No.140,

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • New Doctoral Graduate in ALICE: Congratulations!!

           Dr. Sudhir Pandurang Rode
           Thesis title: “Electrons from Charm and Beauty Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions with ALICE at the LHC and study of             Collective Flow in Low Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions”
           Submitted to: Indian Institute of Technology Indore
           Defended on: 8 December 2020
           CDS: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2748577
           Supervisor: Dr. Ankhi Roy
           Co-superivsor: Dr. Partha Pratim Bhaduri
           Service Task: “Hot cell removal and calibration of PMD data”
 

         Frequently Asked Questions: COVID FAQ page.

         New this week:
            - CERN measures require that everyone who is able to telework should not come on-site.

            - As of 31 January, travel between France and a country outside the European area is prohibited, unless there is a compelling reason. Any cross-border travel is strongly discouraged from or to France within the European area. Information is available in the link here
            Frontier workers are exempted, but if you need to cross the French-Swiss border for professional reasons, you must carry documents supporting this exemption: for example, your special residence permit issued by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, your Swiss Carte de légitimation, or an attestation of employment along with a utility bill or other official proof of residence. You must also carry a valid passport or ID card. Remember that if you live in France and need to be at work or traveling between home and work during curfew hours, you must also carry an attestation, which you can find here: https://cesaam.web.cern.ch/attestation.

       For any information and support regarding the quarantine period contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch

    • ALICE secretariat opening next week: Wednesday 10 February, from 8h30 to 12h30 and from 13h30 to 17h30.
      Nathalie, Guylaine & Julia remain available by phone and e-mail.

    EVENTS OF INTEREST

    NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV

    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: Papers in Collaboration Review (Open for Comments).
     

    NEWS FROM POINT 2

    Surface commissioning, commissioning at P2 and lab. and remote commissioning are progressing well for all central and subsystems.
    The main highlights are in the TB meeting agenda: https://indico.cern.ch/event/936516/)

     

     

    • ITS:  There are many ongoing activities (Installation of PP-1 and PP-2 cables , CAEN load testing up to PP-1, CAEN power connections in CR-4, ITS2S testing of CR4).
       
    • MCH:  Station 5 commissioning ongoing. Station 3 (CH5) grounding ongoing. Installation of 2 quadrants for CH2 this week.
       
    • MFT:   FLP readout validation under planning, DCS commissioning ongoing.
       
    • TPC:  Cooling consolidation ongoing, FEC testing on the A-Side ongoing, all stacks ramped up to 98% and long term powering ongoing.
       
    • TOF: All 4 SY5527 (new CAEN LV mainframe) installed on the balcony,  CAEN finished inspection on the damaged DCDC, TRM/DRM2 FW upgrade under planning.
       
    • Milestone Week2: O2 integration and subsystem integration plans are under consideration.

     

    CONFERENCES

    CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
    SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
        • CPOD2021, GSI/CERN/Berkeley - online, 15-19 March, abstract deadline 15 February
           
        • Physics Days 2021, Jyvaskyla, Finland - online, 24-26 March, abstract deadline 14 February
           
        • XYZ states, Darmstadt, Germany - online 12-15 April 2021, abstract deadline 28 February
           
        • Meson2021, Krakow, Poland - online, 17-20 May 2021, abstract deadline 28 February
           
        • vCHEP, CERN - online, 17-21 May 2021, abstract deadline 28 February (internal ALICE deadline 21 February)
        • OFFSHELL 2021, CERN - online, 6-9 July, abstract deadline 14 February
        SCHOOLS

        None.

        OUTREACH NEWS

        • ALICE Visits: since the onsite public visits are cancelled as of now, a possible scenario for the virtual visit can be found at this link.
           

        DIVERSITY

        ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.

         

        Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!

        JOB OPPORTUNITIES

         
        Title
         
        Institute
         
        Application deadline
        PhD position in ALICE Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology 9 February
        PhD Research Fellow in Detector Physics University of Oslo 28 February
        Research Associate on LHCb University of Manchester 11 February
        Research Software Engineer University of Manchester 11 February
        Postdoc position in Quark-Gluon Plasma studies in ALICE (and beyond) IFJ PAN, Kraków 15 March
        Senior Research Fellowship Programme: Theoretical & Experimental Physics CERN 1 March at noon
        Senior Applied Fellowship Programme CERN 1 March at noon
        Two Quantum Computing postdoc (LHCb) University of Maastricht/Nikhef 18 February
        Postdoc position Heidelberg University 15 February
        Opportunities at Internal Relations CERN February 2021
        Junior staff IRFU/DPhN CEA Paris-Saclay 21 February

        Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.