ALICE Newsletter No. 421
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No.421,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
 (Left) ALICE at ICHEP 2026; (Right) David's talk at the Conference: "ALICE Highlights" |
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Congratulations to Lucas Ferrandi (PhD student at Universidade de Sao Paulo)
for winning the ICHEP 2026 Poster Award
- 7th ALICE Upgrade Week: Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14-18 September 2026.
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Wuhan, 12–16 Oct 2026. REGISTRATION OPEN!
- ALICE Inclusive Teamwork Workshop (organized by ALICE DIversity Office): Registration Open
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Morning group: 7 & 21 September, 09:30–12:30 CEST
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Afternoon group: 7 & 21 September, 14:00–17:00 CEST
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1676596/
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- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2027
- Works at Gate B: closures and access changes on the CERN Meyrin site from August 2026
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Recent PhDs in ALICE: Congratulations to our new Doctors:
- Dr. Kamaljeet Singh
Thesis title: “Thermoelectric transport phenomena in magnetized QCD matter and study of $\phi$(1020) meson production at $/sqrt{s_{NN}$}= 5.36 TeV in Pb-Pb collisions at forward rapidity with ALICE“
Submitted to: Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
Thesis defense: 19 June 2026
CDS: https://repository.cern/records/dmvqq-q2n18
Supervisors: Professor Raghunath Sahoo
Collective flow in hypernuclei
 CERN Courier Energy Frontier: July-August 2026 |
- Accelerator Report: Beyond the LHC – CERN’s Beams Keep Science Moving by Nikolaos Charitonidis, Matthew Fraser, Kevin Li and Bettina Mikulec: "While the LHC is in Long Shutdown 3, the injector chain remains fully operational, serving the experiments of today and preparing the beams of tomorrow"
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- EP-IT Data Science Seminars, Thursday 13 Aug 2026, 16:00: "STEAM Academy Seminar: Diffusion Models for Image and Video Generation" by Dr Sander Dieleman (Google DeepMind)
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
 LS3 activities - Cavern Open
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CONFERENCES
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
SCHOOLS
- 48th CERN School of Computing, 23 Aug - 5 Sep, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- QCD Master Class 2026 (school), 28 Aug - 10 Sep, Saint Jacut de la mer, France
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21 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Sara, Davide, Meiyi)
- "Supporting early careers beyond CERN"
- 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 Juniors website
OUTREACH NEWS
ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 1st August 2026
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Sunday 2 August 2026
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Ukrainian refugees from Switzerland
- University of Pavia, Italy
- Monday 3 August 2026
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy, UK, Lithuania
- Tuesday 4 August 2026
- ALICE members’ friends, Germany, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Switzerland
- USTC Students, China; University of Tokyo, Japan
- Ukrainian refugees from Switzerland
- ALICE Open visit
- Wednesday 5 August 2026
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy, Slovakia, Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland
- TGCE, Uganda
- Thursday 6 August 2026
- Open Lab Summer Students, Poland
- Archives and Library Teams from CERN
- ALICE member’s friends, Slovakia, Belgium
- Friday 7 August 2026
- ALICE members’ friends, Croatia, Italy, India
- WUT students, Poland; ALICE Open visit
Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE Week: July 2026
- UPB Tier1
- Oxygen-Oxygen collisions
- ALICE visits
- Congratulations to Barbara Erazmus!
- LHC Live from ALICE
- Silvia on Social Media on the start of the heavy-ioin run!
- A new chapter of ALICE physics at LHCP 2026
- Building bridges towards ALICE 3: Japan
- Mexico in ALICE 3
- ALICE ITS3 by Alexander Kluge
- ALICE observes partonic flow even in small colliding systems
- Do all jets lose energy in the same way?
- International Women’s Day, 8 March
- LHC Career Event: 17 Mar 2026
- ALICE 3 MID
- ALICE EMCal
DIVERSITY
- ALICE Inclusive Teamwork Workshop. The workshop consists of two online interactive sessions led by Thriving Talent and focuses on inclusive teamwork, trust, communication, and creating a positive working environment in ALICE. Still, many places are available per group. Priority will be given to ALICE members in coordination and leadership roles, but all ALICE members are welcome to apply. We kindly ask registered participants to attend both sessions
- 📅 Morning group: 7 & 21 September, 09:30–12:30 CEST https://indico.cern.ch/event/1676593/
- 📅 Afternoon group: 7 & 21 September, 14:00–17:00 CEST https://indico.cern.ch/event/1676596/
- "E-learning course “Ethics at CERN” for all CERN personnel":
To ensure that everyone is aware of the guidelines of our ethical framework, the HR Department has developed an e-learning course entitled “Ethics at CERN”, which is available in English and French on the CERN Learning Hub. As of now, this course is mandatory for all members of the CERN personnel. Ethics at CERN
- 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.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Please refer to the Job Announcements page for details.