Your business needs a roadmap for every stage of its growth. We'll remove the mystery of how to create a business plan, the information that should be included, and how to use it as a tool to keep your company on track for long term growth.Virtual Location URL: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/g/x4W8BcsAj4/business-plan-writing-made-easier-webinar-5a1eVO9qPhu Registration Link: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/g/x4W8BcsAj4/business-plan-writing-made-easier-webinar-5a1eVO9qPhu

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.Professor [Suzanne Lenhart](https://web.math.utk.edu/~slenhart/) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will speak at this week's colloquium on Natural System Management: Modeling Examples.Abstract: Specific management features can be included directly into the model framework, and outcomes can suggest the need for external actions on the natural system. Models with discrete and continuous time steps, and some spatial features, will be presented. In one example, optimal control techniques to design time-varying harvest rates of anchovy stock will be illustrated in a food chain system of differential equations for the Turkish coast of the Black Sea, using landing data. In another example, we find the relationship between air temperature and emergence success of hatchlings across multiple nesting seasons to better understand the potential impact of climate change on Loggerhead sea turtle populations. We demonstrate the effect of changing hatchling emergence success on the juvenile and adult populations using a combination of a statistical model and a discrete time model (with two time scales).Speaker Bio: Dr. Suzanne Lenhart is a Chancellor's professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was a part-time research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for 22 years. Dr. Lenhart was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2001 to 2003, and is a fellow of SIAM, AMS, AWM and AAAS. She also served as the associate director for education and outreach of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis for 12 years.

Alexander Mertens is vice president of investments and finance at Elevation Financial Group, where he oversees all fund acquisition and disposition efforts, capital stack initiatives, and the development and implementation of fund reporting and management programs. As the leader of Elevation's investments and finance team, Mertens optimizes fund performance through robust asset management and fund modeling initiatives.* Join Alexander Mertens as he shares his pathway from intern to vice president of investments. * Learn how Mertens took his experience learned from UCF's Burnett Honors College and College of Business to chart his path to earn the top Investment spot at Orlando-based PERE firm Elevation Financial Group. * The workshop will explore opportunistic real estate investing and the parallels of this principle in professional career advancement.Registration Link: https://ucf.startuptree.co/event/s/fhQtjtgQd7yT9xeDRvGzzz/From-Intern-to-Vice-President-of-Investments-%257C-Finding-Your-Pathway-to-Professional-Success

Amy Giroux and Mike Shier will deliver a talk about their recent work with Plains Indian tribes, entitled "And so, They Took Our Children: The Fort Marion Origins of Carlisle Indian Industrial School"

Join LFI & C-SPAN Classroom as we look at how the Declaration served as an inspiration to Indigenous Americans in 1975 with the Indian Self-Determination Act. We'll be joined this month by Daniel S. Murphree, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. He'll be exploring how Indigenous Americans have fought to obtain the promises outlined in the Declaration of Independence.Virtual Location URL: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e1be077a-5288-401f-aa74-7bd9bfe1cc1e@bb932f15-ef38-42ba-91fc-f3c59d5dd1f1 Registration Link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e1be077a-5288-401f-aa74-7bd9bfe1cc1e@bb932f15-ef38-42ba-91fc-f3c59d5dd1f1 Registration Info: Register here

Title: Inverse Designed, Densely Integrated Classical and Quantum PhotonicsAbstract: Recent breakthroughs in photonics design, along with new nanofabrication approaches and heterogeneous integration, play crucial roles in building photonics for applications including optical interconnects and quantum technologies. This design breakthrough, called photonic inverse design, involves efficiently searching through the space of all possible photonic device geometries, considering fabrication constraints, and using fast electromagnetic solvers and optimization tools. Additionally, new photonic platforms have been developed, enabling functionalities beyond silicon on insulator. These include silicon carbide, diamond, and Titanium: sapphire on insulator, as well as ultra-strong electro-optic materials, such as strontium and barium titanate. With these new approaches to design and fabrication, novel optoelectronic devices and systems have been designed and demonstrated, including error-free and fast chip-to-chip and on-chip optical interconnects compatible with commercial foundries, chip scale Ti: sapphire lasers and amplifiers, CMOS-compatible isolators and laser frequency stabilizers, and silicon carbide and diamond chip-scale quantum technologiesAbout the Speaker: Jelena Vuckovic (PhD Caltech 2002) is the Jensen Huang Professor of Global Leadership, Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics at Stanford. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her honors include the Zeiss Award, Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Mildred Dresselhaus Lectureship from MIT, and the Humboldt Prize. She is a fellow of the APS, Optica and IEEE. Vuckovic is a co-founder and a lead scientific advisor of SPINS Photonics and a lead editor of Physical Review Applied.Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/97575154727?from=addon