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No.351,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE Week at CERN, 17-21 March 2025
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NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Endorsements by the ALICE Collaboration Board (Meeting on 21 Mar 2025):
- Computing Resource Coordinator
- Irakli Chakaberia (LBNL) from 1/7/2025 - 30/6/2028
- Deputy Trigger Coordinator
- Fabrizio Grosa (CERN) from 1/6/2025 - 31/12/2025
- Editorial Board
- Lukasz Graczykowski (Warsaw) - first mandate: 1/4/2025-31/3/2027
- Cynthia Hadjidakis (Orsay) - second mandate: 1/4/2025-31/3/2027
- Filip Krizek (Rez) - second mandate: 1/4/2025-31/3/2027
- Lokesh Kumar (Chandigarh) - second mandate: 1/4/2025-31/3/2027
- Jeremy Wilkinson (GSI) - second mandate: 1/4/2025-31/3/2027
- Conference Committee
- Stefano Piano (Trieste) - first mandate: 1/4/2025-31/3/2027
- Jochen Klein (CERN) - first mandate: 1/4/2025-31/3/2027
- Paul Buhler (Vienna) - first mandate: 1/4/2025-31/3/2027
- Andrea Rossi (Padova) - first mandate: 1/6/2025-31/05/2027 (endorsement to be done offline)
- PWG Conveners
- PWG-HF convener: Grazia Luparello (Trieste): 1/5/2025-30/4/2027
- PWG-LF convener: Nicolo Jacazio (Bologna): Extension of mandate 1/4/2025-30/4/2025
- New CB Chair Team
- Deputy CB chairs:
- Edith Zinhle Buthelezi (Somerset West, South Africa)
- Ionut Cristian Arsene (Oslo, Norway)
- CB Secretary:
- Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (Grenoble, France)
- Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (Grenoble, France)
- Deputy CB chairs:
- Computing Resource Coordinator
- Handbook of Key Legal Responsibilities of Home Institutions in respect of their personnel at CERN, September 2024. This document forms a summary of all existing legal principles relating to the presence of associated members of personnel (MPA) at CERN. The purpose of such handbook is to facilitate the understanding of the existing rules by all stakeholders, including you as the representative of a Home Institution.
Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 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
- Micro-Talks, Friday 21 Mar 2025, 14:00: "#15 Critical Thinking: Challenge Assumptions, Reframe Issues" by Zsuzsanna Szemered
- ISOLDE Seminar, Friday 21 Mar 2025, 11:00: "Global ab initio calculations for the structure of exotic and heavy nuclei" by Jason Holt (TRIUMF)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 25 Mar 2025, 11:00: "Boosting the precision of the top quark mass measurement with ATLAS" by Mark Andrew Owen (University of Glasgow (GB))
- Lattice Seminar, Tuesday 25 Mar 2025, 16:00: "Gauge field smearing and controlled continuum extrapolations"
by Andreas Risch
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 26 Mar 2025, 11:30: "Probing the Universe with Effective Field Theory: From Cosmic Structure to Dark Energy" by Anton Chudaykin
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 26 Mar 2025, 14:00: "Talk by Luciano Maiani"
- "Prototyping at CERN networking session" 27 March 2025
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 27 Mar 2025, 16:30: "Physics in the abyss with KM3NeT: from cosmic rays to neutrino oscillations" by Paschal Anthony Coyle (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
- Detector Seminar, Friday 28 Mar 2025, 11:00: "Signal Induction Simulation for Frontier Gaseous and Solid-State Detectors with Resistive Elements" by Djunes Janssens (CERN)
- "High energy probes of the initial stages" 31 March to 4 April 2025, CERN.
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
- The Year-End Technical Stop ended last week (14 Mar) with the DSO test on Friday.
The machine entered the re-commissioning and powering test phase. 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. On Thursday morning the handshake test was carried out successfully.
- The preparation at ALICE for the start of the shift operation is ongoing, which will start on Saturday morning. At this point start of COSMICS data taking for alignment will start with the goal to collect 140h.
- On Friday the powering test of the magnet will be carried to check the stability of the power converters and the cooling. During the powering test also calibration runs for detector will be carried out.
- In the mean-time also last work on detector maintenance is ongoing.
- For the central system side, the software update was carried out on Tuesday, during which also a fix for a longer standing issue is with the CCDB connection was fixed.
- New Run Manager (17-30 Mar 2025): Cristian Andrei
Cristian Andrei is a physicist from Bucharest NIPNE. He is a specialist in pion, kaon, and proton production in high-multiplicity pp events, studying the dependence of their production as a function of charged-particle multiplicity and event shape. He is an active member of the PWG-LF, has made significant contributions, and has been a member of several analysis and paper review committees (ARC, IRC). Cristian has substantial experience in data taking and ALICE operation at P2. Since 2016, he has taken up all central shifter positions repeatedly: ECS, DCS, QC, and SL. He has experience in operating ALICE during the previous heavy-ion run period and took several RM terms in the past. Since 2025, he is also the ALICE Training Coordinator.
During his mandate, Cristian will concentrate on the restart of Global data taking after the EYETS, especially the collection of COSMIC data for alignment. We will follow the preparation test for the handshake, the magnet powering, and the finalization of the commissioning phase.
Shifts booking 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 Run Coordination in case of questions.
- Open shifts in March-April:
- Shift Leaders:
- Full blocks: 1 - 6 Apr, 3 - 8 Apr, 5 - 9 Apr, 7 -12 Apr, 23 - 28 Apr.
- ECS:
- Partial Blocks: 22 - 25 Mar (AA/NN), 22 / 23 Mar (NN), 22 /23 (MM)
- Full Blocks: 9 - 14 Apr
- DCS:
- Full Blocks: 9 - 14 Apr
- Full Blocks: 9 - 14 Apr
- QC:
- Partial Blocks: 22 - 25 Mar (AA/NN) , 22 / 23 Mar (NN)
- Shift Leaders:
Important Dates:
| 21 Mar |
Magnet powering test - No access to the cavern in the afternoon |
| 21 Mar | Handshake test |
| 22 Mar | Start of Shift Operation |
| 27 Mar at noon | End of Underground visits |
| 28 Mar | Magnet powering test |
| 31 Mar (16:00 hrs) | Stop cavern access (patrol 16:00 - 17:00). Urgent access beyond this date still possible in restricted mode. |
| 1 Apr | Cavern Closure |
| 5 Apr | Start of beam commissioning |
| 2 May | First stable beams |
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 32nd International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2025) Cape Town, South Africa, 24-28 March
- Physics in Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions (PHANC'25), Puri, Odisha, India, 27-30 Mar 2025.
- HADRON 2025 — 21st International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure, Osaka, Japan, 27-31 March
- Moriond/QCD2025: 59th Rencontres de Moriond on "QCD & High Energy Interactions", La Thuile (Italy), 30 March - 6 April
- Inverted School of Computing, CERN, 24-27 March
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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
- 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
- Quantum Chromodynamics and multidimensional hadron structure”, School, Orsay, France, 7-11 July, registration deadline 15 May
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- 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.
- Summer School on Advanced Artificial Intelligence for precision High Energy Physics (AIHEP), Como, Italy, 14-25 July, Registration deadline: 31 March.
- DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School 2025, Bonn, Germany, 17-24 Sep, Registration open.
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 15 March 2025
- Roundwood Park School, UK
- Rotary Club Nyon, Switzerland; visitors from Italy
- ALICE open visit; ALICE members’ friends, India, Greece
- Sunday 16 March 2025
- Volleyball team, Italy
- Monday 17 March 2025
- ALICE open visit
- JUAS visit, India; professional visitors, Austria
- ALICE member’s friends, Greece
- Tuesday 18 March 2025
- VOS a SPS Sumperk, Czech Republic
- V LO Warszawa, Poland
- Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei, Bitonto, Italy
- Dr Hans Riegel Seminar, Germany
- ALICE members' friends and family, Italy, France, Germany
- Wednesday 19 March 2025
- 2nd General Lyceum of Thessaloniki, Greece
- General Lyceum of Pelopio, Ancient Olympia, Greece
- University students from Kosice, Slovakia
- Highbury Fields School, UK
- Colegio Einaudi Torino, Italy
- ALICE members’ friends, UK, Germany
- Professional visitors, Italy
- Thursday 20 March 2025
- Two Bit Da Vinci (social media), USA
- Procurement team, Switzerland
- Physique pour tous, Strasbourg, France
- UK Mission in Geneva
- ALICE member’s friends, Austria
- Visit for CERN staff
- Friday 21 March 2025
- Goethe University, Frankfurt, Switzerland
- ISCS International School of Central Switzerland
- Dell/Swisscom, Switzerland
- ALICE members’ friends, Germany, Switzerland
- CERN colleagues
- Saturday 15 March 2025
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Tuesday 18 March 2025 ALICE Masterclasses in Salerno, Copenhagen, Maynooth. Sofia and Heidelberg
- Tuesday 18 March 2025 ALICE Masterclasses in Salerno, Copenhagen, Maynooth. Sofia and Heidelberg
- 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!