Join us live at the 2021 Carnival of Light to celebrate the UNESCO-sponsored International Day of Light (IDL) in Canada. This exciting event will take place on Gather.Town, and feature live demonstrations, presentations from Canadian researchers about the importance of light in their research, and a quantum optics lab tour.
The Carnival of Light will take place on the final day of the STEM Expo: Friday May 21st, from 12-3pm EST. Please register for the event (a Gather.Town link will be sent to registrants on the day-of) and to enter your name to win an at-home optics experiment kit!
Never used Gather.Town before? No worries! Check out this first time user tutorial or one a little more in depth.
| Presenter | Title | Time (EST) |
|---|---|---|
| Aidan Rafferty | Optical manipulation of single aerosol particles | 12:00-12:20-12:40-1:00 |
| Dr Merschrod’s Team | Foolproof Forgeries, or Detectable Deceptions? Using Light as an Investigative Tool | 12:00-12:20-12:40-1:00 |
| Kim Owen | Talking with Light: Quantum Cryptography for Secure Communication | 12:00-12:20-12:40-1:00 |
| Amy L Stevens | Taking snapshots of molecules with ultrashort pulsed lasers | 12:10-12:30-12:50-1:10 |
| Michael Robertson | Recovering History with Light | 12:10-12:30-12:50-1:10 |
| Myriam Prasow-Émond | Exoplanets in the most extreme environments | 12:10-12:30-12:50-1:10 |
| Sandra Cheng | Quantum optics online lab tour | 1:20-1:30 |
| Anna Leckman | 1:40-2:00-2:20-2:40 | |
| Dan Petrescu | Metamaterials for the Future: 2D Phones, Light-Based Computer Chips, and Invisibility Cloaks | 1:40-2:00-2:20-2:40 |
| Jacob Krich | Star power: How to turn sunlight into electricity | 1:40-2:00-2:20-2:40 |
| James Stevenson | What role do lasers play in observing broken gas molecules? | 1:50-2:10-2:30-2:50 |
| Dr Murugkar’s Team | 1:50-2:10-2:30-2:50 | |
| Vincent Gousy-Leblanc | Detecting the invisible: How light allows the detections of neutrinos | 1:50-2:10-2:30-2:50 |