Oral / Invited
Masaki Sano
“Novel Interactions and Dynamics in Complex Fluids: From Colloidal Particles to Liquid Crystal and DNA Molecules”
the IAS seminar series on Soft Matter, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Mar. 11, 2009), Hong Kong, China

Oral / Invited
M. Sano*, Y. Maeda, and M. Matsuo
“Coordination of Cell Shape and Motility in Spontaneous Cell Migration”
Sapporo Winter School 2009, PART II Nonequilibrium Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biological Systems (Feb. 12-14, 2009), Sapporo, Japan

Oral / Invited
Masaki Sano, Shoichi Toyabe, and H.R. Jiang
“Out of Equilibrium Microsystems: Making Micro-swimmers and Wheels”
Self-organization and dynamics of active matters (Jan. 25-30, 2009), Paris, France

Oral / Invited
Masaki Sano
“Out of Equilibrium Microsystems: from Micro-swimmers to Pattern Formation”
Advanced Mathematical Science I: Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (Meiji University, GCOE program) (Nov. 25-28, 2008), Tokyo, Japan

Oral / Invited
Masaki Sano* and Kazumasa Takeuchi
“Experiment on Directed Percolation Universality in Turbulent Liquid Crystal”
Japan-Slovenia Seminar on Nonlinear Science (Nov. 12-14, 2008), Tokyo, Japan

Oral / Invited
Masaki Sano*, Hon-Reng Jiang, and Shoichi Toyabe
“Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Statistical Laws in Externally Controlled Colloidal Systems”
Dynamics Days in Asia Pacific 5, 5th International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics (Sep. 9-12, 2008), Nara, Japan

Oral / Invited
Masaki Sano*, Hon-Reng Jiang, and Shoichi Toyabe
“Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Colloid Polymer Mixture”
International Workshop on Bio-soft Matter 2008 (Jun. 9-10, 2008), Tokyo, Japan

Oral / Invited
Masaki Sano*, Hon-Reng Jiang, and Shoichi Toyabe
“Control of Colloids by Thermophoresis Driven Entropic Force: Experiments and Thermodynamic Formalism”
International Symposium on Non-equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), Kyoto, Japan