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/4106279/ucfest-speaker-knight-ft-chloe-lukasiak/ DTSTAMP:20260413T190000 DTSTART:20260413T190000 DTEND:20260413T220000 LOCATION:Pegasus Grand Ballroom SUMMARY:UCFest Speaker Knight ft. Chloe Lukasiak URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4106279/ucfest-speaker-knight-ft-chloe-lukasiak/ DESCRIPTION:UCFest presents: Speaker Knight ft. Chloe Lukasiak! \n \nTaking the stage once again, please welcome original Dance Moms cast member [@chloelukasiak](https://www.instagram.com/chloelukasiak/) as she shares her journey with us! \n \nDoors open at 7 p.m. The show starts at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Pegasus Ballroom. \n \nThis event is FREE to UCF students with a valid UCF ID. \n \nSince her time on Dance Moms, Chloe has accumulated over 15 million followers across her social media platforms, sharing her daily life through OOTDs, running and lifestyle vlogs, and more. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4100362/svad-distinguished-artist-series-bahareh-khoshooee/ DTSTAMP:20260416T183000 DTSTART:20260416T183000 DTEND:20260416T193000 LOCATION:Visual Arts Building: 215: Visual Arts SUMMARY:SVAD Distinguished Artist Series: Bahareh Khoshooee URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4100362/svad-distinguished-artist-series-bahareh-khoshooee/ DESCRIPTION:The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design is proud to welcome artist Bahareh Khoshooee as part of the SVAD Distinguished Artist Series on Thursday, April 16 @6:30pm in the Visual Arts Building, Room 215. The lecture is free and open to the public!\n\nBahareh Khoshooee is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and feminist activist. Born in Tehran, Iran, Khoshooee uses time-based strategies in presenting work that fuses 3D environments, video projection mapping, sculpture, performance, and sound. Her practice explores the complex dualities of technology: its oppressive role in surveilling, documenting, and criminalizing BIPOC bodies, and its radical potential for futurity and alternative solidarities. Her work unearths how technology mediates the intimate and collective experiences of grief, violence, and memory, reclaiming these spaces as arenas for liberation, and reimagined futures. Khoshooee is the recipient of Eyebeam's Democracy Machine Fellowship and a Skowhegan alumna. She has presented her solo installations at the Dorothy Center for The Arts, Baxter St CCNY, The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts,The Orlando Museum of Art,and NADA MIAMI 2018 among others. Khoshooee has been included in various group exhibitions including the Honor Fraser Gallery, Latinx Project, Southern Exposure, Museum of Photography Stockholm, and the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Artnet News, The Metro, and The Creators Project.\n\nThose attending will enjoy a lecture from Bahareh Khoshooee on her artistic practice and will also have the opportunity to engage in a Q&A session afterwards. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4089406/scrolling-toward-identity-how-young-people-make-meaning-from-news-and-politics-online/ DTSTAMP:20260423T180000 DTSTART:20260423T180000 DTEND:20260423T190000 LOCATION:Virtual SUMMARY:Scrolling Toward Identity: How Young People Make Meaning from News and Politics Online URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4089406/scrolling-toward-identity-how-young-people-make-meaning-from-news-and-politics-online/ DESCRIPTION:In this webinar, Rachel Besharat Mann presents findings from her recent article, Navigating Digital Realities, published in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Drawing on qualitative research with young people, the study examines how adolescents engage with social media as a primary source of news, political information and identity exploration. Rather than positioning youth as passive consumers or victims of misinformation, this research highlights the nuanced, strategic, and emotionally complex ways young people interpret, evaluate, and incorporate digital content into their developing civic and personal identities. \n \nThe session will explore how algorithms, peer networks and platform affordances shape meaning-making processes, and what this means for educators seeking to support critical digital literacy and civic engagement. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of adolescents' lived digital experiences and practical considerations for classroom instruction in an era where identity formation and political learning increasingly unfold online. \n \nPresenter: \n[Rachel Besharat Mann](https://www.wesleyan.edu/about/directory/profile.html?id=remann), associate professor of the practice of education studies in the College of Education Studies at Wesleyan University\n\nVirtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/meeting/register/M4irHkrsRFuDBSm-xxP1aA\nRegistration Link: https://ucf.zoom.us/meeting/register/M4irHkrsRFuDBSm-xxP1aA\nRegistration Info: Register in advance for this meeting. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4050641/creol-spring-colloquium-laura-sinclair-nist/ DTSTAMP:20260424T110000 DTSTART:20260424T110000 DTEND:20260424T120000 LOCATION:Virtual and CREOL: CROL-103 SUMMARY:CREOL Spring Colloquium: Laura Sinclair, NIST URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4050641/creol-spring-colloquium-laura-sinclair-nist/ DESCRIPTION:Title: Frequency-Comb-Based Optical Timing Networks\n\nAbstract: The optical frequency comb has enabled a wide range of frequency, time, and distance metrology applications due to its precise, rigid, and referenced optical output. However, the very rigidity that makes the frequency comb an excellent time-frequency ruler limits its applicability to comb-based sensing, with many operating far from quantum-limited sensitivity. For instance, frequency-comb-based two-way time transfer relies on the detection of an incoming optical comb pulse train from a distant location. These incoming comb pulse trains may be weak, and amplification is costly -- operation close to the quantum limit would dramatically increase the scope of what is possible in terms of range, SWaP (size, weight and power) and link loss. In turn, that increased scope would enable comparison of state-of-the-art optical clocks for the future redefinition of the second, a wide range of fundamental physics tests, and chronometric geodesy.\n\nHere, I'll present our development of a quantum-limited approach to optical time transfer that relies on a time-programmable frequency comb to overcome the inherent trade-offs that arise from the rigid operation of a traditional comb. These programmable combs have pulse time and phase that can be digitally controlled with ±2-attosecond accuracy, enabling their use as an optical tracking oscillator. Using frequency combs as optical tracking oscillators to reach the quantum limit for optical time transfer, we have demonstrated sub-femtosecond time transfer across a 300-km terrestrial free-space link with more than 100 dB of loss, a factor of 10,000 lower received-power threshold than previous frequency-comb-based approaches. I'll show results from this 300-km demonstration as well as more recent work connecting optical atomic clocks across open-air paths.\n\nAbout the Speaker: Laura Sinclair is the optical time transfer project lead in the Fiber Sources and Applications Group, which is part of the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado. She received a bachelor's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2004, a doctorate in physics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011, and was a post-doc at NIST Boulder, including a National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship, before joining the staff. She's was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019), a Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement as part of the Boulder Atomic Clock Optical Network Collaboration (2019), a NIST Excellence in Technology Transfer Award (2024), the Arthur S. Flemming Award for Basic Science (2024) and an Optica Fellow Award (2026). Her research focuses on the development of optical frequency combs and their wide-ranging applications, particularly to optical time transfer and ranging. With the optical time transfer project team, she has recently demonstrated optical time transfer at the quantum limit, achieving sub-femtosecond time synchronization over 300 kilometers of air.\n\nVirtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/99858743799?from=addon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4088576/colloquium-by-professor-steven-j-miller-williams-college/ DTSTAMP:20260501T103000 DTSTART:20260501T103000 DTEND:20260501T113000 LOCATION:MSB 318: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room 318 SUMMARY:Colloquium by Professor Steven J. Miller, Williams College URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4088576/colloquium-by-professor-steven-j-miller-williams-college/ DESCRIPTION:The [Mathematics Colloquium Series](https://sciences.ucf.edu/math/colloquium/) offers a diverse platform for research scholars, faculty, students, and industry experts to share and exchange ideas, fostering discussion and networking across mathematics, statistics, and data science.\n\n[Steven J. Miller](https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/) from Williams College will speak at this week's colloquium on Benford's Law: Why the IRS might care about the 3x+1 problem and zeta(s).\n\nAbstract: Many systems exhibit a digit bias. For example, the first digit base 10 of the Fibonacci numbers or of 2^n equals 1 about 30% of the time; the IRS uses this digit bias to detect fraudulent corporate tax returns. This phenomenon, known as Benford's Law, was first noticed by observing which pages of log tables were most worn from age (it's a good thing there were no calculators 100 years ago). We'll discuss the general theory and applications, talk about some fun examples (ranging from the 3x+1 problem to the Riemann zeta function) and, if time permits, discuss some current open problems suitable for undergraduate research projects.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Graduated with a bachelor's in math and physics from Yale University and a doctorate in math from Princeton University, Miller has supervised over 600 students and authored more than 200 papers in accounting, computer science, economics, geophysics, marketing, mathematics, operations research, physics, sabermetrics and statistics. He's the associate director of the Williams SMALL REU, a founding member of the Polymath Jr Summer Research Program (and always looking for new collaborators) and the president of the Fibonacci Association. He loves multitasking -- especially with his family, who've co-authored several papers with him (and even tackled some interesting bridge problems). He can also teach people how to solve a Rubik's Cube poorly in under an hour. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/3996301/sba-workshop-building-capacity-with-the-sba-mentor-protege-program/ DTSTAMP:20260513T130000 DTSTART:20260513T130000 DTEND:20260513T160000 LOCATION:National Entrepreneur Center: Venture Training Room SUMMARY:SBA Workshop: Building Capacity with the SBA Mentor-Protege Program URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/3996301/sba-workshop-building-capacity-with-the-sba-mentor-protege-program/ DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person Event: The U.S. Small Business Administration expanded its business development SBA Mentor-Protege Program. By pairing your small business with a mentor enterprise, small business owners should benefit from the expertise of their mentor and better compete for government contracts - both of which can drive up the value of their business when it's time to sell. Most small businesses could use the added capacity to be gained from a mentor-protege relationship. The SBA Mentor Protege programs can help them do that. Attendees will be briefed by the UCF SBDC Apex Accelerator program regarding free technical assistance available to all small businesses in the government contracting area.\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Florida SBDC at UCF.\nRegistration Link: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/g/x4W8BcsAj4/sba-workshop-building-capacity-with-the-sba-mentor-protege-program-5a1eVOCJexJ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/3996304/sba-workshop-blueprint-to-a-successful-sba-joint-venture-package-empty-heading/ DTSTAMP:20260610T130000 DTSTART:20260610T130000 DTEND:20260610T160000 LOCATION:National Entrepreneur Center: Venture Training Room SUMMARY:SBA Workshop: Blueprint to a Successful SBA Joint Venture Package Empty heading URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/3996304/sba-workshop-blueprint-to-a-successful-sba-joint-venture-package-empty-heading/ DESCRIPTION:This In-person workshop will provide an overview of how to build a successful Joint Venture package that conforms to SBA regulations. An old phrase says that two heads are better than one, your properly conformed Joint Venture will make that statement true. \n\nA joint venture agreement or JV is an arrangement between two or more businesses to team up to accomplish a particular business goal. A joint venture may be formed to fulfill a project or business activity, such as when a foreign company wants to enter the local market. Joint ventures may only be temporary, but businesses can enter a JV agreement for short-term or long-term undertakings. \n\nWe will discuss the specific SBA rules on how to prepare the agreement, as well as how to populate the new entity. Attendees will be briefed by the UCF SBDC Apex Accelerator program regarding free technical assistance available to all small businesses in the government contracting area.\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Florida SBDC at UCF.\nRegistration Link: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/g/x4W8BcsAj4/sba-workshop-blueprint-to-a-successful-sba-joint-venture-package-5a1eVOCJfzp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4027644/sba-workshop-how-to-be-prepared-for-disaster-contracting/ DTSTAMP:20260708T130000 DTSTART:20260708T130000 DTEND:20260708T160000 LOCATION:National Entrepreneur Center: Venture Training Room SUMMARY:SBA Workshop: How to Be Prepared for Disaster Contracting URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4027644/sba-workshop-how-to-be-prepared-for-disaster-contracting/ DESCRIPTION:If you reside in Florida, you are subject to floods, storms, and other natural events on an annual basis. When FEMA is activated, emergency contracts will be needed and if you are registered in the [SAM.gov](https://sam.gov/) disaster registry your firm may be considered for those short fused contracts. We will discuss how emergency contracting takes place, will address some of the provisions of the Stafford Act to protect impacted area small businesses, and will highlight some of the federal agencies that make use of contractors to fulfill their disaster recovery mission: FEMA, US Army Corps of Engineers, others.\nRegistration Link: https://events.blackthorn.io/6g3Q8Wa7/5a1eVOCK8H4 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR