Program
November 30 (Sunday)
17:00 - 20:00 Registration and Reception  
(Restaurant "Lunchan Avenue" in Yokohama Media and Communications Center Bild.)
December 1 (Monday)
10:00 - 10:30 Opening: Prof. Tooru ATAKE
Prof. Akira INABA
Prof. Shigeru YAMAUCHI
Prof. Hiroo INOKUCHI
Chairperson: Prof. Tooru ATAKE
10:30-11:00 Inv-1 Prof. Kazuo KITAHARA (Dept. Phys., International Christian Univ, Japan) ON THE FOUNDATION OF NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
Chairperson: Prof. Akira INABA
11:30-12:00 Inv-2 Dr. Kia L. NGAI (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) RELAXATION OF WATER IN AQUEOUS MIXTURES, IN NANO-CONFINEMENT, AND IN HYDRATED PROTEINS
12:00-12:30 Inv-3 Dr. Michael FRENKEL (NIST, USA) GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEM IN THERMODYNAMICS AND ITS IMPACT
12:30-14:00 Lunch 
Chairperson: Prof. Masaharu OGUNI
14:00-14:30 Inv-4 Prof. Makoto ARATONO (Fac. Sci., Kyushu Univ.) THERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURE STUDIES OF GIBBS FILMS AT SOFT INTERFACES
14:30-15:00 Inv-5 Prof. Kikujiro ISHII (Dept. Chem., Gakushuin Univ.) LIQUID-LIQUID TRANSFORMATION FROM LOW- TO HIGH-DENSITY SUPERCOOLED STATES OF FAMILIAR ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
Chairperson: Prof. Mary Anne WHITE
15:30-16:00 Inv-6 Prof. Christoph SCHICK (Inst. Phys., Univ. Rostock, Germany)
NON ADIABATIC THIN-FILM (CHIP) NANOCALORIMETRY FOR FAST SCANING (106 K/s) AND AC-CALORIMETRY
16:00-16:30 Inv-7 Prof. Masaru ANIYA (Dep. Phys., Kumamoto Univ.) A MODEL FOR THE ANOMALOUS ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES IN LIQUID SILVER CHALCOGENIDES: IMPLICATIONS FROM A VISCOELASTIC THEORY
16:30-17:00 Inv-8 Prof. Pascal RICHET (Inst. Phys. Globe Paris, France) CATION SPECIATION AND REDOX STATE IN SILICATE GLASSES: INSIGHT FROM LOW-TEMPERATURE CALORIMETRY
17:00-18:00 Poster Session 1 (odd number)
18:00-18:30 Coffee break
18:30-20:30 Banquet (Restaurant "Lunchan Avenue" in the symposium Bild.)
December 2 (Tuesday)
Chairperson: Prof. Hirohisa YOSHIDA
 9:30-10:00 Inv-9 Prof. Makoto KANO (Dept. Fundamental Eng., Tokyo Univ. Sci., Yamaguchi) LIVING SYSTEMS ARE NEITHER ISOLATED SYSTEMS NOR EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS
10:00-10:30 Inv-10 Dr. Yoshikata KOGA(Dept. Chem., Univ. of British Clumbia, Canada) ON THE SO-CALLED "KOGA LINE" IN AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF MONO-OLS
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Chairperson: Prof. Svein STØLEN
11:00-11:30 Inv-11 Prof. Hirohisa YOSHIDA (Dept. Appl. Chem., Tokyo Metro. Univ.) A ROLE OF LIQUID CRYSTAL ON ORIENTATION CONTROL OF NANO-CYLINDERS IN AMPHIPHILIC LIQUID CRYSTAL BLOCK COPOLYMER
11:30-12:00 Inv-12 Dr. Riccardo CASALINI (Naval Research Laboratory/George Mason Univ., U.S.A.) SUPERCOOLED DYNAMICS OF GLASS-FORMING LIQUIDS AND POLYMERS UNDER HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE
12:00-12:30 Inv-13 Prof. Sergey LUSHNIKOV (Ioffe Phys. Tech. Inst., Russia) PROTEIN IS A FRACTAL: EVIDENCES FROM NEUTRON SCATTERING STUDY OF LYSOZYME
12:30-13:30 Lunch 
13:30-14:30 Poster Session 2 (even number)
Chairperson: Prof. Christoph SCHICK
14:30-15:00 Inv-14 Prof. Svein STØLEN (Dept. Chem., Univ. Oslo, Norway) EXPLORING THE ROUGH ENERGY LANDSCAPES OF FAST ION CONDUCTORS
15:00-15:30 Inv-15 Prof. Takashi SAKUMA (Dept. Phys., Ibaraki Univ.) CORRELATION EFFECTS AMONG THERMAL VIBRATIONS OF ATOMS
15:30-16:00 Inv-16 Prof. Mary Anne WHITE (Dept. Chem., Dalhousie Univ., Canada)
NEGATIVE THERMAL EXPANSION MATERIALS AND THEIR RELATED THERMAL PROPERTIES
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
Chairperson: Prof. Kazuya SAITO
16:30-17:00 Inv-17 Prof. Yukikuni AKISHIGE (Fac. Edu., Shimane Univ.) THERMAL PROPERTIES OF FERROELECTRIC BaTi2O5: A COMPARISON WITH FERROELECTRIC BaTiO3
17:00-17:30 Inv-18 Prof. Yasuhiro NAKAZAWA (Dept. Chem., Osaka Univ.) THERMODYNAMIC EVIDENCE OF A SPIN LIQUID GROUND STATE OF ORGANIC SALTS WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL TRIANGULAR STRUCTURE
17:30-17:40 Closing: Prof. Tooru Atake