e-mail: sulisw@mcmaster.ca
Director, Collective Intelligence Lab (CILab), McMaster University
Co-Director, Psychological Services.
Educational Background
Degrees Granted:
B.Sc.(Hon) 1976 Mathematics, minor
Theoretical Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
M.D. 1980 The University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario.
M.A. 1984 Mathematics, The University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Ph.D. 1989 Mathematics, The University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
FRCPC 1984 Psychiatry, The Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Internship: 1980-1981 Straight
Internship in Medicine U.W.O. Affiliated Hospitals
Residency: 1981-1984 Residency
in Psychiatry, U.W.O. Affiliated Hospitals
Postgraduate Training:
March 1983 Psychiatry Board Review Course, Harvard University.
July 1985 Cape Cod Summer Symposium, Psychotherapy of Late Life, New England Educational Institute.
July 1986 Cape Cod Summer Symposium, Geriatric Psychiatry, New England Educational Institute.
June 1993 6th Annual Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute.
July 1994 Cape Cod Summer Symposium, Psychotherapy of Disorders of the Self, New England Educational Institute.
July 1996 Cape Cod Summer Symposium, Neuropsychological Testing, New England Educational Institute
Awards:
[1976] The Governor General's Medal
(awarded to the individual having the highest overall grade point average
in the graduating class
[1973] Henry Marshall Tory Scholarship
[1974] Harry Stevenson Southam
Scholarship
[1975] Harry Stevenson Southam
Scholarship
[1975] Friends of Carleton Scholarship
Employment History
Academic:
Nov 1984-Aug 1991: Clinical Lecturer, Psychiatry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
July 1991-June 30, 1997: Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
June 30, 1997 - 1999: Associate Member, Computer Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
July 1993 - Present: Associate Member, Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
July 1, 1997 - Present: Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
1997 - present – Director, Collective Intelligence Lab, McMaster University
1997 – present – Co-Director, Psychological Services.
Research:
[1975-1976] Teaching Assistant, Mathematics 69.010, Carleton University
[1976] Summer Research Assistant, Dr.L.D.Nel, Carleton University
[1977] NSERC Summer Studentship, Dr. L. Carey, University of Western Ontario
[1989-1990] Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
Scholarly Activities
Director, NATO Advanced Study Institute «Nonlinear Dynamics in Life and Social Sciences», 1999-2000
Chair, session «Theories of Complex Dynamical Systems», Centennial meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, March, 1999
President, The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, 1996-1998
Co-organizer of the Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences, Chair of the invited symposium «Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Psychiatry», 1998.
Program Chair for the Sixth (1996), Seventh (1997), and Eighth Annual Meetings of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences
Editorial board of `Dynamical Psychology', 1996-present
Editorial board of ``Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences", 1995-present
Editorial board of "Psychoscience", 1995
Director of International Relations, The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, 1997-present
External reviewer for O.M.H.F. Grant proposal [1995]
Reviewer for Journal of Mathematical Psychology [1995]
CoReviewer for Psychopharmacology: Two Reviews [1993]
External CoReviewer for NIMH: One Grant Proposal [1993]
Member of the Program Committee of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences [1993]
Professional Affiliation
Member, American Mathematical Society
Member, American Physical Society
Member Sigma Xi
Vice-President, Society for Chaos
Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences
Member, Ontario Medical Association,
Fellow, The Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada
The College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario
The Canadian Academy of Geriatric
Psychiatry
Research Contributions:
Publications, books
Sulis, W. and Combs, A. (eds.) (1996) Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behaviour. Singapore: World Scientific.
Sulis W., Trofimova I. (Eds.) (2000) Nonlinear Dynamics in Life and Social Sciences. IOS Press, Amsterdam.
Nation J., Trofimova I., Rand J., Sulis W. (Eds.) (2002) Formal Descriptions of Developing Systems. Kluwer Press.
Sulis, W. Archetypal Dynamics. (Manuscript in progress)
Publications, articles
1. Sulis, W. (1992). Tempered Neural Networks(1992). Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 1992.
2. Sulis, W. (1993) Emergent Computation in Tempered Neural Networks 1: Dynamical Automata. Proceedings of the WCNN'93.
3. Sulis, W. (1993) Emergent Computation in Tempered Neural Networks 2: Computation Theory. Proceedings of the WCNN'93.
4. Sulis, W. (1993) Naturally Occurring Computational Systems. World Futures 39(4) 225-241
5. (Invited) Sulis, W. (1995) Naturally Occurring Computational Systems. In Chaos Theory In Psychology and the Life Sciences. R. Robertson, A. Combs (eds). 103-122. Lawrence Erbaum. New York.
6. Sulis, W. (1995) Driven Cellular Automata. In 1993 Lectures on Complex Systems. Lecture Volume VI in the Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. 565-578. Addison-Wesley
7. Sulis, W. (1995) Causality in Naturally Occurring Computational Systems. World Futures 44 (2-3) 129-148
8. Sulis, W. (1995) Driven Cellular Automata, Adaptation, and the Binding Problem. In Advances in Artifical Life, Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence 929. F. Moran, A. Moreno, JJ Merelo, P Chacon (eds.). 824-840. Springer-Verlag. New York
9. Sulis, W. (1996) A Formal Framework for the Study of Collective Intelligence. 5th Conference on Artificial Life, Kyoto, Japan, May 1996.
10. Sulis, W. (1996) TIGoRS and Neural Codes. In Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behaviour, W. Sulis and A. Combs (Eds.) Singapore: World Scientific.
11. Sulis, W. (1996) Foundations of Collective Intelligence. Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences, 1(1), 30-65, 1996
12. Sulis, W. (1997) Fundamentals of Collective Intelligence. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Science, 1(1), 30-65.
13. Sulis, W. (1997) TIGoRS and Neural Codes. In Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behaviour, W. Sulis and A. Combs (Eds.) Singapore: World Scientific.
14. Sulis, W (1997) Collective Intelligence as a Model for a Dynamic Unconscious. Psychological Perspectives: Issue Thirty Five: Visionaries. Spring, 64-93.
15. Sulis, W. (1997) Collective Intelligence. In: Trofimova I.N., Budanov V.G. (eds.) (1997). Synergetics and Psychology. Texts. Volume 1. Methodological questions. Moscow. MSSU Press.
16. Sulis W. (1997) Tigors and Neural Codes. In: M.A.Basin, S.V. Charitonov (Eds.). Synergetics and Psychology. Sanct-Petersburg: SPBUVK.
17. Sulis, W. (1998) Dynamical Systems in Psychology: Linguistic Approaches. In The Complex Matters of Mind and Brain, F.Orsucci (ed.), 33-58. Singapore, World Scientific.
18. Sulis, W. (1998) TIGoRS as an Associative Memory in Complex Systems. Complex Systems. Proceedings of International Conference. Oxford Press.
19. Sulis, W. (1998) Dynamical systems in psychobiology. In Chaos, Fractals, Models, F.M. Guindani and G. Salvadori (eds.). Pavia, Italy: Italian University Press.
20. Trofimova I, Potapov, A., Sulis, W. (1998) Collective Effects on Individual Behavior: In search of Universality. International Journal of Chaos Theory and Applications. Pp.35-45.
21. Sulis, W. (1998) Irrationality and Collective Processes. In: Proceeding of the Conference Managing the Complexity, Toronto. In press.
22. Szechtman, H., Eilam, D., Sulis, W. (1998) Quinpirole induces compulsive checking behavior in rats: a potential animal model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Behavioral Neuroscience. 112 (6), 1475-1485.
23. Sulis W. (1999) Archetypal Dynamics. Papers of Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences.
24. Sulis W. (1999) A Formal Theory of Colletive Intelligence. In: W.Tschacher, J.P.Dauwalder (Eds.) Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents. Singapore: World Scientific.
25. Sulis W. (1999) Collective Intelligence. In: Trofimova I.N. (Ed.) (2000). Synergetics and Psychology. Texts. Volume 2. Social Processes. Moscow. Yanus Press. (in Russian). Pp.38-64.
26. Sulis W. Information representation in neural and complex systems. In : Sulis W., Trofimova I. (Eds.) (2000) Nonlinear Dynamics in Life and Social Sciences. IOS Press, Amsterdam.
27. Sulis W., Gupta A. Nonlinear dynamics in psychiatry. In: Sulis W., Trofimova I. (Eds.) (2000) Nonlinear Dynamics in Life and Social Sciences. IOS Press, Amsterdam.
28. Sulis W. (2001) A formal theory of collective intelligence. In: Szuba, T. Computational Collective Intelligence. Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing.
29. Sulis W. (2001) Collective intelligence as a model for the unconscious. In: Szuba, T. Computational Collective Intelligence. Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing.
30. Sulis, W. (2002) Archetypal Dynamics and Emergence. In Nation J., Trofimova I., Rand J., Sulis W. (Eds.) (2002) Formal Descriptions of Developing Systems. Kluwer Press.
31. Sulis W. (2003) Effect TIGoRS in stimuli recognition. In: Arshinov V., Shendyapin V., Trofimova I. (Eds.) Synergetics and Psychology. Texts. Volume 3. Cognitive Processes. Moscow. Yanus Press. (in Russian).
Book Review
Sulis, W. (1995) Book Review: The Collapse of Chaos by J. Cohen and I. Stewart. World Futures 44 (2) 191-197.
Sulis, W. (1995) Book Review: The Undivided Universe by D. Bohm and B. Hiley. Quantum Implications: Essays in Honor of David Bohm by B. Hiley and F.D. Peat. World Futures 44 (3) 197-201
Sulis, W. (1997) Book Review: Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics by Daniel Kaplan and Leon Glass. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Science. 1(3), 233-236.
Sulis, W. (1997) Book Review: Chaos, Catastrophe, and Human Affairs by Stephen Guastello, Journal of Economic Organization and Behavior.
Sulis, W. (1998) Book Review: Archetypes and Strange Attractors by John van Enwyck. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Science.
Sulis, W. (1999) Book Review: Physical theory in Biology: Foundations and Explorations. Charles J. Lumsden, Wendy A. Brandts and Lynn E.H. Trainor (Eds.). Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences 3(3), 301-304.
Sulis, W. (1999) Book Review: An Introduction to Complex Dynamical Systems by Yaneer Bar-Yam. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 3(4), 379-382
Trofimova, I., Sulis, W. (2002) Book Review: Putting a New Spin on Groups: the Science of Chaos by Bud A. McClure. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 6(3), 285-288
Sulis, W. (2003) Book Review: Nonlinear Dynamics: Techniques and Applications in Psychology by Richard A. Heath. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences ( In press)
Technical Reports:
Sulis, W. (1989) Orders Generated by Subsets of a Group. Report No. 228, Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Sulis, W. (1989) Monoids, Ordered Sets, and Automata. Report No. 229, Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Sulis, W. (1989) Free Monoids, Free Dimension, and Order. Report No. 232, Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Sulis, W. (1989) The Categorical Structure of Order Automata. Report No. 237, Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Sulis, W. (1989) Finite Free Dimensional Abelian Orders. Report No. 238, Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Invited Lectures (selected):
1. Order Automata, presented to the Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, October 1989.
2. Autobiographical Memory: A Review, presented to the Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, February 91.
3. Screening Tools in Geriatric Psychiatry, presented to the West Haldimand General Hospital, Hagersville, Ontario, November 91.
4. Tempered Neural Networks, presented to the Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, January 92.
5. Lectures on Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology and Neurochemistry to Adult Mental Health Services of Haldimand-Norfolk, Geriatric Psychiatry Program, Hagersville, Ontario, February-March 1992.
6. Tempered Neural Networks, presented to Combined Outreach Geriatric Services, Chedoke-McMaster Hospitals, Hamilton, Ontario, February, 1992.
7. Lectures series on Introduction to Neuropsychiatry, presented to Adult Mental Health Services of Haldimand-Norfolk, Geriatric Psychiatry
8. Program, Hagersville, Ontario, April, June 1992.
9. Emergent Computation in Tempered Neural Networks: Effects of Synaptic Modification. Presented to the 5th Annual Research Day, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University. April 1993.
10. Presented Workshop on Complex Systems, June 28-29 1994, for The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences.
11. Linguistic Approaches to Computation in Complex Systems. Presented at the 6th Annual Complex Systems Summer School of the Santa Fe Institute. 1994.
12. Synchronization in Complex Systems. Presented to the 6th Annual Research Day, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, May 1994.
13. Synchronization in Adaptive Stochastic Cellular Automata: Resonance Effects. Presented to the 7th Annual Research Day, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, April 1995.
14. Algorithmicity and Reductionism in the Study of Mind: Experiment and Speculation. Presented to the 7th Annual Research Day, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, April 1995.
15. Scaling Laws in an Animal Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. International Psychological Congress. Montreal, August, 1996.
16. Transients, Dynamical Languages and Scaling in Psychobiology. University of Muenster, October 1996.
17. External faculty for the Second Mohonk Conference Dedicated to the Self Organizing Psyche, May 1996
18. Scaling in Psychobiology. International Conference on Chaos, Fractals, Models 96. Pavia, Italy, October 1996.
19. Chair, session on Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, International Conference on Chaos, Fractals, Models 96. Pavia, Italy, October 1996.
20. Transients, Dynamical Languages and Scaling. Russian Synergetics Society. Moscow, Russia. November 1996.
21. Driven cellular automata and TIGoRS. Keldysh Institute of Applied mathematics, Moscow, Russia, January 1997
22. Scaling in Psychobiology. Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Scineces, Moscow, Russia, January 1997.
23. Collective Intelligence. Department of Psychology. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, March 1997.
24. A Formal Theory of Collective Intelligence, at Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents, Gstaad, March 1997
25. Emergence in Brain and Mind, International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH, September, 1997.
26. Driven Cellular Automata, at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, January, 1997
27. Introduction to Psychodynamics, at the Department of Law, Moscow State Social University, Moscow, March, 1997
28. TIGoRS and Neural Codes, at <Synergetics and Psychology>, a roundtable hosted by SYNC, St.Petersburg Association of Research Scientists. ,St.Petersburg, March, 1997.
29. Fundamentals of Collective Intelligence. The Conference Managing the Complexity - Toronto, April, 1998.
Peer Reviewed Presentations:
Tempered Neural Networks. Presented at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June 1992.
Emergent Computation in Tempered Neural Networks: Simulated Dementia. Presented at the International Psychogeriatric Association Regional Meeting, April 1992.
Emergent Computation in Complex Systems: A General Theory. Presented at the 3 rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life and Social Sciences, August 1993.
Emergent Computation in Tempered Neural Networks 1: Dynamical Automata. World Congress on Neural Networks, July 1993.
Emergent Computation in Tempered Neural Networks 2: Computation Theory. World Congress on Neural Networks, July 1993.
Synchronization in Complex Systems, at the Satellite Symposium of the 23 rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience titled ``Multiscale Time and Space Coherence in Brain Function".
The Role and Choice of Descriptive Variables in the Social Sciences: A Dynamical Perspective, at the Second Annual Winter Chaos Conference 1994
Synchronization in Complex Systems, at the Annual Research Day, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, April 1994
Synchronization in Complex Systems, at the Hebb Symposium of the Fields Institute For The Mathematical Sciences, May 1994
Deep and Surface Structure in Cellular Automata: A Model for Cultural Robustness, at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, June 1994 Baltimore, MD.
Algorithmicity and Reductionism in the Study of Mind: Experiment and Speculation, at the 3rd Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics, Radford University, Radford, VA, Sept 1994
Driven Cellular Automata, Adaptation, and the Binding Problem at the 3rd European Artificial Life Conference, Granada, Spain, June 1995
Toward a Formal Theory of Collective Intelligence at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, August 1995, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Mobility versus Stasis. the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, June 1996, UC Berkeley, CA.
An Animal Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, June 1996, UC Berkeley, CA.
TIGoRS in Complex Systems, at the International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH, September, 1997.
Collective Intelligence and Irrational Decision Making. Proceedings of the conference, Managing the Complex, April 9-11, 1998. Toronto, Canada.
Archetypal Dynamics, at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, August 1998, Boston U., Boston, MA.
Archetypal Dynamics. Centennial meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, March, 1999
Information representation in neural and complex systems. NATO Advanced Study Institute «Nonlinear Dynamics in Life and Social Sciences», April, 2000
Nonlinear dynamics in psychiatry. NATO Advanced Study Institute «Nonlinear Dynamics in Life and Social Sciences», May, 2000
Archetypal Dynamics: a prototype for Complex Systems. International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH. May, 2000
Principles of Archetypal Dynamics. Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, 2000
Contributions to the Training of Personnel
|
Name |
Years |
Degree |
Title |
Position |
|
Dianne Miller |
1995-96 |
B.Sc. |
Mobility versus Stasis |
Grad Student |
|
Dianne Miller |
1997 |
M.Sc. |
Universality in Social Dynamics Models |
Grad Student |
|
Irina Trofimova |
1996-98 |
Ph.D. |
Multi-agent Programming |
Researcher of the laboratory |
|
Doreen Au |
1998 |
B.Sc. |
Semantic Space Modeling |
Undergrad Student |
|
Miranda Sim |
1998 |
B.Sc. |
Ergodic Theoretic Analysis of Human Locomotion |
Undergrad Student |
|
Arun Gupta |
1999-00 |
B.Sc. |
Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychiatry |
Undergrad Student |
|
Tasleem Murji |
2000-01 |
B.Sc. |
Collective Intelligence In Social Systems |
Undergrad Student |
|
Kristine Espiritu |
2002-03 |
B.Sc. |
Semantic Space Modeling |
Undergrad Student |
|
Chandrima Bandyopadhyay |
2002-03 |
B.Sc. |
Semantic Space Modeling |
Undergrad Student |
|
Samira Patel |
2002-03 |
B.Sc. |
Semantic Space Modeling |
Undergrad Student |
|
Melissa Devlan |
2003-04 |
B.Sc. |
Quality of Life and use of antidepressants |
Undergrad Student |
|
Claudia Tomantsger |
2003-04 |
B.Sc. |
Quality of Life and use of antidepressants |
Undergrad Student |
|
Marie Drosos |
2004-05 |
Indepen. study crse |
Collective Intelligence |
Undergrad Student |
|
Leah Hockney |
2004-05 |
B.Sc. |
Study of network dynamics in models of social interactions |
Undergrad Student |
Biographical Listings
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