<html><head><base href="x-msg://5/"></head><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; 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; "><div dir="ltr"><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">Dear SCTPLS members,</span></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div dir="ltr"><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div lang="EN-US"><div class="x_x_WordSection1"><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">We are excited to announce the pre-conference workshop that will take place on August 2 as part of our 2018 SCTPLS conference in Raleigh, NC (August 2-4)!</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; ">The Nonlinear Dynamics of </span></b><b><i><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">Exciting </span></i></b><b><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; ">Pre-conference Learning! </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Chaos and complexity may have looked like an academic fantasy years ago,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">but now it's real, practical, and accurate:</span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; ">Applications Galore!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "></span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; "> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "></span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><u><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; ">Workshop Description</span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">One of the fascinating features of nonlinear science is the perpetual discovery that many situations and phenomena that appear unrelated actually share common principles as we observe them change over time. This workshop is dedicated to uncovering those common processes, developing our participants’ flexibility with using them, and facilitating the development of new theories and practical management in a variety of systems. This workshop is designed to reach students and professionals who are just getting started with nonlinear dynamics, those who wish to become immersed in and explore new ideas to enhance current works in progress, and those who are exploring strategies for teaching dynamics at various university levels. This workshop emphasizes coordinating the spatial and mathematical aspects of dynamics with the constructs and propositions found in particular application areas. Untangle the practical and theoretical messes that we could be facing now! This one-day workshop is divided into four segments: Basic principles and four applications areas. These topic areas were chosen because of their deep and fast-growing range of current applications.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">BASIC DYNAMICS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> (presented by Stephen Guastello). The first segment of the workshop is a high-speed romp through the forest of attractors, bifurcations, chaos, fractals, catastrophe, self-organization, and emergence. Emphasis is given to how these constructs connect. Importantly, they are all analytical, meaning that they are testable with real empirical data (and simulation studies too).<b> Seemingly unrelated applications are often connected by some common dynamics</b>; the emphasis of the workshop is on how nonlinear methods and applications cut across diverse content areas, and how techniques from one area may be applied to another.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> (presented by David Katerndahl). Since the 1960s, medical education has been based on the Biomedical Model, which believes that all illness and disease has a genetic or physiological source. This reductionist perspective views the human body as a complicated machine and, hence, capable of linear description. However, for the past 20 years, systems science has gained traction within the medical community leading to research dependent upon nonlinear methods. This part of the workshop will discuss examples of nonlinear inroads made in heart disease and critical care, epilepsy and psychiatric symptomatology, alcohol abuse and partner violence, employing methods from nonlinearity measurement to differential structural equation modeling, from state space grid analysis to vector autoregression, from cusp catastrophe modeling to orbital decomposition. Nonlinear dynamical analysis will play an increasing prominent role in biomedical research in the future.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">(presented by David Schuldberg). Psychotherapy has many hallmarks of nonlinear dynamic processes: It comes in many forms, sometimes linked only by family resemblances; clinical practice often moves by heuristics, not rules; it is taught by example, allusion, and “doing;” the work is often contradictory, with elements of art and science; it seeks solutions to dilemmas presenting themselves as insoluble. Indeed, clients’ clinical “complaints” generally meet Plesk’s criteria for “complex” problems, neither simple nor just complicated. This workshop will explore practical psychotherapeutic techniques, grounding many of them in the language and mathematics of nonlinear dynamics, as working with attractors and shaping trajectories. We will discuss “Go fast” and “Go slow” approaches; “Gentle nudge” and “Swift kick;” “Stay on the surface,” “Go deeper,” and “Keep it simple;” “Go with the flow,” “Swim upstream,” and “Swim downstream;” “Dimension-reduction;” “Stabilize ” and “De-stabilize,” and others. Most are familiar –- sometimes in other guises -- to practicing clinicians. The workshop interprets techniques as healers’ dynamic efforts at disrupting, managing, or stabilizing clinical trajectories. Case examples will also be gathered and discussed from participants’ own practices, insights, and experiences.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">ECONOMICS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> (presented by J. Barkley Rosser). Nonlinear dynamics in economics will be considered as part of a broader complexity economics. Other forms of complexity exist, such as computational complexity and hierarchical complexity that also apply to economics. Dynamic complexity will be defined as involving endogenous irregularity in the form of discontinuous or aperiodic dynamics, with nonlinearity a necessary although not sufficient condition for such dynamic complexity, with some nonlinearly dynamic systems behaving in non-complex ways for certain formulations or parameter values. Types of dynamic complexity will be classified according to the “Four C’s,” cybernetics, catastrophe, Chaos, and agent-based complexity. Examples of such systems will be presented involving including urban system dynamics, ecologic-economic dynamics such as fisheries, financial market dynamics, and income distribution dynamics.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; ">For full speaker bios, the workshop schedule and other information, please visit the conference workshop website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; "><a id="LPlnk351196" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.societyforchaostheory.org_conf_2018_workshops.cgi&d=DwMFaQ&c=S1d2Gs1Y1NQV8Lx35_Qi5FnTH2uYWyh_OhOS94IqYCo&r=pcFN20v4vGhgAAPiksqqO4A5-JEqKN9t1ya9W1PQre0&m=cFBMc_GGd4uiIHD-1ndeo8GmM38FVjpAU5mMAs75k30&s=fVfh44fYV6rtHD2b4_OetK5Dl9iOUlz4tq_nv1B3ovE&e=" previewremoved="true">https://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2018/workshops.cgi</a></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; "></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">We hope to see you all there!</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> And don't forget:</span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">The Call for Papers (Abstracts) is open. Submit your abstract(s) electronically at <a id="LPlnk103726" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.societyforchaostheory.org_conf_2018_cfp&d=DwMFaQ&c=S1d2Gs1Y1NQV8Lx35_Qi5FnTH2uYWyh_OhOS94IqYCo&r=pcFN20v4vGhgAAPiksqqO4A5-JEqKN9t1ya9W1PQre0&m=cFBMc_GGd4uiIHD-1ndeo8GmM38FVjpAU5mMAs75k30&s=OOk8EAzgO_yvbowtVDG_daa-TUk6l_raT2UR-LxYogo&e=" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); ">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2018/cfp</span></a></span></b><span style="color: black; "></span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">March 10, 2018 </span></b><span style="color: black; ">Early birds will start to receive their notification by this date. Acceptance decisions are sent within two weeks. </span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">May 1, 2018 </span></b><span style="color: black; ">The submission deadline </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Submit early so your travel plans can be made early too! </span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY:</span></b><span class="x_x_apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; "> </span></span><span style="color: black; ">Authors presenting their papers at SCTPLS 2018 are invited to send manuscripts for publication in Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences. Visit<span class="x_x_apple-converted-space"> </span><a id="LPlnk834041" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.societyforchaostheory.org_ndpls&d=CwMF-g&c=P0c35rBvlN7D8BNx7kSJTg&r=b2c1_W0BsRFAngXoCEdVen8GhbYfnzReFMV8oNcgUes&m=hZubbd6OmuAoqh2QQeXjJMepYDUaB5gMSVpyQyVhYQ4&s=aq1Rp1WNX-uuKrIfiyjgMcdhrVzMd7St1aVgzgwLgY4&e=" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); ">http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/ndpls</span></a> for info about NDPLS, manuscript preparation, etc.</span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Kind Regards,</span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Adam</span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><b><span style="color: black; ">The Conference Committee:</span></b><span style="color: black; "></span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">David Schuldberg, University of Montana</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Steve Guastello, Marquette University</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Jayne Fleener, North Carolina State University</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Adam Kiefer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Sara Nora Ross, Neurotricional Sciences Education Pty. Ltd.; Saybrook University</span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><img width="94" height="69" tabindex="0" id="x_x_Picture_x0020_1" border="0" unselectable="on" naturalwidth="94" naturalheight="69" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" style="width: 0.656in; height: 0.479in; " src="cid:image001.png@01D3C5C6.85765E80"></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; "> Raleigh, North Carolina, August 2-4, 2018</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "></span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">---------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'MS Mincho'; ">
</span><span style="color: black; "></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Adam Kiefer, Ph.D.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'MS Mincho'; ">
</span><span style="color: black; ">Assistant Professor</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Secretary, Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'MS Mincho'; ">
</span><span style="color: black; "></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "><a id="LPlnk774219" href="mailto:adam.kiefer@cchmc.org" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); ">adam.kiefer@cchmc.org</span></a></span></div><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>