35th Annual SCTPLS Conference updates

[Guastello, Stephen]

Dear SCTPLS – We have a couple updates:

We have the local logistics and the link for hotel reservations posted to the logistics and lodging pages. The hotel is in the same complex as the meeting rooms. Make your hotel reservation by June 30 to get the special conference rates.

The conference registration page is now open. Early bird rates are in effect until July 10.

And, of course, a reminder to submit your abstracts for conference presentations by May 15.

 

We look forward to meeting everyone in Colorado Springs,

Best regards, 

the Conference Committee,

Adam Kiefer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (SCTPLS President-Elect and Conference Chair)

Barney Ricca, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (SCTPLS President)

Charles Benight, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Cortney Armitano-Lago, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Stephen Guastello, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

You won't want to miss Dr. Nicholas Stergiou, one of the guest speakers at the 35th Annual International Conference of the SCTPLS

July 30, 2025- August 1st, at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO in his presentation entitled:

 

Variability in Movement

A large body of research demonstrates the existence of an optimal level of variability which enables us to interact adaptively and safely to a continuously changing environment, where often our movements must be adjusted in a matter of milliseconds. Decrease, or loss of this optimal level due to neurodegenerative and physiological disorders makes the system more rigid and less adaptable to different perturbations. Increase makes the system noisier and more unstable. Stable behavior is a rich behavioral state with high complexity, where complexity is defined as highly variable fluctuations in physiological processes resembling mathematical chaos and fractals thus being more nature based. In this keynote, I present updates of this field of research regarding the innovative “next step” that goes beyond the many descriptive studies that characterize levels of variability in various populations. This research aims to eventually devise novel interventions and technologies that will harness the existing knowledge on variability and create new possibilities for those in need to improve performance and/or restore their decreased physical abilities.

Dr. Stergiou is the Distinguished Community Research Chair and Professor in Biomechanics, a Director of the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), and an Assistant Dean and Director of the Division of Biomechanics and Research Development. His research focuses on understanding variability inherent in human movement, and he is an international authority in the study of Nonlinear Dynamics. It spans from infant development to older adult fallers and has impacted training techniques of surgeons and treatment and rehabilitation of pathologies, such as peripheral arterial disease. The work has been supported by more than 40 million dollars in funding from NIH, NASA, NSF, and many other agencies. He has published four scientific textbooks and 250+ peer-reviewed papers with 17000+ citations. He has been inducted as a Fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Society of Biomechanics and the National Academy of Kinesiology.

We are looking forward to seeing you all there!

https://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2025/

 

Cordially yours, the Conference Committee,

Adam Kiefer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (SCTPLS President-Elect and Conference Chair)

Barney Ricca, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (SCTPLS President)

Charles Benight, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Cortney Armitano-Lago, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Stephen Guastello, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI