Invitation
The first ISEIM has been held in Tokyo in 1995, followed byToyohashi, Himeji, Kitakyushu, Yokkaichi, Kyoto and Niigata, allin Japan. The 8th symposium will back to Toyohashi City. Thiscity is in a continuous industrial area stretching from Tokyo toOsaka, as many prehistoric monuments and archaeological tracesof different ages can be seen. The place is blessed with various
traditional cuisines, such as sake and sea foods. The conference
venue is Toyohashi Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Toyohashi is serviced by Tokaido Shinkansen (bullet trains).
Visitors can take the train categorized ‘Hikari’ from Tokyo Station
to Toyohashi, a journey of less than 90 min. The easiest way to getto Tokyo Station, for onward transfer to Toyohashi from Narita
Airport (NRT), is by using Narita Express that takes under one
hour to reach Tokyo Station. There are several other ways to landon Japan using Haneda (HND), Osaka Kansai (KIX), and Negoya
Central (NGO) airports. Bullet trains from Shin-Osaka station also
needs around 90 minutes to get to the venue.

Main Topics
1. Space charge, surface and interfacial phenomena
2. Electrical properties of dielectrics and measurement and testing
techniques
3. Nanotechnology for dielectrics
4. Inorganic and functional dielectric materials
5. Organic thin films and electronics
6. Dielectric materials for electronics and telecommunication
7. Dielectric properties of biological objects, biodielectronics
8. Inverter Surges
9. Partial discharge
10. Asset management for dielectrics applied apparatus
11. Insulation design, reliability, aging and degradation, theirdetection and monitoring
12. Polymeric insulators and outdoor insulation
13. Eco-friendly dielectric materials and recycling
14. Electrical insulation phenomena and charging under cosmic andradiological environment
15. Collaborate work with industries and universities

ISEIM 2017 Organization:
Honorary Chair
N. Hozumi (Toyohashi University of Technology)
General Chair
Y. Tanaka (Tokyo City University)
Vice Chair in Charge of Treasury
Y. Hayase (Fuji Electric)
Vice Chair in Charge of Program
H. Nishikawa (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Vice Chair in Charge of Local Arrangement
Y. Murakami (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Vice Chair in Charge of Publication
N. Fuse (CRIEPI)Vice Chair in Charge of Asian Affairs
Y. Sekiguchi (Sumitomo Electric Industry)
International Advisory Committee
Chair: H.E. Orton (Canada)
Members:
T. Czaszejko (Australia)
T. Blackburn (Australia)
S. Jayaram (Canada)
M. Frechette (Canada)
Shengtao Li (China)
Yi Yin (China)
C. Laurent (France)
S. Tenbohlen (Germany)
R. Sarathi (India)
C. C. Reddy (India)
Suwarno (Indonesia)
G.C. Montanari (Italy)
June-Ho Lee (Korea)
J. Smit (The Netherlands)
P. Morshuis (The Netherlands)
S. Gubanski (Sweden)
G. Chen (UK)L. Dissado (UK)K. Nelson (USA)T. Tanaka (Japan)
Y. Ohki (Japan)
M. Nagao (Japan)
M. Hikita (Japan)
T. Okamoto (Japan)
N. Hozumi (Japan)
Local arrangement Committee
Chair: Y. Murakami (Toyohashi University of Technology)

Secretariat
N. Fuse (CRIEPI), N. Hirai (Waseda University)

2017 International Symposium onElectrical Insulating Materials(ISEIM 2017)
September 11-15, 2017
Toyohashi Chamber of Commerce & Industry,

Toyohashi City, Japan

Second Call for
PapersSponsored by:
IEEJ Technical Committee on Dielectrics andElectrical Insulation
Technically co-sponsored by:IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation SocietyIEEE DEIS Japan Chapter
Co-sponsored by: (Under negotiation)
TBD
Waseda University
In cooperation with:TBDContacts:
E-mail: iseim2017@freeml.com

Supported by: (Under negotiation)
TBD

Inuishi Memorial Lecture
The Inuishi Memorial LectureAward is named after Prof. Y.
Inuishi who is one of great pioneers
for our research field in Japan. The
symposium opens every three years
with the lecture and it is the keynote
session of the symposium. The 2017
Inuishi lecture will be given by
Christian Laurent, tentatively entitled “Energetics of chargetransport in insulating polymers.” Dr. C. Laurent is currently
Research Director at CNRS, was until recently Director ofLAPLACE in Toulouse and is now Vice Rector Research at theUniversity of Toulouse. He has developed an approach toelectrical ageing in polymeric materials based on luminescenceanalysis. He is now dealing with experimental and modelingactivity relating to charge transport and ageing.

Workshop for “Advanced Nanodielectrics”
An English book entitled “Advanced Nanodielectrics –Fundamentals and Applications –” will be published latest byDecember, 2016. The book is edited by the Investigating R&D
Committee on Advanced Polymer Nanocomposite Dielectrics(Chair: Prof. T. Tanaka, 2010-2013), and it is composed of theinvestigations by noted Japanese expert committee members.
Since it is edited carefully for easy-to-understand even for
beginners, it must be helpful for the researchers in this field. Theorganizing committee of ISEIM 2017 plans an event tointroduce you the new book, prior to the symposium, by invitingsome authors of the book. They will present you thefundamentals and applications about advanced nanodielectrics inthis workshop.
Candidates for lecturer (Not fixed yet.): Prof. T. Tanaka(Waseda Univ.), Prof. Y. Tanaka (Tokyo City Univ.), Dr. T.
Imai (Toshiba Corporation), Dr. M. Kozako (Kyushu Inst.
Tech.), Dr. M. Kurimoto (Nagoya Univ.)

Special Sessions for Development of ElectricalInsulation Evaluation of Inverter-Fed Motors
for the IEC Standardizations
Recent progress of rotating electrical machines fed fromvoltage converters may face with risk of electrical insulation
failure due to high-voltage, high-repetition pulses with short risetime of so-called “inverter-surge.” The investigating R&D
committee in IEEJ that consists of experts in the related research
fields including hybrid and electric vehicles from not only

academic institutes but also industrial companies in Japan has
been established in order to investigate partial discharge (PD)that potentially damages the insulation system and its
qualification of random-wound motors based on IEC 60034-1841. In particular, round-robin test (RRT) of repetitive PD
inception voltage (RPDIV) measurements on complete windingof random-wound motor has clarified the statistical properties ofRPDIV data obtained at independent laboratories and thesignificant impact of ambient humidity on RPDIV. The
organizing committee is planning to introduce at this special
session the digest report of the activities in the R&D committee.
We will also provide an opportunity to demonstrate RPDIV
measurements using the test equipment used in the RRT.

Special Session for APIANS - Analysis for
Polymeric Insulating Materials Using
Advanced Numerical Simulation
After the successful workshop named “APIANS” in the last
ISEIM, many presentations related to this theme have beenreported by many authors in various conferences. Since theorganizing committee would like to accelerate the activity in thisresearch field, a special session for this theme is proposed in thesymposium. The session is supposed to be composed ofpresentations by one or two invited and other general oralspeakers.

MVP (Mutual Visiting type Poster) Session
This session aims to encourage and improve the presentationand discussion abilities of attendees, and give a chance todiscuss other poster presentations. Attendees are required topresent their poster not only to the attendees who do not present
in the session but also to the other presenters of the session. All
the attendees of the MVP session that is all the presenters of theMVP session have rights of voting the good presentation,
definite replay in discussion, and beautiful poster. The excellent
presenter(s) will be awarded in the banquet.

SS (Industry) Session
This industry session has been held in the previous domestic
and international symposiums. They were received very welland many Japanese companies in this field want to participate in
the SS session. The aim is to make a opportunity for companies
to introduce their developed and developing technologies andproducts to attendee especially young researchers such asuniversity students and graduate students. It must be a good
opportunity to introduce your company.

Japan-Korea Young Researcher Exchange ProgramTC-DEI both in Japan and Korea have started new exchange
program for young researchers. Winners are selected fromdomestic annual conferences in both countries, and get a chance
to have presentation under the financial aid.

Language
The working language of the symposium is English. All printed
matter will appear in English.

Submission of Papers
You are invited to submit an abstract within 400 words by Jan.
27, 2017. The abstract submission form is available on thesymposium website. Acceptance notices will be sent tocorresponding authors by the middle of March, 2017. The authors ofaccepted papers will be requested to electronically submit paper
manuscripts by May 27, 2017. More information on the manuscript
submission will be provided on the ISEIM 2017 web site. Accepted
papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings of USB
memory, and corresponding extended abstracts will be publishedboth in the USB and booklet.

Registration Fees (tentative)
Registration fee including is ¥35,000 (Japanese yen) for membersof IEEJ, IEEE, CIGRE, CES, or KIEEME, ¥40,000 for
non-members, and ¥15,000 for students with valid IDs. Manuscript
submission fee is ¥10,000 per manuscript. This fee will be deductedfrom the registration fee for the authors presenting their papers,
although the maximum deduction is ¥10,000 per attendee.

Important Dates
Abstract Submission:
Jan. 27, 2017
Acceptance/Rejection Notices: Middle of Mar., 2017
Manuscript Submission:
May 27, 2017
Conference Dates:
Sept. 12 - 15, 2017

ISEIM 2017 Web Site
http://www2.iee.or.jp/~adei/ISEIM2017/

Conference Secretariat
Dr. Norikazu Fuse: Central Research Institute of Electric Power
Industry, 2-6-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0196, Japan
E-mail: iseim2017@freeml.com