<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Dear Colleagues,</div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); "><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">The Call for Participation at the first ever<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="color: rgb(208, 92, 18); ">Nonlinear Datapalooza<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>is now officially open:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/event/datapalooza2015/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/event/datapalooza2015/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> This conference is really different, and so please do feel free to respond to me directly with any questions I can assist with: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pincus@chapman.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">pincus@chapman.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> 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.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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!</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b>Nonlinear Datapalooza: A New Kind of Conference for a New Kind of Science</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b> </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b>January 28–31, 2015</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b> </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b>Location: Chapman University, Orange CA, USA</b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b>The official Call for Participation is OPEN</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b> </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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. </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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 –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>the Nonlinear Datapalooza is all about getting together to analyze data.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></u> Who will be attending: (A)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>methods experts</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to obtain new data sets to analyze (B)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>people with data sets</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>who would like to learn new approaches to analysis and (C)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>content experts and students</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Because of the novel incentives and goals of this conference, abstracts will not describe any completed work. Instead,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>abstracts will come in one of two forms</u>: (1)<u>An existing data-set<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></u>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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>a particular type of nonlinear analytic technique</u>. More detail will follow in the official call. </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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 25<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>annual conference of SCTPLS in summer 2015 and for submission to the society’s journal: Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">If you have any questions, please contact me at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pincus@chapman.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">pincus@chapman.edu</span></a>, and please consider being a part of what we truly hope will be a totally different and uniquely valuable conference experience.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">David Pincus, Ph.D., Past-president, SCTPLS</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Associate Professor,</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Department of Psychology</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Chapman University</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>