No.187,
Twiki link
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ALICE/AliceNewsletter7Jan2022

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Warmest Greetings and Best wishes for the New Year 2022
- Luciano, Barbara, and Mateusz

 

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • CERN will be moving to Level 4 - RED on Monday 10 January.
    Please refer to the link for further details about Level 4.
    The main change with the passage to red is that all those who can telework should do so, with one day per week on site possible in consultation with supervisors.  Meetings in person, both indoors and outdoors, should be avoided where possible, and in any case must be limited to a maximum of 15 people.
    => Completion of the COVID e-learning module is mandatory for access to the CERN sites: http://cern.ch/go/C99s.
     
  • New quarantine and isolation rules at CERN: CERN has changed its self-isolation and quarantine measures to reflect the characteristics of the now-dominant Omicron variant, and the evolution of the corresponding measures in the Host States. Access to the CERN sites will be prohibited for a period of 10 days for those testing positive or showing symptoms, with at least 48 hours symptom-free before coming on site. For close contacts, site access will be prohibited for 7 days.
     
  • If you show symptoms, have tested positive, or are a close contact, you must declare your situation using TRAMED
     
  • Self-testing at CERN for those without symptoms.
     
  • COVID-19 vaccination at CERN will reopen on Monday 10 January, with new available slots.
     
  • Measures in France:  Full details of the measures in France may be found in the link here.
  • Measures in Switzerland:
    • New measures in Geneva are detailed here.
       
  • Travel:
    • France: Details of conditions for international travel to and from France are available on this page here (last updated 1 January).
    • Switzerland: Details of conditions for entry can be found here. This infographic summarises the conditions for entry to Switzerland.
      Switzerland provides a useful tool to check the conditions of entry that you need to fulfill according to your personal situation, and where you are traveling from: https://travelcheck.admin.ch/home.
  • 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

 
  • Shifts:
    • Booking for in presence shifts from Feb 21st to beginning of June opened.
    • Run manager shifts booked at 90%
  • LS2 Schedule:
     
    • LHC pilot beam test in weeks 42-43  done.
       
    • YETS started on 15 November 2021, right after the LHC pilot beam
       
    • L3 door closure: 16-18 February
       
    • Restart magnets in week 10 (7 March).
       
    • LS2 end date: Underground access ends on Thursday, 24 March 2022 evening. DSO test on 25 March, followed by 2 weeks machine checkout (punctual access possible). Machine commissioning with beam expected to start on 13 April.
 

CONFERENCES

CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
  • WWND 2022, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 27 February - 5 March 2022, abstract deadline 15 January 2022.
     
  • New trends in HEP, Kiev, Ukraine, 26 June - 2 July, abstract deadline 31 January
     
SCHOOLS

OUTREACH NEWS

  • CERN Group Guided Tours: All pre-booked group guided tours have been cancelled until end of March 2022.
     
  • ALICE visits: private visits are allowed in the exhibition (only visits of professional nature) and underground visits must be explicitly approved by the Spokesperson and by the Department Head of the requester.
     

DIVERSITY

 

ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.
Your feedback is extremely important, feel free to contact us at
alice-diversity-office@cern.ch

 

Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

 
Title
 
Institute
  
Application deadline
CERN Summer Student Programme 2022 (Member and Non-Member State) CERN 31 Jan 2022
High Energy Nuclear Physics Postdoctoral Research Associate Los Alamos National Laboratory
sPHENIX and EIC experiments. Contact: Dr. Ming Liu		  
Junior staff position The CEA-Saclay Quark-Gluon Plasma Laboratory (LQGP) is opening a junior staff position for an outstanding physicist in the field of experimental quark-gluon plasma physics. 25 Feb 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher- Experimental High Energy Physics The Physics department at Syracuse University 28 Feb 2022
Postdoctoral position in High Energy Heavy-ion Physics Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 28 Feb 2022
PhD Studentships in Physics Wayne State University
Contact: Prof. Claude Pruneau		 15 Jan 2022
Tenure-track positions The Faculty of Science at Lund University (Sweden). please contact the Lund ALICE group: Peter Christiansen, Alice Ohlson, and David Silvermyr 15 Feb 2022
Postdoctroal Research Associate/Assistant in experimental HEP (Fixed Term) Cambridge University 10 Jan 2022
Assistant Professor for Applications of Data Science to Particle Accelerators Old Dominion University and Jefferson Lab 14 Jan 2022