WILLIAM
SULIS
B.Sc.,
M.D. (Psychiatry), M.A., FRCP, Ph.D. (Math), Ph.D. (Physics)
e-mail (without spaces): s u l i s w @ m c m a s
t e r. c a
Practicing
Geriatric Psychiatrist (1984-present)
Academic
Positions:
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
McMaster University, ON
Associate Member, Department of
Psychology, McMaster
University, ON
Director, Collective Intelligence
Lab (CILab),
McMaster University, ON
Co-Director, Psychological
Services, Toronto-Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Collective
Intelligence,
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Temperament
and psychobiology of mental illness
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Collective
Dynamics
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Synchronization
in Complex Systems,
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Cellular
Automata
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Random
Graphical Dynamical Systems,
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Quantum
Foundations
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Process
Algebra Theory and Models
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. Coll
Ph.D. 1989 Mathematics, The
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
FRCPC 1984 Psychiatry, The
Royal ege of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Ph.D. 2014 Theoretical Physics, The
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
CRCPC 2015 Geriatric Psychiatry, The
Royal ege 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, USA.
July 1985 Cape Cod Summer
Symposium, Psychotherapy of Late Life, New England Educational Institute, USA.
July 1986 Cape Cod Summer
Symposium, Geriatric Psychiatry, New England Educational Institute, USA.
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, USA.
July 1996 Cape Cod Summer Symposium, Neuropsychological
Testing, New England Educational Institute, USA
[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
Academic:
1984-1991: Clinical Lecturer, Psychiatry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
1991-1997: Assistant Clinical Professor,
Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1993 - 2002: Associate Member, Computer Science,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
1993 - present: Associate
Member, Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1997 - present: Associate
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1997 - present: Director,
Collective Intelligence Lab, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1997 - present:
Co-Director, Psychological Services, Toronto-Hamilton, Ontario.
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
Member, Constitutional Review Committee, The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life
Sciences, 2005-06.
Chair, Session on
"Concepts, Formalisms, Methods and Tools". International Conference on
Complex Systems, Boston, MA 2004.
Member of Program committee, NATO Advanced Research
Workshop Formal Descriptions of Developing Systems,
2001-2002
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]
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Member,
American Mathematical Society
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Member,
American Physical Society
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Member,
Society for Neuroscience
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Member
Sigma Xi
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Vice-President,
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences
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Member,
Ontario Medical Association,
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Fellow,
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
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The
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
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The
Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry
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Member,
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
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. (2025) Process and Time World Scientific.
Singapore. ISBN-13. 978-1800616172. https://www.amazon.ca/Process-Time-William-Sulis-ebook/dp/B0FM31B1HH
Sulis, W. Archetypal
Dynamics.
(Manuscript in progress)
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
in Complex Systems: An Encoding
Mechanism For Situated Cognition. 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 Behaviour: International
Journal of Chaos Theory and Applications, 3/1-2, 53-63.
21. Sulis, W. (1998)
Irrationality and Collective Processes. In: Managing the Complexity,
Toronto..
22. Szechtman, H., Eilam, D., Sulis, W. (1998) Quinpirole induces compulsive checking behavior
in rats: a potential animal model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Behavioural Neuroscience. 112
(6), 1475-1485.
23. Sulis W. (1999)
Archetypal Dynamics. Papers of the 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).
32. Sulis, W. (2004)
Archetypal Dynamical Systems and Semantic Frames in Vertical and Horizontal
Emergence. Emergence: Complexity and Organizations, 6(3).
33. Sulis, W. (2007)
Archetypal Dynamical Systems and Semantic Frames in Vertical and Horizontal
Emergence in Cilliers, P (Ed.) (2007) Thinking
Complexity. Complexity and Philosophy Vol. 1, ISCE
Publishing.
34. Sulis, W. (2008)
Stochastic phase decoupling in dynamical networks. Nonlinear
dynamics, psychology, and life science. 12(4) 327-358
35. Sulis, W. (2009)
Collective intelligence: Observations and models. In S. Guastello, M. Koopmans, D. Pincus
(Eds.) Chaos and complexity in psychology. Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge. (pp. 41-72)
36. Sulis, W. (2010)
Archetypal dynamics, emergent situations and the reality game. Nonlinear dynamics, psychology, and life sciences. 14(3)
209-238.
37. Trofimova, I. & Sulis W.
(2010). An investigation of temperament in adults with comorbid
depression and anxiety. Advances
in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 1, 3, 190-199. DOI:
10.4236/abb.2010.13027.
38. Trofimova, I. & Sulis W.
(2011). Is temperament
activity-specific? Validation of the Structure of Temperament
Questionnaire - Compact (STQ-77). International
Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 11(3), 389-400.
39. Sulis, W. (2012)
Causal Tapestries for Psychology and Physics. Nonlinear
dynamics, psychology, and life sciences, 16(2), 113-1340.
40. Sulis, W. (2014) A
process model of quantum mechanics. Journal of modern physics DOI:
10.4236/jmp.2014.516176
41. Sulis, W. (2016) A Process Algebra Model of QED. Journal of Physics:
Conference Series Vol 701 (1) 012032
42. Sulis, W. (2016)
Synchronization, TIGoRS, and Information Flow in
Complex Systems: Disposiitonal Cellular Automata.
NDPLS 20(2) 293-317
43. Sulis, W. (2016)
Transient Induced Global Response Synchronization. International Journal of
Design & Nature and Environment 11(4) 712-21
44. Trofimova,
I. & Sulis W. (2016a). Benefits
of distinguishing between physical and social-verbal aspects of behaviour: an
example of generalized anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:338. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00338.
45. Trofimova, I. & Sulis, W. (2016b). A
study of the coupling of FET temperament traits with Major Depression. Frontiers in
Psychology, 7: 1848. doi:
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01848.
46. Sulis, W. (2017)
Completing Quantum Mechanics. In K. Sienicki,
Quantum Mechanics Interpretations. Open Academic Press 350-421
47. Sulis, W, (2017) A Process Algebra Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics:
Physics from the Top Up. In: R. Martinez (ed.) Complex Systems: Theory and
Applications. Nova Publishing.
48. Sulis, W. (2017) A Process Algebra Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics. International Journal of Theoretical Physics. DOI
10.1007/s10773-017-3366-y
49. Sulis, W. (2017)
Modeling stochastic complexity in complex adaptive systems: Non-Kolmogorov probability and the process algebra approach.
Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and Life Sciences, 21(4) 407-440
50. Trofimova, I. & Sulis W. (2018). There is more to mental illness than just
negative affect: comprehensive temperament profiles in depression and anxiety. BMC Psychiatry, 18:125, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1695-x .
51. Sulis, W. (2018) Assessing
the continuum between temperament and affective illness: psychiatric and
mathematical perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,
Biology, 373, 1744, doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0168
52. Trofimova, I.,
Robbins, T., Sulis, W., Uher,
J. (2018) Taxonomies
of psychological individual differences: biological perspectives on
millennia-long challenges. Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society, Biology. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0152
53. Uher, J., Trofimova, I., Sulis, W., Netter,
P., Pessoa, L., Posner, M., Rothbart, M., Rusalov, V., Petersen, I., Schmidt, L.
Diversity in action: Exchange
of perspectives and reflections on taxonomies of individual differences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biology.
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0172
54. Sulis,
W. (2019) Transients as the basis for information flow in complex adaptive
systems. Entropy, 21(1) 94 DOI: 10.3390/e21010094
55. Sulis,
W. (2020) Lessons from collective intelligence. In: Elliot, E., Kiel, D. (Eds.) Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences. University of Michigan Press.
56. Sulis,
W. (2020) The Continuum between temperament and mental illness: dynamical
perspectives. Neuropsychobiology. https://doi.org/10.1159/000509572.
57. Sulis, W. (2020) An
information ontology for the Process Algebra model of non-relativistic quantum
mechanics. Entropy 22(2) 136 doi:/10/3390/e222020136.
58. Sulis,
W. (2020) Fractals transcendant: Bridging the transpersonal chasm. In: A
Fractal Epistemology for a Scientific Psychology: Bridging the Personal with
the Transpersonal. Marks-Tarlow, T., Shapiro, Y., Friedman,
H., Wolfe, K. (Eds.) Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 208-242.
59. Sulis,
W. (2020) Locality is dead. Long live locality! Frontiers in
Physics, 15 September 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2020.00360.
60. Sulis, W. (2021)
Lessons from collective intelligence. In Elliot, E., Kiel, D. (Eds.) Chaos
Theory in the Social Sciences, Michigan University Press.
61. Sulis, W. (2021) Contextuality in Neurobehavioural
Regulatory Systems and Collective Intelligence, Quantum Reports 3(4). doi:/10.3390/quantum3040038.
62. Sulis, W. (2021).
Fractals transcendent: Bridging the transpersonal chasm. International
Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 39 (1). doi: 10.24972/ijts.2020.39.1-2.138.
63. Sulis, W. (2021) The Continuum Between Temperament and Mental Illness as
Dynamical Phases and Transitions. Frontiers in Psychiatry doi:
10.3389/fpsyt.2020.614982.
64. Sulis, W. (2022) The Classical‐ Quantum Dichotomy from the Perspective
of the Process Algebra. Entropy, 24, 184. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/e24020184.
65. Sulis, W. (2022) Quo
Vadis Taxonomies of Consistent Behavioural Patterns: Time to change horses? Current Opinion in Behavioral Science.
April. 101103.
66. Sulis, W. (2021)
Intransitivity and Contextuality in the Decision
Making of Social Insect Colonies. Natural Systems of Mind, 1(2), 24-39. (Published in 2022).
67. Trofimova, I. et al. (2022) What
is next for the neurobiology of temperament, personality and psychopathology? Current Opinion in Behavioral Science.
June 101143.
68. Sulis, W. (2023) A Process Algebra
Approach to Quantum Mechanics. International Journal of
Quantum Foundations. 9(1) January 1-43.
69. Sulis, W. (2023) Process and Time. Entropy 2023 , 25, 803.
https:// doi.org/10.3390/e2505080.
70. Sulis, W. (2023) Reality doesn’t shine, it twinkles. Quantum Reports, 5,
609–624. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/quantum5040040 .
71. Sulis, W.; Khan, A. (2023) Contextuality
in Collective Intelligence: Not There Yet. Entropy 2023, 25,
1193. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/e25081193.
72. Sulis, W. (2024)
Mathematics of a Process Algebra Inspired by
Whitehead's 'Process and Reality': A Review. Mathematics, 12,
1988. https://doi.org/10.3390/math121319882024.
73. Sulis, W. (2025) Transitivity, Contextuality,
and Decision Making. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 27
November 2025; 383 (2309): 20240373. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2024.0373.
Book Reviews:
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.
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.
Sulis, W. (2014) A Processm Moel of Non-Relativistic Quanum
Mechanics. Ph.D.
Thesis. University of Waterloo
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
29. Fundamentals of Collective Intelligence. The Conference Managing the Complexity - Toronto, April, 1998.
30. Archetypes and Dynamics within a Unitary
Reality ( Symposium, with Robin Robertson ), Annual
Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences.
Madison, WI August 2001.
31. Chaos, Complexity and Metaphysics ( Symposium, with Jeff Goldstein and Robin Robertson),
Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences.
Boston, MA, August 2003.
32. What’s New in Alzheimer’s
Disease. May 2004. Alzheimer’s Society of Haldimand-Norfolk.
33. Archetypal Dynamics: The Reality Game. Understanding Complex Systems. May 2005. University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
34. Combinatorial Dynamics 1. Workshop presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life
Sciences, Denver, CO. August 2005.
35. Combinatorial Dynamics 2. Workshop presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life
Sciences, Denver, CO. August 2005.
36. Stochastic Phase Decoupling in Random Graphical
Dynamical Systems, Oct 2007, NESCI, Boston 39. Archetypes as
Symmetries in Complex Systems, Oct 2007, NESCI, Boston1.
37. Fundamentals of Collective Intelligence,
Keynote Speaker, International Nonlinear Science Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
38. Fundamentals of Collective Intelligence,
Department of Psychology, King’s College, UWO, 2008
39. Self Organization and Emergent Structures in
Psychological Phenomena. APS. Chicago, 2008
40. Emergence, Cognition, and Collective
Intelligence, University of Hertfordshire, 2009
41. Temperament in Depression and Anxiety
Disorders, APA, Toronto, 2009
42. Temperament in Depression and Anxiety Disorders,
ICAP, Melbourne, 2010
43. Depression and Parkinson’s
Disease. Parkinson’s Support Group, Dunnville,
2012
44.
Alcohol and Dementia. ACE Program, Simcoe. Sept.
2012
45. Age Discrimination. Senior’s Support Services, Dunnville 2012
46. Apathy and Parkinson’s
Disease. Regional Parkinson’s Conference. Kitchener, 2012.
47. Meditation in Psychotherapy. By
the Willow, Dunnviile 2017.
48. Contextuality in
Human and Collective Intelligence Decision Making. Plenary Talk, Society for
Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences, Fields Institute, Toronto. August
2023.
49. Psychological Assessment of Dementias: Haldimand Late Life Memory Clinic Experience, EMAP, Belo
Horizonte, Brazil, December 2024.
50. Psychological Assessment of Dementia,
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, December
2024
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
Archetypal Dynamics. Annual Meeting of the Society
for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, 2001.
Archetypal Dynamics and
Emergence. NATO ARW : Formal Models of Developing Systems, October 2002.
Archetypal Dynamics. Snowflake Conference. New
Haven, CT. February 2004.
Archetypal Dynamical
Systems. International Conference on Complex Systems. New England
Complex Systems Institute. Boston, MA. 2004.
Phase Transitions in Random Graphical Dynamical
Systems. International Conference on Complex Systems.
New England Complex Systems Institute. Boston, MA. 2004.
Horizontal Emergents in Archetypal Dynamics. Meeting of the Society for Chaos
Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences. Madison, WI. 2004.
Archetypal Dynamics: Applications to Logic. 9th
Asian Logic Conference, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2005
H-Complex Tapestries. American Mathematical Society
Meeting. Atlanta, GA. January 2005.
Archetypal Dynamics: The Reality Game. Snowflake Conference. Springfield, MA. February 2005.
Archetypal Dynamics: The Reality Game.
Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, UIUC, 2005
Emergence in the Game of Life, Understanding
Complex Systems Symposium, UIUC, 2006
Emergence and the Game of
Life. International Conference on Complex Systems. June 2006. NESCI. Boston, MA
Emergence in the Game of Life, Annual Meeting of
the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Baltimore,
MD, 2006
Archetypes as Symmetries in Complex Systems, Oct,
2007. ICCS, NECSI, Boston
Stochastic Phase Decoupling in Random Graphical
Dynamical Systems, Oct 2007, ICCS, NECSI, Boston
Stochastic Phase Decoupling in Random Graphical
Dynamical Systems, Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, UIUC, 2008
Emergence, Cognition, and Collective Intelligence,
15th Herbstakademie, Bern, 2009
Gender and Temperament Differences in Meaning
Attribution (with I.N.Trofimova), ICAP, Melbourne,
2010
Causal Tapestries in Physics, American Physical
Society, 2011, Dallas
Causal Tapestries in Physics, ICCS, 2011, Boston
Causal Tapestries in Psychology and Physics, Annual
Meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences,
Orange, CA, 2011
The Reality Game: A Process Theory Approach to
Quantum Foundations. American Mathematical Society, Boston, 2012
A Game Theoretic Approach
to Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics.
SIAM. Orlando, Fl, 2013
A Process Model of Non-Relativistic Quantum
Mechanics, International Quantum Structures Association, Olomouc, Czech
Republic, June 2014
Temperament in Depression and Anxiety Disorders,
International Congress of Applied Psychology, Paris, July 2014 (with I.N. Trofimova)
Temperament and Mood Disorders in Middle Aged and
Elderly Samples, International Congress of Applied Psychology, Paris, July 2014
(with I.N. Trofimova)
Temperament and Mood
Disorders from the Perspective of the Functional Ensemble of Temperament Model. European Psychiatric Association, March 2015
Coupling of Temperament
Traits with Depression (and Anxiety) in Different Age Groups. American Psychiatric
Association. Toronto, May 2015
Coupling of Temperament
Traits with Anxiety (and Depression) in 4 Age Groups. American Psychiatric
Association. Toronto, May 2015
The Functional Ensemble of Temperament Model:
Implications for Diagnosis, Research and Treatment. American
Psychiatric Association. Toronto, May 2015
Coupling of Temperament
Traits with Anxiety and Depression in Different Age Groups. Association for Psychological
Science. New York, May 2015
Discriminative Capability
of FET Perspective in Assessment Practices. Canadian Psychiatric
Association. Vancouver, September 2015
An investigation of the
coupling of temperament traits with anxiety. Canadian Psychiatric
Association. Vancouver, September 2015
Neurochemical Linkages Between
Temperament and Mood Disorders. Canadian Psychiatric
Association. Vancouver, September 2015.
A Process Model of Quantum
Electrodynamics. Emergent Quantum Mechanics. Vienna, October, 2015
Transient Induced Global Response Synchronization.
Complex Systems 2016, Wessex Institute, New Forest, UK, May 2016
A Process Algebra Approach
to Quantum Electrodynamics. International Quantum
Structures Association. Leicester, UK. July
2016
Between Temperament and Mood Disorders: Towards a
Common Framework. Occasional Temperament Conference, Seattle, October 2016
Transient Induced Global Response Synchronization,
American Mathematical Society Meeting, Atlanta, January 2017
Neurochemistry of Temperament and Mood Disorders:
Depression and GAD, International Conference of Psychological Science, Vienna,
Austria, March 2017
Temperament and Mood Disorders in Adulthood,
International Conference of Psychological Science, Vienna, Austria, March 2017
An Investigation of the Coupling of Temperament
Traits with Major Depression, European Psychiatric Association, Florence,
Italy, April, 2017
An Investigation of the Coupling of Temperament
Traits with Anxiety, European Psychiatric Association, Florence, Italy, April,
2017
Transient Induced Global Response Synchronization:
Dispositional Cellular Automata. International Nonlinear Science Conference,
Salzburg, Austria, 2017
Dispositional Dynamical Systems: Theory, Modeling
and Implication for research. International Nonlinear Science Conference,
Salzburg, Austria, 2017
Contextuality and realism need not be incompatible: The Process
Algebra approach. Quantum Contextuality
inQuantum Mechanics and Beyond. Prague, 2017
Workshop on " Between Temperament and Mental
Disorders: Assessing the Continuum" (with I. Trofimova).
American Psychological Association, Washington 2017
Symposium on " Between Temperament and Mental
Disorders: Assessing the Continuum" (with I. Trofimova).
Canadian Psychiatric Association, Ottawa 2017
Symposium (with I. Trofimova) Between temperament and
mental disorders: assessing the continuum. Occasional Temperament Conference,
Murcia, Spain, May 2018
Assessing
the continuum between temperament and mental illness: mathematical and
psychiatric perspectives. Occasional Temperament Conference, Murcia, Spain. May 2018
Colloquium (with I. Trofimova)
Between temperament and mental illness: assessing the
continuum. Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany, June, 2018
An investigation of
coupling of temperament traits with Major Depression and General Anxiety gives
new insights for diagnostic criteria. Department of Psychiatry, University of
Marburg, Germany, June, 2018
Towards Completing Quantum
Mechanics: The Process Algebra Approach. Towards Ultimate Quantum Theory, Vaxjo, Sweden, June 2018
Assessing
the continuum between temperament and mental illness: mathematical and
psychiatric perspectives. ICAP,
Montreal, Canada, July, 2018
Workshop (with I. Trofimova) Between temperament and
mental disorders: assessing the continuum. ICAP, Montreal, Canada, July, 2018
A
Process Algebra Model of QED.
ICCS, Boston, USA July 2018
Statistical
Complexity in Biomedical System.
ICCS, Boston, July, 2018
Transient Induced Global
Response Synchronization in Dispositional Cellular Automata. ICCS, Boston,
July, 2018
Continuum between
temperament and mental illness: psychiatric and mathematical perspectives.
American Psychological Association, San Francisco, USA, August 2018
Towards Completing Quantum
Mechanics: The Process Algebra Approach. Interpretations of Quantum Theory,
Warsaw, Poland, December 2018 Towards a Common
Taxonomy of Temperament and Mental Disorder: FET Perspective. International
Convention on Psychological Science, Paris, March 2019
Cognitive Biases Related to
Psychosis and Depression: FET Perspective. . International Convention on
Psychological Science, Paris, March 2019
Temperament
Profiles in Psychiatric Disorders.
World Federation of Societies for Biological Psychiatry.
Vancouver, May 2019
Psychobiology
of Aggression in Dementia. World Federation of Societies for Biological Psychiatry. Vancouver, May 2019
Locality is Dead. Long Live Locality! Quantum Information Revolution:
Impact to Foundations. Vaxjo, Sweden June 2019
Assessing the Continuum Between Temperament and Mental illness in the Context of
Brain Neurochemistry. European Congress of Psychology.
Moscow, July 2019
Cognitive Biases Related to
Depression and Psychosis: FET Perspective. European Congress
of Psychology. Moscow, July 2019
What does Collective
Intelligence Teach Us About Intelligence. European Congress of Psychology. Moscow, July 2019
Continuum
between temperament and mental illness.
Poster at Society for Neurosciences meeting, Chicago, October 23, 2019
The continuum from
temperament to mental illness: Clinical and dynamical perspectives. 30th SCTPLS Meeting, July 2020 online.
The Continuum from
Temperament to Mental Illness: Dynamical Perspectives. 10th ICCS Conference,
July 2020 online
A
Process Algebra Model of Collective Intelligence Systems and Neural Networks. 10th ICCS Conference, July 2020 online
An Information Ontology for
the Process Algebra Model of Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics 10th ICCS
Conference, July 2020 online
Between Temperament and
Mental Disorders: Psychobiology of Consistent Behavioral Patterns (with Dr. I.
Trofimova) Webinar CE course of the American Psychological Association. October 1, 2020, Online. 2019.
Contextuality in Neurobehavioural
Regulatory Systems and Collective Intelligence. Vaxjo Sweden Aug 2021
Forensic
Conundrums in Geriatric Psychiatry.
Presented at the 100th Anniversary of the Serbsky
Institute, Moscow, Russia, October 2021
Decision Making in
Collectives: An example of social insect colonies. Institute of Psychology,
Moscow, Russia, October 2021
The
classical-quantum boundary from the perspective of the process algebra. Vaxjo, Sweden, June 2022
Dispositional Emotionality
Challenges: The Opioid Receptor Systems Are to Blame.
ICPS, Brussels, March 2023
The Continuum between
Temperament and Mental Illness As Dynamical Phases and
Transitions. ICPS, Brussel, March 2023
Collective
Intelligence, Contextuality and Process. Fields Institute, Toronto May 2023
Process and Time, Vaxjo, Sweden, June 2023
The Continuum from
Temperament to Mental Illness, Occasional Temperament Conference, Orford, QC October 2023
Reality Doesn’t Shine, It
Twinkles. Vaxjo, Sweden, June 2024
Transitivity,
contextuality, and decision making. Vaxjo, Sweden, June 2025
Evidence for Serotonin
Mediated Ensembles in Depression and Comorbid
Depression-Anxiety, WFSBP, Berlin, Sept 2025
Spectral Aspects of the
Temperament-Pathology Continuum - FET Results, WFSBP, Berlin, Sept 2025
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 |
|
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 |
Independent study course |
Collective Intelligence |
Undergrad Student |
|
Leah Hockney |
2004-05 |
B.Sc. |
Study of network dynamics in models of
social interactions |
Undergrad Student |
|
Pamela
Kwok |
2005-06 |
B.Sc. |
Rule
Coupled Order-Disorder Effects in RGDS |
Undergrad Student |
|
Patricia
Marcoccia |
2006-07 |
B.Sc. |
Emergence
in Psychology |
Undergrad Student |
|
Michael
Sanderson |
2006-07 |
B.Sc. |
Collective
Intelligence |
Undergrad Student |
|
Luxi Li |
2009-10 |
B.Sc. |
Consciousness |
Undergrad Student |
|
Surab Khogiani |
2010-11 |
B.Sc. |
Adaptation
of the STQ-77 to Dari |
Undergrad Student |
|
Polly
Cheng |
2011-12 |
B.Sc. |
Psychophysiology
of Individual Differences |
Undergrad Student |
|
Titus
Timotin |
2011-12 |
B.Sc. |
Collective
Intelligence |
Undergrad Student |
|
Yiyu Shi |
2018-19 |
B.Sc. |
Collective
Intelligence |
Undergrad Student |
|
Shruthi Raghuraman |
2023-2025 |
B.Sc. |
Sensitivity to Disinformation |
Undergrad Thesis |
|
Daniel Weng |
2025-2026 |
B.Sc. |
L.A.T.E. |
Undergrad
Directed Studies |
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