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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Mini Week: 20 - 24 Jan 2025
- UX25 (ALICE Cavern) is not available for visits due to the repair work of the Lift. Organizers of underground visits should check with the ALICE visits team regarding the status of the site, to have an idea if the visit can be done or not.
- Town meeting: heavy ion and QGP physics at CERN, Monday 17 Feb 2025
- "ALICE 3" Days: 18 - 20 February 2025 at CERN
We look forward to a broad participation to discuss the status and plans of all activities in view of another intense year for ALICE 3. Please register if you plan to participate in person (highly encouraged!). Also book your accommodation at the earliest possible!
- ALICE Week: 17-21 March 2025
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- 2025 updates from the Service Work Board:
- Conference Committee Membership (deadline: 31 January): 4 mandates from April 1 2025 to 31 March 2027 with the following expertise
- HF/DQ
- UD
- Computing/Upgrades
- Upgrades/Detector
If you are interested to join Conference Committee: please contact CC chairs before 31 January
- Editorial Board Membership (deadline: 1 February 2025): EB members are in charge of reviewing papers, technical publications, and conference proceedings, as well as participating in the EB meetings. By the end of March, we will have to replace one EB member. On this occasion, we would like to call for people with expertise in PWG-CF, as well as other areas of expertise.
If you're interested in joining the EB, please do not hesitate to contact the EB Chairs before 1 February 2025. Please do not hesitate to contact the EB Chairs if you need further information.
- Sign up for the 2025 Mentoring@CERN programme: Following the success of last year’s pilot round, the LHC Early Career Mentoring Committee and CERN’s Women in Technology network are thrilled to announce the continuation of the Mentoring@CERN programme in 2025.
- Happy 2025 to the CERN community! by Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN
- Accelerator Report: Another exciting year ahead: Although the much-appreciated winter break is well behind us and most of us are back at work, the accelerator complex is still in hibernation – but not for much longer: By Rende Steerenberg
- CERN News: ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
- Accelerator report: A well-deserved winter break for the accelerator complex by Rende Steerenberg
- Updated schedule for CERN’s accelerators by Mike Lamont (4 Oct 2024)
- CERN70 Feature Series
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 26 February (extra-ordinary)
- 26 March (during QM approvals follow-up week, only for urgent cases)
- 16 April (mini-week)
- 14 May (extraordinary)
- 11 June(mini-week)
- 9 July (extraordinary -> presentation of exceptional planned Run 3 preliminaries for initial stages in September, one week after OO run)
- 27 August (mini-week -> follow-up and approval of exceptional Run 3 preliminaries for initial stages in September)
- 1 October (extra-ordinary
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extra-ordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- BE Seminars, Friday 24 Jan 2025, 16:00: "Marchese project" by Roberto Cittadini
- "Data Protection Day 2025": 28 January 2025
- Archives, Library and Open Science events, Tuesday 28 Jan 2025, 13:30: "Meet the authors of Detectors in particle physics" by Anthony Weidberg (University of Oxford (GB)), Georg Viehhauser (University of Oxford (GB))
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 28 Jan 2025, 16:00: "The pion scalar radius from lattice QCD" by Konstantin Ottnad
- "Information session - Women and gilrs of science and technology" Wednesday 29 Jan 2025, 15:00: 160/1-009 (CERN)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 30 Jan 2025, 11:00: "R(J/psi) [CMS, theory]" by Camilla Galloni (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)), Judd Harrison
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 30 Jan 2025, 16:30: "Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments and the enabling role of the CERN Neutrino Platform: DUNE and ProtoDUNE" by Christos Touramanis (University of Liverpool (GB))
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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).
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NEWS FROM POINT 2
- Year-End Technical Stop (YETS): 25 Nov 2024 to 12 Mar 2025
- Smooth opening start of Shift Booking for 2025: Thursday 23 January at 1 PM
All information related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website. - P2 operations:
- Detector maintenance ongoing.
- Central system test ongoing (Improved link monitoring, Start/Stop/Start).
- Preparation for OS system of FLP and EPN will be carried out end of January. Expert are requested to backup local data from FLPs.
- Lift to Alice cavern not working after maintenance until further notice. Access possible via PM25 elevator. No visits in the cavern possible. Repair to be carried out during the upcoming week.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
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- JUAS 2025 Joint Universitires Accelerator School, CERN, 13 January - 14 February
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- XXXVIII Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste, LaThuile2025, La Thuile, Italy, 9-15 March, abstract deadline 24 January, application for talk at the Young Scientists Forum
- Fragmentation in the collider precision era, Zurich, Switzerland, 17-19 March, abstract deadline 31 January
- 32nd International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2025), Cape Town, South Africa , 24 March, abstract deadline 10 February
- Hadron in Nucleus 2025 (HIN25), Kyoto, Japan, 2-4 April, abstract deadline 31 January
- The Thirteenth Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2025), Taipei, 5-9 May, abstract deadline 3 February
- 2nd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions (UPC2025), Saariselkä, Finland , 9-13 June, Abstract deadline: 2 Feb
- 2nd European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (EuCAIFCon 2025), Cagliari, Italy, 15-20 June, abstract deadline 16 February
SCHOOLS
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: a collection of all resources and news that can be helpful for people engaged in the analysis of ALICE Run 3 data. This is especially beneficial for those new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- UX25 (ALICE Cavern) is now unavailable for visits due to the repair work of the Lift. Organizers of underground visits should check with the ALICE visits team the status of the site, to have an idea if the visit can be done or not.
- ALICE underground visits from 25 Nov 2024 (14:00) to 27 Mar 2025 (12:00).
Contact the ALICE visits team for any questions!
- ALICE visits
- Saturday 18 January 2025
- Natuurwetenschappelijke Studievereniging Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Colleagues’ friends, France, Switzerland
- Sunday 19 January 2025
- Sookmyeong University, South Korea
- Tuesday 21 January 2025
- The Grange School, Hartford, UK
- Izmir Cakabey, Türkiye
- IBM Company, Belgium
- Wednesday 22 January 2025
- Godalming College, UK
- Thursday 23 January 2025
- 1st General Lyceum Manolis Andronikos, Greece
- Liceo Scientifico Cattaneo, Torino, Italy
- Friday 24 January 2025
- English School Los Olivos, Spain
- Colleague’s friends, Germany
- Saturday 18 January 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE Christmas video
- Early Morning Coffee at CERN podcast Episode 3: Turning lead into primordial soup with Marco Van LeeuwenInstagram Live from ALICE cavern with Jiyoung Kim, Kai Schweda, and Simone Ragoni
- QGP at 50: Facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
DIVERSITY
- Work Well Feel Well: Emotions: forces for transformation: Part eight of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at how to acknowledge and manage our emotions!
- 25 by ’25 Gender Diversity Progress:
The latest data shows remarkable progress toward the 25% gender diversity target, originally deemed unattainable by experts due to low staff turnover. We are now less than 0.5% away from the goal! A special thank you to Hiring Managers for their dedication to “conscious hiring” over the past years. With a diverse feeder pool of students and grads, we are optimistic that this will result in increased gender diversity among staff in the medium and long term. More info ....
- D&I Volunteer Networks:
- SNAC (Neurodiversity) Network:
The network, set to officially launch in Q1 2025, already has over 60 members. Recent feedback from a participant highlighted the value of connecting with others who share similar neurodivergent traits.
- Coordinator position open for The Network for persons with Disability:
The role involves acting as a contact point for disability-related questions, participating in Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable meetings, and monitoring projects aimed at improving working conditions for people with disabilities at CERN. Please contact Jean-Yves Le-Meur for more details.
- SNAC (Neurodiversity) Network:
- 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!