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The ALICE Newsletter No. 299

No.299,

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

 

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

      EVENTS OF INTEREST

      NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV

      All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.

      Title Internal Submission
      date
         
      26 Feb 2024
         
      24 Jan 2024

      New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications

      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

      • Shift booking: Several critical shift blocks are still available, in particular:
        • SL blocks from 26 March to April 8 - Stable Beams at injection energy expected during the shift block!!!
        • ECS blocks from 26 March to 31 March - Stable Beams at injection energy expected during the shift block!!!

          Please book via SAMS.



           
      • ALICE Run Manager (18 - 31 March 2024): Krystian Roslon

        Krystian is a young physicist from WUT in Poland. He joined ALICE in 2026, where he performed data analysis with femtoscopy techniques. In 2022 Krystian joined the FIT team and contributed substantially to the development of the unified slow control of the three FIT detectors, and to FV0 in particular. In addition, he was appointed as FIT Deputy System Run Coordinator in 2022 and 2024, and FIT System Run Coordinator in 2023. As such, he has a strong experience in ALICE Operations and data taking. 

        During his mandate, Krystian will supervise the finalisation of the commissioning with SYNTHETIC and REPLAY runs and the orchestration of the ALICE operations together with the ongoing LHC commissioning. Krystian will also have the challenge to organise the data taking with the first proton-proton collisions of the year, at 900 GeV, expected during next week. Additional fills with stable beams at 900 GeV might be provided during the Easter weekend, when we are still critically missing shifters!
         
      • LHC and P2 News:
         
        • P2 operations: The global commissioning and validation of central systems is continuing. The shift crew is focusing on the global data taking with SYNTHETIC and REPLAY runs, while the experiment is kept in a safe state, compatible with the LHC commissioning activities. Today we expect to turn on the solenoid and dipole magnets. All the operations crew is eagerly waiting for the first stable beams expected for next week!
           
        • LHC commissioning: The LHC commissioning is well on track. The first circulating beams were established as early as last Friday 8 March, and the beams have been accelerated to top energy already on the day after. The LHC is now performing all the commissioning steps required to reach the first collisions, which are expected as early as next Monday. First stable beams at injection energy are expected around 21 March.

      CONFERENCES

      CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
      SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
      SCHOOLS

      UPCOMING CONFERENCES

      Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024:
      •  LHCP2024, Boston, USA, 3 - 7June
        • Early registration: 2 April
           
      • SQM 2024, Strasbourg, France, 3 - 7 June
        • Early registration: 15 April
        • 43 abstracts have been submitted. List of submitted abstracts for parallel sessions can be found HERE.
        • Acceptance expected on 23 March

           
      • ICHEP 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, 17 - 24 July
        • Early registration: 24 April
        • Support for participation: deadline 25 April
        • 52 abstracts have been submitted. List of submitted abstracts can be found HERE.
        • Acceptance expected on 7 April
           
      • Hard Probes 2024, Nagasaki, Japan, 22 - 27 September
        • Registration and student support request opens: 15 April
        • Abstract submission opens: 15 April
        • Abstract deadline: 25 May (ALICE Central submission)
        • Student support request: 25 May
        • Abstract acceptance notification: 30 June
        • Early registration: 15 July

        JUNIOR'S CORNER

        Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
         

        • New junior representative: Bianca Sabiu has been elected as a junior representative! Bianca is a first-year PhD student from the University of Bologna, working on the timing layer for ALICE 3.
           
        • Carolina’s term as Junior Representative ends on 17 March 2024. We thank Carolina for all the amazing work and commitment to the role and wish her all the best in her future endeavours!!!
           
        • Junior's Day, 7 March 2024 followed by Social events:

        OUTREACH NEWS

        • ALICE Visits this week:
          • Saturday 9 March 2024
            • The Skinners’ School, UK
            • Hellenic College, Thessaloniki, Greece
            • Prva rijecka hrvatska gimnazija, Croatia
          • Tuesday 12 March 2024 
            • KATS, South Korea
          • Wednesday 13 March 2024
            • The Long Eaton School, UK
            • Colleagues, France
          • Thursday 14 March 2024
            • Art School of Gerakas, Greece
          • Friday 15 March 2024
            • 1st General Lyceum of Vrilissia, Greece
        • ALICE virtual visits this week:
          • Friday 8 March 2024  virtual visit to ALICE for Particle Therapy masterclasses in Montenegro
             
        • International Masterclasses 2024:
          • Tuesday 12 March 2024 ALICE masterclasses were held in Nantes, Salerno, Bologna and Bari
        • The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is now on LinkedIn! Come and join us. The page will be dedicated to news from physics, experiment, people, as well as to the ALICE Alumni community!

        DIVERSITY

        • International Women’s Day 2024 (Friday 8 March 2024): ALICE celebrates International Women’s Day 2024 by highlighting the key role women play in helping achieve our science goals. Look up @aliceexperiment on Social Media! to view reels from some of our junior and senior members as they speak about thier role in the collaboration and the ways in which they contribute to making ALICE a successful experiment.
           
        • New webpage on ethics at CERN

        JOB OPPORTUNITIES

        Date
        Listed
         

        Title

         

        Institute

         

        Application deadline

        15 Mar Postdoctoral Research Associate - High Energy Experiment Princeton University 5 Apr 2024
        15 Mar Postdoctoral positions in CMS data analysis Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) 1 Apr 2024
        15 Mar Research Assistant in Software Development for Neutrino Physics University of Oxford 4 Apr 2024
        15 Mar Permanent academic position in accelerator physics and/or medical physics involving accelerators Royal Holloway, University of London 3 Jun 2024
        15 Mar Postdoctoral Positions in Muon Imaging / Muography experiments Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai 31 May 2024
        15 Mar Full Stack Software Developer CERN 14 Apr 2024
        15 Mar Associate Professor of Experimental Physics The Niels Bohr Institute 1 May 2024
        15 Mar Applied Physicist for High Level Trigger CERN 15 Apr 2024
        15 Mar Postdoc position in ALICE and Detector R&D for Experimental Particle Physics U. Amsterdam, IHEF, Nikhef, Amsterdam 5 Apr 2024
        15 Mar Postdoctoral research associate position in Experimental High-Energy Nuclear Physics (ALICE) The Korean ALICE experiment group (KoALICE) 31 Mar 2024
        15 Mar Postdoctoral Position (ATLAS) Carleton University, Ottawa  
        8 Mar ALICE: Data analysis of quarkonium photoproduction from peripheral to central Pb-Pb collisions in ALICE, and associated phenomenological studies for fixed-target collisions at LHC IJCLab, Orsay
        Contact: Laure Massacrier
        21 Mar 2024
        8 Mar Engineering Physicist Purdue University, West Lafayette 1 Apr 2024
        8 Mar DESY-Fellowships in Experimental Particle Physics DESY 31 Mar 2024
        8 Mar Postdoctoral positions in CMS data analysis UC Louvain Open until filled
        8 Mar Research Assistant Center for Particle Physics Siegen (CPPS) 29 Mar 2024
        8 Mar Software Engineer Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana 30 Apr 2024
        8 Mar Postdoctoral Researcher in Particle Physics Data Analysis and Upgrade of Calibration Boards for the Liquid Argon Calorimeter of ATLAS Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP) 31 Mar 2024
        8 Mar Particle Accelerator Operator (BE-OP-SPS-2024-24-LD) CERN 3 April 2024
        8 Mar Theoretical Physicist (TH-SP-2024-5-IC) CERN 1 May 2024
        1 Mar Postdoctoral Research Positions in Experimental Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics Wayne State University  
        1 Mar Theoretical Physicist (TH-SP-2024-5IC) CERN 31 May 2024
        1 Mar Lecturer in Particle Physics on the LHCb experiment The University of Manchester 30 Apr 2024
        1 Mar Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics on the LHCb experiment The University of Manchester 30 Apr 2024
        1 Mar Assistant Physicist in Experimental Nuclear/Hadronic Physics Argonne National Laboratory 17 May 2024
        1 Mar Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Experimental Heavy-Ion Physics Warsaw University of Technology 17 May 2024
        1 Mar Postdoctoral Programme in High Energy Physics Experiment at the NICA Collider Complex Dubna, JINR 1 Apr 2024
        1 Mar Silicon detector Queen Mary, U. of London 18 Mar 2024
        23 Feb Postdoctoral position on CMS LLR, Palaiseau 22 Mar 2024
        23 Feb Postdoctoral Research Associate Florida State University 30 Jun 2024
        23 Feb Associate Professor in Applications of Particle and Nuclear Physics for Health SUBATECH, Nantes, IMT Atlantique 31 Mar 2024
        23 Feb Silicon Detector (ATLAS) Queens Mary University 18 Mar 2024
        23 Feb Applied Physicist (Computing) for Event Filter Tracking, ATLAS CERN 21 Mar 2024
        23 Feb Postdoctoral Researcher position (ALICE) University of Jyvaskyla 31 Mar 2024
        23 Feb DevOps Technical Engineer (IT-PW-WA-2024-21-LD) CERN 28 Mar 2024
        16 Feb Research Physicist Brookhaven National Laboratory 31 May 2024
        16 Feb Postdoctoral Research Associate Brookhaven National Laboratory 31 May 2024
        16 Feb PostDoc in Experimental HEP Vilnius University 31 Mar 2024
        9 Feb Experimental Physicist (EP-DI-2024-2-LD) CERN 17 Mar 2024
        9 Feb Phd fellowship in Experimental Particle Physics (ALICE) Niels Bohr Institute
        Contact: You Zhou
        31 Mar 2024
        2 Feb PostDoc - Neutrino group IFJ PAN, Kraków 1 May 2024
        2 Feb Postdoc Position - "Data reduction at the High Level Trigger of the CMS experiment" University of Pisa 23 Feb 2024
        2 Feb Postdoctoral position in high-energy phenomenology/computational physics University of Oslo 14 Apr 2024
        2 Feb Doctoral Positions in Experimental and Theoretical Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics TU Darmstadt 31 Mar 2024
        2 Feb Postdoc position, CLAS12 and EIC University of California, Riverside 31 Mar 2024
        2 Feb Excellence Track in Physics University of Mainz 31 Mar 2024
        2 Feb PhD Research Fellow in Experimental Heavy-Ion Physics (ALICE) Oslo University 30 Jun 2024
        19 Jan Postdoc Position in Experimental Particle Physics The Institute of Modern Physics(IMP), Lanzhou 31 Aug 2024
        19 Jan Graduate Student Positions in Experimental Nuclear/Particle Physics: GlueX/JEF Experiments University of Regina 31 May 2024
        10 Nov PhD positions in experimental particle physics University of Manchester 31 Mar 2024
        27 Oct Postdoctoral Associate Experimental Particle Physics and Physics Education Research Cornell University 17 Apr 2024
        11 Aug Postdoctoral Position in Neutrino Physics Boston University 31 Mar 2024

        Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.


        Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!


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