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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- LHC Seminar by Francesca Ercolessi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)), Tuesday 11 Mar 2025, 11:00, 222/R-001 (CERN): "First observation of strange baryon enhancement with effective energy in pp collisions at the LHC with ALICE"
- International Women's Day (IWD), 8 March is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.
- ALICE Week: 17-21 March 2025
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October in Burghausen (Germany), hosted by the TUM group.
- 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
 LHCC Open Session 3 Mar 2025: ALICE Status Report by Florian Jonas (University of California Berkeley (US)) |
- Paul Kuijer (1957–2025)
- ALICE Spokesperson Candidate Interview: Recording available
- "Efficient high performance computing with the ALICE event processing nodes GPU-based farm": Brief Research Report article in Frontiers in Physics, 27 February 2025
- The HEP Software Foundation (HSF) has prepared a draft document titled "The Critical Importance of Software for HEP" as input for the European Particle Physics Strategy Update (EPPSU).
Andreas Morsch has asked us to review the document and share any concerns or suggestions well before the EPPSU submission deadline on 31 March.
- "Accelerator Report: Linac4 beam commissioning is nearing completion and the PS Booster is next in line" by Rende Steerenberg.
- First signs of antihyperhelium-4: CERN Courier January/February 2025: News Analysis
- The other 99%: CERN Courier January/February 2025
- Isolating photons at low Bjorken x: CERN Courier January/February 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:
- "Women and Girls in Science and Technology 2025: reaching out to over 4700 pupils"
- "Private parties in Restaurant 1 – Terms and conditions"
- "CERN @ 70 A global hub of scientific collaboration" by Ramni Gupta, University of Jammu.
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
- "Snakemake Hackathon March 2025" 10–14 Mar 2025, CERN
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 11 Mar 2025, 16:00: "High-resolution laser spectroscopy of light-gold isotopes" by Osama Ahmad (KU Leuven)
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 11 Mar 2025, 16:00: "Algorithmic advances for the HMC and applications in large-scale simulations" by Christoph Lehner (University of Regensburg)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 12 Mar 2025, 14:00: "Modern aspects of quantum physics and topology" by Miguel Angel Martin Delgado
- QTI Seminars, Thursday 13 Mar 2025, 10:00: "Parameter estimation of gravitational waves with a quantum metropolis algorithm" by Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado (Universidad Complutense Madrid)
- Detector seminar, Friday 14 Mar 2025, 11:00: "Development and characterization of a hybrid single-photon detector based on microchannel plates and the Timepix4 ASIC" by Massimiliano Fiorini (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
- BE Seminars, Friday 14 Mar 2025, 16:00: "Challenges from collective effects in the design and modelling of Muon Colliders" by David Amorim (EPFL)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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).
NEWS FROM POINT 2
Year-End Technical Stop (YETS) ongoing:
- Crane maintenance finished. Shaft will be closed on Friday 14 March
- Detector work ongoing:
- MCH: Work on stations 2,3,4,5 ongoing!
- MID: HV re-commissioning started
- TPC: Commissioning of new readout system for field cage currents
- TRD: Search for leak in gas system ongoing
- Central System
- System commissioning ongoing
- OS Upgrade of EPNs scheduled for the beginning of next week
- Next software update scheduled for next Tuesday
- WinCC update on DCS for most of the systems finished
- Shifts booking opened for the whole 2025
- Open Slots: 54 ( Expert O-O : 3 - Expert Pb-Pb: 32 )
- All information related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website.
- Several slots are available during the year (mainly SL) and during HI period (all roles)
- Several slots still available during the comic data taking in March and commissioning beginning of April
- Shift Leaders:
- Partial Blocks: 22 - 25 Mar (AA/NN)
- Full blocks: 1 - 6 Apr, 5 - 9 Apr, 7 -12 Apr
- ECS:
- Partial Blocks: 22 - 25 Mar (AA/NN) , 22 - 23 Mar (NN)
- Full blocks: 22 - 27 Mar. , 5 - 9 Apr.
- QC:
- Partial Blocks: 22.-25.Mar (AA/NN) , 22/23.Mar (NN)
- Partial Blocks: 22.-25.Mar (AA/NN) , 22/23.Mar (NN)
- Shift Leaders:
- Open Slots: 54 ( Expert O-O : 3 - Expert Pb-Pb: 32 )
Important dates:
| 12/14 Mar | DSO test – No access to cavern |
| 21 Mar and 28 Mar |
Magnet powering test - No access to the cavern in the afternoon |
| 20/21 Mar | Handshake test |
| 22 Mar | Start of Shift Operation |
| 1 Apr | Cavern Closure |
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- XXXVIII Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste, LaThuile2025, La Thuile, Italy, 9-15 March
- LumiDays 2025, CERN, Prevessin, France, 10-12 March, CERN
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Physics in Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions (PHANC'25), Puri, India, 27-30 Mar 2025. Abstract deadline: 23 Mar. The goal is to bring together experimentalists (India-CMS and India-ALICE) and theorists for intense discussions on Physics in collisions, such as the Standard Model physics, QCD, QGP, Physics of Jets, QCD critical point, Heavy and light flavor physics, Quarkonia, energy correlations..
- HEPiX spring 2025 workshop, Lugano, Switzerland, 31 March - 4 April
- 3rd "Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators" Corfu Greece, 27 April - 4 May. Invitation to submit short talks. Contact Upgrade coordinators/CC if interested.
- QCD Evolution 2025, Jefferson Lab,USA, 19-23 May, abstract deadline 5 May
- IML2025, 7th IML Workshop on Machine Learning at the LHC, CERN, 19-23 May, abstract deadline 20 April
- FFK2025, 10th International Conference on Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants, Warsaw, PL, 26-30 May, abstract deadline 17 March
- 23rd Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2025), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2-6 June, abstract deadline 12 May
- 15th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2025), Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 8 June, abstract deadline 31 March
- Fifth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, Kolumbari, Crete, 8-13 June, abstract deadline 1 April
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August, abstract deadline 31 March
- 6th European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC2025), Caen France, 22-26 September, abstract deadline 31 March
SCHOOLS
- Flavour Physics at the LHC school, CERN, 26-30 May, registration deadline 25 March
- 17th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Malmo, Sweden, 8-14 June, registration deadline 12 March
- COMETA training school: ML4Physics@Ljubljana,Slovenia, 26 June, registration deadline 4 May
- 46th CERN School of Computing, Lund, Sweden, 6-19 July, registration deadline 9 April
- Parton Showers and Resummation School 2025, CERN, 7-11 July, registration deadline 25 April
- 8th edition of the international Summer School series INFIERI (INtelligent signal processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry) in Pisa Italy, 1-13 September, registraction deadline 31 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
- 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
- Saturday 1st March 2025
- Arcobaleno, Italy
- School of Russian mission in Geneva, Russia
- Alcuin School, USA
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy, Germany, Czech republic, China
- Monday 3 March 2025
- ALICE open visit
- professional visitors from UK
- Tuesday 4 March 2025
- University students, Italy
- APM Annecy, France
- Boston University study abroad students, USA
- ALICE member's friends, India
- Wednesday 5 March 2025
- ALICE open visit
- Collège de Saussure, Switzerland
- Oakleaf School Tbilisi, Georgia
- Thursday 6 March 2025
- High School of Keratea, Greece
- 2nd Junior High School of Kalamaria, Greece
- Museum La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- University students from Frankfurt, Germany
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Friday 7 March 2025
- Dell/Swisscom, Switzerland
- FMV ISIK NISANTASI Türkiye
- Dance Academy, Switzerland
- Liceo Majorana, Italy
- Saturday 1st March 2025
- ALICE virtual visits
- Friday 7 March 2025 virtual visit for masterclasses in Tbilisi, Georgia
- Friday 7 March 2025 virtual visit for masterclasses in Tbilisi, Georgia
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Monday 3 March 2025 ALICE Masterclasses were held in Cagliari and Orsay
- Monday 3 March 2025 ALICE Masterclasses were held in Cagliari and Orsay
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE Muon Spectrometer
- Getting lead to the LHC? How?
- ALICE is gearing up for QM 2025!
- 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!