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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023, Torino, Italy:
Indico timetable
Zoom link
- Next ALICE mini week: 11-15 December 2023
- Next Physics Forum will take place on 13 December
- FoCal cooling and mechanics workshop in Krakow: 9-10 January 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- SQM2024: The 21st International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2024) will be held in Strasbourg (France) from 3 to 7 June 2024. The conference venue is the "Palais de la Musique et des Congrès". The SQM 2024 conference will be "in-person" only and consist of invited and contributed talks, as well as poster presentations, beginning the morning of Monday, June 3, and ending the evening of Friday, June 7.
- CERN Courier (Nov-Dec 2023) Energy Frontier: Collectivity in small systems produced at the LHC
- Call for nominations of outstanding young experimental or theoretical particle physicists for the two 2024 Early Career Scientist Prizes by IUPAP: deadline 1 February 2024
- International School and workshop on hadron structure at electron Ion Collider, 29 January - 9 February 2024, ICTS, Bangalore
- Joint ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC Activity Workshop "Synergies between the EIC and the LHC", 14–15 Dec 2023, DESY, Hamburg
- CERN Safety Rules: “Fire Safety and Radiation Resistance requirements for Cables”
- Computer Security: Your six digits are yours
- Fraudulent telephone calls: warning from the Swiss authorities
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Software for Data Center operations: PDUTools and Podium, Friday 1 Dec 2023, 10:00
- Ultra-high frequency gravitational waves: where to next?, 4–8 Dec 2023
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 5 Dec 2023, 11:00: "Search for exotic signatures of new physics at CMS" by Marc Antoine Osherson (University of Notre Dame (US))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 5 Dec 2023, 14:00: "Higher-twist Regge spectroscopy in N = 4 SYM" by Michelangelo Preti
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 5 Dec 2023, 16:00: "D- and B-meson semileptonic decays from four-flavor lattice QCD" by Andreas Kronfeld
- HSE Seminar, 5 December 2023: "Understanding the Fire Safe Design of Unique and Complex Environments"
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 6 Dec 2023, 14:00: "Colloquium within the TH Institute - Ultra-high frequency gravitational waves: where to next ?"
- The CERN Accelerator School turns 40, 6 December 2023
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 7 Dec 2023: "WW DPS" by Ankita Mehta (University of Hamburg), Jonathan Richard Gaunt (University of Manchester (GB))
- Music and physics: a space-time voyage back to our origins, with Yo-Yo Ma [CERN Community], 8 December 2023
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
- End of Year closure – 23 Dec 2023 to 7 Jan 2024. Access to CERN premises restricted to authorised persons. Shuttle services to Point 2 will be stopped.
- YETS 2023-2024:
- Duration: 19 weeks beam to beam, from 30 Oct 2023 to 11 Mar 2024
- LHC beam operations will resume on 11 March 2024
- Underground access stops 6 March 2024
- L3 doors will remain closed & magnets off
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), San Francisco, USA, 3-9 December
- 13th International "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors (HSTD13), Vancouver, Canada, 3-8 December
- 17th Internationnal Workshop of Tau lepton physics, Louisville, USA, 4-8 December
- 23rd ZIMÁNYI Winter Workshop HI physics, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 December
- 67th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics (SNP-2023), Indore, India, 9-13 December
- 2nd School on Advanced Instrumentation and Analysis Techniques, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9-17 December
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 30th Cracow Epiphany Conference on on Precision Physics at High Energy Colliders, Cracow, Poland, 8-12 January, abstract deadline 1 December
- 39th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dymamics, Jackson, Wyoming, USA , 11-17 February, abstract deadline 11 January
- Lake Louise Winter Institute, 18-23 February 2024, Lake Louise, Canada, abstract deadline 1 December, contact CC chairs
- Sesto Incontro Nazionale INFN, Trento, IT, 26 February, abstract deadline 5 December
- Moriond2024, QCD & High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 31 March, abstract deadline 21 December
- Nucleus-Nucleus NN2024, Whistler, Canada, 18-23 August, abstract dealine 31 December
SCHOOLS
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of major conferences in 2024:
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- CERN Newcomers Tours: The LHC Early Career Scientists Fora (ECSF) are pleased to offer our LHC ECSF CERN Newcomers Tours.
- ALICE Theses website (NEW)
- 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.
OUTREACH NEWS
- 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 25 November 2023
- 8th Gymnasium Acharnon, Athens, Greece
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy, India
- Monday 27 November 2023
- Romanian Students Internship programme
- Italian students
- VIP visit : Sous-préfets de l’Ain et de Haute-Savoie
- Tuesday 28 November 2023
- First Senior High School from Nea Makri, Greece
- International School of Lausanne, Switzerland
- ALICE member’s family, Germany
- Wednesday 29 November
- 2023 European School Munich, Germany
- Students and management of Collegio Einaudi, Torino, Italy
- Thursday 30 November 2023
- Liceo Scientifico Bra, Italy
- Ashton Sixth Form College, UK
- Friday 1st December 2023
- ALICE Open Visit; colleagues, Italy
- Saturday 25 November 2023
- The 26th IPPOG Meeting took place at CERN: 27-30 November 2023
- Visit CERN Science Gateway during the winter holidays: CERN Science Gateway exhibitions will be welcoming visitors for most of the winter break, from Tuesday to Sunday, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., closing only on 24, 25 and 31 December and 1, 6 and 7 January.
DIVERSITY
- Our Beautiful Minds: An Introduction to Neurodiversity at Work (option AM), Tuesday 5 Dec 2023, 11:30 by Clare Reynolds and Louise Carvalho
- "Girls and Women: Use Satellite Data to Understand Climate Change": 9 Dec 2023 at CERN IdeaSquare
- "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.
- 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!