Niigata - the place for Japanese to come home to.

Nagaoka Firework Festival

Noh (traditional masked dance-drama)

ISEIM 2014 Organization:
Honorary Chair
M. Nagao (Toyohashi University of Technology)
General Chair
Y. Tanaka (Tokyo City University)
Vice Chair
F. Kaneko (Niigata University)
Vice Chair in Charge of Treasury
T. Imai (Toshiba)Vice Chair in Charge of Program
M. Ikeda (JNES)
Vice Chair in Charge of Local Arrangement
K. Kato (Niigata University)
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)
A. Bulinski (Canada)
M. Frechette (Canada)
Shengtao Li (China)
Yi Yin (China)
C. Laurent (France)
E. Gockenbach (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)
F. Kaneko (Japan)
Local arrangement Committee
Chair: S. Nakamura (Mie Univ.)
Vice Chair: K. Iida (Mie Univ.)

2014 International Symposium onElectrical Insulating Materials(ISEIM 2014)
June 1-5, 2014
Toki Messe,
Niigata City, Japan

Second Call forPapers
Sponsored by:
IEEJ Technical Committee on Dielectrics andElectrical Insulation
Technically co-sponsored by:IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society
Co-sponsored by:Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
Waseda University
In cooperation with:IEEE DEIS Japan Chapter

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

Contacts:
E-mail: iseim2014@freeml.com
Agano River boat ride

Supported by: (Under negotiation)
TBD

Invitation
ISEIM 2014 will be held in Niigata, Japan on June 1-5, 2014.
The previous conferences were held in Tokyo (1995), Toyohashi(1998), Himeji (2001), Kitakyushu (2005), Yokkaichi (2008),
and Kyoto (2011), all in Japan. The organizing committee
cordially invites you to participate in the conference.

About Niigata
Niigata City is a beautiful "city of water", and serves as atransportation hub with a seaport, an airport, Shinkansen stations,and highways. Various sightseeing spots are scattered throughout the suburbs, such as Iwamuro Hot Spring. The City is proudof its variety of wonderful foods, such as seafood nurtured by
the Sea of Japan, rice and sake. The conference venue Toki
Messe is in the new district of Niigata City. From its
observatory, the highest spot in the city, you can see the ShinanoRiver, the Sea of Japan, and Sado Island in the distance.

Main Topics
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Space charge, surface and interfacial phenomena
Electrical properties of dielectrics and measurement and testing
techniques
3. Nanotechnology for dielectrics4. 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

Papers on the following topics are particularly welcome:polymeric insulators and outdoor insulation, space charge
measurements, on-line monitoring and diagnostics of power
apparatus, GIS and cables, diagnosis of GIS, DC cables,development of polymeric cables and joints for higher electricfields, organic and inorganic thin films, new and functional
materials including biological and medical dielectrics, andferroelectric materials.

Special Sessions for Space Charge
Measurement Technologies
The broad HVDC power network is getting to move forwardwith full-scale implementation, especially in Europe area. In orderto estimate the HVDC stress on insulating materials, space charge
distribution with the pulsed electro-acoustic (PEA) method - based
measurement has been paid much attention. The organizing
committee is planning to hold a special session introduces theadvanced technique for measuring the space charge distribution in
insulating material using PEA method.

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 Nov.
29, 2013. The abstract submission form is available on thesymposium website. Acceptance notices will be sent tocorresponding authors by the middle of January, 2014. The authorsof accepted papers will be requested to electronically submit paper
manuscripts by Feb. 28, 2014 with its extended summary. Moreinformation on the manuscript submission will be provided on theISEIM 2014 web site. Accepted papers will be published in theSymposium Proceedings of CD-ROM, and corresponding extended
abstracts will be published both in CD-ROM 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:
Nov.29 Dec.20, 2013
Acceptance/Rejection Notices: Middle of Jan., 2014
Manuscript Submission:
Feb. 28, 2014
Conference Dates:
Jun. 1 - 5, 2014

ISEIM 2014 Web Site
http://www2.iee.or.jp/~adei/ISEIM2014/

Conference Secretariat
Dr. Norikazu Fuse: Central Research Institute of Electric Power
Industry, 2-6-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0196, Japan
Dr. Naoshi Hirai, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku,
169-8555, Japan
E-mail: iseim2014@freeml.com

How to Get to Niigata City
Niigata Prefecture is serviced by Joetsu Shinkansen (BulletTrains) and also has an international airport, albeit only to a handfulof 'local' destinations. Most people visiting will opt to take theJoetsu Shinkansen from Tokyo Station to Niigata, a journey ofaround two hours. Visitors from overseas will land at Narita Airport,
60 km from downtown Tokyo. The easiest way to get to Tokyo
Station, for onward transfer to Niigata, is by using Narita Express
train service Narita Express runs every 30 minutes during peak
periods and takes under one hour to reach Tokyo Station.