International Day of Light

Hello World 🌍 🌎 🌏 🎬 Today marks the 7th edition of the UNESCO International Day of Light! Join us in celebrating the marvels of light science and technology and their profound impact on our everyday lives! 🔆 How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Share your enlightening moments and events with us by tagging us on social media. Use our official hashtags #lightday2024 and #lightinourlives2024 ✨

🌟 As a token of our immense gratitude, we've prepared a special treat for all the incredible event participants! 🎁 Download our official Certificate of Participation as a heartfelt 'thank you' and share this token of appreciation with your event participants for their invaluable cooperation and effort in making your events a roaring success! 🎉 Celebrate your achievements together ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e367kHsZ #gratitude  #successcelebrations #lightday2024 #LightInOurLives2024

🌟 New YouTube Video Alert!🌟 Watch the UNESCO International Day of Light special here ➡https://lnkd.in/d-jxS4eJ During this webinar Dr Shelley James - The Light Lady talks about how human-centric lighting has become a marketing pitch for tunable white products that promise to control melatonin levels as a shortcut to perfect sleep and much more... #unesco #internationaldayoflight #dayoflight2024 #lighting #lightingdesign #webinar #education #elearning

Following the award of the grant announced by Società Italiana di Fisica and SIOF for the International Day of Light 2024, we organized an event titled “Shedding Light on the Fast Lane: Exploring Ultra Short Light Pulses,” held on May 20, 2024, at the Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini” of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, entirely dedicated to attosecond physics and ultrafast optics. The day involved about a hundred people, including undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students, researchers, and professors. The first half of the event featured a series of seminars focused on the theme of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics: attosecond physics and ultrafast optics! In the afternoon, participants had the opportunity to closely explore the developing technologies in the department's optical research laboratories. It was wonderful to have you with us to celebrate a brilliant Day of Light✨! ITA : In seguito all’assegnazione del bando indetto da SIF e SIOF per l’International Day of Light 2024, abbiamo organizzato un evento dal titolo “Shedding Light on the Fast Lane : Exploring Ultra Short Light Pulses”, tenutosi il 20 Maggio 2024 presso il Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini” dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II e interamente dedicato alla fisica dell’attosecondo e all’ottica ultrafast. La giornata ha coinvolto un centinaio di persone, tra cui student* triennali, magistrali, dottorand*, ricercatori/ricercatrici e docenti. La prima metà dell'evento è stata dedicata a una serie di seminari incentrati sul tema del premio Nobel per la fisica 2023: la fisica dell'attosecondo, l’ottica ultrafast! Nel pomeriggio l* partecipant* hanno avuto la possibilità di scoprire da vicino, le tecnologie in sviluppo nei laboratori di ricerca di ottica del dipartimento. È stato bellissimo avervi con noi per celebrare una splendente giornata della luce✨! #InternationalDayofLight #Physics #AttosecondPhysics #UltrafastOptics #Research #Innovation #Community #EventHighlights

I had the great pleasure to talk to Prof. Pierre Agostini, laureate of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics with Anne L'Huillier and Ferenc Krausz, at the end of his lecture given at the Université Grenoble Alpes on the International Day of Light 2024. https://lnkd.in/eYGyXGpK Pierre Agostini is famous for shrinking the measurement of time down to the attosecond, a billionth of a billionth of a second, using optical techniques based on creating high-order harmonics of light. Magnificent work! Very inspiring to those involved in the science and the engineering of light.

Thats a wrap! The 2024 Silicon Photonics training is organized in partnership with the SiEPIC Program and professors from University of Toronto, Université Laval, Queen's University, McGill University, and The University of British Columbia. Follow us or sign up for our newsletter to get training updates. https://loom.ly/20EIQYAOptonique Photons Canada/ CPIC IEEE Photonics Society NGEN Siemens International Day of Light

And we did it! The Pratibimb Photonics Labs, SCEE IIT Mandi had its first school and community outreach activity on the 28th of May, 2024, organized on occasion of the International Day of Light 2024, #lightday2024. We invited high school students from local schools (Government Senior Secondary School Kathindi, Government Senior Secondary School Nishu, and Mindtree School) and showed them lens demos, an RPi camera based microscope, solar eclipse on a table-top, Tyndall effect, polarization colours and diffraction-based experiments. Towards the evening, we opened the doors to the IIT Mandi community, and we had some wonderful young and inquisitive visitors who asked the most insightful of questions! All the young ones got a specially printed sticker too :) Massive credit goes to the Pratibimb Lab Research students - Iqbal, Adity, MUTHUSERPI S, Suraksha Kundal and Anand Mohan - who put together the demonstrations, and patiently and tirelessly explained the experiments to the visitors all day long. A big thanks also goes to Tarun Verma - an absolute mensch - who helped us in getting in touch with the local schools, and arranged all the associated logistics. Our thanks also go to the school principals of the respective schools, who kindly facilitated the visit of the students. Outreach activities are hard work, but it also leads to fulfilling and rewarding experiences, benefiting not only those who are visiting or demonstrating, but the community at large. In this regard, we sincerely thank Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST for the Scientific Social Responsibility grant, using which we have now built an outreach kit that we can use for more such activities. We also thank SCEE IIT Mandi for actively supporting us in this endeavor. Aditya Nigam IIT Mandi Laxmidhar Behera International Day of Light

The winner of our photo contest Baptiste Moeglen-Paget had his picture shared by the official International Day of Light Twitter/X page! Congratulations once again, Baptiste!

I was invited to present the Sunlight Autonomy in a webinar organized by the Illuminating Engineering Society for the International Day of Light. KTH Royal Institute of Technology #sunlight #daylight #sunlightautonomy #solaraccess #EN17037 #sustainablecities #planning #buildings Webinar: https://lnkd.in/dSjsP7kK Paper: https://lnkd.in/du_YpBUV

From solar cells, laser fusion and measurement for healthcare and clinical applications - last week I was honoured to present a 'Trip on the Light Fantastic' on the International Day of Light, to show the excitement and importance of light for society. This was an event organised by the University of Adelaide Optica student chapter (thanks to Gabriel Britto Monteiro, Ramses Eduardo Bautista Gonzalez and Jacob Charvetto). My talk covered three aspects: Light for energy, light for measurement, and light for life. It was great to see lots of questions from high school students all the way through to teachers and professors. A pleasure to share my knowledge and passion - and inspire the younger generation! Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS)| ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS)| Centre of Light for Life|University of St Andrews | Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology