<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; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', fantasy, cursive; font-size: 10pt; ">Dear Nonlinear Colleagues -- We're still working on the conference web site, but you can start now getting your abstracts ready to submit through the web portal. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible for this milestone event!</span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); "><hr tabindex="-1" style="width: 934px; display: inline-block; "><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: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, and POSTERS</span></strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; "><strong><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">To present at the 26th Annual International Conference</span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; "><strong><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences</span></strong><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; "><strong><i><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></i></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; "><strong><i><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">The longest-running nonlinear dynamics Society!</span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></i></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; "><img width="293" height="138" align="left" hspace="12" src="cid:image004.png@01D1195B.0FB16F60"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">July 29-31, 2016 at University of Utah in Salt Lake City</span></strong></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 6pt; line-height: 20px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; "><strong><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Submission deadlines</span></strong></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 20px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(228, 108, 10); line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">March 10, 2016<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Early bird deadline</span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 20px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">April 30, 2016<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Final deadline </span></strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 20px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Submit early so travel plans get made early too! </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 20px; "><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Acceptance decisions are sent within two weeks</span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; "><strong> </strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Submit abstracts electronically at </span></strong><strong><u><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/cfp" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/cfp</a></span></u></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">We invite interested scholars and scholar-practitioners to present and discuss recent developments in nonlinear dynamical systems theory and application, which includes chaos theory, fractals, transition dynamics, and other complex systems behaviors related topics.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; margin-left: 30pt; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">In special celebration of our 25<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anniversary Year, we also invite submissions on the current state and challenges of nonlinear approaches in your area of work.</span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; margin-left: 30pt; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "><strong><font color="#006400"></font></strong></span> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></i></span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">cannot remain</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">one of the best-kept secrets on the planet! </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">We are a 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,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">econophysics</span>, 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 here indicates that many bodies of knowledge share common principles because they study common processes that produce similar patterns. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACTS</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Length</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></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; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">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><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; "></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; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">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><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; "></span></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Content</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></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; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">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><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; "></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; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">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><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; "></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; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">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><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; "></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; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">For all abstracts:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">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><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; "></span></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30pt; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><h6 style="margin-top: 10pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; color: rgb(36, 63, 96); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; page-break-after: avoid; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); ">PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "></span></h6><h6 style="margin-top: 10pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; color: rgb(36, 63, 96); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; page-break-after: avoid; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">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.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">NDPLS</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">is peer-reviewed and abstracted in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="SpellE"><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">PsycInfo</span></em></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(</span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">Psychological Abstracts</span></em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">Medline</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">(</span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">Index<span class="SpellE">Medicus</span></span></em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">JEL/<span class="SpellE">Econlit</span>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">MathSciNet</span>,</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">and other important databases.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">NDPLS</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">SCTPLS Newsletter</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">as a benefit of membership.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-style: normal; ">NDPLS</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">accepts manuscripts all through the year, but please use October 1, 2016 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></div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Cheers,</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Sara Ross, SCTPLS President</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><br><img title="rossleronebit600.jpg" height="397" width="578" style="width: 111px; " src="cid:a5321e54-401c-475a-9226-8c4419903129"></div><h2 align="left" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; page-break-after: avoid; "><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; "> <strong style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-size: 14pt; "><font face="Cambria">Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences</font></strong><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); line-height: 18px; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; "></span></strong></span></h2></div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(117, 123, 128); font-size: 8pt; ">This message has been sent to people who we believe are interested in nonlinear dynamics and related publications and events. 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