Attention Entrepreneurs: You are Invited!

Attention Entrepreneurs: You are Invited!

Business Intelligence Series - The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Orlando, Inc., is proud to announce its new Business Intelligence Series. Join us on April 22 as we explore Central Florida's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem to learn about Resources for Entrepreneurs in our region.

How can we create a rich ecosystem for Central Florida entrepreneurs that provides the right environment for sustainable business innovation and growth? How, and at what point, does an entrepreneur enter the system and begin connecting with all members? How do we assist entrepreneurs in coalescing around a shared vision and culture to propel our entrepreneurial ecosystem to "greatness?"

Learn about resources that can help you grow your business, hear from experts and champions of the entrepreneurial movement, and connect to other components of our rich ecosystem including:

• Waymon Armstrong - President, Engineering and Computer Simulations - Named 2010 Florida Small Business of the Year.
• Cari Coats - Entrepreneur, Executive Director, Rollins College Center for Advanced Entrepreneurship
• Dr. Tom O'Neal - Founder and Executive Director of the UCF Business Incubation Program
• Steve Quello - President, CEONexus - Resources for Growth-Oriented Companies
• Jerry Ross - Entrepreneur, Executive Director, Disney Entrepreneur Center
• Economic Gardening Tools
• GrowFL Program at the Florida Economic Gardening Institute
• Florida Virtual Entrepreneur Center
• UCF Venture Lab
• Funding Opportunities
• And more

The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Thursday, April 22, 2010
8:00 to 8:30 a.m. Registration, Coffee & Conversation
8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Program
Embassy Suites Hotel Orlando - Downtown
191 East Pine Street, Downtown Orlando
(Click for Map)

$25 - In Advance
$30 - Day of Event
Complimentary Admission for Orlando, Inc.
Business Partners and Business Connection Investors
(Previously Regional Board of Advisors and Chamber Trustees)

Orlando, Inc. (Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce)
Orlando, Inc. (Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce) is one of four lines of business of the Central Florida Partnership and is specifically focused on Regional Entrepreneurship. A "Five-Star Chamber" - the highest level of achievement awarded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - we are positioned to serve the growing needs of businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the Central Florida Region.

Working together with BusinessForce (Public Policy Advocacy), myregion.org (Regional Research & Resolves) and Leadership Orlando (Regional Leadership), the Central Florida Partnership is moving "Ideas to Results."

For additional information, visit: www.orlando.org

NOTE: The UCF Business Incubation Program has forwarded this information to you as a courtesy to our partner Orlando, Inc.

CREOL: Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. Myriam P. SarachikLecture,Friday, April 9th, 2010

Dear All,

The Department of Physics is pleased to announce the visit of Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. Myriam P. Sarachik to our campus. Dr. Sarachik will give a lecture about Nanoscience and Nanotechnology on Friday, April 9th, 2010 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in MAP 260.

About the Speaker,

Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Myriam Sarachik attended primary school in Antwerp and Havana, Cuba and high school at the Bronx High School of Science in New York. She earned a A. B. cum laude from Barnard College in 1954, majoring in physics. After working for a year at the IBM Watson Laboratories at Columbia University, she returned to graduate school to earn a M.S. in 1957 and a Ph.D. in 1960 from Columbia University. In September 1964 she was appointed assistant professor at the City College of the City University of New York. She was promoted to associate professor in 1967, to the rank of professor in 1971, and was designated a Distinguished Professor in 1995, a position which she still occupies. An experimental condensed matter physicist, Sarachik has published extensively in professional journals on her work in superconductivity, disordered metallic alloys, metal-insulator transitions in doped semiconductors, hopping transport in solids, properties of strongly interacting electrons in two dimensions, and spin dynamics in molecular magnets. Following many years' activities on numerous committees and as a Board member, she served as President of the American Physical Society in 2003. Myriam P. Sarachik received the 1995 New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, a 2004 Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York, the 2005 Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics, and was chosen the 2005 L'Oreal/UNESCO Award "For Women in Science" for North America. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Amherst College in 2006.

For more information please contact me at 3-5146 or Dr. Richard Klemm at 2-1160.

SEMINAR: 4.12.2010. / 11-12pm / CREOL102 / "Localized modes inCLC and low threshold DFB lasing"

"Localized modes in CLC and low threshold DFB lasing"

CREOL102, 11:00am - 12:00pm, Monday, April 12th

Dr. BELYAKOV Vladimir Alekseevich

L.D.Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow

Abstract:

A brief survey of the recent experimental and theoretical results on the low threshold distributed feedback (DFB) lasing in chiral liquid crystals (CLC) as well as new original theoretical results in the field are presented. The presentation is concentrated on the lasing thresholds at frequencies corresponding to the stop band edge lasing modes and defect modes in CLC. It is demonstrated that the analytic approach reproduces all features of the DFB lasing in CLC obtained by the traditional numerical approach and, more over, allows to reveal some qualitative effects escaped from the researchers employing the numerical methods. Namely, the effect of anomalously strong absorption at the defect mode frequency, a direct analogue of the corresponding effect at the stop band edge mode frequency, is predicted in the framework of the analytic approach. It is proposed also to reduce the lasing threshold by adjusting the pumping wave to the conditions of the anomalously strong absorption effect at the defect mode frequency. The developed approach helps to clarify the physics of lasing at the stop band edge and defect modes in CLC and manifests an agreement with the corresponding results of the previous investigations obtained by a numerical approach.

Biography:

BELYAKOV Vladimir Alekseevich is a professor in Landau Institue for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is author of the books on cholesteric liquid crystals: V. A. Belyakov and S. A. Sonin, Optics of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals (Nauka publ, Moscow, 1982); V.A. Belyakov, V.E. Dmitrienko, Optics of Chiral Liquid Crystals, Sov. Sci. Rev. A Phys. Vol.13, 1989, pp. 1-212 (Harwood Acad. Publ., UK); V.A. Belyakov, Diffraction Optics of Complex-Structured Periodic Media (Springer, NY, 1992).

For more information:

http://itp.ac.ru/en/persons/belyakov-vladimir-alekseevich

Event hosted by IEEE and SID student chapter Chapter advisor: Prof. Shin-Tson Wu, swu@mail.ucf.edu

SPIE news release: Chilean university looking to rebuild after tsunami

Researchers at the Dept. of Oceanography at the Univ. de Concepción in Chile are looking to the optics and photonics community for assistance in rebuilding their laboratories which were completely destroyed by the recent earthquakes and tsunami. SPIE is assisting with efforts to obtain replacement equipment and monetary donations needed by the Univ. de Concepción's Benthos Lab in the oceanography department.

In addition, SPIE is offering complimentary subscriptions to the SPIE Digital Library to universities in Chile, along with print copies of reference volumes and journals published by the Society. The SPIE Digital Library includes more than 291,000 journal and proceedings articles and 120 eBooks from the SPIE Press catalog.

Read more in the SPIE news release: http://spie.org/x39879.xml

14 Hours of CE's for your FL Contractors 2010 renewal

14 Hours of CE's for your FL Contractors 2010 renewal

(includes an OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety Card).

When: April 6 (full day) and April 7(morning only)

Where: University Tower, Central Florida Research Park, 12201 Research Parkway, 2nd Floor, Orlando.(free parking)

What: 14 Hours of CE's for your 2010 contractors renewal (includes the 10 Hour OSHA Construction Safety Card) CILB #0608113 and CILB #0608400

Who/Provider: Dr. Isabel Perry, CILB provider #0004817

Why us: Get Two construction certificates for the price of One

Questions: call 321-287-7771

Register today at www.TheSafetyDoctor.com/ce for one low price.

Dr. Isabel Perry is founder and President of TheSafetyDoctor.com, Inc. a "One Stop Safety Shop." She is a safety expert with a masters and doctorate degree in safety, plus 25 years of safety experience that started on the manufacturing floor at Pratt and Whitney jet engines and progressed to the executive boardroom with international responsibilities. She currently is a motivational speaker, trainer, consultant and author with clients worldwide. As a former VP of environmental, health and safety in a Fortune 50 company, she led the corporation's development of a safety culture in an environment of 180,000 employees. Under her leadership, accidents and hazardous waste were reduced by more than 60% in 3 years. Dr. Perry is a client of the Business Incubator Center on the UCF campus. Dr. Perry is a licensed provider by the Fl Construction and Industry Licensing Board #0004817 and an OSHA Outreach Trainer, by the US Dept. of Labor.

The 1.5 day course provides 2 options for individuals working in construction. Day 1 is a full day and upon completion attendees will receive a 10 Hour OSHA Construction Safety Certificate. The course includes top safety issues in the construction industry including: scaffolding, electricity, personal protective equipment, recordkeeping, hand and power tool safety, materials handling and more. These 10 hours quality for Fl Contractors CE's (CILB#0608113).

The next day, attendees will meet in the morning only and complete 4 hours of required courses for FL CE renewal for 2010. The topics include Business Practices, Laws and Rules, Wind Mitigation and Advanced Code (CILB#0608400). If contractors attend the 1.5 day course they will leave with 2 certificates: 14 hour renewal for their 2010 FL CE requirements AND a 10 Hour OSHA Construction Safety Card.

NOTE: The UCF Business Incubation Program has forwarded this information to you as a courtesy to one of our Incubator client companies. If you wish to register, please register through the information found below in this email.

Mathematics Distinguished Lecturer Series: The Growth and Form of Micro-Organisms

2009 - 2010

MATHEMATICS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

Professor Michael Tabor

Program in Applied Mathematics

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

will speak on

The Growth and Form of Micro-Organisms

Abstract:

The growth of filamentary cells such as fungi, bacteria, root hairs, and pollen tubes has been a long-standing topic of interest to microbiologists for several centuries. Although there are many fundamental differences in the structure, life cycles, size, and function of these diverse cells, their growth dynamics and structural morphology share many common features. In this talk I will describe a variety of biomechanical and geometrical approaches to modeling the growth and form of such organisms. While these models can provide realistic descriptions they also raise fascinating questions concerning the way in which one can incorporate growth into the framework of continuum mechanics.

DATE: Thursday, April 15, 2010

TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

PLACE: MAP 318

Refreshments will be served

CREOL SEMINAR: “Optics in Security and Forensics Research”

“Optics in Security and Forensics Research”

Friday, April 16, 2010 1:00pm-2:00pm

CREOL Room 102

Michael Sigman

Department of Chemistry and National Center for Forensic Science University of Central Florida

Abstract:

Has your favorite optical spectroscopy been highlighted on CSI? While much of what is depicted in television shows popularizing forensic science does not reflect reality, the non-destructive or minimally-destructive nature of many optical techniques make them highly attractive to forensic and security applications. Surreptitious and stand-off applications serve to further enhance the value of optical techniques in many instances. This presentation will highlight several aspects of our research which focus on optical spectroscopy, coupled with chemometric techniques, to address issues of interest to forensic science and national security. Research in laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and visible microspectrophotometry will be discussed relative to their use in the analysis of explosives, glass, paint and fibers. The interdisciplinary nature of forensic and security science has opened many collaborative research opportunities, which will be highlighted in the presentation. The presentation will conclude with some comments on potential opportunity areas for optics in security and forensic research.

Biography:

Michael Sigman studied chemistry at Southwest Missouri State University, receiving a B.S. degree in 1982. His doctoral research in physical organic chemistry was undertaken at Florida State University.

In 1986 he moved to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as an NIH postdoctoral fellow, and then moved to the University of Chicago in

1987 for two additional years of NIH postdoctoral work in photochemistry and laser spectroscopy. In 1989, he was hired as a research scientist at Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, MI. One year later, Dr. Sigman accepted a research staff position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

At Oak Ridge, he spent 12 years conducting research in areas ranging from environmental photochemistry explosives analysis. In 2002, Dr.

Sigman moved to the University of Central Florida and the National Center for Forensic Science to become an Associate Professor of Chemistry and the Assistant Director for Physical Evidence. In 1997, Dr.

Sigman was the recipient of an R&D-100 Award for the development of a new air-sampling adsorbent. He has served on numerous review/advisory panels and in 2002, Dr. Sigman served as the Chemical Threat Group Chair for Department of Energy workshop on Basic Research Needs for Countering Terrorism.

For More Information:

Dr. Martin Richardson

407-823-6819

mcr@creol.ucf.edu