[Biomedical-cybernetics] The #9 reason for submitting an abstract for the 26th Annual International SCTPLS Conference

[Guastello, Stephen]

The #9 reason for submitting an abstract for this year’s conference is  
because…

When integer dimensions sleep, they dream of someday being fractal…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND POSTERS

  To present at the

Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences
26th Annual International Conference
29-31 JULY, 2016
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT USA

Submissions deadline is April 30, 2016

Celebrating 25 years!

Submit your abstract(s) electronically at

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/cfp

Join us at the conference with our fabulous keynote speakers Gus  
Koehler and Glenda H. Eoyang! Contemporary conditions across our  
planet have long been issuing a "clarion call" for nonlinear dynamical  
understandings and methods to address them. This year's keynote  
speakers are particularly attuned to this reality and intimate with  
ways we can engage it. They have designed their talks to make  
inspiring, compelling, clear, and practical linkages to broaden and  
deepen our thinking and applications across the interdisciplinary  
breadth and areas of practice evident in the Society.
  Now let us introduce you to Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D. who works with  
public and private organizations to help them thrive in the face of  
overwhelming complexity and uncertainty. She is a pioneer in the  
applications of complexity science to human systems, and she founded  
the field of human systems dynamics (HSD). Through Human Systems  
Dynamic Institute, Glenda uses her models and methods to help others  
see patterns in the chaos that surrounds them, understand the patterns  
in simple and powerful ways, and take practical steps to shift chaos  
toward coherence. Her recent clients include the Finnish Research  
Institute (VTT), US Environmental Protection Agency, British Columbia  
Ministry of Health, Oxfam, Yukon Territorial Government, Family  
Housing Fund, and the McKnight Foundation.
The Organization Development Network identified her in 2007 as a  
thought leader in that field, and in 2009 awarded her its Sharing the  
Wealth Award. In 2007, she was named an Associate of the Assessment  
and Evaluation Group, Faculty of Education at Queen’s University in  
Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is a Research Fellow with the Institute  
for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE) and serves on the  
editorial boards for E:CO and other nonlinear dynamics journals.   
Glenda received her doctorate in Human Systems Dynamics from the Union  
Institute and University in 2001, where she discovered three  
fundamental factors that influence the dynamics of self-organizing  
change in human systems.   Glenda’s latest book, with co-author Royce  
Holladay, is Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your  
Organization (Stanford University Press, April 2013).  It is a roadmap  
for anyone who chooses to work at the intersection of order and chaos.

You will learn more about Glenda as the conference date approaches.  
Now for ways you and your work can make a contribution…

We invite scholars and practitioners interested in working together to  
turn one of the best-kept secrets on the planet into THE WAY to  
research nonlinear dynamical systems and to develop practice- 
approaches that will serve the world in areas such as healthcare,  
education/academia, as well as our social and physical environment.  
Presentations and conversations will explore practice applications and  
enhance knowledge of chaos theory, fractals, complex systems and  
related topics. Over the years, the annual conferences of the Society  
for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences have inspired and  
supported people from many disciplines to become leaders in  
theoretical, empirical and practice applications. Steadily, we are  
building a knowledge base that provides an integrated approach to life  
sciences, health and wellness, global peace and environmental  
sustainability.

  INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACTS

Length

·       Abstracts are between 150-250 words for posters, individual  
papers, short workshops and other alternative formats. Clear  
connections to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals or  
related concepts are important. Include each speaker or author’s  
organizational affiliation and/or contact information.
·       Abstracts for symposia or panel discussions may be longer at  
up to 500 words. For symposia, it is important to include the content  
of EACH speaker's contribution. The typical format for a symposium is  
for all speakers to give presentations with time following for  
discussion. The typical format for a panel discussion is inquiry-based  
and dialogic. Please communicate the theme of your research or  
practice-based applications of nonlinear science within the title of  
your abstract.
  Content

·       For experimental work, you will want the background, aims and  
framework, mode of inquiry, methods and samples, outcomes, conclusions  
and implications to be clear and explicit.
·       For panel discussions, you will want to provide a brief  
overview of and introduction to the topic, relevant background of  
panelists and sample questions that will be used to prompt your panel  
member discussion.
·       For symposia or workshops, you will want to describe your  
current research, the techniques you used for conducting your research  
and how it applies to nonlinear behavioral, social and/or life  
science. Please emphasize the skills and new learning that attendees  
can expect to acquire.
·       For all abstracts: Assist the reader in understanding your  
connection to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals and/or  
related concepts. Please highlight the overall value added to your  
area of practice (e.g., introduces a new method, information,  
perspective, issue; calls into question, confirms present knowledge or  
clarifies understanding).
·       Choose a category: The web-submission form allows you to  
select from the following: 1) Empirical (e.g., presentation of  
empirical results of a study), 2) Theoretical (e.g., empirically  
testable theoretical development), 3) Applied (e.g., social, cultural,  
organizational and/or inter-relational dynamics; business, product and/ 
or marketing development; practice-based applications involving  
clinical interventions), 4) Quantitative (e.g., computational or  
statistical modeling), 5) Qualitative (e.g., non-quantitative analysis  
of empirical data), 6) Philosophical or artistic (e.g., epistemology,  
philosophy of science, aesthetics, or audio-visual demonstrations).

Additional Information

·        Each person may submit up to two presentations as first  
author and serve as co-author on additional work submitted by others.
·       All presenters are invited to prepare your papers for possible  
publication in the Society’s peer reviewed research journal Nonlinear  
Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences.NDPLS uses American  
Psychological Association (APA) style. Click JOURNAL on the SCTPLS web  
site to access Instructions for Authors. NDPLS accepts manuscripts all  
through the year, but please use October 1, 2016 as the target date  
for submitting to allow us to make up a special Conference  
Presentations issue.

REGISTRATION for the conference and workshops is now open at

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/




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