ALICE Newsletter No. 391
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No.391,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE Desk Calendar (PDF File)
2026 ALICE New Year's Greetings (PDF File)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 11:00: "Collectivity in light ions [ALICE, TH]" by Emil Gorm Nielsen (University of Copenhagen (DK)), Giuliano Giacalone
- ALICE Mini Week - 19-23 January 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- ALICE welcomes its new management:
ALICE enters 2026 with a newly appointed management team, led by Kai Schweda as Spokesperson, succeeding Marco van Leeuwen. The new team includes Deputy Spokespersons Andrea Dainese and Anthony Robert Timmins. The ALICE collaboration expresses its sincere thanks to Marco, together with his Deputies Bedangadas Mohanty and Kai Schweda, for their strong leadership and lasting contributions to the experiment.
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EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 12 Jan 2026, 14:00: "Perturbative QCD at NNLO and N3LO: recent progress in antenna subtraction" by Matteo Marcoli (University of Durham)
- Detector Seminar, Friday 9 Jan 2026, 11:00: "Understanding Nature’s Accelerators with Energetic Particle Instruments in Space" by Eric Christian (Goddard Space Flight Centre)
- 47th School of Computing - Latin America 2026: 11-24 January 2026
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 14 Jan 2026, 11:30: "A hint for new physics from primordial deuterium" by Cara Giovanetti (UC Berkeley)
- QTI Seminars, Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 10:00: "New quantum simulators with two-electron atoms: SU(N) fermions, Hall transport and new perspectives" by Prof. Leonardo Fallani (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia & LENS Università degli Studi di Firenze)
- "Wikipedia 25 Virtual Celebration Watch party" Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 16:40
- "Wikipedia 25 Virtual Celebration" Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 16:45
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
PAPERS IN THE COLLABORATION REVIEW
Papers currently open for comments can be inspected using the link: Paper in Collaboration Review (Open for Comments).
NEWS FROM POINT 2
LHC and ALICE:
Currently YETS are ongoing, and ALICE is performing detector maintenance. The resuming of the central operations with the crew is foreseen for 2 February, when a cosmics data taking campaign will begin with the goal of providing data for the central barrel alignment.
LHC Machine checkout is expected to start on 19 February.
Shift booking is currently 92% complete!
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Cracow epiphany Conference 2026 , Kraków, Poland., 12-16 January
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- "Trento" Workshop: 21st "Trento" Workshop on Advanced Silicon Radiation Detectors, 17-19 Feb 2026, INFN and University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy), 17-19 February, abstract deadline 31 January abstract deadline 17 January
- Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Canada, 1 March, abstract deadline 31 January
- Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2026, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 30 March, abstract deadline 1 February
- 16th Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement CPOD 2026, CERN, 13-17 April, abstract deadline 1 February
- Invitation for a PLENARY overview talk (25+5 min). Contact CC Chairs.
- 33rd International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2026), Bologna, Italy, 4-8 May 2026, application deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
- Invitation for several talks for ALICE (17+3 min). Conctact PWG conveners
- 8 mins Flash talks for Students (instead of posters)
- 28th Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2026), Bangkok, Thailand, 25-29 May, abstract deadline 17 January
- 17th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms, Varenna, Italy, 14 June, abstract deadline 31 January
- 13th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2026), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 21 June, abstract deadline 16 January
- central submission for talks contact PWG conveners
SCHOOLS
- Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics 2026, Arcetri, FIrence, Italy, 16-28 Feb 2026, Application deadline: 18 Dec 2025
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22-27 Mar 2026 |
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18-22 May 2026 |
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21-26 Jun 2026 |
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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
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- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: a collection of all resources and news that can be helpful for people engaged in the analysis of ALICE Run 3 data. This is especially beneficial for those new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- Link to all ALICE Theses
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3-min video summarising the key results of the PhD thesis.
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: a collection of all resources and news that can be helpful for people engaged in the analysis of ALICE Run 3 data. This is especially beneficial for those new to the Run 3 data analysis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits: visits to ALICE cavern are possible till 19 February~
- ALICE visits this week:
- Tuesday 6 January 2026
- Samuel Ryder Academy, UK
- Wednesday 7 January 2026
- International Christian School of Vienna, Austria
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Thursday 8 January 2026
- Commission Nationale du Débat Public, France
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Friday 9 January 2026
- General Lyceum Konistres Eyboias, Greece
- ALICE member’s friends, Croatia
- Tuesday 6 January 2026
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
DIVERSITY
- "25 by ’25 initiative: diversity progress at CERN"
The five-year project focused on improving nationality and gender diversity across the Organization. - ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here. Your feedback is important. You can send us an email that will be treated confidentially by using the email address: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch or send us an anonymous message by using this form.