No.346,
Twiki link
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ALICE/AliceNewsletter14Feb2025

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

ALICE 3 days

 

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • The other 99%

CC

 

Isolating photons at low Bjorken x:  CERN Courier Jan-Feb 2025: Energy Frontier

EFService Work Board:

 

  • "How do scientists get lead into the LHC?" by Sarah Charley in Symmetry magazine.
     
  • "Chamonix Workshop 2025: looking to the future" by Mike Lamont:
    Reviewing accelerator operations, supporting an increasingly diverse physics programme and preparing for the High-Luminosity LHC and beyond were key themes of this year’s Chamonix Workshop.
     
  • "Accelerator Report: A first step towards beam production – the Linac4 source is running again" by Rende Steerenberg:
    While the year-end technical stop (YETS) is still in full swing in the LHC and progressing as planned, the injector complex is gradually being restarted. A week ago, Linac4, the PS Booster (PSB), the PS and their transfer lines were closed again.
     
  • "Official launch of the Quantum Year"
    The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). Kicking off about 100 planned events worldwide was an opening ceremony on 4 February at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
     
  • "11 Feb: International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025"
     
  • 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

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

Title  Internal Submission Date

Link		  
20 Dec 2024

 

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

  • Year-End Technical Stop (YETS): 25 November 2024 to 4 April 2025
  • Shifts booking opened for whole 2025
     
    • Open Slots: 79 ( Expert O-O : 4 - Expert Pb-Pb: 30 )
       
    • Several slots still available during the comic data taking  in March and commissioning beginning of April
       
    • All information related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website.
  • Detector maintenance ongoing
  • Central System:
     
    • Update of OS for production FLPs finished
       
    • Update of OS on EPNs on hold due to issue with ROCm software
       
    • WinCC update on  DCS systems ongoing
  • Lift maintenance:  Friday morning 6-8am (no cavern access)

CONFERENCES

CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
SCHOOLS

 

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

CC webpages:

Dates of upcoming major conferences
 

 

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.

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 8 February 2025
      • Tring School, UK;
      • ALICE members’ friends, Germany,Italy;
      • ALICE open visit
    • Sunday 9 February 2025
      • ALICE member’s friends, Italy
    • Monday 10 February 2025
      • art students from Germany participating in “ORIGIN art and science conference"
    • Tuesday 11 February 2025
      • Transmutex, Switzerland
      • Valentines High School, UK
      • ALICE open visit
      • VIP visit: Madame Isabelle Arrighi, Sous-Préfète de Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France
                               
    • Wednesday 12 February 2025
      • 3rd High School of Stavroupolis, Greece
      • Bielefeld University, Germany
    • Thursday 13 February 2025
      • High School of Louros, Greece
      • University of Clermont-Ferrand, France;
      • Heidelberg University, Germany
      • Comité Suisse pour l'Evaluation du FCC (CSEF)
    • Friday 14 February 2025
      • International School of Turin, Italy
      • 2nd Lyceum of Kifisia, Greece
      • ALICE members’ friends, Lebanon, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic




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  • ALICE masterclasses:
     
    • Tuesday 11 February 2025: on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, special ALICE masterclasses for girls were held in Kosice, Copenhagen, Cape Town - iThemba and online in Greece
    • Thursday 13 February 2025: ALICE masterclasses for CERN non-scientific personnel were held at CERN, organised by IPPOG and the Women In Technology (WIT) network, in an effort to familiarise our non-physics colleagues with what we do.
       
  • ALICE virtual visits:
    • Tuesday 11 February 2025  Virtual visit to ALICE for online girls' masterclasses in Greece
  • Recent Social Media Highlights:

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.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

 

Date
Listed		  

Title

 

Institute

  

Application deadline
14 Feb Assistant professor - Development of instrumentation and analysis methods at the LHC Université Paris Cité 4 Apr 2025
14 Feb Electronics Engineer CERN 9 Mar 2025
14 Feb Applied Physicist expert in beam-matter Interactions CERN 9 Mar 2025
14 Feb Research Associate for particle physics with the CMS experiment (PhD position) Hamburg University 10 Mar 2025
14 Feb Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Theory Wayne State University 15 Mar 2025
7 Feb Full Professorship (W3) for Experimental Physics Heidelberg University 28 Feb 2025
7 Feb Electronics Engineer Cambridge University 23 Feb 2025
7 Feb Research Assistant/Research Associate (ATLAS) Cambridge University 2 Mar 2025
7 Feb Postdoctoral Research Associate Texas Tech University 7 May 2025
7 Feb Assistant professor - Development of instrumentation and analysis methods at the LHC Université Paris Cité 4 Apr 2025
7 Feb Postdoctoral position on data analysis (ATLAS) IJCLab, Orsay 5 Mar 2025
7 Feb Postdoctoral Fellowship (LHCb) University of Cincinnati 17 Feb 2025
31 Jan Postdoc position LLR, Palaiseau 17 Feb 2025
31 Jan Computing Engineer for Applied physics (BE-ABP-CAP-2025-8-LD) CERN 27 Feb 2025
31 Jan Experimental Physicist (EP-DI-2025-9-LD) CERN 23 Mar 2025
31 Jan Research Fellowship : Experimental Physics CERN 3 Mar 2025
31 Jan Postdoctoral Position in Experimental Particle/Nuclear Physics Indiana University Bloomington 1 Apr 2025
31 Jan Postdoctoral position in experimental astroparticle physics Stockholm University 1 Mar 2025
24 Jan Full Professorship (W3) for Experimental Physics Heidelberg University 28 Feb 2025
24 Jan Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Particle Physics University of Michigan 31 Mar 2025
24 Jan EP Research Fellowship: Applied Physics and Engineering CERN 10 Mar 2025
24 Jan Postdoctoral Position in Experimental Nuclear/Particle Physics (ATLAS,CERN) Ben Gurion University of the Negev 31 Mar 2025
24 Jan Physics Software Developer for Data Analysis CERN 16 Feb 2025
24 Jan Wilson Fellowship Fermilab 14 Feb 2025
24 Jan Postdoctoral positions in experimental high energy particle or nuclear physics ATLAS/STAR/BESIII University of Tarapacá, Chile 20 Feb 2025
17 Jan Faculty Position in Experimental High-Energy Physics Lovely Professional University (LPU), Jalandhar, India
Contact: Sumit Basu		 Open until filled.
17 Jan New postdoctoral research position on tracking detector R&D for FCC-ee and other applications EPFL, Laussane 15 Feb 2025
17 Jan Two PhD positions in Experimental Particle Physics HEPHY, the Austrian Academy of Sciences 14 Feb 2025
17 Jan Postdoctoral Scholar Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL 1 Mar 2025
10 Jan Postdoc in nuclear theory CTU, Prague 31 Mar 2025
3 Jan Staff scientist position in the Nuclear Physics Department CEA Saclay 9 Feb 2025
20 Dec Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Particle Physics (CMS) Rice University 15 Feb 2025
6 Dec PhD studentship on novel opaque scintillator detector R&D and neutrino physics University of Sussex 28 Feb 2025
29 Nov Postdoc in high-energy particle and nuclear physics Chinese University of HongKong 28 Feb 2025
29 Nov MSc and PhD students Jefferson Lab (USA) 30 Apr 2025

 

Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.


Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!

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