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ALICE Newsletter No. 418

No.418,
Twiki link
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ALICE/AliceNewsletter17Jul2026

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

ALICE vcavern
ALICE Cavern: 15 July 2026

 

 

 

 

LHC Seminar, Tuesday 21 Jul 2026, 11:00: "Evidence for Parton Energy Loss in Oxygen–Oxygen Collisions with ALICE" by Nicolas Strangmann (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

 

 

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Recent PhDs in ALICE: Congratulations to our new Doctors:
 

  • Name: Dr. Christian Sonnabend
    Thesis title: “Neural network cluster finding for the ALICE TPC online GPU processing“
    Submitted to: Combined Faculty of Mathematics, Engineering and Natural Sciences of Heidelberg University, Germany
    Thesis defense: 19 April 2026
    CDS:  https://repository.cern/records/7ztfx-68270
    Supervisors: Professor Silvia Masciocchi
     
  • Name: Dr. Vladislav Kuskov
    Thesis title: “Measurement of differential cross-section of pi0 mesons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with ALICE“
    Submitted to: National Research Centre, Kurchatov Institute, Russia
    Thesis defense: 17 June 2026
    CDS:  https://repository.cern/records/x8khz-ndn39
    Supervisors: Professor Dmitry Blau

 

Video contest

We announce the 2026 edition of the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science Video Contest.  We invite early-career scientists -- students and postdocs -- to make a 5-minute video explaining some topic in the realm of nuclear and particle physics. There will be cash prizes for 3 winning videos.
The deadline for submissions is 16 August 2026

https://www.annualreviews.org/page/ARNPS_VideoContest

Videos from previous years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 started, Cavern Open

Shielding removal Ongoing
L3 Magnet door opens on 31 July

CONFERENCES

CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • Emmi Workshop: Light Ion Collisions 2026, 21-25 Sep, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Call open for overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems + one to three abstracts for short contributions
  • LHC Days, 21-25 Sep, Split, Croatia
    • Performance and Upgrades of ALICE 
    • Two specific topics
 
 

 

SCHOOLS

 

 

Upcoming major conferences

30 July - 5 Aug 2026
 
  • Registration deadline: 23 July

21 - 27 Mar 2027
  • Registration and abstract submission now open
  • Early Registration deadline: 31 December
  • Abstract submission deadline: 30 September

JUNIOR'S CORNER

Message from Junior Representatives (Sara, Davide, Meiyi)
 

OUTREACH NEWS

ALICE visits this week:

  • Saturday 11 July 2026
    • Ms CH visitors from Switzerland
    • ALICE members’ friends, Germany, UK
  • Tuesday 14 July 2026 
    • ALICE Open Visit
  • Wednesday 15 July 2026                               
    • Liceo Gandini, Lodi, Italy;
    • Inda Gymnasium, Germany; 
    • colleague’s friends, UK
  • Thursday 16 July 2026
    • St Mary Magdalene, UK;
    • PhD students, USA; CERN SUMM visit, Switzerland
  • Friday 17 July 2026
    Sawtry Village Academy, UK
  • Stanborough School, UK
  • ALICE member’s friends, Romania
  • colleagues’ friends, India, Spain
  • ALICE Open Visit

 

ALICE Masterclasses
 

  • 3 July 2026 ALICE masterclasses were held at Wrokław, Poland, during the XVII Quark Confinement & Hadron Spectrum Conference
     
  • 15 July 2026 ALICE masterclasses were held at CERN for high-school students from Liceo Gandini, Lodi, Italy

 

 

Recent Social Media Highlights:

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
     
  • "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

Date
Listed		  

Title

 

Institute

  

Deadline
17 Jul Postdoctoral Position INFN Pavia, Italy 22 Jul
17 Jul Postdoc Research Associate for Studying Gluon Saturation with Baseline EIC Energies The ePIC group at BNL  
17 Jul Postdoctoral researcher on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC Laboratoire des 2 Infinis – Toulouse 5 Aug
17 Jul Scientist PETRA III accelerator DESY 10 Aug
10 Jul Experimental Physicist CERN 6 Sep
10 Jul SW & FW Developer / Physicist CERN 20 Jul
10 Jul Calorimeter Development Physicist CERN 22 Jul
10 Jul Postdoctoral position in experimental high energy particle or nuclear physics in ATLAS at the LHC University of Tarapacá (UTA), Chile 25 Jul
3 Jul Professor (x2), Associate Professor (x2) & Assistant Professor University of Tokyo, Japan  
3 Jul PhD position in Dark Sector searches with the NA64 fixed-target experiment University of Valencia 6 Sep
3 Jul Postdoctoral Research Associate - Mu2e Purdue University 31 Jul
3 Jul Director of High Energy Physics Division Argonne National Laboratory 31 Dec
3 Jul Particle Accelerator Operator CERN 29 Jul
3 Jul Junior Research Scientists in Experimental or Theoretical Physics University of Mainz 23 Aug
3 Jul Post-doctoral researcher on CMS data analysis using Machine Learning (M/F/X) IPHC Strasbourg 1 Sep
26 Jun KoALICE Postdoctoral Research Associate Position Korean ALICE experiment group (KoALICE) 17 Jul
26 Jun Postdoctoral Position in Heavy-Ion Physics: Bayesian Inference of Jet-Quenching Observables Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Republic of Korea, contact:
Beomkyu Kim		 31 Jul
26 Jun ATLAS LHC Postdoctoral Position University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UICC) 15 Aug
26 Jun Postdoctoral research associate (CMS) University of Notre Dame 1 Aug
26 Jun Postdoctoral Research Associate High-Energy Physics University of Illinois 15 Aug
19 Jun Belle II term-limited assistant professor KEK 30 Jul
19 Jun Associate Professor of Experimental Physics Niels Bohr Institute 2 Aug
19 Jun Postdoctoral Research Associate(CMS) Purdue University 1 Aug
19 Jun Postdoctoral research associate on the CMS experiment University of Notre Dame 1 Aug
19 Jun Non-tenured associate professor KEK 7 Aug
19 Jun Request for Nomination of Candidates for the Next Director of J-PARC Center J-PARC 19 Aug
12 Jun PhD position in experimental particle physics Ghent University 31 Jul
5 Jun Associate Professor of Experimental Physics Niels Bohr Institute 2 Aug
5 Jun Civil Engineer CERN 5 Aug
29 May Postdoctoral Research Position in Machine Learning for Collider Experiments (ATLAS)) Weizmann Inst. 7 Sep
22 May Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships - Expression of Interest Gran Sasso Science Institute 9 Sep
15 May Postdoc in Real-Time Data Analysis with LHCb Indiana University 6 Oct
8 May Postdoctoral Fellowship (ALICE) IJCLab laboratory at Orsay, France 15 Jul
8 May Postdoctoral positions U. Paris-Saclay, IRFU, Saclay 15 Jul
1 May Two Postdoctoral positions in LHCb CCNU, Wuhan 31 Jul
24 Apr Postdoctoral position in fixed-target experimental physics CCNU, Wuhan 31 Jul
17 Apr Postdoctoral Position : Machine Learning development in High Energy Physics for collider physics IIT Kanpur 31 Jul
10 Apr Open call for Postdoctoral Programme IJCLab, Orsay 31 Jul
13 Mar Assistant Professor in experimental particle physics Indian Inst. Tech. Madras, Chennai 31 Dec
13 Mar Electronics Technical Engineer CERN 1 Aug

Please refer to the Job Announcements page for details.
 
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