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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Physics Forum: Wednesday 26 Feb 2025, 09:30, 160/1-009 CERN
- ALICE Spokesperson Candidate Interviews: Wednesday 26 Feb 2025, 16:30
- Town meeting: heavy ion and QGP physics at CERN, Monday 17 Feb 2025
- "ALICE 3" Days: 18 - 20 February 2025 at CERN
- ALICE Week: 17-21 March 2025
- CERN70 event in India - Exploring the Universe: 22 February 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
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025 will be held on 7-10 October in Burghausen (Germany), hosted by the TUM group.
- First signs of antihyperhelium-4: CERN Courier January/February 2025: News Analysis
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- The other 99%
Isolating photons at low Bjorken x: CERN Courier Jan-Feb 2025: Energy Frontier
- "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 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
- "Success, Open Source and You: Maximising the impact of your open-source contributions" 21 February 2025, CERN
- QCD Seminar, Monday 24 Feb 2025, 14:00: "Analytic results for double Higgs production at the LHC" by Kay Schönwald (University of Zuerich)
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 25 Feb 2025, 14:00: "Virasoro-Shapiro amplitudes in AdS" by Shai Chester (Imperial College London)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 26 Feb 2025, 14:00: "Quantum Simulation with Atomic Platforms" by Dr Peter Zoller
- QTI Seminars, Thursday 27 Feb 2025, 10:00: "Quantum Simulation of Gauge Theories" by Torsten V. Zache (U of Innsbruck)
- CERN Colloquium, 27 Feb 2025, 16:30, Main Auditorium (CERN): "A Quantum Leap in Quantum Information: Quantum computing, simulation, communication and metrology with quantum optical platforms" by Peter Zoller (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria)
- 161st LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: 3 Mar 2025, 15:00
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
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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: 68 ( Expert O-O : 4 - Expert Pb-Pb: 26 )
- 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.
- Open Slots: 68 ( Expert O-O : 4 - Expert Pb-Pb: 26 )
- Detector maintenance ongoing
- Central System:
- System commissioning ongoing
- Weekly software update restart
- WinCC update on DCS systems ongoing
- Next week:
- Monday 24. Feb.: DCS network switch replacement starting at 9:00
- Friday 28.Feb: Individual System test (12:00-18:00) – No access to cavern
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- School - Frontiers in nuclear and hadronic physics 2025, Firenze, Italy, 17-28 February
- DeSyt2025, Laboratory Nazionali Sud, Italy, 24-26 February
- LakeLouise2025: Lake Louise Winter Institute 2025, University of Alberta, lake Louise (Canada), 2-8 March
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC Symposium (JENAS), Didcot, UK, 8-11 April, abstract deadline 28 February
- 2nd European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (EuCAIFCon 2025), Cagliari, Italy, 16-20 June, abstract deadline 24 February
- 11th International Conference on Physics Opportunities at an Electron-Ion Collider (POETIC XI), Miami, Florida, United States 24-28 February
- 3rd "Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators" Corfu Greece, 27 April - 4 May. Invitation to submit short talks. Contact Upgrade coordinators/CC if interested.
SCHOOLS
- Cargese 2025 International Summer School, Cargese, France, 21 July - 2 Aug, registration deadline 21 February
- 17th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Malmo, Sweden, 8-14 June, registration deadline 12 March
- 46th CERN School of Computing, Lund, Sweden, 6-19 July, registration deadline 9 April
- 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
- International Summer School of QCD 2025, IJCLab, Orsay, 6-12 Jul 2025, Application deadline 15 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:
ALICE Visits: - Saturday15 February 2025
- Bromley High School, UK; Jordanhill School, UK
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy
- ALICE open visit
- Sunday 16 February 2025
- ALICE member’s family, Croatia
- Monday 17 February 2025
- ALICE member’s family, France
- professional visitors, Germany
- ALICE open visit
- Tuesday 18 February 2025
- professional visitors, Estonia
- Comics&Science, Italy
- Lyceum of Zosimaia Sholi, Ioannina, Greece
- St.Joseph’s college, UK
- Wednesday 19 February 2025
- 2nd General Lyceum of Agios Dimitrios Attikis, Greece;
- 2nd General Lyceum of Glyfada, Greece;
- ALICE member’s friends, UK
- VIP visit : Professor Jens Schneider, Rector, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Austria
- Thursday 20 February 2025
- Hellenic College, Thessaloniki, Greece
- professional visitors from Clermond Ferrand, France
- Liceo Acina, Italy; professional visitors from INFN, Italy
- professional visitors from University of Valencia, Spain
- visitors from France
- Friday 21 February 2025
- 2nd Experimental Lyceum of Kilkis, Greece
- ALICE members’ friends, 2nd General High School of Ilion.Athens, Greece
- Barnard Castle School, UK
- ALICE member’s friends, Portugal
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 11 Feb: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- "The Other 99%"
- 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!