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No.288,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE Calendar 2024: pdf file, YouTube Video
Dear Colleagues, As the winter break approaches and 2023 draws to a close, we would like to send you our season’s greetings and take the opportunity to reflect on the past year. 2023 has been an extremely productive year for ALICE, with several major heavy-ion conferences, the submission of 52 new scientific publications, first high-rate Pb-Pb data taking with the upgraded detector, and the submission of the Technical Design Reports for ITS3 and FoCal to the LHCC. Our best wishes to you and your families for the Holidays and the New Year, Bedanga, Kai, and Marco. |
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CERN in 2023: journey from high above to far below
- ALICE mini week: 15-19 January 2024
- FoCal cooling and mechanics workshop in Krakow: 9-10 January 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
 ALICE CERN Team Meeting: 19 December 2023 |
- Charm is better than beauty at going with the flow (home.cern news, 15 December 2023)
- How Scientists Made the Hottest Thing Ever
- 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)
- CERN Courier (Nov-Dec 2023) Energy Frontier: Collectivity in small systems produced at the LHC
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Matrix Quantum Mechanics for M-theory Revisited: 8-12 January 2024, CERN
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 10 Jan 2024, 14:00: "Arithmetic Quantum Chaos inside Black Holes" by Sean Hartnoll (Cambridge)
- Accelerators and technology sector New Year 2024: Thursday 11 Jan 2024, 14:00, CERN
- "The Infinite Monkey Cage" January 12, 2024, CERN Science Gateway
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission date |
| 19 Dec 2023 |
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 with first circulating beams
- First stable beams around beginning of April
- Underground access stops 6 March 2024
- L3 doors will remain closed & magnets off
- The run schedule for 2024 and 2025 will comprise about three weeks of PbPb run at the end of each year, and about one week of p-p reference run in 2024, with possibly a few more days in 2025. The Oxygen-Oxygen and proton-Oxygen runs are scheduled to take place in 2025.
- Shifts 2024
- Shifts will start on Monday 19 February at 7:00 hrs and end on Monday 28 October at 15:00 hrs for a total of 252 days
- Shift booking will open at the beginning of January 2024 as soon as the official 2024 maching planning is released.
- In 2024, all shift slots will be opened at the same time, with critical data taking periods reserved for shifters that have the "Expert" credential in SAMS.
- If you are new in ALICE data taking, consult How to become a central shifter
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 39th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dymamics, Jackson, Wyoming, USA , 11-17 February, abstract deadline 10 January, Plenary Talks
- QWG 2024, 16th International Workshop on Heavy Quarkonium Mohali, India, 26 February - 1 March, Please contact DQ conveners
- Moriond2024, QCD & High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 31 March - 7 April, Abstract deadline 14 January, contact PWG conveners
- 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
- European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (EuCAIFCon 2024), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 April - 3 May, abstract deadline 14 January
- Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators CORFU2024, Corfu, Greece, 19-26 May, abstract deadline 31 January
- 31st International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2024), Grenoble, France, 8 April, abstract deadline 31 Januar
SCHOOLS
- The sixth Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics (AEPSHEP2024), Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 12-25 June 2024, registration deadline: 19 January 2024
- 4th International School of Trigger and Data Acquisition (ISOTDAQ), Heifei, China, 19 - 28 June, registration deadline 31 January
- MidSummer School in QCD, Saariselka, Finland, 24 June - 6 July, registration deadline 31 January
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Congratulation to the selected speakers for LHCP 2024 plenary talks:
- Sarah Porteboeuf (LPC Clermont-Ferrand, France): QCD measurements in pp collisions
- Raymond Ehlers, (Berkeley, US): Investigating interactions in the quark-gluon plasma with jets and heavy flavor
- Alexandru Dobrin, (ISS, Bucharest, Romania): Particle production and collectivity from small to large collision systems
- Felix Reidt, (CERN): ALICE Upgrades
- Ananya Rai, (Yale,US): Inclusion and Diversity
- CC webpages:
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 16 December 2023
- BSA Troop 130, Geneva, Switzerland
- ALICE members’ friends, Germany, Italy
- Monday 18 December 2023
- ALICE open visit
- Wednesday 20 December 2023
- School for nuclear defense, Germany
- Phoenix Academy, UK
- ALICE members’ friends, France, Italy
- Thursday 21 December 2023
- Athens College, Greece
- Saturday 16 December 2023
- ALICE Virtual visits:
- Monday 18 December 2023
- ALICE virtual visit for Greek schools
- Monday 18 December 2023
- ALICE Instagram Live (7 December 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
- "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!