<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; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dear Nonlinear Colleagues,</span></strong></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); "><div><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></strong> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><em>Don’t miss our Early Bird submission deadline and don’t forget to circulate this announcement to your colleagues! This year’s conference promises to be exceptional so keep your eyes out for upcoming news!</em></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></strong> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong style="font-size: 14pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, and POSTERS</span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> </span><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">To present at the 25th Annual International Conference in Gainesville, Florida, July 29-31</span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></strong> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></strong> <img title="GatorSqaure.JPG" name="null" originalwidth="648" originalheight="564" rszimgcmd="100" setheight="353" setwidth="406" hasheight="false" height="564" width="652" style="width: 406px; " src="cid:760d1664-8dce-4158-b47b-78e29d410d1a"></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> <strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Submissions deadline is April 30, 2015.</span></strong></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Early bird submissions deadline is March 10, 2015.* </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Submit early so travel plans get made early too! </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">*Early birds get acceptance notices after March 23rd*</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><a href="http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2015/cfp" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; "></span></strong></a><strong><a href="http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2015/cfp" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2015/cfp</a></strong></span><strong></strong></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; "><font color="#212121"></font></span></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">We invite interested scholars and scholar-practitioners to present and discuss recent developments in nonlinear dynamical system theory, which includes chaos theory, fractals, transition dynamics, and other complex systems behaviors related topics. Over the years, the annual conferences of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences (SCTPLS) have inspired and supported scholars from an array of disciplines to look at new ways to develop their theoretical and empirical work in an integrated approach to life sciences.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Everybody knows the world is made up of processes from which patterns emerge,</span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">but we seldom give pause to</span></strong><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> <em><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">what this means</span></em> <strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">(Kelso, 1995, p. 3, emphasis added).<sup>1</sup></span></strong></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><sup></sup></span></strong></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">The annual SCTPLS conference is the go-to event to report discovery of, recognize, and explore not only emergent patterns and the numerous scales at which they appear, but also their significance in our world! Nonlinear dynamics<i> <em><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">cannot remain</span></em></i> one of the best-kept secrets on the planet! </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">We are an multidisciplinary organization. Topics welcome at the conference include applications of nonlinear dynamics theory and techniques to problems encountered in any area of the behavioral, social and life sciences including psychology, sociology, economics, econophysics, management sciences, anthropology, aesthetics, education, biology, physiology, ecology, neuroscience and medicine. One or more of the following nonlinear concepts must be an explicit part of the presentation: attractors, bifurcations, chaos, fractals, solitons, catastrophes, self-organizing processes, cellular automata, agent-based models, network analysis, genetic algorithms and related evolutionary processes, dynamical diseases, or closely related constructs. The broad mixture of the disciplines represented he</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">re indicates that many bodies of knowledge share common principles because they study common processes that produce similar patterns. </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">The program includes workshops, invited addresses, symposia, panel discussions, a poster session, and sessions of individual papers. Advances in basic or applied research, developments in theory, reports of empirical results and methodological papers are all welcome. We continue to encourage all nonlinear scientists, including graduate students who might be finishing up a dynamical thesis or dissertation, to share their ideas through paper presentations, chairing a roundtable session, or by proposing other alternative presentation formats, such as posters, product demonstrations, short workshops, or debates around controversial topics.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><sup><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Kelso, J.A.S. (1995). <em><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Dynamic patterns: The self-organization of brain and behavior.</span></em><i> </i>Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Critical dates:</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> Call for papers is open. March 23, early-bird abstract submissions will receive a reply shortly after this date. April 30, call for proposals closes; May 15, all acceptances finalized by the Conference Chair. </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; ">INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACTS</span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Length</span></strong></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Abstracts should be between 150-250 words for posters, individual papers, short workshops and other alternative formats. The connection to nonlinear dynamics must be clear to the reader, as must be the nature and purpose of the work presented. Include organizational affiliation and contact information on each speaker or author. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Abstracts may be up to 500 words for symposia or panel discussion. For symposia, abstracts should reflect the content of EACH speaker's contribution. The format for a symposium is for all speakers to give presentations, followed by or interspersed with discussion. Symposia should present current research within a coherent theme defined by the title and abstract.</span></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Content</span></strong></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">For experimental work, the background, aims and framework, methods and samples, results, conclusions and Implications should be clear to the reader. For theoretical work, the background, aims and framework, mode of inquiry, outcomes, conclusions and implications should be clear to the reader.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">For panel discussions should provide a brief overview of the topic, and indicate the relevant background of the panelist and sample questions they will address. The format for a panel discussion is an introduction to the topic and the speakers, after which the panelists address as series of questions or issues (rather than just giving a series of presentations).</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">For workshops should present state-of-the-art information on techniques useful for conducting research or applications of nonlinear science in the behavioral, social and life sciences. They should be pedagogical in nature. Where applicable, the abstract should emphasize skills that attendees can expect to acquire.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">For all abstracts:</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> </span></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">The connection to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals or related concepts should be clear to the reader. Please stress what is the overall value added to the field (e.g. new method, new information, new perspective or issue, valuable confirmation of the present knowledge, adds clarity to present understanding). The web-submission form will require checking the categories that best represent your submission. Choose from: </span></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30pt; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">1) Empirical (e.g., presentation of empirical results of a study), 2) Theoretical (e.g., empirically testable theoretical development), 3) Applied (e.g., organizational, business, product development or marketing, or 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)”</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Each person submitting is limited to a maximum of two presentations as first author. It is acceptable to be a co-author on additional work submitted by others. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">**Trouble submitting?** </span><span style="color: green; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> If your submission is received successfully you will be taken to a confirmation page, with a link to follow for any future edits. If you have repeated trouble making your submission, as a back-up option please feel free to send all of the relevant submission information directly to Conference Chair Sara Nora Ross (sara.nora.ross[at]<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">gmail.com</a>)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">, who can make sure that your submission is successfully loaded into the system.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The deadline</span></strong><b> </b>for submissions is <strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">April 30, 2015.</span></strong></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">*Early birds will receive acceptances after March 23rd*</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Abstract should be submitted electronically by visiting:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><a href="http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2015/cfp" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2015/cfp</span></strong></a></span></div><h6 style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 7.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; ">PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY</span></h6><h6 style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 7.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; ">All presenting conferees are further invited to prepare their papers for review and possible publication in the Society's research journal Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences. <em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">NDPLS</span></em> is peer-reviewed and abstracted in <em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">PsycInfo</span></em> (<em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">Psychological Abstracts</span></em>), <em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">Medline</span></em> (<em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">Index Medicus</span></em>), <em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">JEL/Econlit, MathSciNet,</span></em> and other important databases. <em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">NDPLS</span></em> uses American Psychological Association (APA) style. Click JOURNAL on the SCTPLS web site to access Instructions for Authors. All SCTPLS members receive NDPLS and the <em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">SCTPLS Newsletter</span></em> as a benefit of membership. <em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; ">NDPLS</span></em> accepts manuscripts all through the year, but please use October 1, 2015 as the target date for submitting conference-related papers; the journal would like to have as many articles based on conference presentations as possible ready for the same issue.</span></h6><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></div></div></div></span></body></html>