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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Top: One of the chambers of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer is being repaired this week. One sees the cathode plane with the wires.
Bottom: Final checks underway on the Muon chambers before the cavern closes towards the end of this month for the start of the data taking.
- ALICE Week: 17-21 March 2025
- Nominations open for ALICE Thesis award 2025: The call for the ALICE Thesis Award 2024-2025 is open. All collaborators who will have defended their doctoral thesis, written in English, between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 are invited to consider applying. In case the candidate is not an ALICE member anymore, the supervisor can submit the application on her/his behalf. To apply follow the link (*please make sure you are signed in*). The deadline to submit applications is 6 April 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
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- Accelerator Report: Recommissioning on track as the first beams progress through the complex" By Rende Steerenberg.
The recommissioning of the accelerators is progressing according to schedule. Unsurprisingly, some issues have arisen, but they have been swiftly addressed by equipment experts. First physics in the PS East Area and n_TOF is scheduled to start next week.
- "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. - "A silver coin for CERN": The Swiss Federal Mint issues a limited-edition silver coin in honour of CERN.}
- "Be LS3 ready: plan your safety training now!"
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
- 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)
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 18 Mar 2025, 16:00: "A New Beam Intensity Monitor for the CERN Experimental Areas" by Mark Julian Kirschbaum (CERN, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (DE))
- Micro-Talks, Friday 21 Mar 2025, 14:00: "#15 Critical Thinking: Challenge Assumptions, Reframe Issues" by Zsuzsanna Szemered
- "Prototyping at CERN networking session" 27 March 2025
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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27 Feb 2025 |
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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
- he Year-End Technical Stop is coming to an end these days. On Thursday/Friday the DSO test were carried out, which set the start into the machine re-commissioning. The work on the machine is advancing well and the caverns will be closed on 1 April with the machine check-out and the beam re-commissioning.
- The preparation for ALICE is going well. The update of the OS of the EPNs could be finished and re-validated during the last days.
Detector work is ongoing and detector are preparing for the restart of operation.
Highlights:- EMC: FEC/TRU replacement ongoing
- MCH: Work on station 2 ongoing this week. Work in station 3,4,5 ongoing
- TPC: Commissioning of new readout system for field cage currents
- TRD: Search for leak in gas system ongoing
- News from Central System:
- Next software update scheduled for next Tuesday
- WinCC update on DCS for all system/detector finished
- OS Update on DCS Fredserver ongoing
- Shifts booking opened for the whole 2025:
The booking of shifts is going quite well, but still open blocks are available during the year, especially during the beginning of the shift operation few blocks are available. Please get in contact with RC in case of questions.
- Open shifts:
- 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)
- Shift Leaders:
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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)
- APS April Meeting 2025, Anaheim (US), 16-21 March
- Fragmentation in the collider precision era, Zurich, Switzerland, 17-19 March
- Inverted School of Computing, CERN, 24-27 March
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
- 4th African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2025), Lomé, Togo, 14-20 September, abstract deadline 31 March Invitation to submit ALICE abstracts
- 6th European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC2025), Caen France, 22-26 September, abstract deadline 31 March
- Initial Stages 2025, Taipei, 7-12 September, abstract deadline 20 April, Contact PWG conveneers for abstract submission
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.
- 33rd edition of the annual Bonaudi-Chiavassa International School on Particle Detectors (former Giornate di Studio sui Rivelatori), Cogne (Aosta Valley, Italy), 23 - 27 June 2025, Registration open.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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 visits
- Saturday 8 March 2025
- Droitwich Spa High School, UK;
- Fuebi (engineers and scientists), Switzerland;
- Liceo Agnelli Torino, Italy;
- Rotary exchange students, Switzerland;
- ALICE members’ friends, Switzerland, Ukraine, Germany, Italy
- Sunday 9 March 2025
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Tuesday 11 March 2025
- University of Geneva, Switzerland; ALICE member’s friends, UK
- ALICE open visit
- Wednesday 12 March 2025
- ALICE open visit
- Conseil de l'Abbaye de la Paix de Vulliens, Switzerland
- Serres Music School, Greece
- International Relations, CERN
- Women in Technology, CERN
- Thursday 13 March 2025
- American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece
- ALICE member’s friends, Ukraine
- Friday 14 March 2025
- Faringdon Community College, UK
- College Calvin, Switzerland
- 1st General Lyceum of Keratsini, Greece; Thames British School, Madrid, Spain
- Saturday 8 March 2025
- ALICE virtual visits
- Wednesday 12 March 2025: virtual visit for particle therapy masterclasses in Bulgaria (Sofia University and Varna Observatory)
- Thursday 13 March 2025: virtual visit for particle therapy masterclasses at the Czech Technical University
- Friday 14 March 2025: virtual visit for ALICE masterclasses in Trieste
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Friday 14 March 2025: ALICE Masterclasses in Salerno, Bari, Bologna, Trieste and CERN
Recent Social Media Highlights:
A special visit of members of the Women In Technology (WIT) network to ALICE on Wednesday 12 March 2025
- Friday 14 March 2025: ALICE Masterclasses in Salerno, Bari, Bologna, Trieste and CERN
- 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!