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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Week, 4-8 Mar 2024, Main Auditorum, CERN
- Workshop on: "Collaborating in Culturally Diverse Teams": Wednesday 6 March 2024 at 08:15, CERN Council Chamber:
As part of the ALICE Week, the ALICE Diversity Office is organising the “Collaborating in Culturally Diverse Teams” workshop, facilitated by Thriving Talent, on Wednesday 6 March at 08:15-11:15, in the Council Chamber. During this 3-hour interactive and in-person workshop you will learn to:- Articulate the collaborative case for embracing cultural diversity
- Recognise what unconscious bias has to do with cultural awareness
- Understand how cultural differences can influence ease of collaboration
- Identify how to more effectively engage with culturally diverse team
Should you have any inquiries, please let us know at alice-diversity-office@cern.ch
- AIM (ALICE In Motion) Session: Tuesday, 5 March at 16:30 hrs (as a part of the ALICE Week)
- International Women’s Day 2024 (Friday 8 March 2024): ALICE celebrates International Women’s Day 2024 by highlighting the key role women play in helping achieve our science goals. Stay tuned to view reels from some of our senior and junior members as they describe what they work on, their role in the collaboration and all the ways in which they contribute to making ALICE a successful experiment. Look up @aliceexperiment on Social Media!
- 1st "ALICE 3" Days: 25-27 Mar 2024 at CERN: “Please register by 10 March”!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN70 public event: From particle physics to medicine: As part of the celebrations for CERN's 70th anniversary, this event offers a unique opportunity to explore the various applications of particle physics instruments and tools in hospitals and medical research. Medical doctors, biologists and physicists will guide you on a captivating journey, providing insights into the future of therapy and imaging.
- Herwig Schopper - a century in physics: 1 March 2024, CERN
- Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan 2024 Town Meeting, Bucharest, 15-17 April, 2024:
The aim of this meeting is to bring together the Nuclear Physics community in Europe to discuss the long-range perspectives in our field and decide how best to develop it in the next ten to fifteen years. A draft of the LRP2024 Report and its Recommendations will be presented and discussed during the meeting.
This is an excellent opportunity to learn about and discuss the strategic choices of the community for the future of Nuclear Physics research in Europe. The nuclear physics community as a whole is welcome to attend.
- A new data centre at CERN
- Indico: 20 years of event managing
- Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break
- CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain
- CERN70: A first discovery
- CERN Council reviews progress of feasibility study for a next-generation collider
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 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)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 4 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Bayesian Inference and Gaussian Processes for PDF determination" by Tommaso Giani (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 5 Mar 2024, 10:00: "Long-range near-side correlations in e+e− collisions" by Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
- Launch event of OQI (Open Quantum Institute), 5 March 2024, CERN
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 5 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Small Black Holes in Quantum Gravity" by Matilda Delgado (IFT)
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 5 Mar 2024, 16:00: "Exclusive semileptonic decay in lattice QCD with domain-wall heavy quarks" by Takashi Kaneko
- "Chamonix 2024 workshop Summary": Wednesday 6 Mar 2024, 14:00, Council Chamber (CERN)
- "MiniWorkshop : Two-fermion physics": Friday 8 Mar 2024
- BE Seminars, Friday 8 Mar 2024, 16:00: "Invisible Dimensions Poll: the stuff colleagues don’t see" by Louise Carvalho (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 |
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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
- 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 4 March to 9 March
- SL blocks from 26 March to 8 April: Stable Beams at injection energy expected during the shift block
- ECS blocks from 26 March to 31 March: Stable Beams at injection energy expected during the shift block
- The booking includes 2 periods:
- ALICE Run Manager (4 - 17 March 2024): Adam Matyja
Adam is a physicist from Cracow and was the PAG coordinator of Ultra Peripheral collisions between 2021 and 2023. He worked for the TPC Krypton calibration in Run 1 and Run 2. In Run 2 he was EMCAL Photon analysis coordinator and worked onEMCAL time calibration. He has a strong experience of central shifts with many central positions covered since the beginning of ALICE Operations.
During his mandate Adam will supervise the restart of machine commissioning, TED and TDI shots, Magnet ramp-up and first beams circulating in the LHC. During this first part of the machine commissioning the experiment will remain SS. Adam will therefore coordinate the validation and final commissioning of all the developments carried out during the YETS. He will supervise the data taking with global SYNTHETIC and REPLAY runs, as well as COSMIC runs whenever the LHC schedule will allow to operate the detectors in nominal conditions.
- YETS 2023-2024:
- P2 operations: The global commissioning and validation of detectors and central systems is continuing. The shift crew is focusing on the global data taking with COSMICS and SYNTHETIC runs. The goal is to benchmark the system and test several new features, in particular the restarting of runs in the same environment and the implementation of non-critical tasks. In parallel the maintenance of detectors is being finalized, before the closure of the cavern at the beginning of March.
- General access to the ALICE cavern will end on 5 March 2024
- LHC beam operations will resume on 11 March 2024
- First stable beams at injection energy are expected around 20 March 2024
- Ongoing: global commissioning of detectors and central systems
- P2 operations: The global commissioning and validation of detectors and central systems is continuing. The shift crew is focusing on the global data taking with COSMICS and SYNTHETIC runs. The goal is to benchmark the system and test several new features, in particular the restarting of runs in the same environment and the implementation of non-critical tasks. In parallel the maintenance of detectors is being finalized, before the closure of the cavern at the beginning of March.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- XXVII Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste Rencontres-La Thuile, Italy, 3-9 March
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 31st International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2024), Grenoble, France, 8-12 April, opportunities for Overview talks (Alice Upgrades), contact Upgrade Coordinators/CC chairs
- 20th International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics (CALOR2024), Tsukuba, Japan, 19-24 May, abstract deadline 15 March
- CPOD 2024 workshop, LBL, USA, 20-24 May, abstract Deadline 1 March
- FPCP, Flavour Physics and CP Violation Conference 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, 27-31 May, abstract deadline 15 March, Invitation for plenary talk on heavy flavor + future: contact CC chairs
- International Workshop on Partial Wave Analyses and Advanced Tools for Hadron Spectroscopy (PWA13/ATHOS8), Williamsburg,Virginia, US, 28 May - 1 June, abstract deadline 17 March
- QNP 2024 — The 10th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 15 March
- QCD@LHC 2024, Freiburg, Germany 7-11 Oct, abstract deadline 15 March, Invitation for a plenary talk (25+5) "Highlights of Heavy Ions Collisions at the LHC" contact CC chairs
- XVIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 19–24 Aug 2024,
abstract deadline 29 April
SCHOOLS
- The Inverted CSC (iCSC), 15–18 Apr 2024 at CERN, deadline: 12 April
- INFN School of Statistics, Paestum, Italy, 12 May, registration deadline 30 March
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 31 April
- MCnet Summer School, 10–14 Jun 2024, CERN, registration deadline: 15 April
- III Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 June, registration deadline 20 April
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MidSummer School in QCD 2024, Saariselka, Finland, 24 June - 6 July, registration deadline 1 March
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2024 CTEQ Summer School on QCD and Electroweak Phenomenology, Munster, Germany, 21-31 August, registration deadline 1 March
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024:
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- The election for a new junior representative (replacing Carolina Reetz) is NOW OPEN. Here is the Link to Vote.
There you also find further information about the three candidates: Bianca Sabiu (Bologna, IT), Brian Gerald Hanley (Wayne State, US) and Gleb Romanenko (Bologna, IT). The elected candidate will be announced during the JUNIORS DAY on March 07.
- Junior's Day, 7 March 2024
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Underground access (and the Underground ALICE visits) stops: 5 March 2024
- ALICE virtual visits: Virtual Visits to the cavern and ARC possible during 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 24 February 2024
- Liceo Agnelli, Torino, Italy
- University of Bologna, Italy
- Sunday 25 February 2024
- ALICE colleagues and families, India
- ALICE member’s friends, France
- Monday 26 February 2024
- University of Trieste, Italy
- ALICE members’ friends, India, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy
- CERN students
- Tuesday 27 February 2024
- 3rd Lyceum of Agios Dimitrios, Greece
- Ecole Central/Supelec, France
- Hartismere School, UK
- LHCC referees
- ALICE members’ friends, Bulgaria, Germany
- Wednesday 28 February 2024
- High School Plateos Korifis, Greece
- Liceo Steiner, Italy; ALICE members’ friends, Switzerland, Italy, Romania
- Thursday 29 February 2024
- 1st experimental high school of Larisa, Greece
- Biochemistry students, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Zug International Women’s Club, Switzerland
- Egencia team, Switzerland; ALICE members’ friends, USA, France, UK, Germany
- VIP visit: State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
- Friday 1st March 2024
- CERN Fire Brigade
- 1st experimental high school Manolis Andronikos, Greece
- P. Groche, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- ALICE members’ friends, Germany, Mexico, Greece
- Saturday 24 February 2024
- International Masterclasses 2024:
- Wednesday 28 February 2024: ALICE masterclasses were held by TSalerno, Cape Town iThemba LABS and Constantine, Algeria
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is now on LinkedIn! Come and join us. The page will be dedicated to news from physics, experiment, people, as well as to the ALICE Alumni community!
DIVERSITY
- Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February 2023): Stories from CERN's women in science
- New webpage on ethics at CERN
- 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!