[Biomedical-cybernetics] Nonlinear Datapalooza Call for Participation is officially Open

[Guastello, Stephen]

Dear Colleagues,

The Call for Participation at the first ever Nonlinear Datapalooza is  
now officially open: http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/event/datapalooza2015/ 
    This conference is really different, and so please do feel free to  
respond to me directly with any questions I can assist with:  pincus at chapman.edu 
    We’ve got an excellent location, and some sponsorship from Chapman  
University to allow us to keep costs low and be able to provide for  
most meals (2 banquets, etc) and for shuttles to and from the local  
Doubletree Hotel in Orange, where we’ve got a guaranteed group rate of  
$130.00 including parking and internet.

Please keep in mind, because of the working nature of this conference  
and the goal of producing empirical publications, we are keeping  
attendance small (around 25 max) and the Call of Participation is  
relatively short:  Ending October 31, 2014.  So don’t delay.  Dust off  
that old data, fire up that software, and get your lit review  
updated.  It’s time to get together, learn some methods, and make some  
history!

Nonlinear Datapalooza:  A New Kind of Conference for a New Kind of  
Science

January 28–31, 2015

Location:  Chapman University, Orange CA, USA

The official Call for Participation is OPEN

Most conferences are designed for presentations of completed or in  
process scientific or technical work.  The goals for attending are for  
dissemination, citation, and critical feedback on a presenter's work.   
Secondary goals are networking to build colleagues with different  
skillsets or from different disciplines, exploring new methods, and  
coming up with new and creative avenues to explore.  Traditional  
conferences are hierarchical, with experts presenting keynote talks  
and workshops in a didactic format.

The Nonlinear Datapalooza turns this process upside-down:  no  
hierarchy, no finished work, and no boundaries to forming new  
collaborations and learning new methods.  As the name suggests – the  
Nonlinear Datapalooza is all about getting together to analyze data.    
Who will be attending:  (A) methods experts to obtain new data sets to  
analyze (B) people with data sets who would like to learn new  
approaches to analysis and (C) content experts and students who want  
to learn new methods and contribute as co-authors on more high quality  
publications.  Essentially – the conference will match people who  
would like to write up “methods” and “results” with those who would  
like to write up “introductions” and “discussions.”  In the process,  
methodologists will learn about other disciplines and further validate  
their tools, while content experts and students will learn how to  
apply new methodologies to their work.  Each attendee should be able  
to try out at least one new method and become an author on at least  
one original publication produced during the conference.   At the same  
time, the work produced should make a serious impact on the field of  
nonlinear science, as we produce multiple papers with the potential to  
combine different methodologies.

Because of the novel incentives and goals of this conference,   
abstracts will not describe any completed work.  Instead, abstracts  
will come in one of two forms:  (1)An existing data-set owned by a  
researcher that would be appropriate for some sort of nonlinear  
analysis (i.e., time-series are obvious candidates, but other types of  
data can also be used to test structural hypotheses like catastrophes  
or dimensionality); (2) Knowledge of and access to a particular type  
of nonlinear analytic technique.  More detail will follow in the  
official call.

The conference will begin with a welcome banquet on Wednesday evening  
January 28 and run through Saturday morning January 31.  Short  
presentations (15 minutes max) will run in one track through the day  
on Thursday, and groups will be formed based on each attendees rated  
interests that evening.  Friday’s activities will provide structure  
for each group to develop a research plan and for everyone to get a  
chance to analyze some data.  The final Friday night closing banquet  
will allow each group to present their preliminary results to the  
larger group.   Completed projects originating from the Nonlinear  
Datapalooza are strongly encouraged for submission to the 25th annual  
conference of SCTPLS in summer 2015 and for submission to the  
society’s journal:  Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences.

If you have any questions, please contact me at pincus at chapman.edu,  
and please consider being a part of what we truly hope will be a  
totally different and uniquely valuable conference experience.


David Pincus, Ph.D., Past-president, SCTPLS
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology
Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences
Chapman University
  
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