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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Week at CERN (10 to 14 July 2023): The focus of this ALICE week will be on the preparation and readiness for the upcoming heavy-ion run and the preparation of the Quark Matter conference. On Wednesday afternoon, we will have the ALICE thesis award ceremony and Tuesday evening, we will have the ALICE summer party.
- 2023 ALICE Summer Party (11 July 2023 at Point 2): Please register for the party - deadline: 3 July 2023, and note that registrations received after 3 July will not be accepted due to logistics reasons.
Call for volunteers: signup as a volunteer bartender using the link here. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the ALICE Secretariat.
- Physics Forum - QM and EPS 2023 Previews (3 to 21July 2023)
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- News around the Collaboration (Please send us mails regarding happenings in our collaborating institutes):
- "Holmganga: CLASH Workshop 2023 (26-30 Jun 2023)" organized by Lund University at Helsingborg.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- A&T Seminar, Friday 30 Jun 2023, 11:00: "CERN staff member now ESA astronaut" by Slawosz Uznanski (CERN)
- QCD Seminars, Friday 30 Jun 2023, 14:00: "Local Analytic Sector Subtraction: status and perspectives" by Chiara Signorile-Signorile
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 4 Jul 2023, 11:00: "Cosmic-Ray Insights from NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS" by Michael Unger (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 4 Jul 2023, 16:00: "Charge radii in covariant density functional theory: from simple physics to complex features" by Anatoli Afanasjev (Mississippi State University)
- EP-IT Data Science Seminars, Wednesday 5 Jul 2023, 11:00: "Machine learning for sampling high-dimensional probability distributions in lattice field theory" by Prof. Phiala Shanahan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 5 Jul 2023, 14:00: "The Higgs boson and the top quark: precision theory for the LHC and beyond" by Massimiliano Grazzini (University of Zurich (CH))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 6 Jul 2023, 11:00: "The Lund Plane" by Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet), Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 6 Jul 2023, 13:30: "Dark Showers" by Tim Cohen (CERN)
- Events for the CERN-based community, Friday 7 Jul 2023, 14:00: "Privacy by Design: more than just a catchy phrase" by Mr R. Jason Cronk
- TH BSM Forum, Friday 7 Jul 2023, 16:00: "Discussion on Muon Colliders" by Cari Cesarotti
- BE Seminars, Friday 7 Jul 2023, 16:00: "Optimization of the High-Brightness Beam Performance of the CERN PSB with H- Injection" by Tirsi Prebibaj (CERN)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title with arXiv link | Further details | Submission date |
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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: Paper in Collaboration Review (Open for Comments).
NEWS FROM POINT 2
- SHIFT BOOKING is OPEN in SAMS for all slots up to 30 October (including pp reference run and Heavy Ion period): From 18 September to 30 October we will enter a critical data taking phase during which we will collect data for the proton-proton reference run and Heavy Ion. If you are interested in taking shifts during the exciting phase of the life of the collaboration and you have questions, do not hesitate to contact:
- DCS: Peter Chochula and André Augustinus
- ECS: Roberto Divia
- QC-PDP: Daniele De Gruttola and Ole Schmidt
- SL: Silvia Pisano
- RC: ALICE Run Coordination
- Missing ALICE Shifts:
- [CRITICAL pp data taking] Missing SL for the block starting 10th July (in 12 days)
- [CRITICAL pp data taking] Missing SL for the block starting the 7th August
- [CRITICAL pp data taking] Missing DCS for the block starting the 19th August
- [CRITICAL, HI data taking] 141 shift slots to be covered during HI period, Expert shifters missing:
- 1 SL, partial block
- 6 DCS shifters 5 full blocks and 1 partial block
- 13 ECS shifters, 11 full blocks, 2 partial blocks
- 7 QC shifters, 6 full blocks, 1 partial block
- ALICE central operations:
- Successful ZDC commissioning
- Data taken with ZDC during ATLAS/CMS VdM scan
- Low-field data taking next Monday
- LHC Status:
- Completion of ATLAS/CMS VdM this week
- 2400b from Monday
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- SFP CG2023, Paris, France, 3-7 July
- Physics around Jet Lund Plane Workshop, CERN , 3-7 July
- BEAUTY2023, Clermont-Fd, France, 3-7 July
- EMMI workshop,Trieste, Italy, 3-6 July
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
Quark Matter 2023, Houston, USA, 3-9 Sep 2023 The total number of accepted parallel talk abstracts for Quark matter abstracts is 30. QM previews at Physics Forum: 3 - 7 July and 17 - 21 July QM approvals at Physics Forum: 31 July - 11 August QM rehearsals: 28 August - 1 September |
- ICNFP 2023, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 10-23 Jul, abstract deadline: 30 Jun.
- Windows on the Universe - 30th Anniversary Rencontres du Vietnam, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 6-12 Aug, abstract deadline: 30 Jun.
- 52nd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2023), Gyöngyös, Hungary, 21-26 Aug, abstract deadline: 30 Jun.
- IC-Msquare, Belgrade, Serbia, 28-31 Aug, abstract deadline: 28 Jul.
- Low-x 2023, Leros island, Greece, 3-8 Sep, no deadline.
- 2023 Fall Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society and Physical Society of Japan, Hawai,US, 7 October, abstract deadline 7 July
- ACHEP: The first edition of the African Conference on High Energy Physics (2023), Rabat, Morocco, 23-27 October, abstract deadline 30 Jun.
SCHOOLS
- Jyvaskyla Summer School, Finland, 7 Aug.
- JETSCAPE 2023 ONLINE School, 17-28 Jul, registration deadline 10 Jul.
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Hannah, Luca)
- Congratulations to Petra Loncar (ALICE Junior Ambassador of Croatia) for making an impressive presentation on the topic, "Experiences from mental health workshops for LHC scientists" at the LHCP 2023 conference Outreach, Diversity and Education session.
- Congratulations to Petra Loncar (ALICE Junior Ambassador of Croatia) for making an impressive presentation on the topic, "Experiences from mental health workshops for LHC scientists" at the LHCP 2023 conference Outreach, Diversity and Education session.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE:
- Saturday 24 June 2023: Hammersmith Academy, UK
- Monday 26 June 2023: Australian scientist and artists
- Tuesday 27 June 2023: Sirius Academy West, UK and CERN interns
- Wednesday 28 June 2023: HEPIX IPv6, Spain
- Wednesday 28 June 2023: Arts at CERN-Connect India
- Wednesday 28 June 2023: ALICE members’ friends from South Africa and USA
- Wednesday 28 June 2023: Filming inside the ALICE exhibition by the national Lithuanian TV
- Friday 30 June 2023: Summer programme for Korean undergraduate students
- Friday 30 June 2023: ALICE member’s friends, Greece
- Group visits to Science Gateway: Bookings are now open for group visits to CERN Science Gateway. More information and a link to the booking form are now available.
- Inauguration of Science Gateway on 7 October: Find out more about becoming a CERN Guide in the Science Gateway era.
DIVERSITY
- LGBTQ+ CERN has prepared cards that people can attach to their office doors to express support for diversity. The cards come with various designs, including two using the ALICE rainbow logo. There are printed cards available in ALICE Secretariat.
ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.
Your feedback is extremely important, feel free to contact us at: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!