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Recently there has been much interest in the process of “bulk reconstruction,” i.e. the process of decoding sub-AdS scale physics from CFT data. In this talk I will review efforts to reconstruct the bulk using bulk equations of motion, symmetry considerations, and bootstrap techniques. I will also discuss the possibility of bulk reconstruction beyond the AdS causal wedge, the maximal region that bulk causality would naively allow.

Contact

Harris Psychological Services Center
harrispsc@gmail.com
(859) 257-6853

Workshop Details

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is a highly efficacious form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The wide variety of possible ERP treatment components and the heterogeneity of OCD symptoms can make delivery of ERP confusing and difficult. In an attempt to simplify treatment, this workshop will focus on the core components of ERP: therapeutic in vivo exposure and prevention of compulsive behaviors with an emphasis on the principles of change that underlie these treatment components. Attendees will learn to assess OCD and associated symptoms, develop cognitive-behavioral case conceptualizations, prepare flexible ERP treatment plans, and execute said plans with OCD patients. Attendees will end the workshop by reviewing case examples and practicing the development and execution of ERP treatment plans.

Workshop Objectives

1. Review empirically-supported psychosocial and somatic treatments for child and adult OCD with an emphasis on exposure and response prevention (ERP).
2. Discuss mechanisms that maintain obsessive-compulsive symptoms and the principles of change that underlie ERP to provide a framework for treatment planning and problem solving with difficult cases. 
3. Review and practice objective assessment of child and adult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
4. Present child and adult case examples to demonstrate a step-by-step approach for planning and delivering ERP. 
5. Develop example case conceptualizations, ritual prevention protocols, and exposure hierarchies

About the Presenter

Dr. Thomas Adams received his PhD. in clinical psychology from the University of Arkansas following his completion of a pre-doctoral internship at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center. He is currently completing a research fellowship (5 T32 MH062994 13) at the Yale University OCD Research Clinic and the Clinical Neuroscience Division of the VA National Center for PTSD. As the Director of Resident Training in Evidence-Based Psychotherapy on the Yale University Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, he provides and supervises cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for patients with severe mood, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and stress-related disorders. Dr. Adams' research is focused on improving the understanding, efficacy, and efficiency of treatments for disordered anxiety. To this end, he is developing two parallel arms of research to: 1) assay psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of change underlying CBT for disordered anxiety, and; 2) integrate somatic and cognitive-behavioral intervention strategies to target said mechanisms. 

Audience

This workshop is appropriate for Psychologists, Social Workers, Professional Counselors, and other Mental Health Professionals

Registration Closed

Event Location

Keenland Health Education Center
Saint Joseph Hospital
1451 Harrodsburg Rd
Building D, 4th floor
Lexington, KY 40504

Parking is available on-site.

CE Credits/Attendance

Psychologists: This program will provide 3 CE credits. The University of Kentucky is an approved sponsor for CE credits by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology.

Students and Other Mental Health Professionals: This program is only approved for CE credit for licensed psychologists.

Contact

Harris Psychological Services Center

harrispsc@gmail.com

(859) 257-6853

Workshop Details

The primary objective of this training is to help behavioral health clinicians respond with skill and confidence when clients/patients/consumers do things that inadvertently interfere with their own therapy progress. Common and frustrating behaviors that interfere with therapeutic progress occur across a wide range of adult outpatients and therapeutic approaches. Some of these therapy-interfering behaviors (TIBs) include avoidance during therapy, therapy no-shows, drop-outs, angry behavior toward the therapist, suicidal threats, sexually inappropriate behavior, homework non-compliance, and behaviors on the part of the therapist that might interfere with therapeutic progress. This training will help clinicians better manage TIBs by using a practical framework with principles and strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT; Linehan, 1993). DBT is an evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD) that emphasizes therapists using strategies to target and reduce TIBs. Strategies to manage TIBs in DBT are consistent with and can fit well within the general framework of many other psychotherapies. In addition, strategies within DBT used to reduce TIBs may be applied across a variety of clinical problems, not only to individuals meeting diagnostic criteria for BPD. In this training attendees will learn how to use approaches from DBT to help reduce TIBs, without needing to be a DBT therapist, providing comprehensive DBT, or treating someone with BPD. Using didactics and experiential learning, this training will be designed to increase clinician skill and confidence responding to TIBs across a wide array of adults in outpatient settings, in order to reduce therapist burnout and enhance treatment outcomes.

Workshop Objectives

1. Identify common behaviors that may interfere with therapeutic process.
2. Present and discuss recent research providing an empirical basis for use of DBT strategies to help reduce treatment-interfering behaviors.
3. Demonstrate evidence-based strategies from DBT that can be used to target and reduce therapy-interfering behaviors.
4. Identify how such strategies can be applied to address therapy-interfering behaviors across a wide array of patients.

About the Presenter

Dr. M. Zachary Rosenthal is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Duke University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Duke University Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. He is Director of the Sensory Processing and Emotion Regulation Program and the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program (CBRTP). Within the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, he is the Vice Chair for Clinical Services. Dr. Rosenthal’s line of research has focused on characterizing problems with emotional functioning and emotion regulation in adult psychopathology in general and borderline personality disorder (BPD) specifically. Dr. Rosenthal is a licensed clinical psychologist in North Carolina trained in contemporary cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs), and is an expert in the treatment of BPD using dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). He is a faculty member in the Duke Medical Psychology Internship program, where he trains and mentors Psychology Interns. Additionally, he provides educational training to community mental health and substance abuse professionals through a partnership between Duke University, AHEC, and the North Carolina Evidence-Based Practices Center.

Audience

This workshop is appropriate for Psychologists, Social Workers, Professional Counselors, and other Mental Health Professionals

Event Location

Fayette County Cooperative Extension

1140 Red Mile Pl.

Lexington, KY 40504

Parking is available on-site.

CE Credits/Attendance

Psychologists: This program will provide 3 CE credits. The University of Kentucky is an approved sponsor for CE credits by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology.

Students and Other Mental Health Professionals: This program is only approved for CE credit for licensed psychologists.

Nature uses microvascular structures as a central element of complex materials that grow, regenerate, and improve themselves and their function. Work into synthesizing microvascular materials has recently taken a step forward in the form of a new synthetic process VaSC (Vaporization of a Sacrificial Component) that enables the formation of 3D microstructures that are meters in length. I report on our recent advances in using VaSC to create three-dimensional gas exchange units modeled on the design of avian lungs. I will focus on mass transfer applications for the capture of CO2. I will also report on recent research into creating high surface area micro-structures, the synthesis of cooperative binders of CO2 and chemical reactions mediated by photo-thermal effects. Finally, I will talk about adapting microvascular structure to allow them to improve their functions through chemical remodeling.

Link to Esser-Kahn group: link

"Electron-Donating Phenothiazines for Energy Storage Applications"

Prof. Susan A. Odom

Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky

Phenothiazine derivatives have seen widespread use as stable electron-donating organic compounds with generally stable oxidized states, which makes them an attractive core for functionalization for use in electrochemical energy storage applications. With phenothiazine itself as a starting material, functionalization of the 3, 7, and 10 positions is facile, providing options to modify redox potentials and improve stability in both the neutral and singly oxidized (radical cation) states. Additionally, this ring system can be built from aryl amines and aryl bromides, allowing for the production of compounds with even more functionalization, including incorporating groups at the 1 and 9 positions and – in some cases – at every sp₂-hybridized C atom in the aromatic core. In many cases, computational studies have predicted what we have observed experimentally, and often guides our design of next-generation materials. This presentation focuses on the characterization of phenothiazine derivatives, both from experimental and computational approaches, and includes results from their incorporation into lithium-ion batteries as electrolyte additives for overcharge protection as well as studies toward using them in non-aqueous redox flow batteries as catholytes. 

This seminar is part of the 2015-16 Energy Storage Seminar Series at UK supported by NSF EPSCoR under Award No. 1355438.

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Suggested background reading: Fichte, System of Ethics (tr. Breazeale and Zöller). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 24-63 (SW 4:18-62). 

See also Fichte's Ethical Thought (Oxford, 2016) (out in April, 2016).

From Ferguson, Missouri to Mexico City political demands move hand in hand with cultural movements reflecting aspects of what art critics since the 1990s have called relational aesthetics. Contesting the value of the museum artifact as well as the autonomous self, these movements produce art as acts of collaboration with social goals.  What rappers term flow and call-response constitute the corporeal and affect-driven ethico-aesthetic dynamics of urban lives across the US/Mexican border.  Creative practices in multimedia art, rap, and popular music counter the negative charges and territorial markings of the geopolitical map drawn by the American drug wars with the rhythms and tones of change.