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KITP Program: Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks
(Apr 27 - May 8, 2026)
Coordinators: Steven Girvin, Eric Hudson, Leo Radzihovsky, Marianna Safronova, Thorsten Schumm, and Jun Ye

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Monday, Apr 27

10:00am Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Small Seminar Room
Eric Hudson (UCLA)
Introduction to the workshop, goals and formats, meet and greet
2:00pm Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Harry Morgan (U. Manchester)
Defects and ionic configurations / Discussion
Ken Van Tilburg (Stanford)
Dark Matter Theory

Tuesday, Apr 28

10:00am Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Marianna Safronova (Delaware)
Fundamental Physics
2:00pm Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Sebastian Lahs (TU Wien)
Fundamental symmetries in SM extensions

Wednesday, Apr 29

10:00am Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Shiqian Ding (Tsinghua Univ.)
AMO Table Top Physics
12:15pm Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Marianna Safronova (Delaware)
Lunch Talk
2:00pm Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
R. Jason Jones (Arizona)
Laser Development
David Leibrandt (UCLA)
Ion Clocks and Discussions

Thursday, Apr 30

10:00am Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Sandro Kraemer (KU Leuven)
Thorium Nuclear Clock
2:00pm Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Daniel Carney (LBNL)
Quantum Measurements
Vidvuds Ozolins (Yale)
Density Functional Theory and Discussion

Friday, May 1

10:00am Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Thorsten Schumm (TU Wien)
Crystals for Thorium Clocks
2:00pm Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks Simons Amphitheater
Koji Yoshimura (Okayama Univ.)
Solid State Clocks
Shimon Kolkowitz (UCB)
Solid State Defects and Discussion