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Innovation means creating something new, better, or more impactful -- whether it's a product, service, business model or system. It's about identifying problems, designing creative solutions and delivering those solutions sustainably to the people who need them.This competition emphasizes value creation: your solution should have a clear delivery plan, a defined target audience, and a model for generating revenue or sustaining impact. Registration Link: https://ucf.startuptree.co/discover/competitions

UCF AlumKnights Give BackSaturday, Oct. 25 and Sunday, Oct. 26Multiple locations across the country!We invite you to come volunteer with us and make a real difference!Join fellow alumni, friends and family for a rewarding day dedicated to giving back. Together, we'll have a meaningful impact on our communities across Knight Nation. Your time and effort will help create positive change and strengthen the bonds within your community. Let us come together, have fun and make a lasting difference!Questions? Contact us at [Knights@ucfalumni.com](mailto:Knights@ucfalumni.com).Virtual Location URL: https://ucfalumni.com/knightsgiveback/ Registration Link: https://ucfalumni.com/knightsgiveback/

See into your future at our Saturday open houses and imagine what it's like to be a Knight. Explore our campus, connect with students, faculty, and staff, and discover the programs, resources, and experiences that will shape your college experience. From student life to financial aid, you'll get the inside scoop on everything UCF has to offer.View a [sample agenda](https://www.ucf.edu/admissions/undergraduate/open_house_agenda/) and [FAQs](https://www.ucf.edu/admissions/undergraduate/faq/campus-visits-tours/) to start planning your day. Registration Link: https://futureknight.apply.ucf.edu/register/oct2525 Registration Info: Pre-registration is requested, and space is limited, so we encourage you to sign up early.

The UCF volleyball team welcomes Texas Tech on Saturday, Oct. 25.UCF students can attend the match for free with valid UCF student ID. General admission tickets are available for purchase on [Ticketmaster](https://www.ticketmaster.com/ucf-knights-volleyball-tickets/artist/1250831).For the most up-to-date information about the Knights, please visit [ucfknights.com/sports/volleyball](https://ucfknights.com/sports/volleyball) and follow along on social media:* X (formerly Twitter): [@UCF_Volleyball](https://x.com/UCF_Volleyball) * Instagram: [@ucf.volleyball](https://www.instagram.com/ucf.volleyball) * Facebook: [UCF Volleyball](https://www.facebook.com/UCFVolleyball)

A touring film series that showcases contemporary Spanish films to audiences in the US, co-presented by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Central Florida. The series presents a diverse range of films from both established and emerging Spanish filmmakers, highlighting the current talent and different styles within the country's cinema. Known for featuring award-winning films, such as those recognized at the Goya Awards, it is now coming to Orlando! All screenings will be in original version (Spanish) with English subtitles. Do not miss this opportunity!RSVP required! Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spanish-cinema-now-2025-tickets-1748964502909?aff=oddtdtcreator Registration Info: RSVP here

Imagine yourself in a dystopian city where a water shortage has made private restrooms illegal, and citizens must pay to use public restrooms. Now get ready to laugh as this winner of three Tony Awards somehow turns a public crisis into a hilarious musical satire.Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann Lyrics and Book by Greg KotisPerformance Schedule* Thursday, October 16, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Friday, October 17, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Saturday, October 18, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Sunday, October 19, 2025, 2:00 p.m. * Thursday, October 23, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Friday, October 24, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Saturday, October 25, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Sunday, October 26, 2025, 2:00 p.m.Registration Link: https://cah.ucf.edu/events/detail/urinetown/ Registration Info: Tickets: $25, $10 with student ID

Community Climb @ RWC Climbing Tower Every Sunday | Free for UCF StudentsClimb. Create. Connect. Join us every Sunday at the Climbing Tower for Community Climb! This is your weekly chance to hang out, try new activities, and enter our monthly raffle. No experience needed - we want all of the new climbers to come join us!Fall 2025 ScheduleOctober* Oct. 5 - Rope Bracelets & Rope Crafts: Repurpose old climbing rope into crafts to keep or share* Oct. 12 - Fall Climbing Competition: No Community Climb this week; come to the Fall Climbing Comp instead.* Oct. 19 - Anything But a Chalk Bag: Bring something creative to hold your climbing chalk that is anything but a chalk bag. Bonus points for creativity, functionality, style (and being school-appropriate)* Oct. 26 - Boulder Flash Comp: You'll get three attempts to finish a new bouldering problem. Earn extra raffle tickets for completing the routes successfully!November* Nov. 2 - Harness Charms: Create and swap small, clip-on items with other climbers to decorate your harness and connect with the community.* Nov. 9 - Swap Shop: Bring gently used outdoor or climbing gear to trade with others.* Nov. 16 - Sasquatch Challenge: Can you send a route with giant Sasquatch hands and feet? Put your skills to the test and earn raffle entries for completing the challenge.* Nov. 23 - Boulder Flash Comp: You'll get 3 attempts to finish a new bouldering problem. Earn extra raffle tickets for completing the routes successfully!Raffle Info: Attend, participate, and earn raffle entries each week. Winners are drawn at the final Community Climb of the month.

Imagine yourself in a dystopian city where a water shortage has made private restrooms illegal, and citizens must pay to use public restrooms. Now get ready to laugh as this winner of three Tony Awards somehow turns a public crisis into a hilarious musical satire.Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann Lyrics and Book by Greg KotisPerformance Schedule* Thursday, October 16, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Friday, October 17, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Saturday, October 18, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Sunday, October 19, 2025, 2:00 p.m. * Thursday, October 23, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Friday, October 24, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Saturday, October 25, 2025, 7:30 p.m. * Sunday, October 26, 2025, 2:00 p.m.Registration Link: https://cah.ucf.edu/events/detail/urinetown/ Registration Info: Tickets: $25, $10 with student ID

Join UCF Librarian Patrick Green to learn about the Library's citation management system, Endnote. In this workshop, participants will learn how to use the free EndNote Basic citation manager. Citation managers support ethical writing by keeping your literature organized for easy insertion into your research documents and shareable with your team of scholars.This workshop will cover how to import references from Google Scholar and library databases such as Web of Science, utilize the Cite While You Write plug-in for all in-text citations, and allow participants to practice switching your references to different citation styles such as APA Annotated Bibliography.Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.libcal.com/event/15464097 Registration Link: https://ucf.libcal.com/event/15464097

The [UCF Art Gallery](https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/) is proud to present a dynamic exhibition of artworks by the faculty of the [UCF School of Visual Arts and Design](https://cah.ucf.edu/svad/). These professional artists have received both national and international recognition for their engaging and thought-provoking works. The exhibition showcases a wide range of traditional and contemporary media and processes including drawing, digital art, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.To learn more about this exhibition, click [HERE](https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/fall-2025-svad-faculty-exhibition/).

The RWC offers American Red Cross Adult CPR/AED, First Aid Blended Learning classes. The Blended Learning class includes an online portion (most participants can complete this in approximately 2 hours) and an instructor-led class skills session (approximately two hours long). The online portion must be completed prior to attending the in-class skills session.Each participant who successfully completes the course will earn an American Red Cross certificate in Adult First Aid, CPR with AED. The certificate is valid for two years.To register for this class please call 407-823-2408, or walk into the RWC administrative office between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and someone will assist you! Registration Link: https://ucfrwc.org/Program/GetProgramDetails?courseId=d852f400-9a57-40d7-9d72-b60cff4ad06c&semesterId=421e6710-c6e2-49d9-82a8-890f63091995

While the Rosen College Campus undergoes a renovation to the academic building, we will offer Virtual Visit experiences! The virtual sessions will be offered via Zoom. All sessions will be offered on select Mondays and Fridays at 1 pm EST.Virtual Location URL: https://futureknight.apply.ucf.edu/portal/rosenvirtual Registration Link: https://futureknight.apply.ucf.edu/portal/rosenvirtual Registration Info: Registered guests will receive a confirmation e-mail with meeting number and password

The UCF women's soccer team welcomes BYU on Monday, Oct. 27 for its final regular season home match. The match will air on ESPN+.UCF students can attend the match for free with valid UCF student ID. General admission tickets are available for purchase on [Ticketmaster](https://www.ticketmaster.com/ucf-knights-womens-soccer-tickets/artist/1484502).For the most up-to-date information about the Knights, please visit [ucfknights.com/sports/womens-soccer](https://ucfknights.com/sports/womens-soccer) and follow along on social media:* X (formerly Twitter): [@UCF_WSoccer](https://x.com/UCF_WSoccer) * Instagram: [@ucf.wsoccer](https://www.instagram.com/ucf.wsoccer/) * Facebook: [UCF Women's Soccer](https://www.facebook.com/UCFWSoccer)

It's normal to feel stress and anxiety about the next steps after graduation, whether it's finding a job or planning for graduate school. If you're feeling anxious about the next phase of your life, join this workshop to learn strategies for managing graduation anxiety.This workshop is part of the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Well-Being Online Workshop series. [Learn about CAPS and other workshops.](https://caps.sswb.ucf.edu/)Virtual Location URL: https://ucf-hipaa.zoom.us/j/97245375228

Our [Colloquium](https://sciences.ucf.edu/math/colloquium/) series 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.Our own Professor [Christian Kummerle](https://sciences.ucf.edu/math/person/christian-kummerle/) will speak at this week's colloquium on "Iterative Quadratic Reweighting for Low-Rank Neural Network Training & Minimum-Cost Flow Problems."Abstract: Parameter-efficient training, based on low-rank optimization, has become a highly successful tool for fine-tuning large deep learning models. However, these methods fail at low-rank pretraining tasks, where maintaining both the low-rank structure and the training loss remains challenging.In this talk, we present recent work on the Quadratic Reweighted Rank Regularizer (Q3R), which leads to a novel low-rank inducing training strategy inspired by the iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) framework. The strategy includes an adaptation of the state-of-the-art AdamW optimizer [Loshchilov, Hutter 2018] to Q3R. Unlike other low-rank training techniques, Q3R is able to train weight matrices with prescribed, low target ranks of models that achieve comparable predictive performance as dense models, with small computational overhead, while remaining fully compatible with existing architectures.In the second part of the talk, we present ongoing work on a novel continuous solver for non-convex minimum cost network problems such as the fixed-charge network flow problem. Such problems arise in multipart pathfinding problems in the Lightning Network, the leading layer-two scaling technology for the Bitcoin protocol. This talk is based on joint work with Ipsita Ghosh, Sindura Saraswathi, Ethan Nguyen and Andrew Chen.Speaker Bio: Dr. Christian Kummerle joined UCF's School of Data, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (SDMSS) as an assistant professor in 2025 and is affiliated with the UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence. His research interests are in the mathematical foundations of machine learning and the development and analysis of efficient algorithms for large-scale data analysis. His research leverages continuous optimization to address computational and statistical challenges arising from data models involving graph, sparsity and low-rank structures, leading to scalable algorithms with provable guarantees. Dr. Kummerle was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University from 2020 to 2022, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte between 2022 and 2025, and received a doctoral degree in mathematics from Technical University of Munich. His research has been published at premier venues in machine learning (JMLR, ICML, NeurIPS) and in mathematics.

The Campus Activities Board presents: Drip or Treat! Slime it, spray it or paint it. Your creativity is about to get spooky! Pick your potion:* Make oozing ghost slime * Customize trucker hats with spray paint * Paint on tote bags that scream with style

Compete for $15,000 in cash prizes by pitching bold ideas that create real-world impact.This interactive workshop will guide you through everything you need to know to compete in the UCF Innovation Tournament.Competition Tracks:* Art and Entertainment * Social and Health * Retail Products and Services * Advanced TechnologyRegistration Link: https://ucf.startuptree.co/discover/events?s=s

Step up to the mic and share your voice! Whether you're into poetry, spoken word, karaoke, storytelling, or just want to vibe with the unexpected, this open mic is your stage. Come to express, connect, or simply enjoy the creativity of others in a welcoming atmosphere. No experience needed - just bring your energy and curiosity.

This group meets every Monday excluding campus closures/holidays.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:1. Build and maintain motivation 2. Cope with urges and cravings 3. Manage thoughts, feelings and behaviors 4. Live a balanced lifeSMART 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 . For more UCF Recovery resources, visit [our website](https://studenthealth.ucf.edu/recovery/).

No appointment needed -- just come to the Kenneth G. Dixon Career Development Center:* Tuesdays: 10 a.m.-12 p.m. * Wednesdays: 12-2 p.m.Check in on the first floor and you'll be directed to visit 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.