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No.292,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- Unveiling the Universe (30 January 2024): The first public event of CERN at 70 celebration is scheduled for 30 January from which will combine science, art and culture, and will feature a panel of eminent scientists discussing the evolution of particle physics and CERN’s significant contributions in advancing this field. David Gross is one of the speakers in the evening, with Gian Giudice, Tara Shears and Djuna Croon.
- CERN Colloquium, Wednesday 31 Jan 2024, 16:30: "50 years of QCD" by David Gross (2004 Nobel Prize in Physics shared with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer)
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 7 February (extra-ordinary, abstracts and papers for SQM)
- 13 March (extra-ordinary)
- 10 April (during mini-week)
- 15 May (during SQM+LHCP approvals)
- 19 June (during mini-week)
- 21 August (during Hard Probes previews)
- 2 October (extra-ordinary)
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
- ALICE in pictures: 2023
- ALICE Calendar 2024
- Happy 2024 to the CERN community: A Word from Fabiola Gianotti
- CERN Alumni Third Collisions, 9 - 11 Feb: Celebrate the exceptional journeys of CERN alumni, in the year of CERN's 70th anniversary. Read more.
- Music and physics: a spacetime voyage back to our origins, with Yo-Yo Ma and Fabiola Gianotti: highlights from the 8 Dec 2023 program at CERN
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 26 Jan 2024, 11:00: "The 3rd International Conference on Detector Stability and Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors" by Roberto Guida (CERN)
- CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theory 2024: 29 Jan 2024 - 2 Feb 2024
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 30 Jan 2024, 11:00: "Supersymmetry - Beyond minimal models with the ATLAS experiment" by John Kenneth Anders (CERN)
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 30 Jan 2024, 16:00: "Two Troubled Hadrons in a Box: resolving the left-hand cut issue in the Lüscher scattering formalism" by André Baião Raposo (University of Edinburgh)
- EP-IT Data Science Seminars, Wednesday 31 Jan 2024, 11:00: "Problem solving as a translation task" by Francois Charton (META AI)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 1 Feb 2024, 11:00: "Exotic multiquark resonances" by Dr Alessandro Pilloni (Jefferson Lab), Mikhail Mikhasenko (Excellence Cluster ORIGINS)
- BE Seminars, Friday 2 Feb 2024, 16:00: "WRAP: A Web-Based Rapid Application Development Framework for CERN’s Controls Infrastructure" by Epameinondas Galatas (CERN)
- CERN Colloquium, Friday 2 Feb 2024, 16:30: "US Particle Physics for the Next Ten Years" by Hitoshi Murayama
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission date |
| 24 Jan 2024 |
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
- Shift booking is open for the whole 2024 run!
- The booking includes 2 periods:
- 19 Feb - 24 Sep 2024: shifts open to any member of the collaboration, reservation via SAMS. It represents 86% of the available shifts.
- 25 Sep - 28 Oct 2024: Heavy Ion shifts, reservation via SAMS restricted to collaborators that have a valid "Expert" permission. If you have experience as central shifter and are willing to commit for this exciting data taking period, but you are not yet identified as Expert for your preferred shift role, do not hesitate to contact the Run Coordination !
- One of the pre-requisites for booking central shifts is to have an ACTIVE SLIMOS permission for the duration of your shifts. The status of all permissions can be checked in the SAMS profile. The SLIMOS permission has to be renewed every 3 years by following the corresponding e-learning course and passing the test, as described here.
- All informations related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website.
- We would like to thank all institutes that already committed to the ALICE operations!
- Several critical blocks are still available, in particular during the first two weeks of operations:
- SL blocks from February 23 to March 9
- DCS blocks from February 21 to February 26 and from February 29 to March 5
- ECS blocks from February 21 to February 28 and from March 2 to March 7
- QC blocks from February 19 to February 22 and from March 2 to March 7
- The booking includes 2 periods:
- YETS 2023-2024:
- LHC beam operations will resume on 11 March 2024
- Underground access stops 5 March 2024
- Ongoing: detector maintenance and commissioning of central systems
- A milestone week is being organised from 5 to 9 March, to review the status of detectors and central systems before the start of the 2024 run
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- International School and Workshop on probing hadron structure at the EIC, Bangalore, India, 29 Jan - 9 Feb
- 6th Inter-experiment Machine Learning Workshop, CERN, 29 Jan - 2 Feb
- 7th FCC Physics Workshop, Annecy,France, 29 Jan - 2 Feb
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- XXVII Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste Rencontres La Thuile, Italy, 3-9 March, abstract deadline 30 January, INVITATION for a plenary talk: Contact CC chairs
- 31st International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2024), Grenoble, France, 8-12 April, abstract deadline 31 January
- New Physics Directions in the LHC era and beyond, Heidelberg, Germany, 22-26 April, abstract deadline 31 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
- FPCP, Flavour Physics and CP Violation Conference 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, 27-31 May, abstract deadline 1 February
- SQM 2024, Strasbourg France, 3-7 June, abstract deadline 17 February (central submission except for posters)
- LHCP2024, Boston, USA, 3 Jun 2024, abstract deadline for poster submission 15 February
- ICHEP 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-24 July, abstract deadline 16 February (central submission except for posters)
SCHOOLS
- The sixth Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics (AEPSHEP2024), Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 12-25 June 2024, registration deadline: 26 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
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Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024:
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- 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 20 January 2024
- Bedales School, UK
- Sunday 21 January
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Tuesday 23 January 2024
- Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Hungary
- 4th High School of Nikaia, Greece
- Carl Bosch Schule, Heidelberg, Germany
- CERN trainee
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Wednesday 24 January 2024
- 3rd Lyceum Zografou, Greece
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy, Spain
- BBC
- Thursday 25 January 2024
- High School number 2, Poland
- 30th Lyceum of Thessaloniki, Greece
- ALICE member’s friends, Spain
- Friday 26 January 2024
- The International Academy, Italy
- CERN media team
- Saturday 20 January 2024
- International Masterclasses 2024 : Moderators needed:
Masterclasses in particle physics will take place between 15 February and 27 March 2024 (plus extra Masterclasses on 9 February, to celebrate the UN Day of Girls and Women in Science).
Moderators are needed for the end-of-the-day video conference: 4-5 pm CET. Students from various countries connect on zoom, discuss their results, ask questions and take part in a quiz. The moderation is done in pairs, and newcomers are paired with an experienced person, so nobody has to jump into the deep end. Normally each moderator does about three sessions. A training is provided short before the event.
If you are interested, please contact the central organiser of International Masterclasses Uta Bilow (uta.bilow@tu-dresden.de) as well as Despina Hatzifotiadou, who will provide information about the ALICE measurements
- Instagram Live from the ALICE Cavern: 1 February 2024 at 5 PM
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.
- 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!