Winter Chaos Conference 2010
FLASH
BULLETIN re lodging lodging info: Scroll down or click here Hi
Folks, The
Lake Tarpon Resort has informed us that they are sold out for our weekend and
need to release the last few rooms they are holding for us by Friday, March
5th. If you are planning on coming and
haven't made your reservations yet, you will need to do so right away. Remember, it is the height of the season
down here and if our hotel is sold out others close by will be also. Sincerely, Charlie Deppish
813 458-5816 <cdeppish@psatampa.com> One of the reasons things are sold out is
that the PGA is in town. Great golf in
Tarpon! Rumors are that Tiger may drop
by. Just FYI. Bob |
SNOWFLAKE FORUM
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18th Annual
Winter Chaos Conference
Dynamical
Systems Thinking in Science, Education, the Humanities, and Society
March 19-21, 2010
Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA
Dr. Robert Porter, Coordinator
Frederick David
Abraham, Asst. Coordinator Program & Web
This conference has established a tradition of informality both in style and substance that features open discussion and mutually respectful interactions among participants. It is open to metaphoric as well as formal explorations of systems/integrative thinking into science (including psychological, social, biological disciplines, mathematical, and logical disciplines), education, the humanities, society, and philosophy. We range over rather diverse subjects in philosophy, education, research, social applications, and theory. Whether based on presenters’ published materials or works-in-process presented for feedback and collaborations, we have been fortunate to have been exposed to so many fresh, innovative, often ground-breaking, ways of approaching and/or perceiving the world around us. This web site can change on any day as we add participants, titles, abstracts, and commentary. The parts of this site are (1) this home page (scroll down for list of participants and titles to date), and (2) The Snowflake 2009 Newsletter is now replaced by our Implexi Mundi web site, (link above right; you will have to register to cruise through the abstracts/articles, commentaries, and pictures of the participants. There are also links to earlier Winter Conferences and Snowflake Newsletters. The conference self-organizes; the schedule is sketched out at the beginning of the conference but adjusted at times. Dynamical Systems includes not only dynamics, but other approaches in complexity and integrative science, art, and the humanities.
The meetings will be at: Lake Tarpon Resort. Scroll down or click here for Lodging/Travel Information below
Since we start Friday morning, remember to book for Thursday night if you can’t get there by 8:30 AM Friday.
Call for
Presentations
To submit titles and abstracts or make inquiries, contact:
dr. robert porter and frederick.d.abraham@gmail.com
9/27/2009: Bob Porter writes:
Greek food. Island evening dinner cruise.
Sponge dock shopping. Antiquing.
High quality Florida kitsch and knickknacks! Heated pool.
All sorts of amenities. Come early and leave
late for a wonderful winter vacation. Only a short
drive from Tampa Airport. Chamber of Commerce: http://tarponspringschamber.com/ Also see it on GoogleEarth
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Participants |
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Enrico Wensing Complexity Leadership for Global Sustainability |
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Martin Gardiner Consciousness and its relationship to Learning: a Functional Approach |
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Jerry Chandler The
Contemporary Rosetta Challenge: Spanning the Gap between the Exact Sciences
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George Muhs A Metaphoric Scripting Language for Describing Complex Interactions |
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Neil & Eva Edwards |
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Karen VanderVen Beautiful Seashells: Patterns, Shapes, Mathematics and Non-linearity: Their Pedagogical and Scientific Applications. |
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Louise Sundararajan & Chulmin Kim [Cancelled due to family medical problems] |
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Linda Dennard Coming late, will kibitz; complexity in education, ethics, her novels, poetry, philosophy |
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Linda Alford Looking for Dragons in Kansas [Interactions among living nonhuman systems, cognitive systems, and virtual systems] |
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Linda Chamberlin Addiction: The Collapse of Complexity -- An Open Discussion |
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Weili
Luo The Ground
State of Consciousness |
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Thanashs Argyrioy Individual-environmental interactions that involve symbols and collective social knowledge |
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Carlos Torre Teaching Medicine in High school and College |
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Hector Sabelli Bios: empirical studies and mathematical theory of Creative Processes [abstract] [paper] |
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Robert M. Galatzer-Levy The Uses of Non-linear dynamics in Psychoanalysis |
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SAM LEVEN cancelled due to late breaking trip to China |
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Mark Filippi The Tyranny of Temes [Social media and ways it has impacted our behavior] |
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Bill Huitt [virtual participant on dissociation of scientific evidence on dynamics of education and practice; see Implexi Mundi] [see related item on dissociation between science and psychotherapy on Implexi Mundi.] |
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Bob & Connie Eldridge [auditing/kibitzing, and maybe some commentary on current economics and his investment project?] |
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Bob Porter Mutuality, Mindfulness, and Mentalizing in Psychotherapy: A New, Nonlinear, Psychodynamics? |
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Fred Abraham Discrete vs Continuous Neuro-cognitive, Semiotic, & Mathematical Modelling |
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Half-day chao-semiotic binge: The Evolution of Signs, from Cuneiform to Perplexity: Semiotics taken from the Silver Peirce Arrow Jerry Chandler: Semiotic Relations
plus Exactness in Chemistry and Mathematics and including Sam Leven: Semiotics of Value Fred: Continuous vs Discrete Dynamical modelling
of Dynamical Neural and Cognitive & Semiotic Aspects of Language (or not) |
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Extra Session:
Sunday afternoon. Those participating so far: Jerry, Mark,
Karen, Thanasis, Bob Porter, Bob Eldridge, Martin,
George, Linda Chamberlin, Linda Dennard, Enrico, Weili, & moi (fred) All are welcome.
Other area activities can be scheduled or Thursday before the conference (in
addition to the reception Thursday eve), and Monday after the conference. |
Lodging, Travel, & Dining
LODGING: LAKE TARPON RESORT
From Bob Porter, Conference Chair, and Charlie Deppish,
our Operations Coordinator:
Hello Snowflakers and Spongers:
Here are some instructions and choices on making your hotel reservations. The sooner the better folks.
By Phone, all you have to do is call and ask for a reservation for the Chaos
Conference March 18th - 21st. They have all the information including our
rates and will be able to book you easily.
Toll Free: 866/328-Lake (5253)
Direct: 727/942-0358
Fax: 727/938-9826
Online you go to http://www.laketarponresort.com/res.html and follow the
step-by-step instructions at the bottom of the page. They will ask you
for a promo code. Our promo code is Chaos. The promo code will specify to
them our confirmed rate and choices. Included in the instructions is a
comments and request box. The resort has requested that you also write
Chaos in this box as a safe guard that your reservation gets listed correctly.
This box is also where you would request a smoking room.
On the reservation page
there is also a link, in the right column, to make reservations by filling out
an email form.
If you have any
thoughts about the desirability of coming early or leaving late, I STRONGLY
advise IN FAVOR of it. The area is charming and relaxing, There are
wonderful antique shops in Tarpon Springs, great "Florida Tourist"
shops in the sponge dock areas, and easy access to Busch Gardens, the Lowery
Park Zoo (one of the top family zoos in USA), and the Florida Aquarium...not to
mention Hard Rock Cafe and Seminole Indian Casino. LOTS
to do, or just enjoy relaxing in the sun.
If enough people ask for it, I will organize a before or after conference
confab to extend the chaos another day or so.
Feel free to contact me
or Charlie with any thoughts or
questions.
Bob, the flaky sponge
Please also tell us if you wish to locate a roommate for the conference and if so for which dates. Fred is looking for a roommate, preferably one coming early and/or staying late (Wed-Tues).
Also
see proposal conference schedule and prices by Lake Tarpon Resort as proposed
earlier to Bob.
You
can take a peek at the resort and map it if you enter Lake Tarpon Resort into
Google Earth,
which is a must download if you don't already have it on your computer.
The Conference runs Thursday the 18th evening
until noonish at least Sunday eve, the 21st . Unless you are driving from
nearby, you should schedule your arrival for Thursday eve or earlier for our opening
reception, and to be sure to be at our 8:30 AM start Friday. Return to top Go to Participants
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Travel: Tampa International Airport TPA http://www.tampaairport.com/ For purposes of coordinating travel, here are some FLIGHT ARRIVALS OF PARTICIPANTS: |
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Image on left is by
Nicolas Desprez (aka Chaoscope) |
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Created by
fred, September 27, 2009; check frequently for
updates. Updates: 9/28-30/09, 10/2-4, 12, 16, 11/26, 11/29-30, 12/2; 4 Jan
2010; 1/9/10, 1/20-21/10, 2/12/10, 2/15/10, 2/20/10, 2/22/10, 2/26/10,
3/1/10, 3/14/10 |
