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INSC 2003

February 7, 8, and 9, 2003

Vienna, Austria

THE CONFERENCE IS BEING HELD AT THE

 UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA IN DOWNTOWN VIENNA

Address  Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 1; A-1010

Conference registration will be in front of the Kleiner Festsaal

from 1600 –1930 beginning on Thursday 6th February

NOTE THAT POSTERS WITH ARROWS MARKING LOCATION OF REGISTRATION WILL BE POSTED

Information about discount lunch and other special activities will be available at that time.

General Building Plan, enter Karl Leuger Ring

First floor plan, note Kleiner Festsaal Room

 

MAP FOR LOCATION OF UNIVERSITY AND HOTELS HERE

Or click on Hotels and Excursions to access reservations and map.

 

 

 

Left to right, some famous Vienna residents: Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner;

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger; Sigmund Freud; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

International Nonlinear Sciences Conference

Research and Applications

in the

Life Sciences

 

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED

The Scientific Program Committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for INSC 2003.

 

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER ADDRESS

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Hermann Haken

Professor of Theoretical Physics, , University of Stuttgart

Prof. Haken Biography

 

WITH KEYNOTE ADDRESSES BY

 

Prof. Dr. Tönu Puu

 

Institutionen för nationalekonomi, CERUM, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

Prof Puu Information Page

 

"Oligopoly Dynamics –

A Traditional Area for Complex Dynamics in Economic Theory.”

 

Prof. Jack Cohen

Reproductive Biologist, Birmingham Women's Hospital Assisted Conception Unit, Internationally Honored Author (The Collapse of Chaos) and Honorary Professor, Mathematics Institute,

Warwick University

Prof. Cohen Information Page

 

 

 

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER ADDRESS


Synergetics: How Does Self-Organization Work?
Hermann Haken, Center of Synergetics

University of Stuttgart
Germany


Synergetics is an interdisciplinary field of research founded by the author in 1969. It studies complex systems that may spontaneously produce spatial, temporal, or functional structures by means of self-organization. The main objective of synergetics is to search for basic principles underlying self-organization in a variety of disciplines, ranging from physics, chemistry, biology to medicine, psychology and sociology. By means of a relatively simple physical system (the light source laser), the basic concepts such as instability, order parameters, control parameters, slaving, critical fluctuations, etc. are illustrated. Jointly with experimental findings these concepts allow for new interpretations and mathematical models.  Explicit examples are provided from movement science (coordination between movement of limbs),pattern recognition, and Gestalt-psychology,  analysis of EEG and MEG patterns under various conditions, the role of psychopharmacological drugs, and social behavior of groups. Finally, conclusions on a new approach to psychotherapy are drawn.

 

 

AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE

 

Scientists and practitioners in all areas of psychology and the life sciences are invited to consider attending and presenting their

work at the International Nonlinear Sciences Conference to be held in Vienna, Austria, on February 7, 8, and 9, 2003.

 

The three-day event is intended to be a working conference, with ample opportunity for participants to interact and to share ideas and new findings.

 

The goal of the conference is to engage an international group of researchers and practitioners

 in an exchange of ideas about the dramatic new ways nonlinear science is impacting in our diverse fields.

 

Each conference day will include sessions devoted to the newest advances in nonlinear science and practice, as well as sessions devoted to the presentation and discussion of attendee’s contributions.  Uniquely Viennese social events are planned for the evenings, as are presentations by specially invited speakers.   Programs for accompanying persons will also be available.

 

The meetings will be held in newly renovated classrooms of the historic Vienna University located in downtown Vienna, close to the many cultural and historic attractions Vienna has to offer, including the Opera House and world-famous coffee houses.  Weather in Vienna in February is cold, but usually sunny and pleasant. 

 

Arrangements have been made for inexpensive accommodations in apartments vacated by students during winter break; a range of levels of apartment accommodations will be available; off-season rates will also be in effect at downtown hotels.  Off-season airfares are also usually available from North and South America in February.  Arrangements for discounted trips to Eastern Europe, or extended stays in Austria, will also be available for participants wishing to combine conference activities with a winter holiday.

 

The conference is being hosted by the Austrian Dynamics-Complexity-Human Systems Society, and is co-sponsored by the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences, and a growing list of European institutions and societies.  An international Program Committee of distinguished researchers and practitioners is developing program details, and financial support for programs is actively being sought from several sources.

 

A web page with conference information is available shortly at www.societyforchaostheory.org.

 

For more information contact:

 

 

Robert J. Porter, Ph.D.,

 

Conference Chair

 

Dick Bird  BSc MSc PhD.,

 

Conference Co-Chair and General Secretary of the Conference

 

Prof. MD Karl Toifl,

 

Conference Co-Chair and Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee

 

Richard Heath  BSc (Hons.), PhD

 

Conference Co-Chair and Chair of the Program Committee


Outpatient Therapist, Directions for Mental Health
Professor Emeritus, University of New Orleans and LSU Medical School
email: rjporter@mindspring.com


Senior Lecturer in Psychology
University of Northumbria, UK.
Email: dick.bird@unn.ac.uk

 

 
Neuropsychiatric Clinic for Children and Adolescents
University of Vienna
Währinger Gürtel 18 - 20
A-1090 Vienna
E-mail:  Karl.Toifl@akh-wien.ac.at
 

 

Professor Psychology
Faculty of Human Sciences
Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE
UK


E-mail:

Email Richard Heath  R.Heath@kingston.ac.uk

 

 


 
Program Committee
 
Society Sponsors
 
Corporate Sponsors
 

 

 

Frederick David Abraham, PhD


Visiting Professor, Silliman University (Philippines)
Director, Blueberry Brain Institute (USA)
www.blueberry-brain.org
abraham@sover.net

 
 
 
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org

 
 
 

 

 

Larry S. Liebovitch, Ph.D.


Professor, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Center for Molecular
Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic
University, U.S.A.
email: LIEBOVITCH@WALT.CCS.FAU.EDU

 
 
 
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: Dynamik - Komplexität - menschliche Systeme

Vienna, Austria

 
 www.scienceofcomplexity.org
 
 
 
 

Franco F. Orsucci, MD, PhD

Director, Rehabilitation Unit DSM RM-B
& Institute for Complexity Studies
Office: Via Monte delle Gioie 22, I-00199 Rome, Italy
Tel/Fax +39 0686324301
Email <franco.orsucci@collegiumworld.org>
 
 
 
Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita' (SICC)
(
Italian Society for
Chaos and Complexity)
 
http://www.stat.unipd.it/sicc
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sergio Rinaldi PhD,
Master degree in Electronics Engineering at the
Politecnico di Milano.

Professor of System Theory
Department of Electronics and Information Engineering
Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy

sergio.rinaldi@polimi.it
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Günter Schiepek

 

Universitätsklinikum der RWTH Aachen

Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapeutische Medizin

Pauwelsstr. 30

D-52074 Aachen

 
GSchiepek.fksh@t-online.de
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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Concert Hall

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Web page and contents Copyright, 2002, Lambda Consulting for INSC 2003.

The butterfly used on these pages is based on the Lorenz attractor and represents the potentially great effects of small efforts, a signature of many nonlinear systems.