Time: 12:00 PM
Get ready to launch into an out‑of‑this‑world challenge at the Climbing Tower! This spring, we’re blasting off into the Cosmic Climb - a gravity‑defying competition where climbers of all levels can test their skills among the stars. Expect stellar routes, spaced‑out themes, and plenty of intergalactic energy. Suit up, strap in, and see if you’ve got what it takes to reach the top of the universe (AKA the Tower)!
What to Expect:
Registration
Patrons who do not have tickets for another same-day UCF Celebrates the Arts event at Dr. Phillips Center must register for a free lobby pass.
UCF Celebrates the Arts 2026
March 30-April 12, 2026 | arts.ucf.edu/celebrates
Experience the innovative spirit of UCF through creative presentations that push the boundaries of traditional art forms.
Year-round on the UCF campus, students are immersed in the technology, theory, design, performance, and practical application required for them to be the next generation of creative leaders. Every spring, they converge at Dr. Phillips Center for a two-week cultural extravaganza, allowing our community to enjoy performances, exhibitions, presentations and interactive experiences. With a focus on accessibility, affordability, partnership, and diverse offerings, UCF Celebrates the Arts 2026, running March 30-April 12, is a unique opportunity to experience the creative side of UCF.
]]>Elle’s dreams of settling down after college graduation are cut short when her boyfriend Warner breaks up with her to attend Harvard Law. Devastated and determined to get him back, Elle pulls together an unconventional application and charms her way into Harvard Law. At first, she struggles to fit in. But then, with the help of some new friends, Elle discovers something much better than Warner’s approval—a new sense of self—one who’s ready to take on the world!
Amazingly fun and full of show-stopping song and dance numbers, Legally Blonde is an award-winning musical based on the beloved movie of the same name.
LEGALLY BLONDE is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
UCF Celebrates the Arts 2026
March 30-April 12, 2026 | arts.ucf.edu/celebrates
Experience the innovative spirit of UCF through creative presentations that push the boundaries of traditional art forms.
Year-round on the UCF campus, students are immersed in the technology, theory, design, performance, and practical application required for them to be the next generation of creative leaders. Every spring, they converge at Dr. Phillips Center for a two-week cultural extravaganza, allowing our community to enjoy performances, exhibitions, presentations and interactive experiences. With a focus on accessibility, affordability, partnership, and diverse offerings, UCF Celebrates the Arts 2026, running March 30-April 12, is a unique opportunity to experience the creative side of UCF.
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]]>UCF Choral Showcase: Knights Chorale (formerly Chamber Choir), SoAl, TeBa, and the premiere of new ensembles Cantilena and Coro Profundo
Join us for a landmark evening as UCF’s choral department presents a magnificent display of vocal artistry. This performance marks a significant moment in our history, highlighting the debut of our newest vocal groups.
From the time-honored excellence of Dr. Miller’s ensembles to the contemporary brilliance of the Knights Chorale, this concert is a comprehensive celebration of the human voice in all its forms.
The Foundation of Excellence: SoAl and TeBa
The program proudly highlights the SoAl (Soprano-Alto) and TeBa (Tenor-Bass) choirs under the distinguished leadership of Dr. Kelly Miller. As the long-standing pillars of the UCF choral department, these ensembles bring their trademark precision, passion, and storied tradition to the stage with a curated selection of masterful choral works.
A Modern Masterpiece: Knights Chorale
The Knights Chorale (formerly known as the Chamber Choir) will perform the evening’s centerpiece: Elaine Hagenberg’s stunning work, Illuminare. Using Greek, Latin, and English texts, Illuminare guides the audience through a transformative journey from darkness into light—a powerful, transcendent piece known for its lush harmonies and soaring emotional depth.
New Horizons: The Premiere of Cantilena and Coro Profundo
Under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Redding, we invite you to witness the debut of two brand new ensembles that represent the growth and future of our program:
Student tickets: $15 with code knightcta26, valid UCF or student ID required.
]]>Building on last year’s explorations of artificial intelligence’s creative potential within the performing arts, this performance combines satire, drama, improvisation, and multimedia to create an original work. Much has changed in the world of AI since last year’s event, so professors and students have continued to navigate the evolving and complex relationships between artificial intelligence and humans.
The core story of the performance follows a human moving through a progression of AI loops, with scenes derived from real news stories and fictional scenarios. Audience participation is encouraged! Patrons may be asked to provide suggestions for an AI improv comedy scene, ask questions during an AI press conference, or ponder the differences between AI and human-created content.
Be sure to stay for an engaging discussion with faculty and student artists immediately following the show.
UCF Celebrates the Arts 2026
March 30-April 12, 2026 | arts.ucf.edu/celebrates
Experience the innovative spirit of UCF through creative presentations that push the boundaries of traditional art forms.
Year-round on the UCF campus, students are immersed in the technology, theory, design, performance, and practical application required for them to be the next generation of creative leaders. Every spring, they converge at Dr. Phillips Center for a two-week cultural extravaganza, allowing our community to enjoy performances, exhibitions, presentations and interactive experiences. With a focus on accessibility, affordability, partnership, and diverse offerings, UCF Celebrates the Arts 2026, running March 30-April 12, is a unique opportunity to experience the creative side of UCF.
]]>Our own Professor Alexander Katsevich will speak at this week's colloquium on "High-dimensional Laplace asymptotics up to the concentration threshold."
Abstract: High-dimensional Laplace-type integrals are a basic tool for approximating difficult quantities across mathematics, statistics, physics, chemistry and engineering. They arise in posterior normalization and expectation formulas in Bayesian statistics, in partition functions and free energies in statistical physics, in saddle-point and fluctuation calculations in field-theoretic models and in molecular simulation and theoretical chemistry. A major obstacle, however, is that in many modern problems, both the large parameter lambda and the dimension d grow, and the classical rigorous theory no longer applies in these regimes.
In this talk, Katsevich will describe recent results that substantially extend the reach of rigorous Laplace asymptotics. Until now, explicit high-dimensional expansions with remainder bounds were essentially limited to the Gaussian-approximation regime, which requires d^2/lambda -> 0. His results go far beyond that barrier and remain valid essentially all the way up to the natural concentration threshold d/lambda -> 0. In other words, they identify the true high-dimensional range in which one can still obtain explicit asymptotic formulas with rigorous error control. This closes a major gap between formal practice and rigorous theory, and represents a significant advance on a century-old problem of extending Laplace asymptotics to high dimensions.
The results have several important consequences. They provide explicit higher-order formulas for the logarithms of Laplace integrals, yielding rigorous versions of corrections that, in physics, are often interpreted as fluctuation or loop terms. They also give constructive approximations to the underlying concentrating probability measures, leading to practical approximations for posterior expectations, marginal likelihoods and approximate sampling schemes. As a result, they are directly relevant to uncertainty quantification and Bayesian inverse problems, while also placing a broad class of calculations in statistical physics, chemistry and related areas on a firmer mathematical foundation.
This is joint work with Anya Katsevich of the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University.
Speaker Bio: Alexander Katsevich is a mathematics professor at UCF. His research focuses on inverse problems, microlocal analysis, tomography and medical imaging. He earned his doctorate in mathematics from Kansas State University in 1994 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining UCF in 1996. He's the recipient of the 2016 Marcus Wallenberg Prize.
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]]>Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. RSVP through Handshake to secure your spot!
]]>This workshop is part of the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Well-Being Online Workshop series! Learn about CAPS and other workshops.
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This workshop is limited to faculty credentialed to teach online.
]]>Meeting is OPEN to all UCF students, faculty, staff, and community members.
Self Management And Recovery Training (SMART Recovery) is an evidenced-informed recovery method grounded in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), that supports people with substance dependencies or problem behaviors to:
SMART Recovery focuses on the addictive behaviors, not the substance – meaning they are suitable for any problematic or addictive behavior – including but not limited to alcohol, drugs, gambling, tobacco, as well as eating disorders.
For more information about this meeting format visit https://smartrecovery.org/. For more UCF Recovery resources, visit our website.
]]>We’ll briefly review what GenAI is and how it works, then address its advantages and weaknesses. We'll also touch on effective prompt engineering before turning to possible productivity gains.
Participants will be able to:
This workshop is part of the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Well-Being Online Workshop series! Learn about CAPS and other workshops.
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Check in on the first floor, and you'll be directed to meet with a Career Peer Advisor for assistance with your resume, cover letter or Handshake profile. Or let us know if you have any quick career questions!
]]>ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
For more information about this meeting visit studenthealth.ucf.edu/recovery/ or call the AA 24-Hr Helpline at (407) 260-5408
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]]>Walk-ups are welcomed, and appointments are appreciated!
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