hydrogen Network Replace Electricity Transmission Network Expansion in a Climate-Neutral Scenario for Europe? to the Energy Modelling Platform Europe (EMP-E), October 2021
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Decreasing market value of variable renewables can be avoided by policy action to the 39th International Energy Workshop, June 2021
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Open Energy Modelling: Situation in Europe; Case Studies to Environmental Defense Fund Webinar on Open Decarbonization, September 2020
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Visions of a renewable future (historical perspective) to the Chalmers Energy Technology Systems Group Zoom Lunch, April 2020
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Introducing the Workflow and Modelling Choices Behind PyPSA-Eur-Sec to the eGon Online Workshop, March 2020
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What are open energy models and what can they contribute? to the openmod-NGO bridge meeting, June 2019
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The impact of sector-coupling on transmission reinforcement needs in a highly-renewable European energy scenario at the 17th Wind Integration Workshop, October 2018, LaTeX source
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The cost-benefit of transmission expansion in a sector-coupled, highly-renewable European energy scenario at the 2nd International Symposium on Energy System Optimization, October 2018, LaTeX source
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Modelling the electricity grid for deep carbon dioxide reductions in all sectors at the ENSYSTRA Summer School, September 2018, LaTeX source
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Synergies of sector coupling and transmission extension in a cost-optimised, highly renewable European energy system at DIW Berlin, July 2018, LaTeX source
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Modelling Paris: Scenarios for the electricity grid, heating and transport in Europe with 95% carbon dioxide emission reductions at the 4th Renewables Grid Initiative Scenario Workshop in Brussels, Belgium, February 2018 (LaTeX source, video of wind speeds in Europe in January 2011 (mp4, Copyright 2018 Tom Brown, released under CC BY 4.0 licence), video of solar irradiation in Europe in January 2011 (mp4, Copyright 2018 Tom Brown, released under CC BY 4.0 licence); slides corrected from original version to reflect budget of CO2 instead of GHG, in line with IPCC budgets, original slides here)
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Integrated Modelling of Energy Systems and Transmission Networks at the DLR INTEEVER Workshop in Frankfurt, November 2017 (LaTeX source)
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Network Flow Allocation: An Overview at the FIAS-DIW NET-ALLOK Project Kick-Off in Frankfurt, October 2017 (LaTeX source)
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ENTSO-E Data Availability, Quality and Licensing at the 7th Open Energy Modelling Workshop in Munich, Germany, October 2017
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Modelling the Electricity Transmission Network with High Shares of Renewable Energy at the Summer School on Communication Technology and Data Analytics for Future Energy Systems in Passau, Germany, September 2017
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Python for Power System Analysis (PyPSA): Free Software for Planning Energy Systems with High Shares of Renewables at the 1st International Conference on Large-Scale Grid Integration of Renewable Energy in India in Delhi, India, September 2017
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The Open Energy Modelling Initiative (LaTeX source) at the 4th Open Power System Data Workshop at DIW in Berlin, Germany, July 2017
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Sector-Coupling in a Simplified Model of a Highly Renewable European Energy System at the 2nd German-Japanese Workshop on Renewable Energies at DLR in Stuttgart, Germany, July 2017
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Python for Power System Analysis (PyPSA) at the 6th Open Energy Modelling Workshop in Frankfurt, Germany, April 2017
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Transmission Networks versus Sector Coupling in a Highly Renewable Energy Scenario for Europe at the International Renewable Energy Storage Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, March 2017
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An Interdisciplinary View on the Transition to an Energy System Based on Renewables at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), in Muizenberg, South Africa, March 2017
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Sector Coupling, Transmission Congestion Management and Open Data for a Highly Renewable Europe at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa, March 2017
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The Role of Spatial Scale in Joint Optimisations of Generation and Transmission for Highly Renewable Scenarios at the International Conference on Future Electric Power Systems and the Energy Transition, in Champéry, Switzerland, February 2017
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Frontiers of European Energy System Modelling: Sector Coupling and Spatial Scale at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung, December 2016
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Sector Coupling in a Simplified, Highly Renewable European Energy System at the 15th International Workshop on Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems in Vienna, November 2016
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Sector coupling in a highly renewable European energy system at the 100% Renewable Energy Conference, Flensburg, October 2016
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Building a Secure Energy System with Variable Renewables: Challenges and Solutions (LaTeX beamer source) at the CoNDyNet Summer School on The Stability of Electricity Grids, Bremen, June 2016
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The Price of Non-Cooperation in a Highly Renewable European Energy System (LaTeX beamer source) at Frankfurter Allgemeine Forum Energy Security Summit, Berlin, June 2016
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Reducing Complexity in RE System Optimisations (LaTeX beamer source) at the NEXT Energy e.V. 2nd Workshop on Energy System Modelling and Analysis, Ihlow, February 2016
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Integrating Renewables in Jiangsu Province, China (LaTeX beamer source) at the 14th International Workshop on Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems in Brussels, 2015
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High shares of renewables in Europe: relevant experience and lessons learned at the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation's International Symposium: REvision 2015: Removing the Barriers to RE Development in Japan
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On the relation between open and closed topological strings at the ZMP Colloquium on topological conformal field theory in January 2011
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Complex Matrix Model Duality (source) at the DESY Theory Workshop in September 2010
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Complex Matrix Model Duality at the Niels Bohr Institute in August 2010
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Cut-and-join operators and N=4 super Yang-Mills at the Second Johannesburg Workshop on String Theory in April 2010
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Cut-and-join operators and N=4 super Yang-Mills (source) at the Nordic String Meeting in Hannover in February 2010
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AdS/CFT beyond the planar limit (source) at DESY in November 2009
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AdS/CFT beyond the planar limit at Brown University in November 2008
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AdS/CFT beyond the planar limit (source) at Durham University in October 2008
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AdS/CFT at finite N at Superstrings @ Cyprus in Ayia Napa in September 2008
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AdS/CFT at finite N at Eurostrings 2008 gong show in Amsterdam in July 2008
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Operator mixing in N=4 SYM and U(N) at TIFR in Mumbai in February 2008
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Correlators, Probabilities and Topologies in N=4 SYM at DIAS in Dublin in December 2006