The International Day of Light is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy. The broad theme of light will allow many different sectors of society worldwide to participate in activities that demonstrates how science, technology, art and culture can help achieve the goals of UNESCO – education, equality, and peace.

ParmaPhotonics celebrated the International Day of Light 2018 with a series of lectures:

• Stavros Pissadakis
  Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
• Franco Cacialli
  London Centre for Nanotechnology, CoDirector del London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies
• Jesper Lægsgaard
  Technical University of Denmark, Department of Photonics Engineering
• Marco Mongillo
  Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova.
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In the 2nd Cycle talks were given by international leaders in Photonic Research:

• Semiconductor nanowires for optoelectronic and energy applications
  by Hoe Tan from Australian University in Canberra, Australia - 12 October 2016.
• Recent developments in Two-Photon fluorescent probes
  by Kevin Belfield from New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - 28 October 2016.
• Additive and subtractive manufacturing with femtosecond lasers
  by Roman Kiyan from Laser Zentrum, Hannover, Germany - 17 November 2016.
• Towards the fiber lab concept
  by Stavros Pissadakis from FORTH-IESL, Irakleion, Greece - 14 December 2016.

The first cycle consisted of 3 seminars, to present research activities of the groups that launched ParmaPhotonics in 2016.

• Photonics Crystal Fibers: from origin to actual applications
  by Carlo Molardi of DII- UniPr, 1 April 2016.
• MBE Growth and FIB nanofabrication of semiconductor structures for photonics
  by Luca Seravalli of IMEM-CNR, 6 May 2016.
• Models and materials for molecular photonics
  by Cristina Sissa of Chemistry Dep. - UniPr, 10 June 2016.