Highlights of SCTPLS '02 Portland

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12th Annual International Conference
The Society For Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences

Portland, OR, USA
August 1-4, 2002

An invitation is extended to all interested in chaos theory, fractals,
nonlinear dynamics, complexity, and related principles.  Presentation topic
areas include psychology, neuroscience, biology, medical research,
economics, sociology, anthropology, physics, political science,
organizations and management, education, art, philosophy, and literature.
Newcomers to the field are welcome.

Professional workshop topics on August 1 include:
                *       Nonlinear Dynamics and Psychotherapy
                *       Simulation of Models, Research Design, & Data
Analysis in Nonlinear Research
                *       Organizational Behavior: Managing Emergent Phenomena

Our keynote speakers will be:
                *       Stephen Guerin-Do All Ecological Agents Cycle to
			Work?
                *    	James Grigsby-The Neurodynamics of Personality

The early registration fees for this conference will be US $145 for regular
members, $100 for students, and $200 for non-members until July 20, 2002.

Some of our presentations will be:
                *       A chaos theory based model of learning
                *    	Decreasing effectiveness of increasing incarceration
			rates in the United States: A systems view
                *    From profits to prison: a systems view of America's
			failing "war on drugs"
                *    Perturbations and reorganization of identity and social
			networks: Ideas inspired by al Qaeda and September 11th
                *    Brittle hegemony
                *    Understanding addiction and recovery: Chaos,
			complexity, and integrity
                *    Dynamics of neural networks under external periodic
			influence
                *    Temporal dynamics of legislative bill production
                *    The dynamics of a terrorist event: Tracking media
			content about 9-11 and anthrax
                *    Clinical impressions -- Facing the limits of applying
			non-linear dynamics
                *    A case study of diversity in making sense of a change
			intervention
                *    Active structures of the personality based upon a chaos
			model used in individual psychotherapy
                *    Exploring a sustainable relationship with information
			in the interconnected universe
                *    Nonlinear dynamical model of small group
			decision-making

For more information see:
http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conferences.html
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Kevin Dooley
Arizona State University
Dept. of Industrial Engineering
Dept. of Management
Kevin.Dooley@xxxxxxx
<http://www.eas.asu.edu/~kdooley/>
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President, <http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/>
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