Workshop: Risk Management for the Deregulated Electricity Markets, Princeton University, May 16, 2003

这项提议为定于2003年5月16日星期五在普林斯顿大学举行的能源市场研讨会提供了部分资金。 这个想法是提供一个小型研讨会，讨论最近能源市场的可怕经历中出了什么问题，包括加州的放松管制和安然公司的倒闭。 金融机构和市场是经济服务部门中增长最快的部分之一，相关的建模和分析活动，统称为“金融工程”，是一个不断增长的研究领域，高度数学化，非常适合运筹学社区的技能和背景。 这个研讨会有可能揭示目前思维的主要缺陷和新研究的机会。

This proposal partially funds a workshop on energy markets scheduled for Friday, May 16, 2003, at Princeton University. The idea is to offer both a mini-symposium on what went wrong in the recent horrible experience with energy markets, including California's deregulation and collapse of Enron. Financial institutions and markets are among the most rapidly growing part of the service sector of the economy, and the associated modeling and analysis activity, known collectively as "financial engineering" is a growing area of research which is highly mathematical and well suited to the skills and backgrounds of the operations research community. This workshop has the potential to reveal major flaws in present thinking and opportunities for new research.