Oral / Invited
Koji Fukao* and Daisuke Tahara
“Glassy Dynamics in Thin Polymer Films : Memory and Rejuvenation Effects of Dielectric Susceptibility and Volume”
5th International Conference on Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and Its Applications (Aug. 26-29, 2008), Lyon, France

Oral / Contributed
Koji Fukao* and Daisuke Tahara
“Aging Phenomena in Thin Polymer Films Observed through Volume and Dielectric Susceptibility”
The XVth International Congress on Rheology (Aug. 3-8, 2008), Monterey, USA

Poster / Contributed
Daisuke Tahara*, Koji Fukao, Hideyuki Nakanishi, and Qui Tran-Cong-Miyata
“Aging Phenomena in Polymer Glass Using Capacitance Measurements”
International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), Kyoto, Japan
(深尾浩次：実験実施、データ解析　　宮田貴章：試料提供)

Poster / Contributed
Shuhei Takahashi and Koji Fukao*
“Dielectric Relaxation of Polystyrene-silica Nanocomposite”
International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), Kyoto, Japan
(深尾浩次：データ解析)

Oral / Invited
Qui Tran-Cong-Miyata
“Reacting Polymer Blends as a Soft Matter System with Competing Interactions: Morphology and Phase Separation Kinetics”
International Symposium on Polymer Physics (PP-2008) (Jun. 8-12, 2008), Xiamen, China

Oral / Invited
Qui Tran-Cong-Miyata
“Competing Interactions and Patterns Selection Driven by Chemical Reactions in Polymer Mixtures”
“International Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics in Polymeric Systems” at the 35th National Meeting, American Chemical Society (ACS) (Apr. 7-11, 2008), New Orleans, USA

Poster / Contributed
Takeaki Araki*, Tommaso Bellini, and Hajime Tanaka
“Memory Effects of Nematic Liquid Crystal Confined in Porous Media”
JSPS Japan-France Bilateral Joint Seminar 2008, Frontiers of Glassy Physics (Nov. 19-22, 2008), Kyoto, Japan
(田中肇：共同研究)

Oral / Contributed
Takeaki Araki*, Tommaso Bellini, and Hajime Tanaka
“Monte Carlo Simulation of Nematic Liquid Crystal in Porous Media: The Topological Constraint and Surface Anchoring Effect”
Knots and soft-matter physics: topology of polymers and related topics in physics, mathematics and biology (Aug. 26-29, 2008), Kyoto, Japan
(田中肇：共同研究)

Oral / Contributed
Takeaki Araki*, Marco Buscaglia, Tommaso Bellini, and Hajime Tanaka
“Defect Configuration in Nematic Liquid Crystals Confined in Porous Media: a Monte Carlo Simulation Study Provides Evidence for Defect-induced Memory Effects”
7th Liquid Matter Conference (Jun. 27 – Jul. 1, 2008), Lund, Sweeden
(田中肇：共同研究)

Oral / Invited
Takeaki Araki* and Hajime Tanaka
“Dynamics of Colloidal Particles in Soft Matters”
International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), Kyoto, Japan
(田中肇：共同研究)

Oral / Invited
Tadashi Sugawara
“Minimal Cell Model to Understand Origin of Life and Evolution”
12th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles (Sep. 24-26, 2008), Marseilles, France

Poster / Contributed
Kentaro Suzuki*, Takuya Tomita, Taro Toyota, Masakazu Iwasaka, and Tadashi Sugawara
“Morphology of Self-assembling Soft Matter with Anisotropic Shape under Magnetic Field”
The 11th International Conference on Molecule-based Magnets (Sep. 21-24, 2008), Florence, Italy

Oral / Contributed
Tadashi Sugawara*, Koh-ichiroh Shohda, Katsuto Takakura, Kentaro. Suzuki, Taro Toyota, Yoshiyuki Kageyama, Naoto Maru, Kensuke Kurihara, Hiroshi Takahashi, and Mieko Tamura
“Artificial Cell Models Exhibiting Self-Reproducing and Self-Replication Dynamics and Spontaneous Movements”
International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), Kyoto, Japan

Poster / Contributed
Naoto Maru, Kentaro Suzuki*, Koh-ichiroh Shohda, and Tadashi Sugawara
“Sequential Fusion of Vesicles after Selective Aggregation”
International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), Kyoto, Japan

Poster / Contributed
Kensuke Kurihara*, Taro Toyota, Kiyoshi Ohnuma, and Tadashi Sugawara
“Sorting and Analysis of Self-Reproducing Giant Vesicles by Cell Sorter”
International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), Kyoto, Japan

Poster / Contributed
Mieko Tamura*, Yoshiyuki Kageyama, Koh-ichiro Shohda, Kentaro Suzuki, and Tadashi Sugawara
“Replication of DNA in Giant Vesicles”
International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), Kyoto, Japan

Oral / Invited
Tadashi Sugawara
“Bottom-Up Approach of an Artificial Cell”
11th Sanken, 6th Nanotechnology Center and 1st MSTEC International Symposium, New Advances in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (Feb. 4-5, 2008), Hyogo, Japan

Poster / Contributed
Kentaro Suzuki, Taro Toyota, Kazuhiko Sato, Masakazu Iwasaka, Shoogo Ueno, and Tadashi Sugawara
“Construction of Elastica Derived from the Collaboration between Magnetic Field Effect and Curvature-elasticity”
International Conference on Magneto-Science (ICMS2007) (Nov. 11-15, 2007), Hiroshima, Japan

Poster / Invited
Kentaro Suzuki, Tato Toyota, Masakazu Iwasaka, Shoogo Ueno, and Tadashi Sugawara
“Characteristic Shapes of Vesicles Basis of an External Stimuli”
Chembiogenesis 2007 -COST action D27 Final Evaluation Conference (Jun. 11-13, 2007), Dubrovnik, Croatia

Oral / Invited
Tadashi Sugawara
“On the Road to Giant Vesicle-based Artificial Cell”
Chembiogenesis 2007 -COST action D27 Final Evaluation Conference (Jun. 11-13, 2007), Dubrovnik, Croatia

Poster /
Tomoyuki Nagaya*, Shigetoshi Nara, and Stefania Residori
“Nonlinear Dynamics of the Petal-like Patterns in a Liquid Crystal Light Valve with Rotational Optical Feedback”
International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter (Jun. 2-5, 2008), kyoto, Japan(折原宏：画像解析についての助言)

Oral / Invited
Qui Tran-Cong-Miyata
“Reaction-Induced Elastic Deformation and Its Influence on Thermodynamic Instabilities of Polymer Networks”
Cargese Summer School on Morphogenesis through the Interplay of Nonlinear Chemical Instabilities and Elastic Media (Jul. 2-14, 2007), Cargese, France