No.174,
Twiki link
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ALICE/AliceNewsletter1Oct2021

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

 
ITS3

 

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • A new FAQ category has been included in the ALICE Secretariat webpage which gives information on many of the Administrative processes.
       
    • Flu Vaccination at ALICE Point-2 on 12 October 2021 between 1:30 PM and 4:20 PM. Register at cern.ch/plamed.
       
    • CERN is currently  COVID-19 LEVEL 2 – Yellow.  (https://hse.cern/covid-19-information)
       
    • Proximeter use on-site is mandatory, even in level 2 – Yellow. It helps with contact tracing, and thereby provides a valuable tool for preventing the spread of the virus on-site.
       
    • Update on the COVID19 Guidelines: https://hse.cern/covid-19-information
       
    • Self-testing at CERN: is for those coming on-site and exhibiting no symptoms. If you have symptoms, even mild ones, do not come on site, contact the COVID Helpline at +41 22 766 7777 to arrange for an RT-PCR test at the Proxilis medical laboratory in Meyrin. You can easily sign-up for a self-test using the PLAMED tool.
    • Recent health measures: A reminder of the COVID-19 measures in place
       
    • Measures in France: Full details of the measures in France may be found here. A summary of what you need to know in France is provided here. As of 1 October, all children aged between 12 and 17 will be required to show the “pass sanitaire”.
       
    • Measures in Switzerland: The full details of the recent measures for Switzerland can be found here.
       
    • Travel:
      • France updated its classification of countries as green, orange or red on 23 September. The current classification, along with details of conditions for international travel, is available at the page here.
      • As of 20 September, in light of the epidemiological situation, the Federal Council has implemented new measures with regards to conditions of entry into Switzerland. The full press release can be found here.
         
    • For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch

    EVENTS OF INTEREST

    NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV

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

    New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications

    PAPERS IN THE COLLABORATION REVIEW

    New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications

    NEWS FROM POINT 2

    ALICE is in the global commissioning phase:

    • Shift Booking:
       
        • ALICE shift booking is open. Please sign-up for shifts.
           
        • We are missing DCS and SL/ECS blocks in October. We are entering extremely important phases for the pilot beam test preparations. Therefore, having DCS and SL/ECS shifters is crucial.
            • Main data taking and commissioning activities:
               
              • TRD is included in a global data taking
                 
              • Central barrel ( ITS+TPC+TOF+TRD) and MUON (MFT+MCH+MID) readout tests
                 
              • Event display under commissioning
                 
              • Today (this Friday) is the TI2 transfer line test. ALICE will run ITS+MUON+FIT for TED shots.
                 
            • LS2 Schedule:
               
              • Gobal commissioning until 12 November 2021
                 
              • LHC pilot beam test in weeks 42-43 (18 - 29 October)
                 
              • 11 weeks YETS from mid November to end January 2022
                 
              • Restart global commissioning with magnets on February 1st 2022
                 
              • LS2 end date Monday 21st February 2022
                 

            LS2

            CONFERENCES

            CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
            • APS-DNP, Boston, USA, 10 October
               
            SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
            • ATHIC2021, Incheon, Korea - hybrid, 5 November, abstract deadline 1 October
               
            • RAPID2021, Jammu, India - online, 25-29 October, abstract deadline 7 October
               
            • Latin American Symposium on HEP, Sao Paolo, Brazil - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 17 October
               
            • International Workshop on HEP, Moscow, Russia - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 6 November
               
            • Chiral Dynamics 2021, Beijing, China, 15 November, abstract deadline 25 October
               
            • Light Cone 2021, Jeju Island, Korea, 29 November - 4 December, abstract deadline 31 October
               
            • Lepton Photon 2021 - hybrid, 10-14 January, abstract deadline 1 October
               
            • VCI 2021, Vienna, Austria, 21-25 February, abstract deadline 3 October
               
            SCHOOLS

            OUTREACH NEWS

            • COVID Level 2: CERN is gradually reopening to visitors. Details are in the CERN visits website.
               
            • Virtual, VIP and press visits are already taking place regularly.
               
            • ALICE underground visits: are now open to people having a valid CERN access card, with a limited number of visitors, and in respect of special COVID rules. The guidelines are documented here.
               
            • ALICE Virtual Visits: are announced in the official CERN catalogue. A list of open virtual visits is announced in the Visits link.

              ALICE needs volunteers for virtual as well as underground visits. Virtual visits require having 2 or 3 guides. If interested, please get in touch with  alice-visits, or alice-outreach-virtual-visits
            • Recent visits:
              • 29 Sep 2021: joint ALICE - ATLAS virtual visit for Greek Schools, organised by NTUA (Athens), on the occasion of European Researchers’ Night
                 
            • CERN Alumni Second Collisions (1-3 October): CERN alumni are invited to come together for the second major reunion since CERN’s alumni programme launched in 2017. The event will take place online, enabling alumni from across the globe to participate. Today, CERN’s alumni network — also open to those currently working at CERN — includes just under 7 000  people located in over 100 countries.
               
            • Weekly online activities suspended: CERN Clubs back in business. The link to all the CERN Clubs can be accessed here.
               

            DIVERSITY

            ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.

             

            Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!

            JOB OPPORTUNITIES

             
            Title
            		  
            Institute
            		  
            Application deadline
            Assistant Professor in Experimental Particle Physics University of Warwick 17 Oct 2021
            Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in astronomy, astrophysics, gravitation, high energy or nuclear physics, or quantum information University of British Columbia in Vancouver Review of applications will start 15 Nov 2021
            Associate Professors Accelerator Physics University of Oxford 22 Nov 2021
            Electronics Engineer University of Mainz 17 Oct 2021
            Tenure-track Assistant Professor Ohio State University 30 Nov 2021
            Assistant Professor in experimental elementary particle physics The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL 15 Nov 2021
            Postdoctoral Fellow in ATLAS Oklahoma State University 1 Oct 2021
            Postdoctoral Research Associate Wayne State University
            Contact: Prof. Claude A. Pruneau,            		 31 Oct 2021
            Research Associate / Assistant Professor (Research), non tenure-track Wayne State University
            Contact: Prof. Sergei A. Voloshin            		 15 Nov 2021
            Postdoctoral fellowship in heavy-ion physics with LHCb Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory, CNRS 13 Oct 2021
            Assistant Professor of Physics University of Michigan 1 Nov 2021
            Rokos-Clarendon Associate Professor of Experimental Neutrino Physics University of Oxford 11 Oct 2021
            Faculty Position in Experimental Elementary Particle Physics The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL 15 Nov 2021
            Postdoctoral fellowships The Muon Radiography team of the center for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 1 Oct 2021