[Biomedical-cybernetics] The #3 reason for submitting an abstract for the 25th Annual International SCTPLS Conference

Wed Apr 29 15:45:11 CEST 2015

  THE #3 REASON FOR SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT FOR THE 25TH ANNUAL  
INTERNATIONAL SCTPLS CONFERENCE IS…

FINALLY AN OPEN, COLLABORATIVE, SUPPORTIVE, AND PARTICIPANT-DRIVEN PRE- 
CONFERENCE WORKSHOP FORMAT TO LAUNCH YOUR EVIL PLANS TO TAKE OVER THE  
WORLD!

      CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND POSTERS
      Submissions deadline is April 30, 2015.
           Submit your abstract(s) electronically at:
http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2015/cfp

           The 25th Annual SCTPLS International Conference
29-31 July, 2015
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
REGISTRATION for the conference and workshops is now open
https://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2015
Pre-Conference Workshops
July 29, 2015

Come Play with Us!

Benefit from the leading edge of a new SCTPLS workshop tradition that  
will get us all further ahead in nonlinear science with this  
collaborative “consulting group” approach to learning! This year’s pre- 
conference workshops are modeled on the successful Nonlinear  
Datapalooza innovated by SCTPLS Past President David Pincus and co- 
sponsored by SCTPLS and Chapman University in early 2015. While these  
conference workshops are not for running your data analyses (save them  
for the next Datapalooza!), the safe-space collegiality and  
consultative atmosphere is a great setting to be met wherever you are  
and for you to get yourself further along in your nonlinear work!

July 29, 2015 morning
Workshop: So you want to get started or better equipped to use  
nonlinear thinking and methods?
Beginner to intermediate levels. This half-day workshop is for those  
of you who are in beginning or early stages of nonlinear thinking and  
of thinking about methods. In this workshop, you will learn or review  
basic concepts and be supported to apply them to your area of  
interest, to thinking about and interpreting results, beginning to  
look at methods, models and theory that may be best-fits for what you  
plan to, or already are, studying.

July 29, 2015 afternoon
Workshop: So you want to get further in applying nonlinear thinking  
and methods?
Intermediate to advanced levels. This half-day workshop is for those  
of you who have the basic foundations and some experience with  
nonlinear thinking and methods. In this workshop, you will get  
supportive attention for your particular domain of interest (a) to  
examine models and method choices more specifically and critically,  
(b) to work toward formalizing research designs for your plans and  
goals, and (c) to get insights to help you interpret and analyze  
results pertaining to participants’ areas of interest.

Your 2015 Dynamic Duo Workshop Facilitator Team
is Stephen Merrill and Mark Shelhamer!

Stephen J. Merrill, Ph.D.
Dr. Merrill is Professor of Mathematics and Graduate Chair in  
Mathematics, Statistics, & Computer Science at Marquette University.  
His doctorate in mathematics is from University of Iowa.  His major  
research interests include mathematical models in immunology utilizing  
a variety of methods including differential equations and stochastic  
techniques, the role of randomness in dynamical systems, creativity  
and dreaming, the mechanism of action of medicinal herbs, cardiac  
imaging, atrial fibrillation, thyroid disease, malaria control,  
nanotoxicology and the toxicology of novel compounds released from  
medical devices, and interactions of UV with HPV-associated cancer. He  
has published over 50 scientific papers, and has held visiting  
positions at Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems (Brown  
University), Santa Fe Institute (Program in Theoretical Immunology),  
Center for Nonlinear Studies  and Theoretical Biology and Biophysics  
(Los Alamos National Lab), and FDA, Center for Devices and Radiologic  
Health (Division of Biology)

Mark Shelhamer, Sc.D.
Dr. Shelhamer is on the faculty of Johns Hopkins where he started as a  
postdoctoral fellow in 1990. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in  
electrical engineering from Drexel University, and a doctoral degree  
in Biomedical Engineering from MIT. At MIT he worked on sensorimotor  
physiology and modeling, including the study of astronaut adaptation  
to space flight and continued studying sensorimotor adaptation with an  
emphasis on the vestibular and oculomotor systems at Johns Hopkins. He  
has applied nonlinear dynamical analysis to the control of eye  
movements, including investigations of the functional implications of  
fractal activity in physiological behavior. He has had NASA’s support  
to study sensorimotor adaptation to space flight, amassing a fair  
amount of parabolic flight (“weightless”) experience in the process.  
He serves as an advisor to the commercial spaceflight industry on the  
research potential of suborbital space flight. He authored Nonlinear  
Dynamics in Physiology: A State-Space Approach, has published over 70  
scientific papers, and has had research support from NIH, NSF, NASA,  
NSBRI, and the Whitaker Foundation. He is currently on leave from his  
academic position to serve as NASA’s Chief Scientist for human  
research at the Johnson Space Center.

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