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Graduates, you're invited to walk across the commencement stage while loved ones record and photograph this milestone moment in your collegiate career. This opportunity is open to graduates on a first-come, first served basis.Every graduate may bring up to ten (10) guests with them inside the arena. All (of age) guests must bring their driver's license for entry. Regalia is not required to participate. Complimentary parking is available in Garage D. Mobility impaired individuals may be dropped off in front of the Addition Financial Arena prior to parking.[Registration](https://foundation.ucf.edu/GradWalk) is required for graduates only.Check out highlights from our past Grad Walk event through this [RECAP VIDEO](https://vimeo.com/959933187/f4d95b416b)!This event is not the official commencement ceremony.Questions about Grad Walk? Email us at [knights@ucfalumni.co](mailto:knights@ucfalumni.com)[](mailto:knights@ucfalumni.com)[m](mailto:knights@ucfalumni.com). Registration Link: https://foundation.ucf.edu/GradWalk

Join us for the Public Service Recognition Week Awards Ceremony as we honor and celebrate Outstanding Public Service Officials in our community, along with this year's Outstanding Alumni Award recipients.Come be a part of this special occasion as we recognize the dedication, impact and achievements of these remarkable individuals.We look forward to celebrating with you!*Please follow the registration link to RSVP. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-ucf-spa-public-service-recognition-week-awards-ceremony-tickets-1270662739459?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Business Administration will take place on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 9 a.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Undergraduate Studies will take place on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 9 a.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Health Professions and Sciences will take place on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Medicine will take place on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Nursing will take place on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Arts and Humanities will take place on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the Nicholson School of Communication and Media (College of Sciences) will take place on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Community Innovation and Education will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 9 a.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the Rosen College of Hospitality Management will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 9 a.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Engineering and Computer Science will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Graduate Studies will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Optics and Photonics will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

The Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony for the College of Sciences (Excluding Nicholson School of Communication and Media) will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. EDT. This commencement ceremony will take place in the [Addition Financial Arena](https://www.additionfiarena.com/).Visit our [Graduation Celebration website](https://www.ucf.edu/graduation/) and learn more about our spring ceremonies.

Join us for the 2025 UCF HR Summit: Empowering HR Professionals for a Dynamic Future, a comprehensive event that unites industry and academic experts. Learn about the latest trends and challenges and explore how these shifts impact the role of human resources within your organization. Our theme for this event is "Thriving in Change: Empowering HR Professionals for a Dynamic Future." Expect hands-on training sessions that empower you with practical skills. Hosted by UCF Department of Management faculty, the event features engaging panel discussions and a networking reception.INCLUDED WITH REGISTRATIONRegistration includes a full day of highly interactive sessions, eight (8) PDCs, refreshment breaks, networking reception and parking. RSVP required. Space is limited. Registration Link: https://ucfcobevents.ticketsocket.com/event/2025-ucf-hr-summit Registration Info: Registration includes a full day of highly interactive sessions, eight (8) PDCs, refreshment breaks, networking reception and parking. RSVP required. Space is limited.

Join us for an informative session that caters to both experienced and new Panopto users. We will focus on answering your questions and showing off Panopto's newest updates and features.This workshop is limited to UCF Faculty and GTA's.Virtual Location URL: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds[]=58676187 Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds[]=58676187

Title: Enhancing Infrared Detection using Artificial Materials and Laser Interactions between Particles and Optical MaterialsAbstract: One of the historical goals of infrared detection has been to reach the background limit, where the noise of measurement is limited by photon fluctuations from the observed object, with a room temperature device. Recent work in my group with optomechanical thermal detectors has reached within a factor of 3.6 of that limit, the closest ever achieved, such that the thermodynamic processes of photon and phonon fluctuations contribute 98% of the measurement noise. The concept behind this was that one can use meta-optics can be used to create structures with extraordinarily high absorption per unit mass. The detector is a metal-dielectric-metal structure patterned on a subwavelength scale such that it is mostly open space. This creates an effective medium that couples highly to free space and even the gaps between pixels contribute to the absorption. The detector performed with a detectivity of 3.8 x 109 cmHz1/2/W and NETD of 4.5mK in the long-wave infrared (λ ~ 8-12μm) with a time constant of 7.4ms.Particles are ubiquitous in all but the cleanest laboratory environments. Whether these particles are suspended in air or deposited on surfaces, they create a radically different environment than what is typically considered during optical testing. However, dirt does not make (laser-induced) optical breakdown a random process. Our recent studies have shown that one can predict with high accuracy which contaminated optical materials will fail early and in which order it will happen. A high power laser illuminating an absorbing particle heats it to thousands of degrees Kelvin, and the particle begins evaporating. The heat transfers to the underlying substrate, and if it reaches a certain value, then the optical substrate or coating will start to thermally generate electron-hole pairs. These carriers will absorb further light and at a certain concentration, the entire optic will fail, occasionally drilling a hole through the entire thickness of the substrate. This process has a very strong bandgap dependence. Similar behavior has been observed for metal particles in air where lasers can accelerate particles to high velocity into their own optics causing catastrophic failure. In this talk, we will discuss the physics of optical breakdown in the presence of dirt and the practical consequences it has on optical system design.About the Speaker: Joseph Talghader obtained his B.S. in electrical engineering from Rice University. He was awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship and attended the University of California at Berkeley where he received his M.S. and Ph.D, also in electrical engineering. After working in industry at Texas Instruments and WSI, Dr. Talghader joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota where he is now a Professor. His research group works in the areas of directed energy and micro-and nano-optical systems. Among his honors Professor Talghader is a Fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America), has received the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States, and, during his recent sabbatical year, he was a Fulbright and Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Australia and the TI Visiting Professor at Rice University.Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/95579595352?from=addon

Join faculty and staff from [UCF's School of Global Health Management and Informatics](https://ccie.ucf.edu/hmi/) to learn more about our [online Executive Masters of Health Administration](https://www.ucf.edu/online/degree/executive-master-health-administration/)! The Executive MHA (eMHA) track is attractive to working health care professionals due to the online delivery format, which allows students to earn an Executive MHA degree from any location and at times convenient to each student. Throughout the program, students enhance their leadership skills and learn from leading experts and academics in the field of health administration. During this one-hour Zoom you will:* have an extensive overview of the Executive MHA program and what makes us unique. * receive a thorough overview of the application and admissions process. * build connections with UCF staff who specifically work with the program. * have the ability to get all your questions answered!Virtual Location URL: https://applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/portal/emha_webinars?id=a2b40acd-d1b2-4e8d-8e3f-173288f3b696

We hope you'll join us for the 43rd Annual UCF Accounting Conference as we return to the College of Business for an in-person conference. You can earn up to 24 hours of CPE credit.Speakers will include [MrExcel (Bill Jelen)](https://www.mrexcel.com/meet-mrexcel/); [Merrell Bailey, Esq., CPA](https://yourcaringlawfirm.com/our_team/), Your Caring Law Firm; and nationally recognized economist [Sean Snaith, Ph.D.](https://business.ucf.edu/person/sean-snaith/), Director of UCF's Institute for Economic Forecasting.The ethics session will be Wednesday, May 7. Registration Link: https://ucfcobevents.ticketsocket.com/event/2025-accounting-conference Registration Info: Discounts for groups of three or more registrants from the same firm are available.