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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- The elevator at UX25 (ALICE Cavern) is back in service. Visit to ALICE Cavern is now possible again! Details are in the ALICE Visits site.
- 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
- Available occasional care for people coming to CERN with their kids for meetings: https://nurseryschool.web.cern.ch/occasional-care
For help and more info contact the DEI office: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Isolating photons at low Bjorken x: CERN Courier Jan-Feb 2025: Energy Frontier
- 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: Preparing for 2025 LHC operation and setting goals" 29 January 2025, by Rende Steerenberg
- CERN70 Feature Series
- New AI Companion features on CERN Zoom
Meeting summaries, topic tracking and more: the new AI Companion features are now available on CERN Zoom
- 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
- CERN Colloquium, Monday 3 Feb 2025, 16:30: "Click Chemistry, Excellence and Equality in Science" by Prof. Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, DK), Dr Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire (P M Consulting, DK)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 5 Feb 2025, 14:00: "Bootstrapping BFSS" by Henry Lin (Stanford University)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 6 Feb 2025, 11:00: "Top quark pair + heavy flavour [ATLAS,TH]" by Nedaa Alexandra Asbah (CERN), Rikkert Frederix (Lund University)
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).
| Title | Internal | Submission Date |
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20 Dec 2024 |
NEWS FROM POINT 2
- Year-End Technical Stop (YETS): 25 Nov 2024 to 12 Mar 2025
- Shifts booking ongoing. Still many slots available: Open Slots: 117 ( Expert O-O : 3 - Expert Pb-Pb: 40 )
All information related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website. - AUG test scheduled for Tuesday 4 February. No Access to P2 for the whole day. Central system and detector will be power off mostly between Friday (31.1-6.2)
- OS of FLPs on staging system successfully updated. Update for production FLPs schedule for Week 7 (10th-14th February)
- Lift to ALICE cavern fixed. Underground visits possible again.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
None
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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
- 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 25 January 2025
- Jeunes Actifs Accueil des Villes Francaises Annecy, France
- Monday 27 January 2025
- Strasbourg University and Lab, France; Transmutex, USA; Camlica Kiz Lisesi, Türkiye
- Tuesday 28 January 2025
- Joint Universities Accelerator School, France;
- LHC Office, Germany;
- students from Frankfurt, Germany
- Wednesday 29 January 2025
- High School, Austria; Liceo Fermi di Paternò, Italy;
- Kosice University, Slovakia;
- Tutelles Subatech, France
- Thursday 30 January 2025
- UTE Alessandro Volta, Como, Italy;
- LHC Office Hamburg, Germany;
- colleague’s family, Italy
- Friday 31 January 2025
- Professional visitors ALC Tolerie Industrielle SA , Switzerland;
- AMAVET, Slovakia; CMS colleagues
- Saturday 25 January 2025
- ALICE Masterclasses: Wednesday 29 January 2025 ALICE masterclasses for Liceo Fermi di Paternò, Italy
- International Masterclasses 2025: Looking for moderators!
Moderators are need for the International Masterclasses 2025, for the ALICE sessions.
Young people are particularly encouraged to participate. Training will be provided on the 24 February and specific training for ALICE will be arranged.
- The ALICE sessions are on the following days (the number in parenthesis is the number of institutes registered for that day):
- Tuesday 11 February. (5) International Dsay of Women and Girls in Science: female moderators needed
- Wednesday 26 February (6)
- Friday 28 February RAA (3)
- Monday 3 March (2)
- Friday 14 March (5)
- Tuesday 18 March (5)
- Saturday 22 March (1)
- Monday 24 March (5)
- Tuesday 1 April (2)
- Thursday 3 April (3)
- Thursday 10 April (4)
Contact Despina Hatzifotiadou for further information.
- 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!