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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
YouTube: How Scientists Made the Hottest Thing Ever:
After his recent visit to the ALICE experiment Joe Hanson, science writer, biologist, video producer, educator, and the creator and host of "Be Smart" talks about the quark–gluon plasma with the highest temperature achieved in lead-ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Kai Schweda guides him through the experiment and the physics behind!
Thanks also to Fabrizio Grosa and Maximiliano Puccio for participating!
- ALICE mini week: 15-19 January 2024
- FoCal cooling and mechanics workshop in Krakow: 9-10 January 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- ALICE Calendar 2024
- ALICE bags about twelve billion heavy-ion collisions (home.cern news, 1 December 2023)
- Looking back on an eventful year for accelerators, (home.cern news, 7 December 2023)
- The 21st International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2024) will be held in Strasbourg (France) from 3 - 7 June 2024.
- 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
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 15 Dec 2023, 11:00: "The ENUBET monitored neutrino beam" by Prof. Francesco Terranova (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 10 Jan 2024, 14:00: "Colloquium within the TH Institute "Matrix Quantum Mechanics for M-theory Revisited"
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)
None
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- EMMI Workshop "Strong interaction physics of heavy flavors", Hirschegg, Austria, 14 January, abstract deadline 15 December
- 39th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dymamics, Jackson, Wyoming, USA , 11-17 February, abstract deadline 5 January
- QWG 2024, 16th International Workshop on Heavy Quarkonium Mohali, India, 26 February - 1 March, no abstract deadline. Invitation for four DQ talks. Please contact DQ conveners/CC
- Moriond2024, QCD & High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 31 March - 7 April, Abstract deadline 14 January, Invitation for 6 talks, contact PWG conveners/CC chairs
- 12th Beam Telescopes and Test Beams Workshop (BTTB12), Edinburgh, Scotland, 15-19 April, abstract deadline 14 April
- Nucleus-Nucleus NN2024, Whistler, Canada, 18-23 August, abstract dealine 31 December
SCHOOLS
- The sixth Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics (AEPSHEP2024) to be held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 12-25 June 2024, is open for applications. The deadline for applications is 19 January 2024.Applications to attend the school are invited particularly from students from countries in the Asia-Pacific region and from Europe, although candidates from other regions will also be considered.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of major conferences in 2024:
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- ALICE Juniors are invited to attend and register for the "LHC Soft Skills Workshop: On Networking, Proactivity and Enlarging our Circles of Influence" on 17 January 2024. The event consists of an interesting panel discussion with senior members of all four LHC experiments, followed by a networking event. In-person and remote participation possible!
- 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 9 December 2023
- Ferndown Upper School, UK;
- Claremont Senior School, UK;
- ALICE member’s family, Germany
- Sunday 10 December 2023
- ALICE member’s friends, France
- Monday 11 December 2023
- CERN colleagues from TE-MPE-EP
- ALICE members' friends, Bangladesh, France
- Robotics: TUM Collaboration, Germany
- Engineers from IRSN (Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire), France
- Tuesday 12 December 2023
- 1st Gymnasio Cholargou, Greece
- 1st Lykeio Thermis, Greece
- 3rd Senior High-School of Sparta, Greece
- Wednesday 13 December 2023
- 1st General Lyceum of Amaliada, Greece
- Thursday 14 December 2023
- International School of Athens, Greece
- 2nd Gymnasio Cholargou, Greece
- 6th Lyceum of Kallithea, Greece
- Liceo Godetti, Torino, Italy
- IES ARCEBISPO XELMIREZ II, Spain
- Friday 15 December 2023
- visitors from Switzerland
- visitors from Switzerland
- Saturday 9 December 2023
- ALICE Virtual visits:
- Friday 8 December 2023 ALICE virtual visit for Greek schools
- Monday 11 December 2023 ALICE virtual visit for Greek schools
- Tuesday 12 December 2023 ALICE virtual visit for Greek schools
- ALICE Instagram Live (7 December 2023) with Simone Ragoni and Tapan Nayak
- 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
- "WIT Impostor Syndrome Workshop", 9 February 2024: Ever felt like you weren't deserving of your achievements? Thought it was all just luck? You're not alone! Impostor Syndrome is that sneaky voice in your head making you doubt your incredible skills, talents, and accomplishments. It's the shadow that makes you question if you're a "fraud", even when the spotlight clearly shines on your successes. WIT (Women in Technology), CERN has organized a workshop where we will introduce impostor syndrome, including what it is and how it usually manifests. After an introductory talk, participants will split in small groups to do hands-on exercises.
- "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!