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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Physics Forum for QM Approvals: 3 - 14 Feb 2025
- 11 Feb: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- 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:
- 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
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 11 Feb 2025, 14:00: "Non-Supersymmetric Orbifolds, Quivers and Chen-Ruan Orbifold Cohomology" by Max Hübner (Uppsala U.)
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 11 Feb 2025, 16:00: "Hessian-Free Force-Gradient Integrators for Lattice QCD Simulations" by Kevin Schäfers (University of Wuppertal)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 12 Feb 2025, 11:30: "What are we doing incorrectly when analyzing Pulsar Timing Array data?" by Dr Rutger van Haasteren (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 13 Feb 2025, 11:00: "EFT combination of SM measurements" by Fabian Stager (University of Zurich (CH)), Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 13 Feb 2025, 13:30: "A Solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem with a Classical Volume Element" by Surjeet Rajendran
- Archives, Library and Open Science events, Friday 14 Feb 2025, 13:30: "The Voice of Science - Hollywood Physics" by Carsten Peter Welsch
- BE Seminars, Friday 14 Feb 2025, 16:00: "BE-ICS experience with Edge Computing" by Abhit Patil (CERN)
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 November 2024 to 4 April 2025
- Shifts booking ongoing. Still many slots available: Open Slots: 87 ( Expert O-O : 5 - Expert Pb-Pb: 33 )
All information related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website. - Recovery from AUG test (4th Feb) ongoing.
- Update for production FLPs schedule for Week 7 (10th-14th February)
- Lift to ALICE cavern fixed. Underground visits possible again.
- Kitchen at P2 fully equipped 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 deadline15 February
- 32nd International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2025) Cape Town, South Africa , 24-28 March, abstract deadline 10 February: Invitation to submit abstracts: contact conveners/CC if interested
- The Thirteenth Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2025), Taipei, 5-9 May, abstract deadline 7 February
- ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC Symposium (JENAS), Didcot, UK, 8-11 April, abstract deadline 28 February
- 2nd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions (UPC2025) Saariselkä, Finland , 9-13 June, abstract deadline 9 February
- 2nd European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (EuCAIFCon 2025), Cagliari, Italy, 16-20 June, abstract deadline 16 February
- 3rd "Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators" Corfu Greece, 27 April: Invitation for plenary "Detector challenges and upgrades for the LHC experiments" multi-exp. + short talks. Contact Upgrade coordinators/CC if interested
SCHOOLS
- Cargese 2025 International Summer School, Cargese, France, 21 July - 2 Aug, registration deadline 15 February
- 17th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Malmo, Sweden, 8-14 June, registration deadline 12 March
- International School of Nuclear Physics, 46th Course: QCD under extreme conditions - present and future, Erice, Sicily, 17-21 September 2025. Call for abstracts submission deadline: 1 July 2025.
- "Machine Learning for Physics school", University of Ljubljana, 26 June - 2 July, Registration deadline 4 May
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- Following the LHC-wide mental health survey conducted in 2023, which was developed by the ALICE Junior representatives, the ALICE Diversity office and Sarah Speziali, we are happy to announce that the results of the survey are finally analyzed and publicly available as a combined CMS and ALICE public note:
Assessing the mental health state of LHC scientists (ALICE-PUBLIC-2025-001,CMS NOTE-2025/001)
The note contains answers from all four LHC experiments, and was not only limited to junior members of the collaborations. We thank everyone who participated and hope that the note will serve as a basis for future initiatives.
- 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.
- Following the LHC-wide mental health survey conducted in 2023, which was developed by the ALICE Junior representatives, the ALICE Diversity office and Sarah Speziali, we are happy to announce that the results of the survey are finally analyzed and publicly available as a combined CMS and ALICE public note:
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 1st February 2025
- Lingfield College, UK
- colleague’s friends, Italy
- Sunday 2 February 2025
- ALICE members’ friends, Greece, Malta, Norway
- Tuesday 4 February 2025
- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- Wednesday 5 February 2025
- Istituto Sobrero, Italy; colleagues from Clermont-Ferrand, France
- 1st General Lyceum of Thermaikos, Greece;
- VIP visit : Professor Márcio de Castro Silva Filho, Scientific Director, The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
- ALICE Open visit
- Thursday 6 February 2025
- Danish Teacher Programme; New Scientist, Netherlands
- 1st Gymnasium of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Friday 7 February 2025
- ALICE member’s friends, Romania;
- Paris Saclay University, France;
- Audemars Piguet, Switzerland;
- St. Edmund’s College, UK;
- Artists from ARTS@CERN programme;
- CERN colleagues;
- Leon Verreijt, Netherlands
- 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 Day 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!