2017 nuClock meeting in Heidelberg a great success

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Last week’s 3-day meeting in Heidelberg was a great success. With 33 participants, this was by far the largest nuClock meeting to date (Vienna 2014: 20 participants, Munich 2015: 24, Brussels 2016: 19). Aside from pretty much all the nuClock members, a large crowd of external guests joined the meeting: Koji Yoshimura from Okayama (Japan), Piet van Duppen and Matthias Verlinde from Leuven (Belgium), Nikolay Minkov from Sofia (Bulgaria), Rukang Li, Xiaoyang Wang, Mingjun Xia, and Lijuan Liu from Beijing (China), Mustapha Laatiaoui and Christoph Düllmann from GSI, as well as the local MPIK fellows José Crespo, Sergey Eliseev and Klaus Blaum. A total of 22 talks were given, all of them showing exciting results or new ideas that will be published in the near future. Many thanks to Adriana for hosting the meeting!

The next nuClock meeting will take place in Bad Honnef, Germany, on July 9 – 12, 2018. This is going to be a large conference (approx. 100 participants), entitled “WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Novel Optical Clocks in Atoms and Nuclei”.

Group photo of the nuClock team 2017. Last row, left to right: Koji Yoshimura (Okayama), Rukang Li, Mingjun Xia, Lijuan Liu, and Xiaoyang Wang (all Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing), Przemyslaw Gkowacki and Maksim Okhapkin (both PTB). Third row: Andreas Fleischmann (KIP Heidelberg), Sarina Geldhof and Ilkka Pohjalainen (both Jyvälylä), Piet van Duppen and Matthias Verlinde (both KU Leuven), David-Marcel Meier (PTB), José Crespo (MPIK Heidelberg), Lars von der Wense (LMU Munich), Pavlo Bilous (MPIK Heidelberg). Second row: Jürgen Stuhler (Toptica AG), Peter G. Thirolf and Benedict Seiferle (LMU Munich), Johannes Weitenberg (MPQ Garching), Georgy Kazakov (TU Wien), Iain Moore (Jyväskylä), Nikolay Minov (Sofia). First row: Simon Stellmer (TU Wien), Annkatrin Sommer (Toptica AG), Thorsten Schumm and Kjeld Beeks (TU Wien), Brenden Nickerson (MPIK Heidelberg), Ekkehard Peik (PTB), and Adriana Palffy (MPIK Heidelberg). Not pictured here: Christoph Düllmann (GSI & Mainz).