No.130,
Good morning! Welcome to the ALICE Newsletter No. 130. You are welcome to give us your feedback by email at the address: alice-newsletter@cern.ch
 
(All the dates and times refer to Central European Time)

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Physics Forum in the afternoon (at 13:15 hrs) of Wednesday 18 November.
  • LHCC Open Session: 18 November: ALICE Status Report will be given by Magnus Mager (CERN) at 10:00 hrs.

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • PhD theses of Arild Velure and Fabrizio Grosa (winners of the ALICE Thesis Award 2020) have been accepted for publication in the Springer Thesis series, selected for scientific excellence and the high impact of the contents.
  • Endorsements from the ALICE Collaboration Board meetings (July 2020):
  • Run Coordination:
    • Taku Gunji (RC) and Federico Ronchetti (DRC)'s mandates have been extended for one year (till December 2021).
  • PWG Conveners:
    • PWG-CF: Laura Fabbietti to replace the outgoing convener Alice Ohlson from January 1, 2021.
    • PWG-GA: extension of Friederike Bock's mandate until September 30, 2021.
    • PWG-HF: Criistina Terrevoli to replace the outgoing convener Xiaoming Zhang from February 1, 2021.
    • PWG-LF: Ramona Lea to replace the outgoing convener Anders Knospe from February 1, 2021.
  • Conference Committee members:
    • Ante Bilandzic to replace Anthony TImmins.
    • Alessandro Grelli to replace Philippe Crochet.
    • Bedangadas Mohanty to replace Lee Barnby.
    • Enrico Scomparin joins as a new member.
  • Editorial Board members:
    • Francesca Bellini for a second mandate.
    • Sudhir Raniwala for a second mandate.
    • Ionut Arsene joins as new member.
  • New Institutes:
    • Member Institute: University Politehnica of Bucharest (Team Leader: Ass. Prof. Mihai Cabras).
    • Associate Member Institute: RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (Team Leader: Hideto En’yo).
    • Associate Member Institute: Istanbul University, High Energy Physics Division (Team Leader: Prof. Sehban Kartal).
  • Project Management:
    • New ITS Project Leader: Stefania Beole takes over from Vito Manzari.
    • New MFT Project Leader: Stefano Panebianco takes over from Raphael Tieulent.
  • Federico Antinori and Philippe Crochet have been elected by the Collaboration Board (on 13 November) as new members of the Management Board.
For any information and support regarding the quarantine period contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch 
  • ALICE secretariat opening hours (this week)
    • Monday, 16 November (8:30 am to 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm). Nathalie, Guylaine, and Julia remain accessible by phone and email.
 

EVENTS OF INTEREST

NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV

NEWS FROM POINT 2

Surface commissioning, commissioning at P2 and labs, and remote commissioning are progressing well for all central and subsystems. The main highlights of this week: (ALICE weekTB meeting).

  • Cavern: Miniframe is ready for installation.
  • TOF: First cosmics confirmed! Congratulations to all TOF team members!
  • TPC: Connection of TPC (C-Side) ongoing (Refilling with neon, cooling tests ongoing,  LV, HV connected, fibre connection ongoing).
  • ITS: Data taking on hold for IB and OB: an instability possibly in the propagation of the clock from CRUs to RUs. ITSComlayer progressing.
  • MFT: surface commissioning ends last week. MFT is progressing for the preparation of the installation.
  • HMPID: Very successful VS tests. Full chains up to EOS with QC in FLP and EPN confirmed.

CONFERENCES

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

Please contact CC chairs if interested.
None for this week.

SCHOOLS

None for this week.

OUTREACH NEWS

  • The video from the online event “10 years at the LHC” hosted by the Royal Institution on the 24 September 2020 is available in YouTube.
  • Presentation on Outreach and communications in the ALICE week can be found here.

DIVERSITY

  • ALICE week presentation of the Diversity Office can be found here.

ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

  • Postdoc position at the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo: details are in the link here.
  • Faculty position at the University of llinois at Urbana-Champaign: details are in the link here.
  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin: details are in the link here.
  • Research Fellow to work on LHCb in the University of Warwick: details are in the link here.
  • Machine Learning job vacancy at SLAC: details are in the link here.
  • Project Assistant Professor on the ALICE experiment: Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo: details are in the link here. Deadline30 November, 2020.
 
                          For a list of jobs refer to: ALICE Jobs.