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    2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications
               October 17-21, 2011 - Brussels, Belgium

                  http://www.ieee-smartgridcomm.org
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              !!! EXTENDED DEADLINE: 6 MAY 2011 !!!
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Developing the Smart Grid has become an urgent global priority,
promising economic, environmental, and societal benefits. Information
and communications technologies are at the core of the Smart Grid
vision as they will empower today's power grid with the capability of
supporting two-way energy and information flow, isolating and
restoring power outages more quiCkly, facilitating the integration of
renewable energy sources Into the grid and empowering the consumer
with tools for optimizing their energy consumption. 

The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications
(SmartGridComm) is centered on all communications aspects that are
relevant to the Smart Grid and aims at bringing together researchers
from Academia, Industry, and National Labs to exchange novel 
ideas, explore enabling technologies, discuss innovative designs, and
share field trial experiences and lessons learnt. 

Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions
(standard two-column IEEE format and up to 6 pages) on all aspects of 
Smart Grid Communications, including but not limited to:
* Architectures and Models for the Smart Grid
* Smart Grid Management and Service Design
* Wide-Area Monitoring, Control and Protection - WAMPAC
* The Whole Picture: Sense, Communicate, Compute, Control
* Communication Networks for Smart Grid
* Cyber and Physical Security and Privacy
* Smart/Virtual Metering, Demand Response, Dynamic Pricing
* Interconnections and Communications of Electric Vehicles and
    Smart Grids
* Virtual Power Plants, Distributed Generation, Microgrids, Renewables
    and Storage
* Standardization, Interoperability and Coexistence & Regulation
* Getting Practical: Field trials, Deployments, and Lessons Learnt

For details: see the clickable topics on 
http://www.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/cfp.html

IMPORTANT DATES
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* EXTENDED Paper submission deadline:  MAY 6, 2011
* Notification of acceptance:  June 27, 2011
* Camera ready paper due:  July 11, 2011
* Author registration due:  July 11, 2011

COMMITTEE
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General co-chairs:
* prof. Piet Demeester, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
* dr. Ralph Sporer, Siemens AG, Germany

TPC co-chairs:
* prof. Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark
* prof. Kameshwar Poolla, UC Berkeley, USA
* prof. Chris Develder, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium

Symposia Co-chairs:
* Architectures and Models for the Smart Grid
- Anna Scaglione, UCDavis, USA
- Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Andrew Wright, N-Dimension, USA

* Smart Grid Management and Service Design
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University-IBBT, Belgium
- Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, USA

* Wide-Area Monitoring, Control & Protection - WAMPAC
- Tevfik Sezi, Siemens AG, Germany
- Galina S. Antonova, ABB Inc., Vancouver, CA 
- Vladimir Terzia, University of Manchester, UK
- Jean-Claude Maun, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M University, USA
  
* The whole picture: Sense, Communicate, Compute, Control
- Lutz Lampe, University of British Colombia, Canada
- Geert Deconinck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Sumit Roy, University of Washington, WA, USA
- Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA

* Communication networks for Smart Grid
- Nada Golmie, NIST, US
- Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Cisco Systems, France 
- Sang-Jo Yoo, Inha University, Korea

* Cyber and Physical Security and Privacy
- Sanjay Goel, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
- Stephen F. Bush, GE Global Research, New York, USA
- William H. Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

* Smart/Virtual Metering, Demand Response, Dynamic Pricing
- Hans De Neve, Vito, Belgium
- Yoshizumi Serizawa, Central Research Institute of Electric Power
Industry, Japan 
- Shie Mannor, Technion, Israel

* Interconnections and Communications of Electric Vehicles and Smart
Grids
- Joerg Heuer, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
- Peter Van Den Bossche, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
- Jørgen S. Christensen, Dansk Energi | Danish Energy Association,
Frederiksberg, Denmark
- Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Tokyo, Japan

* Virtual Power Plants, Distributed Generation, Microgrids, Renewables
and Storage
- Lieven Vandevelde, Ghent University, Belgium
- Gary W. Chang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
- Paolo Tenti, University of Padova, Italy

* Standardization, Interoperability and Coexistence & Regulation
- Michael Koch, Devolo AG, Germany
- Stefano Galli, ASSIA, USA
- Emmanuel Darmois, Alcatel-Lucent, France
- Hon Prof Paul Brown, White Box Associates / Lancaster University, UK

* Getting practical: Field trials, Deployments, and Lessons Learnt
- Ronnie Belmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Michele de Nigris, Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico - RSE S.p.A., Italy
- Devang V. Khakhar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
- Rolf Adam, Cisco Systems, Germany