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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Link to CDS photo
Link to ALICE week indico page
- ALICE week: 16-20 October 2023 at CERN comes to an end today.
- O2 analysis tutorial: 6-10 November 2023: the timetable is in place. Please Register.
The event is hybrid, i.e. in addition to zoom attendance, there will also be an in-person component of the tutorial for all general sessions and most of the PWG parallels.
- The LHCC student poster session will take place on Monday, 27 November 2023, 5-7pm at CERN. If interested, please contact PWG conveners.
- 4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino: the deadline for early registration is on 27 October. The programme will be entirely plenary. Ample time will be devoted to ALICE 3, and also covers the FoCal and ITS3 projects.
- Physics Forums: The last two sessions of the Physics Forum this year will take place on 15 November and 13 December.
- LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme 2023/2024: Application for mentors and mentees is now open. Please register here.
- LHC Job Matching Event, 24 October 2023
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Endorsements by the ALICE Collaboration Board (meeting on 20 October 2023):
- Run Coordinator: Andrea Ferrero (CEA Saclay) - from 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024
- Deputy Run Coordinator: Robert Munzer (Uni Frankfurt) - from 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024
- Diversity Office: Junior member of the diversity office: Ananya Rai (Yale) - from 1 Nov 2023 to 31 Oct 2026
- Editorial Board: New members:
- Jaime Norman (Liverpool) - first term - from 1 Dec 2023 to 30 Nov 2025
- Oton Vasquez Doce (Frascati) - first term - from 1 Dec 2023 to 30 Nov 2025
- David Silvermyr (Lund) - first term - from 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2025
Thanks to Andrea Rossi, Małgorzata Janik, Pietro Antonioli for their work as EB members and Javier Castillo as EB chair.
- Conference Committee: New members:
- Paraskevi Ganoti (Athens) - second term - from 1 Dec 2023 to 30 Nov 2025
- Stefania Beole (Torino) - first term - from 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2025
- Physics Coordination: New conveners:
- PWG-LF: Sourav Kundu (CERN) - from 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2025
- PWG-MM: Chiara Oppedisano (Torino) - extension from 1 Jan 2024 to 1 April 2024
Thanks to Alberto Caliva, Andrea Dubla for their contributions as PWG conveners.
- Change of affiliation of the group from Karatay University, Konya, Turkey to Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Run Coordinator: Andrea Ferrero (CEA Saclay) - from 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024
- Management Board Elected members ad personam (Elected by the Collaboration board on 20 October 2023):
- Cvetan Cheshkov (Lyon, France) - from 16 Nov 2023 to 15 Nov 2026
- John Harris (Yale, USA) - from 16 Nov 2023 to 15 Nov 2026
- Run 3 heavy-ion runs: Photos, videos and links to articles are in the ALICE website
- Recent Videos on Run 3 lead ion collisions:
- CERN Bulletin articles on Run 3 lead ion collisions:
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 20 Oct 2023, 11:00: "The experimental setup of SHADOWS proposed for ECN3" by Brendan Regnery (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
- CERN Computing Seminar | openlab series, Monday 23 Oct 2023, 11:00: "HPC and CERN: Integration and Challenges" by David Charles Southwick (University of Iowa (US))
- QCD Seminar, Monday 23 Oct 2023, 14:00: "Precision phenomenology with heavy-flavour jets at the LHC" by Rene Poncelet (Cambridge University)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 24 Oct 2023, 11:00: "Precision top physics and entanglement with the ATLAS experiment" by Baptiste Ravina (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 24 Oct 2023, 14:00: "Bootstrapping gauge theories (QCD)" by Yifei He (ENS)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 25 Oct 2023, 11:30: "Neutrinos from SN 1987A as a probe of physics beyond the standard model" by Damiano Fiorillo (Neils Bohr Institute)
- Workshops, Arduino workshop: Making Analog Objects Digital, Wednesday 25 Oct 2023, 18:00
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 26 Oct 2023, 11:00: "Third generation leptoquarks in CMS and ATLAS" by Izaak Neutelings (CERN (CH)), Mahsana Haleem (Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE)).
- BE Seminars, Friday 27 Oct 2023, 16:00: "Mixed Reality human-robot interface for remote operations in accelerator facilities" by Mr Krzysztof Adam Szczurek (University Jaume I (ES))
- "Electroweak milestones - 50 years of neutral currents, 40 years of W and Z bosons" 31 October 2023, CERN
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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
- Accelerator report in the CERN Bulletin (12 Oct 2023): Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)
- 1.17 nb-1 of Pb-Pb collisions delivered to ALICE till 20 October mid-day.
- ALICE Magnet polarity -/- (reversal took place on 18 October)
- Machine developement on 18-19 October, machine collimators settings updated to improve beam performance
- 10 days of HI data taking remaining
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- The First African conference on High Energy Physics (ACHEP2023), Rabat, Morocco, 23-27 October
- 13th International Conference in High-Energy Physics (HEPMAD23), Antananarivo, Madagascar, 23-28 October
- 798. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Forward Physics and QCD at the LHC and EIC", Bad-Honnef,Germany, 23-27 October
- The 2023 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), Nanjing, China, 23-27 October
- KPS Fall meeting, changweong, Korea, 24-27 October
- 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 26 October
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- XVI Polish Workshop on Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions, Kielce, Poland 2-3 December, abstract deadline 15 November.
- 67th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics (SNP-2023), Indore, India, 9-13 December, abstract deadline 30 October
- International Conference on High Energy Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ICHEPAP2023), Kolkata, 11-15 December, abstract deadline 1 November.
- 23rd ZIMÁNYI Winter Workshopon HI physics, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 December, abstract deadline 15 October
- Miami 2023 Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 13-19 December, abstract deadline 30 October, contact CC chairs.
- Synergies between the EIC and the LHC, Hamburg, Germany, 14-15 December, abstract deadline 31 October
SCHOOLS
- 2nd School on Advanced Instrumentation and Analysis Techniques, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9 December, registration deadline 20 November
Dates of major conferences in 2024:
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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.
- LHC Early Career Mentoring Program: We are happy to announce the start of the fourth round of the LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme for junior and senior researchers at the LHC!
The programme aims at connecting experienced researchers from an LHC experiment with early career researchers who seek for advice about how to develop their professional skills and want to learn from the expertise of an experienced LHC researcher. For more information on the scope of the programme, please check out the homepage of the program.
If you are interested in the programme, either as mentor or as mentee, make sure to apply here. Applications are open until October 22nd, 2023.
After applying, mentors and mentees will be matched by the Early Career Mentorship Committee and they will work on meeting their own specific set of goals, as proposed by the mentee and agreed upon with the mentor. The mentorship will continue until the end of August 2024, after which point mentor-mentee pairs may continue to meet informally if they wish to do so.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email the organisers at LHC-Early-Career-Mentorship-Committee@cern.ch.
- LHC Job Matching Event, 24 October 2023: Looking for your next position in HEP? Apply to the LHC Job Matching Event (JMEv) Fall 2023, registration to the event is currently open!
The LHC job matching event offers the opportunity for job recruiters and seekers, who both currently work on LHC experiments, to meet in Zoom interview sessions. The event is organised by the LHC Early Career Scientist Fora (LHC ECSF). Please find all further information and the registration details here.
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OUTREACH NEWS
- Possible dates and consideration for ALICE cavern visits:
- L3 doors will remain closed & magnets off
- Private visits possible from 30 Oct 2023 to 5 Mar 2024
- UX25 will be closed: 19/12 (stopped UX25 ventilation). No access
- AUG test & electrical maintenance LHC2 + ALICE: 22-23 November. NO ACCESS to the whole of Point 2.
- Control modification UX25 ventilation unit: 8 January 2024 (tbc). No access for half a day.
- During the end of the year closure: NO VISITS surface and underground.
- ALICE virtual visits: Virtual Visits to the cavern and ARC possible during upcoming YETS. Virtual visits are highly beneficial for remote audiences, standalone or in combination with local events. To book a virtual visit, contact the ALICE outreach team at the e-mail address: alice-outreach-virtual-visits
- ALICE visits:
- Saturday 14 October 2023: ALICE member’s family, Germany
- Monday 16 October 2023: ALICE exhibition training for ALICE members
- Tuesday 17 October 2023: Phorms Campus Munich, Germany
- Tuesday 17 October 2023: Stowe school, UK
- Tuesday 17 October 2023: KEK International Affairs Division, Japan
- Wednesday 18 October 2023: Gymnasium Arabska, Czech Republic
- Wednesday 18 October 2023: Lyceum Starachowice, Poland
- Wednesday 18 October 2023: private visit from Greece
- Thursday 19 October 2023: INDEX School, Poland
- Thursday 19 October 2023: Sosds (medical professionals from Savoie), France
- Friday 20 October 2023: 2nd Lyceum of Patras, Greece;
- Friday 20 October 2023: ZA-CHPH professional visitors, South Africa
- "A new highly precise measurement of the hypertriton lifetime" article based on interview of Maximiliano Puccio.
- CERN Science Gateway: highlights from the opening weekend
- CERN: The library is open again! 24/7!
DIVERSITY
- Mental health support: In light of World Mental Health Day on 10 October, whose overall objective is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilise efforts in support of mental health, CERN’s Medical service and psychologists invite you to three interactive sessions to learn effective and useful tools to better deal with stress:
- Self-evaluation tool, Wednesday 25 October
- Self-evaluation tool, Wednesday 25 October
- "Work well feel well: No, no… it’s OK… Developing an awareness of health indicators": While a healthy amount of stress can provide motivation and drive, when work commitments are high, stress can negatively impact our health. It's essential to put measures in place to protect our health from the harmful effects of chronic stress.
This is the first of a 12-part Work Well Feel Well series, with articles to be published every two months.
- 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!