(Abstracts of the oral presentations (PDF version) can be downloaded here.)

• Leonard M. Sander (University of Michigan, USA)*
  “Computing impossible things: the harmonic measure of fractals”
• Shigeru Kondo (Osaka University, Japan)*
  “Periodic pattern formation in the skin of animals”

• Hajime Tanaka (University of Tokyo, Japan)*
  “Pattern Evolution – From Phase Separation to Mechanical Fracture”
• Lydéric Bocquet (Université Lyon-I, France)*
  “Playing with osmotic forces: from mixing to self-propelled swimmers”

• Chi K. Chan (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Republic of China)*
  “Synchronization and Control of Cardiac Systems”
• Shoichi Kai (Kyushu University, Japan)*
  “Pattern Formation in Electro-convection in Liquid Crystals”

• Kei Kurita (University of Tokyo, Japan)*
  “Torahiko’s omnivorous courage and high susceptibility to nature
  – what modern seismology has lost during its growth -“
• Hans J. Herrmann (ETH, Switzerland)*
  “Fracturing Ranked Surfaces”

• Hiraku Nishimori (Hiroshima University, Japan)
  “Quantitative Analysis of Behaviour of Foraging Ants:Decision-making under Conflicting Information”
• Tamás Vicsek (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)*
  “Network dynamics in collective motion”

• Mitsugu Matsushita (Chuo University, Japan)
  “Statistical Features of Complex Systems －Toward establishing sociological physics－”

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(*:Invited)