Invited Speakers Advance in light-matter interaction and spectroscopy Edwin Yeow (Nanyang Technological University) Koichi OKAMOTO (Kyushu University) Atsushi MIURA (Hokkaido University) Collective and population dynamics in complex systems Shingo IWAMI (Kyushu University) Hisashi INABA (The University of Tokyo) Hisashi HAGA (Hokkaido University) Smart molecular system Kay Severin (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) Hiroshi YAMAMOTO (Institute for Molecular Science) Takanori SUZUKI (Hokkaido University) Polarity in biology and soft matter Ming-Chih Lai (National Chiao Tung University) Shigeru KONDO (Osaka University) Takayuki NONOYAMA (Hokkaido University)