Session I Meeting Presentations SP 15 Welcome_Randall I-1 Point Defects and Their Role in Dielectric Degradation; Elizabeth Dickey Partially CDP Funded I-2 - Capacitors for Medium Voltage Power Converters with SiC Semiconductors; Geraldo Nojima (Eaton) I-3 High Temperature Dielectric Materials and Capacitors for Transportation Power Electronics; Eugene Furman (PSU) I-4 New Low Fire Microwave Materials; Jing Guo (PSU) I-5 Use of ALD as a Gas Barrier on Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors; Damoon Sohrabi Baba Heidary (PSU) CDP-funded I-6 Conformal Pseudocapacitive Layers on High Surface Area Carbon by ALD James Daubert (NCSU) CDP funded I-7 Self-Discharge Characteristics of Electrochemical Capacitors; Ram Rajagopalan (PSU) I-8 New Measurements of Polarizability Mechanisms in Ferroelectrics; Jacob Jones (NCSU) Partially CDP Funded I-9 Functional Materials and Devices at Sheffield University; Ian Reaney (Sheffield)