ALICE Newsletter No. 434
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No.434,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Celebrating 30 Years of ALICE at GSI  On 3 November 2026, our ALICE group at GSI Darmstadt celebrated 30 years of its contributions to ALICE. The event brought together former and current collaborators for a memorable reunion, celebrating three decades of scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and friendships. The lively presentations and discussions were enriched with fascinating anecdotes, personal memories, and stories from the early days of ALICE, bringing its history to life. The celebration included a special GSI-FAIR colloquium featuring talks by Anton Andronic, Tetyana Galatyuk, and Andrea Dainese, highlighting ALICE's remarkable journey in characterizing deconfined quark-gluon matter and the exciting scientific opportunities ahead with the future programmes at FAIR and with ALICE 3. The event was a wonderful celebration of three decades of scientific collaboration, friendship, and shared achievements. More information: Anniversary celebration | Special colloquium |
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Results of the extraordinary CB meeting 30 October 2026:
- Elected members of the Management Board: Marie Germain (Nantes, FR) and Sabyasachi Siddhanta (Cagliari INFN, IT)
- Member of the Conference Committee: Swati Saha (CERN)
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Countdown to the CERN Open Days 2027: From 24 to 26 September 2027, CERN will open its doors to the public for three special days of visits, events, hands-on activities and more! |
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detetor Seminar, Friday 6 Nov 2026, 11:00: "HRPPD photosensors for RICH detectors with a high resolution timing capability" by Alexander Kiselev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
- 8th Inter-Experimental LHC Machine Learning Workshop: 9 - 13 Nov 2026
- 3rd CERN School of Computing on IT Services: 9-13 Nov 2026
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 10 Nov 2026, 11:00: "Pushing the precision frontier: measuring the Higgs Boson mass to better than 100 MeV with CMS" by Badder Marzocchi (University of Minnesota (US))
- Lattice seminar, Wednesday 11 Nov 2026, 10:00: "Why is the strong force strong? What topology tells us about quark interactions" by Chris Allton (Swansea University)
- QTI Seminars, Thursday 12 Nov 2026, 10:00: "spin entanglement witness for quantum gravity" by Anupam Mazumdar (Canadian institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 12 Nov 2026, 11:00: "From Tops to Vcb" by Gudrun Hiller (CERN), Riccardo Salvatico (CERN)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 12 Nov 2026, 13:30: "Generalized Symmetries, Noninvertible Naturalness, Flavor Unification" by Seth Koren
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 at Point 2: MFT extraction Weblink and CDS link for photos
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CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Quark–Gluon Dynamics in the Nuclear Medium: (An ECT Workshop), 9-13 Nov, Trento, Italy
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
| Event | Date | Location | Abstract deadline | Speaking Oppotunities |
| Workshop on Exotic Hadrons: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Lattice QCD | 24-27 Nov | Nagoya, Japan | ||
| 26th Zimányi Winter Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics (Zimanyi 26 | 30 Nov-4 Dec | Budapest, Hungary | ||
| Kruger 2026: Discovery Physics at the LHC | 30 Nov - 4 Dec | Kruger National Park, South Africa | ||
| UPC 2026 - 3rd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra-Peripheral Collisions | 7-12 Dec | Playa del Carmen, Mexico | ||
| MIAMI 2026 Physics Conference | 11-17 Dec | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA |
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| Quarkonia as Tools 2027 | 3-9 Jan | Assois, France | ||
| HEPNP 2027 - 10th International Conference on High Energy, Particles and Nuclear Physics in the LHC Era | 18-22 Jan | Valparaiso, Chile |
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| Bormio 2027 - 63rd International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics | 25-29 Jan | Bormio, Italy |
SCHOOLS
- 2027 CERN Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics, 7-20 Apr 2027, Bento Gonçavales, Brazil. Application deadline: 4 Dec 2026
| UPCOMING MAJOR CONFERENCES | |||
Jeju Island, Korea |
1 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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Vancouver, Canada |
31 May 2027 - 4 June 2027 |
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Jyväskylä, Finland |
7 - 11 June 2027 |
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Bucharest, Romania |
26 - 30 July |
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Bucharest, Romania |
13 - 17 September |
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Hefei, China |
17 – 23 October |
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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
- Public Outreach Calendar: Visits
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 31 October 2026
- colleagues’ friends, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy
- Monday 2 November 2026
- Mairie de Prévessin-Moëns, France
- Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany
- Tuesday 3 November 2026
- SAE, Switzerland; PSI, Switzerland
- ALICE open visit
- Wednesday 4 November 2026
- Liceo Scientifico Enrico Fermi Alghero, Italy
- 2nd General Lyceum of Patra, Greece
- Liceo Cattaneo, Torino, Italy
- Press Visit
- Thursday 5 November 2026
- SBI Romandi, Switzerland; Arcade84, Switzerland
- IEEE, USA
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Friday 6 November 2026
- Dell/Swisscom, Switzerland
- Firelabnet
- participants of ITSF2026 (International Timing and Sync Forum)
- Iseta Eca, France
- ALICE open visit
- Saturday 31 October 2026
Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Bringing ALICE physics closer to students in Wuhan!
- ALICE Physics Week returns to Wuhan!
- Whirlpools in the perfect fluid
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2026 and Outreach in Sardinia
- Collective flow in hypernuclei
- Congratulations to Laura Šerkšnytė
- Congratulations to ALICE member Pritam Chakraborty
- ALICE at ICHEP 2026
- Unboxing a particle detector | ALICE Experiment at CERN
- 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 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.