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The 18th Mini-Symposium on Liquids | MSL2025

Hosted by Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University

Okayama University, Okayama, Japan 
Faculty of Science, Tsushima campus
May 17(Sat), 18(Sun)  2025
  • 30 April 2025:  Online Registration with Poster Presentation (title, authors, abstract) and Banquet Attendance

  • 16 May 2025:   Online Registration only

Registration Fee: 1,500 JPY

Banquet Fee: 6,000 JPY

MSL2024

Talks and Poster Presentation
6-7 July 2024
9:30-18:00 
9:00-14:00 

WELCOME: 

People interested in fundamental problems of liquids and related subjects are all welcome to attend! The series of mini-symposiums are so organized that relatively small numbers of participants and speakers can have lively, deep discussions.  

Timetable of MSL to be announced.
 

Invited Speakers: 

Carlos Vega (Madrid)​

Hideki Tanaka (Toyota Riken)

Giancarlo Franzese (Barcelona)

Peter Krüger (Chiba)

Kenji Sakota (Osaka Metropolitan)

Koichiro Sadakane (Doshisha)

Naoyuki Sakumichi (Tokyo)

Yukiteru Katsumoto (Fukuoka)

The Conference

MSL2025

Talks and Poster Presentation
17th May 
9:30-18:00 
18th May 
9:00-13:00 

WELCOME: 

People interested in fundamental problems of liquids and related subjects are all welcome to attend! The series of mini-symposiums are so organized that relatively small numbers of participants and speakers can have lively, deep discussions.  

May 17 

 

9:30    Registration

10:00  Poster Session (1h 30m)

11:30  Lunch Break

12:55   Opening Remarks

13:00   野村肇宏(静岡) Toshihiro Nomura (Shizuoka)   
            Ferrotoroidal order of the monolayer ice in martyite

13:30   富永圭介(神戸) Keisuke Tominaga (Kobe)
            Dynamics of Hydrated Soft Matters Studied by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

 

14:00   Changbong Hyeon (KIAS)
            Dimension of polymer domain boundaries in 2D polymer solution

 

14:30   Poster Preview

 

15:00   Poster Session 

 

16:30   松原弘樹(広島) Hiroki Matsubara (Hiroshima)   
            Pickering Emulsion Transitions in Critical Liquid Mixtures
 

17:00   Qi Wu (iMec, Belgium) 
            ATR-FTIR-based wetting state characterization on nano-trench patterned surfaces

assisting the study of anisotropic wetting behavior

 

17:20   Joseph Indekeu (KULeuven, Belgium) 
            Nonwetting gaps in density-functional theory for fluid three-phase equilibria

17:50   Group Photo

    

18:20   Banquet at J TERRACE CAFE on campus 

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May 18

9:30   中村有花(新潟)Yuka Nakamura (Niigata)
          Effect of solvation structure on the diffusion of a nanoparticle

 

9:45   岩下智哉(九州)Tomoya Iwashita (Kyushu)
          Decomposition of the Friction Coefficient in C60(OH)n to Analyze Site-Specific Contributions to the Diffusion Coefficient
 

10:00 Ran Ni(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 南洋理工大、シンガポール)
          Linker-mediated binding of multivalent nanoparticles: towards superselective and ultrasensitive biomarker detection

 

10:30 Coffee Break
 

11:00 平岩徹也(中央研究院、台北) Tetsuya Hiraiwa(Academia Sinica)
          Numerical simulations on chromatin organization and dynamics: How mechanical perturbations by subnuclear molecules can affect them

11:30 山室修(東大)Osamu Yamamuro (Tokyo)   
          Neutron Scattering and Calorimetric Studies on Electrolyte Solutions Confined in Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOF)

12:00 Closing Remarks

Speakers

Invited Speakers

Past Events

History of MSL

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about MSL

The first Mini-Symposium on Liquids (MSL) was held in 2007 at Okayama University. Since then MSL becomes a series of annual symposiums on liquids. The symposiums are organized by Kenichiro Koga (Okayama) and Ryo Akiyama (Kyushu) with full support from members of their research groups.

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