BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UNIFY BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4197797/mathematical-biology-seminar-by-dr-hsin-hsiung-bill-huang-ucf/ DTSTAMP:20260901T130000 DTSTART:20260901T130000 DTEND:20260901T140000 LOCATION:MSB 318: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room 318 SUMMARY:Mathematical Biology Seminar by Dr. Hsin-Hsiung 'Bill' Huang, UCF URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4197797/mathematical-biology-seminar-by-dr-hsin-hsiung-bill-huang-ucf/ DESCRIPTION:[Mathematical Biology Seminar](https://sciences.ucf.edu/mathbio/mathematical-biology-seminar/)\n\n[Dr. Hsin-Hsiung 'Bill' Huang](https://sciences.ucf.edu/sdmss/person/hsin-hsiung-huang/) (UCF School of Data, Mathematical, and Statistical Sciences) will speak on "Bayesian Sparse Mixed-Response Species Distribution Models with Spatial Dependence" at this week's seminar.\n\nAbstract: Ecological monitoring programs increasingly record continuous, binary and count responses at common sites. We develop a Bayesian species distribution model for such mixed ecological responses, using a shared row-sparse coefficient matrix, Polya-Gamma augmentation for binary and negative-binomial components, Gaussian updates for continuous components, and a low-rank representation of spatial or spatio-temporal structure. Raw environmental variables are expanded through a deterministic maximum-entropy-style feature dictionary before joint shrinkage is applied. The model preserves response-family-specific likelihoods while allowing common environmental structure and residual dependence across responses. Controlled simulations show that the one-step and screened two-step estimators recover sparse coefficient rows and improve binary discrimination relative to response-wise sparse regressions when the data-generating mechanism contains shared sparsity and cross-response dependence. Heat maps, support-recovery summaries and residual maps diagnose sensitivity to spatial rank, count calibration and screening choices. The ecological analyses clarify the intended use. FishGlob motivates the full mixed-response survey problem, family-specific diagnostics and dependence visualization. The African elephant occurrence-background benchmark shows why the Bernoulli special case must use the full spatial-sparse predictor rather than an environment-only sparse ablation: a strong spatial gradient cannot be represented adequately by sparse environmental features alone. After adding the spatial-basis component and training-fold probability calibration, the proposed Bernoulli implementation has the strongest blocked cross-validation area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, Brier score and log score among the fitted elephant comparators. The method is most useful for high-dimensional mixed-response learning with interpretable shared sparsity and explicit spatial adjustment.\n\nShort Bio: Dr. Hsin-Hsiung "Bill" Huang is a Professor in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.S. in Statistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Mathematics from National Taiwan University, and dual B.A./B.S. degrees (Economics and Mathematics) also from National Taiwan University. Dr. Huang's research interests include Bayesian ultrahigh-dimensional variable selection, matrix- and tensor-variate regression, clustering, classification, and dimension reduction, with a focus on developing new statistical methods for complex, large-scale data. His recent projects encompass spatiotemporal modeling, novel neuroimaging reconstruction algorithms, and threat detection. His work has been supported by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation's Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) program, where he serves as principal investigator (including NSF DMS-1924792 and DMS-2318925), as well as by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he is a co-investigator on a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) R01 award (1R01NS133094-01A1). END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4197867/healthcare-it-symposium/ DTSTAMP:20260901T140000 DTSTART:20260901T140000 DTEND:20260901T160000 LOCATION:Dr. Phillips Academic Commons: 161 SUMMARY:Healthcare IT Symposium URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4197867/healthcare-it-symposium/ DESCRIPTION:The School of Global Health Management and Informatics is proud to host Dr. Sudha Chandrashekar, Dr. Ricardo Silva, and Dr. Alyssa Tanaka as they discuss collaboration, innovation, and the future of technology-enabled health systems. \n\nDate: Sept 1\n\nTime: 2pm - 4pm\n\nLocation: DPAC 161, UCF Downtown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4195778/what-is-the-blackstone-launchpad-cel/ DTSTAMP:20260901T150000 DTSTART:20260901T150000 DTEND:20260901T160000 LOCATION:Virtual SUMMARY:What is the Blackstone LaunchPad & CEL? URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4195778/what-is-the-blackstone-launchpad-cel/ DESCRIPTION:Did you know we give away MONEY? Did you know we have $20/hour internships in different industries and cities? Have you seen our roster of coaches and speakers from last year? You've probably walked by our location in the Student Union, but this is your opportunity to get to know ALL that we have to offer through an online session. From gaining a mentor to finding inspiration or growing your side hustle, we are here to help you be more competitive in your profession jouney. \n\nVirtual Location URL: ucf.zoom.us/my/ucflaunchpad\nRegistration Link: https://ucf.startuptree.org/events/946 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4197503/sip-chat-and-discover-yellowdig/ DTSTAMP:20260901T160000 DTSTART:20260901T160000 DTEND:20260901T170000 LOCATION:Virtual SUMMARY:Sip, Chat, and Discover Yellowdig URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4197503/sip-chat-and-discover-yellowdig/ DESCRIPTION:Need help with [Yellowdig](https://t.e2ma.net/click/uwgu5m/mqidevgb/2ibj58) or want to learn what's new? Join UCF's monthly chat, co-hosted by CDL and Yellowdig Success Manager Vicky De La Cruz. This informal session is an opportunity to ask questions, explore new features, review community engagement, and get personalized guidance. Connect with fellow Yellowdig users at UCF, share ideas, and bring your favorite beverage. View their recent [Yellowdig video](https://t.e2ma.net/click/uwgu5m/mqidevgb/ibcj58). \n \nThis workshop is limited to faculty. To register for this session, please contact Instructional Designer Joseph Lloyd at Joseph.Lloyd@ucf.edu\n\nVirtual Location URL: https://yellowdig.co/\nRegistration Link: https://yellowdig.co/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR