/ Invited
Makoto Yao
“Conductance Measurements of Molecules and Clusters Using Inner-shell Excitation”
IMR Seminar (Sep. 18, 2007), Sendai, Japan

/ Invited
Makoto Yao*, Wataru Makino, Ryoko Kishikawa, and Shinichi Takeda
“Sound Propagation in Ionic Liquids”
International Symposium: Structure and Dynamics of Ionic Liquids (Aug. 7, 2007), Yokohama, Japan

/ Invited
Makoto Yao* and Yoshinori Ohmasa
“Probing Inhomogeneous Structures in Ionic Liquids with Wave Prppagation”
International Symposium: Structure and Dynamics of Ionic Liquids (Aug. 4, 2007), Kazusa, Japan

Oral / Plenary
M. Yao* and Y. Ohmasa
“Study of Liquid Metals as a Basis for Nano-Science”
13th International Conference on Liquid and Amorphous Metals (Jul. 8-14, 2007), Ekaterinburg, Russia
（Opening Lecture）

/ Invited
Makoto Yao
“Bridges between Microscopic and Macroscopic Physics”
Interdisciplinary Conference on the Sciences of Complexity and Science Education (Jun. 16-17, 2007), Kyoto, Japan