2005 IEEE CONFERENCE ON ELECTRICAL INSULATION AND DIELECTRIC PHENOMENA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
October 16-19, 2005

Conference Program

A General Program overview for the 2005 IEEE/CEIDP is now available in electronic form. The final program listing all the papers will be available soon.

Down-load the 2005 IEEE/CEIDP General Program overview.

The 2005 IEEE/CEIDP Final program is now available for download.

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The Whitehead Memorial Lecture

The Whitehead Memorial Lecture is named in honor of Dr. John Boswell Whitehead, a pioneer in electrical insulation and dielectrics and a long-time contributor to the CEIDP. The Conference opens each year with the Lecture and it is the keynote session of the Conference. The 2005 Whitehead Memorial Lecture will be given by Dr. Edward A. Cherney on

Silicone Rubber Composite Dielectrics Modified by Inorganic Fillers for High Voltage Insulation.

Abstract

The properties of a dielectric material can be controlled through the addition of various fillers to produce composites that are useful for high voltage insulation. The paper discusses the mechanisms by which inorganic fillers in silicone rubber enhance relative permittivity, linear and non-linear electrical conduction and thermal conductivity. The relative permittivity is significantly increased with fillers such as barium titanate through the addition of aluminum powder. Electrical conductivity in these composites develops through percolation and linearly with the use of antimony-doped-tin-oxide, and non-linearly with metal oxide varistor compositions. Control of the antimony doped semiconductor filler modifies the linear conductivity and control of the tunneling barriers in varistor filler modifies the non-linear conductivity of these composites. Increased thermal conductivity is obtained through the use of alumina tri-hydrate and quartz flour fillers. These properties can be controlled by particle size, shape and concentration. Bonding and percolation of fillers in the composites are discussed. The characteristics of these composite materials are discussed and some applications are presented.

Bio

Edward Cherney obtained the B.Sc degree from the University of Waterloo, M.Sc degree from McMaster University and Ph.D degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the president of EACH Engineering, a consulting company. He was previously the President of companies that produced silicone coatings and polymeric insulators. He served as the unit head in the Ontario Hydro Research Division, where he was responsible for developing new techniques and standards for outdoor insulators. He is an adjunct faculty in the University of Waterloo, and was previously involved in the same capacity at the University of Windsor, Canada. He has published extensively on ceramic and nonceramic insulators and materials. He served as the chair of several IEEE working groups dealing with both ceramic and nonceramic insulators. He was elected to IEEE Fellow in 1996 for contributions to the field of nonceramic insulators.

Workshop on Cryogenic Dielectrics

Because of the increasing number of applications of high temperature superconductors, particularly in the electric power industry, there is also a growing need to obtain data on dielectrics at cryogenic temperature, primarily at 77K (LN2) or lower. In order to bring researchers and engineers working in this area together with the dielectrics community, a workshop will be held on Sunday, October 16, 2005 on the subject of cryogenic dielectrics. Topics will include electrical measurements on dielectrics at cryogenic temperatures and design and materials issues relevant to ongoing demonstration projects.

The latest version of the Cryogenic Dielectrics Workshop agenda is now available for download.

Workshop agenda

TOURS

CEIDP 2005 is offering three tours. To register for these tours, please go to the website listed below and register directly with the Conference Tour Company, Key Events, and register either online or by mail or fax. Payment must be made in advance to Key Events and not the CEIDP. Please register early. If extra tickets are available, they will be sold at the hotel.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

If you are interested in signing up for a tour, you must do so by Friday, October 7, 2005. If a minimum number of people have not signed up by this date, then the tour will be cancelled. Please do not wait until the conference to sign up for a tour.

On-line Tour Registration:

http://www.nashvilledmc.com/registration/default.asp


1. Guided Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Nashville. Saturday, October 15, 2005, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, $9 per person

Nashville is known as Music City, USA and the home of country music. Downtown Nashville is host to many attractions important to country music but also has many other historically important places of interest. A guided walking tour will include numerous venues including Historic Market Street (now Second Avenue), Riverfront area, Printers Alley, the traditional center of Nashville’s nightlife, The Men’s Quarter, Downtown Presbyterian Church, one of the largest and best-preserved examples of Egyptian Revival architecture in the United States, Fifth Avenue Historic District, The Arcade, The Public Square, Davidson County Courthouse, Historic Black Business District, St. Mary’s Church, Nashville’s oldest standing church, The Tennessee State Museum, The Tennessee State Capitol (1845-1859), The War Memorial Building, The Hermitage Hotel which served as headquarters for both suffragist and anti-suffragist groups, Ryman Auditorium, home of the Grand Ole Opry (1943 – 1974), Hatch Show Print Shop, one of America’s oldest surviving show poster printers, and the honky tonks along Broad Street which made country music famous.
Price: $9.00/person To register: For more information and to register for this tour, you must go to the following website and register directly with the conference tour company, Key Event. Deadline for registration is October 4.

2. Technical Tour, Saturn Automobile Manufacturing Plant, Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 1:00 – 5:00 pm, $27.00 per person

The Saturn Corporation site encompasses 2,450 acres in the predominantly rural, farming community of Spring Hill. The plant occupies over 4.5 million square feet of manufacturing space and is one of the few integrated automobile-manufacturing facilities in the world. Considerable attention has been paid to environmental protection at Saturn with initiatives ranging from maintaining farming operations on over 1000 acres to the installation of a 320,000-CFM carbon adsorption system on the paint shop. You will see a new breed of cars in production as you ride on a tram through the vehicle systems and interior systems buildings of Saturn’s manufacturing complex. The tour will show the processes and unique features of Saturn’s assembly operations.

Price: $27.00 per person, based on a maximum of 30 people. To register: For more information and to register for this tour, you must go to the following website and register directly with the conference tour company, Key Event. Deadline for registration is October 4. Please register early for this event. There is a maximum of 30 people allowed.

3. Social Tour, The Hermitage, Home of U.S. President Andrew Jackson, Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 1:00 – 5:00 pm, $34.50 per person.

Set on more than 600-acres of rolling middle Tennessee countryside, The Hermitage offers a commemorative tribute to one of America's most admired Presidents and great military heroes, Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States.. Many original furnishings, countless personal items, and beautiful landscaping and gardens are kept much as they were when the Jackson family lived. Known as “Old Hickory”, he was the first president born in a log cabin and the first president to ride on a railroad train

Price: $34.50 per person. To register: For more information and to register for this tour, you must go to the following website and register directly with the conference tour company, Key Event. Deadline for registration is October 4.

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Other Nashville Attractions

Country Music Hall of Fame
This museum highlights the history of country music from its birthplace in the Music City to present-day. Open 9-5 daily
222 Fifth Ave. S. http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/

Grand Ole Opry
America's longest continuously running radio show, the Grand Ole Opry has been broadcasting since 1925 from various venues. The performance now comes to listeners from the world's largest broadcast studio, which seats an audience of 4,424. Shows are Friday and Saturday night. Obtain tickets in advance: see http://www.opry.com/

Belle Meade Plantation
Belle Meade Plantation represents a full 100-year span of Tennessee history and architecture. Today, 30-acres remain of the once 5,400-acre plantation, making this one of the South's most outstanding showplaces. On the National Register of Historic Places, Belle Meade Mansion had been beautifully restored to reflect the sumptuous elegance of the 19th century. Elaborately furnished with antiques and art of the period, Belle Meade brings to life true antebellum Tennessee. Visit the mansion's colossal carriage house, which is filled with restored antique carriages, and see the stables, which once housed some of horse racing's finest lineage. The garden, smokehouse, and dairy give a glimpse of the practical and pastoral side of life at one of the South's most interesting and visually rewarding showplaces. Come and meet the "Old South" at the queen of Tennessee plantations!

Belmont Mansion
Next, it is off to Belmont Mansion, located on Nashville's Belmont University Campus for a spectacular look at an 1850's Italian villa built by the savvy Adelicia Acklen. A woman of great wealth, Adelicia claimed extensive land holdings in Tennessee, Los Angeles and Texas. Bold and beautiful, she managed to outwit Union and Confederate troops, enabling the rare sale of cotton during the war, netting her nearly $1 million dollars. The Grand Salon is considered to be the most elaborate domestic room built in antebellum Tennessee. The mansion contains an outstanding collection of original marble and the largest collection of 19th century cast iron garden ornaments in the United States.

The Parthenon, Nashville
The only full-size replica of the Parthenon (in Greece) in the world.
Attraction type: Monument; Landmark/point of interest; Statue

Ryman Auditorium, Nashville
One of the most famous concert halls in the history of country music, this auditorium still hosts live music events.
Attraction type: Concert; Theater

Opry Mills, Nashville
A 200-store shopping, dining and entertainment complex built on the site of the former theme park, Opryland USA.
Attraction type: Mall

General Jackson's River Cruises, Nashville
Attraction type: Group tour/boat

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Transportation

Airport shuttle service is operated by the Grayline's Downtown Airport Express. The cost is $11.00 one way and $18.00 round trip (current pricing). This shuttle departs from the group transportation level of the airport every 15 minutes. For the return trip, the shuttle leaves the hotel twice every hour, at 5 and 35 minutes after each hour.

There is a flat rate for cab service from the airport and that would be $22.00. Cabs can also be obtained at the group transportation level of the airport.

Call for Nominations

Whitehead Memorial Lecture

Nominations are hereby requested for the 2004 Whitehead Memorial Lecture. Nominations may be submitted using the IEEE/CEIDP Nomination Form or the equivalent and should include a curriculum vitae.

CEIDP Board

Seven members are elected to the Conference Board annually. The term of service of an elected member is three years.

Nominations for the IEEE/CEIDP Board are sought. Nominations to the Board may be submitted using the IEEE/CEIDP Nomination Form or the equivalent and should include a brief statement of qualifications.

Nominations must be submitted to Ravi Gorur by August 15, 2005.

Down-load the CEIDP Nomination Form (ceidp_nomination.pdf)

Hotel Accommodation

On-line registration is now available below. Because of the delay, the hotel has agreed to extend the deadline to September 23, 2005.

All sessions and activities of the 2005 CEIDP will be held at the Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel, 623 Union Street, Nashville, TN 37219 (Tel: 615-259-2000 or toll free: 800-447-9825; Fax: 615-742-6057). The conference rate is $126.00 plus tax per night for single or double occupancy, $156.00 for club and additional person $10.00. To ensure this rate, your hotel reservation and deposit must be received by September 16, 2005.

Please make sure that you make your reservations by calling either the toll free number or the direct number given above (or by fax). When you make your reservation please identify yourself as part of the IEEE group or the CEIDP group, for which we have a block of rooms reserved. Otherwise they will say that the hotel is fully booked. Note that if you try to reserve a room through any of the on-line web reservation services, you will also be informed that the hotel is fully booked. In other words be sure that you book your reservations using the above information and identify the IEEE or the CEIDP. If you still have difficulties, please send an email to ceidp@ieee.org and your problem will be passed along to the hotel conference coordinator and hopefully resolved.

A hotel registration form is now available. Please mail or preferably fax the form to the hotel.

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Apparently faxing your reservation is slow and you may experience a delay in receiving your confirmation, so we suggest either calling in your reservation or using the newly available on-line registration web link.

On line registration is now available (we are very sorry about the delay, but unfortunately had no control over the situation). Note that the deadline has been extended to September 23, 2005. If you want to make your reservations on-line click on the URL below:

On-line Hotel Registration (http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=0509130380&key=9F7D2)

Conference Registration

All Conference attendees must register for the Conference.

You may preregister for the Conference on the Conference Registration Site starting on or about June 1, 2005, or by submitting the registration form provided below. Preregistration is encouraged but not required. (Registration form is not yet available.)

A registration desk will be available at the Conference.

Full Registration

payment received on or before September 15, 2005

US $500

payment received after September 15, 2005

US $550

Reduced Registration*

payment received on or before September 15, 2005

US $300

payment received after September 15, 2005

US $350

*Reduced registration is offered to students, IEEE life members, persons retired and not gainfully employed, and persons currently unemployed.

Registration fees are nonrefundable after September 25, 2005. There is a $75 nonrefundable fee for cancellations received before September 25, 2005.

The Conference registration includes: one copy of the Annual Report, Sunday evening reception, banquet, and refreshments.

All fees are due at registration. Payment may be made by check, money order, credit card, or wire transfer. The following credit cards are accepted: American Express, MasterCard, Visa, and Diners Club. All payments are in US dollars. Checks and money orders drawn on or payable through US banks are accepted. Make checks and money orders payable to IEEE/CEIDP.

The Conference registration desk will be open during the following hours:

Sunday, October 16

1600-2100

Monday, October 17

0800-1600 and 1900-2000

Tuesday, October 18

0800-1200

Wednesday, October 19

0800-1200

Printable registration form

Registration Form



On-line registration is now closed. However, you will be able to register at the conference. See the conference registration schedule above.

Exhibits

If your company has an interest in participating in the Conference, please contact Isidor Sauers, 2005 Local Arrangements Chair.

Auxiliary Meetings

Individuals interested in arranging auxiliary meetings for working groups, technical committees or other related organizations should contact Isidor Sauers, 2005 Program Committee Chair.

Author Support

The CEIDP is able to provide limited support to authors. Inquiries should be sent to Vishnu Lakdawala, Conference Chair, by July 31, 2005.

Student Support

The CEIDP provides a limited number of stipends in the amount of US $300 to full-time students to encourage their participation in the Conference. The stipend is contingent upon the following conditions: 1) the student must be an author or coauthor of a paper accepted for presentation at the Conference, and 2) the student must present or co-present the paper at the Conference.

The CEIDP reserves the right to limit the number of student stipends allocated to a single research group or institution.

To apply for a student stipend, the following information should be sent by e-mail message to Vishnu Lakdawala, Conference Chair, by June 30, 2005:

Stipend applications received by June 30, 2005 will be notified on or about July 31, 2005. Stipend applications received after June 30 will be handled a on first come basis if funds are available. Late applicants will be notified within a month of the receipt of their requests.

The stipends will be awarded on the last day of the Conference.

For further information contact Vishnu Lakdawala, Conference Chair.

Manuscript Submission

Authors are expected to submit a paper for publication in the 2005 Annual Report by June 30, 2005. Submitted papers should not be more than 4 pages in length.

Manuscripts must be received in final form by June 30, 2005 to receive full consideration for publication in the 2005 Annual Report. Manuscripts received after the deadline may not be published in the 2005 Annual Report.

Electronic files: The electronic version of your paper will be accepted starting on or about June 1, 2005. Papers must be submitted in electronic form on the following web site: http://submissions.miracd.com/CEIDP2005 .

During the submission process, you must 1) accept the terms and conditions provided on the IEEE Copyright Form, 2) affirm that an author will present the paper at the conference, and 3) review and approve the draft version of your submitted paper.

You will receive confirmation by email message upon the complete submission of your paper.

All submitted papers are reviewed for format, quality, and content. You will be notified by email message if editorial changes are required for publication. All deficiencies must be resolved prior to publication.

IEEE Copyright: The author must agree to the terms and conditions provided on the IEEE Copyright Form.

Manuscripts of up to four (4) pages in length are published at no charge to the authors, provided that an author presents the paper at the Conference. A publication fee of US $150 is assessed for papers that are not presented by an author.

An extra page charge of US $100 per page is assessed for pages in excess of four (4). Payment of any extra page charges is due at the time of manuscript submission. Extra page charges should be paid using the Conference registration site.

All payments are in US dollars. Checks and money orders must be drawn on or paid through a US bank. Make checks and money orders payable to the IEEE/CEIDP.

Withdrawal of papers: There is no penalty or fee assessed for papers withdrawn before June 30, 2005. If you wish to withdraw a paper, please contact ceidp@ieee.org at the earliest possible date.

Preparation of manuscripts: Submitted papers must conform to the designated format. Please download and review the provided formatting instructions. Manuscripts that are not suitable for publication will be returned to the author for revision. If a manuscript is not suitable for publication, it will not be published in the 2004 Annual Report.

Down-load formatting instructions (CEIDPFormat.pdf)

Word Processor Template Files

Down-load the Microsoft Word template (CEIDPFormat.doc)

Presentations

All papers accepted for 2005 CEIDP must be presented at the Conference. Papers will be presented in poster or oral sessions.

Author participation: The CEIDP is a participatory conference and authors must present their papers. Failure to present a paper at the Conference will incur a publication charge of US $125 and may adversely affect acceptance of future papers.

Poster sessions: Your poster should attract the viewer's attention and suggest the scope of the work and the most important results. Avoid unnecessary details. The fine points of the research can be developed during one-on-one discussions. Authors are encouraged to devise presentations that are best suited to the work and are given considerable latitude in the presentation of their results.

The Conference provides display boards and fasteners for each paper. Each display board is composed of three (3) panels that are approximately 1 m by 0.75 m each. The panels are taped to create a hinged display board, and the display boards is placed on a table for convenient viewing. The total display area available to each poster is approximately 1 m by 2.25 m. Display boards will be labled and are assigned according to the Final Program.

Prepare and bring all illustrations, tables, and text needed for your presentation.

Text and figures should be easily legible from a distance of 2 m. 72 pt type is recommended for headings and 27 pt type is recommended for text.

Use sectional headings such as Introduction, Objectives, Method, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions to organize your results.

Provide a clear summary of the major results and conclusions.

The poster should be staffed by an author at all times during the assigned session.

Oral sessions: Oral presentations must be concise and to the point.

A data projector and laptop will be available to authors wishing to make PowerPoint presentations. Presenters will need to bring their presentations on CD-ROM or memory stick (sorry, no floppies). There will also be an overhead projector available for presenters wishing to present their paper using transparencies. Presenters are discouraged from using their own laptop, since we cannot guarantee that it will work with the data projectors provided by the conference.

Keep presentations (either on PowerPoint or transparencies) simple and use large, clear lettering.

Adhere to the time allotted.



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