International Day of Light Canada 16 May

Today, we celebrate 60 years that Theodore Maiman built the first working laser on May 16, 1960. https://www.aps.org/publicatio//201005/physicshistory.cfm

IDL Canada's virtual exhibit at Youth Science Canada's STEM Expo will go live May 19th. Get a sneak peek here:

Painting with polarization by Prof. Aaron Slepkov at Trent University. #IDL2020 #SeeTheLight #IDLCanada #CAPhys

International Day of Light, Canada will be highlighting Canadian research, inventions, based on light at the Virtual STEM Expo organized by Youth Science Canada from May 19-30th. Around 10000 students and members of the general public are expected to view this exhibit. The exhibit will also be featured on social media accounts of IDL Canada and the IDL Worldwide. You are invited to share pictures, photographs, videos of research or of demonstrations (send a link to a Youtu...be video), links to webpages with popular science or games, etc., that we can feature on this virtual exhibit. The items should be related to light, lased-based technologies (such as microscopy or astronomy), or ways in which light enables sustainable development. Your contributions may be sent to [email protected] before May 15th. Please send a short description of the item with each submission.

International Day of Light, Canada will be highlighting Canadian research and inventions based on light at the Virtual STEM Expo organized by Youth Science Canada from May 19-30th. Around 10000 students and members of the general public are expected to view this exhibit. The exhibit will also be featured on social media accounts of IDL Canada and the IDL Worldwide. You are invited to share pictures, photographs, videos of research or of demonstrations (send a link to a You...tube video), links to webpages with popular science or games, etc., that we can feature on this virtual exhibit. The items should be related to light, lased-based technologies (such as microscopy or astronomy), or ways in which light enables sustainable development. Your contributions may be sent to [email protected] before May 15th. Please send a short description of the item with each submission.