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taken at the meeting by Walter Eiden. Thanks, Walter!SCTPLS
is an international organization of scientists committed to the study of chaos theory, fractals, nonlinear dynamics, self-organizational processes and related principles applied to any of the various psychological subdisciplines, neuroscience, biology, physiology and other areas of medical research, economics, sociology, anthropology, physics, political science, organizations and their management, other business applications education, art, philosophy, and literature.THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
8:30 - 8:55 Universality in Group Dynamics
Irina Trofimova, N. Mitin, A. Potopov, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
William Sulis, McMaster University
8:55 - 9:20 Scaling Phenomenon with Heterogeneous Collections of Power Functions
Richard Herrington, Kevin Kennelly, T. Michael Baggett
University of North Texas
9:20 - 9:45 New Instruments for the Analysis and the Simulation of Synchronism
Phenomena in Brain Activity
T.A.Minelli, Universita e Sezione INFN-Padova
9:45 - 10:10 Forebrain Function in Fractal Space Time: Towards a Theory of Scale
Relativity
D.Rail, Campbelltown Hospital.
10:10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 10:55 Webmind: An Intelligent, Self-Organizing Internet Software System, with
Applications to Analysis of Complex Numerical and Textual Data
Ben Goertzel, University of Western Australia
10:55 - 11:20 On the Empirical Distribution of Estimators in a Chaotic Contest
Silvia Golia, Universita degli Studi di Perugia
11:20 - 11:45 Reordering Phenomenon and the Power Law of Practice
Kevin J. Kennelly, T. Michael Baggett, Richard Herrington
University of North Texas
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND ART
11:45 - 12:10 The Transformative Illness: Art, Creativity, and Nonlinear Dynamics
Tobi Zausner, New York
12:10 - 12:35 Critical Phenomena in Artworks
Igor Yevin, Mechanical Engineering Research Institute,
Russian Academy of Science,
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch
SYMPOSIUM
Nonlinear Dynamics in Language and Thinking
14:00 - 14:25 The neurobiology of Self and the technology of
self-control
Walter Freeman, University of California, Berkeley
14:25 - 14:50 Semiotics of Maya: Complexity, illusion, and the self.
Louise Sundararajan, Rochester Psychiatric Center.
14:50 - 15:15 Mathematics and the Control of Chaos in the Brain
Ming Zhou Ding, Florida Atlantic University
15:15 - 15:40 Neg-semiotics of play in interactions
Alan Stein, NECET
15:40 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:25 NLD in Anthropology of Subdialects
Greg Smith, TBA
16:25 - 16:50 Multilevel Patterns in Natural Language
Franco Orsucci, American University of Rome
16:50 - 17:15 Speech Analysis and NLD
Bob Porter, University of New Orleans
17:15 - 17:40 Nonlinear Dynamics and Linguistics
William Sulis, McMaster University
17:40 - 18:05 The Origin of Language as the Bifurcation of Perception into Conception
Robert Logan, University of Toronto
18:05 - 19:00 Cocktails
19:00 - 20:30 Banquet
20:30 - 22:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Strange Attractors: From Art
to Science
J.C. Sprott
University of Wisconsin, Madison
ORGANIZATION AND ECONOMICS I
8:30 - 8:55 Adaptation Level, `Animal Spirits', and Self Organized Criticality
Elliott Middleton,
University of Minnesota
8:55 - 9:20 A Multidimensional Theory of Social Evolution: Distinuguishing `Far from
Equilibrium' Dynamics from `Systemic tension' in Organizational Emergence and
Growth.Benyamin Lichtenstein, Boston College
9:20 - 9:45 Social Evolution Based on Iterated N-Player Prisoner's Dilemma with Generation
Dependent payoff matrices
Masaki Tomochi, Mitsuo Kono, Chuo University
9:45 - 10:10 Spatial Economic Dynamics on Torus
Tiina Heikkinen, University of Helsinki
10:10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 10:55 Genetic Algorithm as Decision Support System
Glenda Eoyang, The Union Institute
EDUCATION
10:55 - 11:20 Chaos Theory in Education: An Experiment in Nonlinear Learning
Bob Kahn, University of Missouri, Kansas City
MiniSymposium
Schools as Social Service Agencies: A Dynamical Synergy for School Linked Services
11:20 - 12:30 Carlos Torre, Karen VanderVen, Erik Fischer, Linda Dennard
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
COGNITIVE I
14:00 - 14:25 TBA
Barbara Frey, Vanderbilt University
14:25 - 14:50 Variations in the Complexity of Reaction Time and Delay Time Attractors as a
Function of Set Size and Set Type
J. Scott Jordan, Saint Xavier University
14:50 - 15:15 Effects of Gender and Lateralization on EEG Indices of Activation
Cynthia DeLeon, Jeffrey Clarke, Kevin Kennelly, University of North Texas
15:15 - 15:40 The Psychometrics of Memory Retrieval
Keith Clayton, Barbara Frey, Vanderbilt University
15:40 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:25 Effects of Practice and Discriminability on Estimates of the Correlation
Dimension of Reaction Time Sequences
Douglas Vickers, University of Adelaide
16:25 - 16:50 The Heart and Minds Project
Carlos Torre, Southern Connecticut University
16:50 - 17:15 Making Chaos out of Order: Using the Logistic Map, Feigenbaum Constants and
Lyapunov Exponents to Clarify Functional Transformations of EEG in Neurofeedback
Valdeane W. Brown, TBA
17:15 - 17:40 Sources of 1/f Variability in Repeated Judgements and Productions
Charles Wright, Charles Chubb, University of California, Irvine
COGNITIVE II
8:30 - 8:55 Extending a Cusp Catastrophe Model of Adolescent Alcohol Use to Other
Substances: Successes and Failures
Scott Clair, Florida Atlantic University
8:55 - 9:20 A Cusp Catastrophe Approach to the Prediction of Temporal Patterns in the Kill
Dates of Serial Murderers
Rense Lange, Kim Egger, Steve Egger, University of Illinois, Springfield
9:20 - 9:45 Deception and Anticipation in Sport
Gordon Hamilton, National Sports Institute, Malaysia
9:45 - 10:10 The Sensitivity and Stability of Hand Preference Behavior During Infancy: A
Dynamical Systems Theory Approach to the Development of Lateral Preferences
Simon Williams, OISE
10:10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 10:55 Problems of Measurement and Numerical Model Identification and Adaption for
a Long Term Interaction Model of Children's Friendships
Martin Bargfeldt, University of Koblenz-Landau at Landau
10:55 - 11:20 Curve Fitting and Hypothesis Testing with a Competition Model of Strategy
Development
David Dirlam, King College
11:20 - 11:45 Dynamical Models of Excitable Systems
Valko Petrov, Bulgaria
11:45 - 12:10 Estimation of Correlation Dimension to Evaluate Cognitive
Performance in Schizophrenic Patients Using a New Computer Technique
Roberto Hornero, Universidad de Valladolid
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 PLENARY SYMPOSIUM
Archetypes and Nonlinear Dynamics
Robin Robertson, Los Angeles
William Sulis, McMaster University
PHILOSOPHY
15:00 - 15:25 Decisions by `Heart' or by `Head'? A Chaotic Solution
Pat Carmoney, Thomas College
15:25 - 15:50 Conscious of Chaos? Contrasting Concepts of Consciousness at the Turn of the
Century
Bob Porter, University of New Orleans
15:50 - 16:15 Modeling Trasitions Between States of Consciousness
Christine Hardy, TBA
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 16:55 Liquid Identity: A Nonlinear Approach to Understand One's Conception of Self
Edil Torres-Rivera, University of Nevada
16:55 - 17:20 George Kelly's Theory of Personal Constructs and Chaos Theory: A Confluence
of Ideas
Michael Root, Springfield College
17:20 - 17:45 Wittgenstein, Bion, & Zen: A Chaotic `Thread'.
Paolo Terni, Italy
17:45 - 18:10 Chaos and Culture
Susan Aaron, University of Toronto
18:10 - 18:35 Discourse as Self Organization
Sean Hagberg, SUNY Buffalo
APPLIED I
8:30 - 9:30 SYMPOSIUM
Clinical Chaos: Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychotherapy
Linda Chamberlain, University of Denver
SYMPOSIUM
9:30 - 10:30 Dynamical Pattern Formation in Families
I: Theoretical Preliminaries
Dynamical Pattern Formation in Families
II: Nonlinear and Chaotic Processes in Older Child Adoption
Matthijs Koopmans, Hofstra University & York College
Margaret Ward, Cambrian College
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:10 Psychiatry and Chaos
J. Lindsay, Margaret River, Australia
11:10 - 11:35 Perceived Control and Parent-Child Coercive Exchanges: A Dynamical Systems
Analysis
Christine Tardiff, OISE
11:35 - 12:00 TBA
Sabelli Group, TBA
12:00 - 12:25 The Robin Hood Syndrome: Street Gangs as CAS
Christine Black-Hughes, William Nagy, Mankato State University
David Smilonich, The Union Institute
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch
APPLIED II
15:00 -15:25 Psychiatry and Chaos
Jaime Paredes, Riverview Hospital, British Columbia
15:25 - 15:50 Multidimensional Aspects of the Couselling Process: Contributions to Models
of the Counselling Process from Chaos Theory, Creativity, and Gestalt Therapy
James L. Frank-Saraceni, TBA
15:50 - 16:15 Exploring the Space-Time Frontier of Man's Inner Psychocosm
Prasun Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, Robert Shaw, University of Connecticut, Ralph
Abraham, University of California, Santa Cruz, D. Dutta Majumder, World Organization of
Systems and Cybernetics.
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 16:55 Chaos
and Complexity as Theoretical Grounding for Psychotherapeutic Listening: Psychotherapist's
Presence with Patient in Flooding Stage of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Joanna Poppink, Los Angeles
16:55 - 17:20 Nonlinear Patterning of Problematic Human Behavior
Teresa Hayden, University of Wisconsin, Madison
17:20 - 17:45 A New Approach to the Unexplained Pheonomenon of Spontaneous Cancer
Regression
Prasun Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, Joydeep Biswas, National Cancer Institute,
Calcutta, Peter Fenwick, Maudsley Hospital
17:45 - 18:10 The Influence of a New Dynamic Definition of Illness and Health on Clinic
Practice and Scientific Approach
Karl Toifl, University of Vienna
18:10 - 18:35 Character finds its identity as a self-organizing, non-linear dynamical
system
Craig Piers, Erik H. Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center,
Stockbridge, MA
ORGANIZATIONS AND ECONOMICS II
SYMPOSIUM
Nonlinear Dynamics and Organizational Psychology:
Motivation, Decision-Making, Conflict Resolution, and Hierarchical
Production Structures
8:30 - 8:50 Introduction
8:50 - 9:10 Nonlinear Dynamics of Motivational Flow
Elizabeth Johnson, Stephen Guastello, Mark Rieke, TBA
9:10 - 9:30 Dynamics of Policy Shifts Involving Three-Way Trade-Offs Among Process,
Product, and Human Resources
Luis Borges, TBA
9:30 - 9:50 Psychological Linkage in Conflicting Dyads
David Pincus, TBA
9:50 - 10:10 The Effect of Downsizing on Hierarchical Work Flow Dynamics
Stephen Guastello, Marquette University
10:10 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Minisymposium
Self, Family, and Organizational Change
10:45 - 11:10 Change in Brain Processing and Communication: Paradoxical Communication.
Application of Chaos Theory
Rita Weinberg and Karen Bading, National Louis University
11:10 - 11:35 Change in Educational Organizations: Applications of Chaos Theory
Robert Clark, National Louis University
11:35 - 11:55 TBA
Barbara Hudgens, National-Louis University
11:55 - 13:30 Lunch
ORGANIZATIONS III
15:00 - 15:25 Catastrophe Model for the Exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens and Other
Accidents in Health Care Settings
Stephen Guastello, Marquette, University
15:25 - 15:50 TBA
Michael Morse, TBA
15:50 - 16:15 Implications of Chaos and Complexity Theory for Business Practices
Lynda Woodman Keen, TBA
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 16:55 Confronting Chaos
David G. Jones, Public Works and Government Services, Canada
16:55 - 17:20 Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions in Organizations
Michael McElwee, The Fielding Institute
17:20 - 17:45 Describing Daily Zoo Admissions for Forcasting and Marketing Decision Making
Lynd Bacon, Lynd Bacon & Assoc, Carol Saunders, H. Elizabeth Stuart Perry, Brookfield
Zoo
17:45 - 18:10 Autopoiesis as Self Organization: The Order of Chaos Coupling with Team
Vision in the Learning Organization
Rita Tidwell, Andy Chen, Northeastern Illinois University
18:10 - 18:35 Self Organization: The Role and Experiences of a Leader
Myron Lowe, University of Minnesota
8:30 - 10:00 SCTPLS Business Meeting
WORKSHOP
10:00 - 13:00 Philosophy Workshop I
Jeffrey Goldstein, Adelphi University
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Philosophy Workshop II
Jeffrey Goldstein, Adelphi University
WORKSHOP
10:00 - 13:00 Clinical Workshop I
Alan Stein, NECET, New York
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Clinical Workshop II
Alan Stein, NECET, New York
Last revised 11 September 1997