No.149,
Twiki link
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ALICE/AliceNewsletter9Apr2021

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

          Frequently Asked Questions: COVID FAQ page.

       New this week:

  •  CERN's current teleworking measures have been extended until 14 May.
     
  •  Evolution of COVID-19 cases at CERN can be found here.
     
  •  Additional measures in place in the Department of Ain (France), which can be found here.
    In the Department of Ain, the new measures include wearing of masks for all those over 11 when within 50 meters of a range of public buildings, as well as at all times while outdoors in a number of large communities. In the Pays de Gex, these are Divonne, Ferney-Voltaire, Gex and Saint-Genis-Pouilly. It is also forbidden to consume alcohol or play loud music in public places, and home-deliveries are banned after 10.00 pm. Events such as jumble sales and garage sales are also banned (brocantes, vide-greniers and braderies). The new restrictions are similar in Haute-Savoie.
     
  •  Measures in Switzerland: details in the website here. The canton of Geneva also publishes useful information on travel and quarantine: in the link here.
     
  •  As of 7 April, COVID-19 self-tests are available in Swiss pharmacies: details in the link here.

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

  •  ALICE secretariat opening next week: Tuesday 13 April from 8h30 to 12h30 and from 13h30 to 17h30.
    The ALICE secretariat will be exceptionally closed from 2 - 5 April.

      EVENTS OF INTEREST

        NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV

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

          PAPERS IN THE COLLABORATION REVIEW

          New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications

          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 of this week:

          •  L3 magnet: L3 magnet was ramped up to 30kA without any issues.
             
          •  TPC: TPC took cosmic data with solenoid filed in standalone with continuous running.  TPC installed shielding fins on VTRx, optical signal degradation being monitored.
             
          •  ITS: ITS OB serviced installed and verification ongoing. First data readout will be tested this week.
             
          •  MFT: MFT tests under the magnet were successful. Full chain readout was validated for Pb-Pb hit occupancies.
             
          •  MW4 (Milestone Week 4): Preparatory work ongoing for MW4 next week (12 - 17 April). Main objectives are ECS-DCS integration for SoR/EoR, full system tests from FLP, and combined runs with online data processing.
             

                  CONFERENCES

                  CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
                  SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
                  •  CHARM2020, online, 31 May - 4 June, abstract deadline 15 May.
                     
                  •  LHCP 2021, Paris, France, 7-12 June, abstract deadline 19 April.
                     
                  •  Sustainable HEP, CERN - online, 28 - 30 June 2021, abstract deadline 16 May.
                     
                  •  Future of Open Science OAI12, CERN - online, 6 - 10 September 2021, abstract deadline April 27.
                     
                  •  OFFSHELL2021 - CERN - online, 6-9 July 2021, abstract deadline 15 June.
                     
                  •  ISMD2021 - Pitlochry, Scotland - online, 12-16 July 2021, abstract deadline 15 June.
                     
                  •  EPS2021 - Hamburg, Germany - online, 26-30 July 2021, centralised abstract submission, deadline 7 May.
                     
                  •  PSD12, Birmigham - online, UK, 12-17 September 2021, abstract deadline 6 May
                  SCHOOLS

                    OUTREACH NEWS

                    •  CERN group guided tours on site are cancelled until the end of June 2021 at least.
                       
                    •  ALICE Virtual visits are announced in the official CERN catalogue: https://visit.cern/virtual
                       
                    •  Open Virtual visits to ALICE (for the general public) have been launched. Guides willing to help, either from CERN Point 2 or from remote locations, please contact alice-outreach-virtual-visits@cern.ch.

                                 Virtual visits to ALICE for Russian Schools and for Students of Electrical Engineering from the University of Thessaloniki were held.
                                 The next open virtual visit (in French) will be on Tuesday 12 April (indico link).

                        •  Weekly activities open to everyone at CERN: from relaxing coffee meetings to High Intensity Training. CERN colleagues have put together a series of activities to help us stay connected in these challenging times. Find out what's coming up in the link here.
                        •  A new video on the TPC upgrade is in the CDS link.
                           

                        DIVERSITY

                        ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.
                         

                        JOB OPPORTUNITIES

                         
                        Title
                        		  
                        Institute
                        		  
                        Application deadline
                        Two Postdoc positions to work on ALICE and/or STAR/sPhenix Wayne State University
                        Contact: Prof. Sergei A. Voloshin / Prof. Joern Putschke                        		 15 May 2021
                        Post-doc position in relativistic Heavy-Ion phenomenology The High Energy Nuclear Physics group at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) 26 April 2021
                        Postdoctoral position LHCb CNRS/IN2P3 and Clermont Auvergne University 27 April 2021
                        Postdoctoral position in High Energy Physics at ATLAS The AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH UST), Krakow  
                        Associate Professor Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) at Osaka University, Japan 31 May 2021
                        Detector physicist The PRISMA Detector Laboratory at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 30 April 2021
                        Research Assistant/Associate in LHCb University of Cambridge 30 April 2021
                        Postdoctoral researcher position in ALICE The Quark Gluon Plasma Laboratory (LQGP) of CEA Paris-Saclay 20 April 2021
                        Postdoctoral Research Associate (ATLAS) California State University, East Bay, and US-ATLAS 30 April 2021
                        Assistant Project Scientist (EIC Project) University of California, Riverside 30 May
                        Postdoctoral Research Associate Warsaw University of Technology (STAR Group) 30 April
                        POLONEZ BIS funding scheme programme Polish National Science Centre  
                        ALICE junior postdoctoral research position IJCLab, Orsay 1 May