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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Youtube Video: ALICE in pictures: 2023
Wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous year with lots of joy and happiness!
- ALICE mini week: 15-19 January 2024
- FoCal cooling and mechanics workshop in Krakow: 9-10 January 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 10 Jan 2024, 14:00: "Arithmetic Quantum Chaos inside Black Holes" by Sean Hartnoll (Cambridge)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 11 Jan 2024, 13:30: "The global flavour structures in the Standard Model EFT" by David Sutherland
- Accelerators and technology sector New Year 2024: Thursday 11 Jan 2024, 14:00, CERN
- "The Infinite Monkey Cage" January 12, 2024, CERN Science Gateway
- CERN Computing Seminar, Wednesday 17 Jan 2024, 10:00: "ALICE Physics Data Processing in LHC Run 3" by Andreas Morsch (CERN)
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
- 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)
- Quarkonia as Tools 2024, Aussois, France, 7-13 January
- 30th Cracow Epiphany Conference on Precision Physics at High Energy Colliders, Cracow, Poland , 8-12 January
- EMMI Workshop "Strong interaction physics of heavy flavors", Hirschegg, Austria, 14-20 January
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
- XXVII Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste Rencontres La Thuile, Italy, 3-9 March, abstract deadline 30 January
- Moriond2024, QCD & High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 31 March - 7 April, Abstract deadline 14 January, contact PWG conveners
- 31st International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2024), Grenoble, France, 8-12 April, abstract deadline 31 January
- 12th Beam Telescopes and Test Beams Workshop (BTTB12), Edinburgh, Scotland, 15-19 April, abstract deadline 14 April
- 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
- 16th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors: Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, La Bodiola, Italy, 26 May, abstract deadline 28 January
- Nucleus-Nucleus NN2024, Whistler, Canada, 18 August, abstract deadline 26 January
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
- 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
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!