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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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The ALICE Collaboration participates in Quark Matter 2023 Conference at Houston (3-9 September) with 1 plenary overview, 30 parallel and 60 poster presenters. The plenary overview on 3 Sep by Ionut Cristian Arsene reports the highlights of new ALICE measurements including first results from Run 3 data collected in 2022 with the upgraded detector.
- ALICE Mini Week: 18-22 September 2023
- ALICE week: 16-20 October 2023 at CERN
- 4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN Courier (Jul-Aug 2023) article on "ALICE ups its game for sustainable computing" discusses the design and deployment of a completely new computing model – the O2 project – allows the ALICE collaboration to merge online and offline data processing into a single software framework to cope with the demands of Run 3 and beyond.
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- "The joy of summer conferences" by Joachim Mnich (Director for CERN Research and Computing) writes about physics results from ALICE, Quark Matter conference, and the upcoming heavy-ion run.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 1 Sept 2023, 11:00: "Detector Technology Innovations in Medical X-ray Imaging" by Dr Steffen Kappler (SIEMENS Healthineers, Forchheim).
- "Cosmology, Quantum Gravity, and Holography: the Interplay of Fundamental Concepts": 4–15 Sept 2023 at CERN
- "150th Meeting of the SPSC": Open Session on 5 Sept 2023 at 09:00
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 5 Sept 2023, 14:00: "New results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab" by Marco Incagli (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 6 Sept 2023, 14:00: "Cosmology, Quantum Gravity, and Holography: the Interplay of Fundamental Concepts" by Gonzalo Torroba (Centro Atomico Bariloche)
- "Kaons@CERN 2023": 11–14 Sept 2023 at CERN
- "155th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session": 13 Sept 2023, 09:00 at CERN. "ALICE Status Report" to be presented by Meike Charlotte Danisch (Heidelberg University (DE)).
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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
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- LHC restarted extremely efficiently: Machine behaves in the same conditions as before the incident. On wednesday beam circulated at first attempt and collisions were found immediately.
- Friday, 1 September: 4 hours of STABLE BEAM at injection energy (900 GeV) during which ALICE recommissionned all systems in preparation for Heavy Ion.
- Next:
- Van Der Meer scan on Tuesday 6 September
- pp ref run expected week 37 (11 September), 2 days extension
- Heavy-ion expect to start week 39 (25th September), 1 week extension
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Quark Matter 2023, Houston, USA (central submission), 3-9 September
- Low-x 2023, Leros island Greece, 3-8 September
- TIPP 2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 4-8 September
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 1rst African conference on High Energy, Physics, rabat, Morocco, 23-27 October, abstract deadline 4 September
- 4th Heavy Flavour Meet 2023, Goa, India, 2-4 November, abstract deadline 31 August. Contact PWG-HF conveners.
- WPCF: XVI edition of the Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, Catania (Italy), 6-10 November, abstract deadline - 30 September.
- Machine Learning for Jet Physics 2023 (ML4Jets2023), Hamburg, Germany, 6-10 November, abstract deadline 10 September
- 14th Int Workshop on Multiple parton Interactions at LHC MPI@LHC 2023, Manchester, UK, 20-24 November, abstract deadline 30 September.
- 67th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Indore, 9-13 December, abstract deadline: 15 September.
SCHOOLS
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: we like to propose a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis. Guidelines are in the Juniors link. As an example: Thesis video by Hannah Bossi is in the CDS link.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE:
- Saturday 26 August 2023: ALICE member’s friends, Poland
- Tuesday 29 August 2023: Greek students, winners of “Xanthopoulos” competition; ALICE member’s friends, Germany
- Wednesday 30 August 2023: Liceo Pacinotti, Cagliari, Italy
- Friday 1 September 2023: VISCHER, Switzerland
- Friday 1 September 2023: ALICE member’s friends, Poland
- ALICE Masterclasses (Looking for strange particles)
- Tuesday 29 August 2023: Masterclasses to participants of Greek Teacher Programme-group 1
- Friday 1 September 2023: Masterclasses to participants of Greek Teacher Programme-group 2;
- Friday 1 September 2023: students from Liceo Pacinotti, Cagliari, Italy
- The RAZOR Science Show featured in ALICE: "Going back to the Big Bang, in the hunt for Dark Matter"
- CERN Science Gateway opening on 8 October 2023:
DIVERSITY
- ALICE training on Inclusive teamwork: We would like to invite you to participate to the last 2023 session of the ALICE training on Inclusive teamwork that will take place on the following dates:
- MORNING SESSION 14 and 21 September, 9:30–12:30
- AFTERNOON SESSION 14 and 21 September, 14:00-17:00
The workshop's objectives are to:- Enhance self-awareness and develop strategies to overcome personal biases
- Promote comprehension of relationships and effective cross-cultural communication
- Foster a comfortable environment for idea sharing
- Provide skills to handle instances of harassment and inappropriate behavior
Please register by clicking on the Indico link next to each session.
Please note that the Indico event is scheduled for the first day of the course but it also includes the second session like in the list above. You should be available on both days.
- ID lanyard celebrates diversity and inclusion at CERN: Pick yours up at Building 55 or from your departmental Diversity & Inclusion Officer (DIO).
- ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here. Your feedback is extremely important. You can send us an email that will be treated confidentially by using the email address: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch or send us an anonymous message by using this form.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!