Bahareh 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.

Those 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.

Abstract: 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.

Here, 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.

About 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.

Steven J. Miller 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).

Abstract: 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.

Speaker 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.

This event is sponsored by the Florida SBDC at UCF.

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We 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.

This event is sponsored by the Florida SBDC at UCF.