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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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22 March: ALICE Run Control Centre comes alive as the Shift Operation starts! On duty: the first data-taking crew of 2025. |
- Quark Matter rehearsals: 31 March - 4 April:
a broader participation is encouraged, all are welcome to join the rehearsals. Please note that we have three different Zoom rooms:- Room A, Room B: for the rehearsals on Wednesday and Thursday, where we have two parallel series of slots,
- ALICE Conference Committee meeting: room for Monday, Tuesday and Friday, where there will be a single series of slots.
- Physics Forum: QM Approvals follow-up: 24 - 28 March 2025, 160/R-009 (CERN)
- Nominations open for ALICE Thesis award 2025 (deadline: 6 April): 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 mini week: 14 - 17 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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Social media enthusiasts and bloggers: Here is your chance to cover Quark Matter 2025 in Frankfurt for ALICE presentations! We would like to encourage you to take pictures of ALICE talks and poster sessions, write a few lines about those, and send them to alice-outreach@cern.ch. We plan to share these through ALICE social media channels and upload them to the CDS photos archive! Your help would be highly appreciated. If you are interested in volunteering, please let us know in advance. If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at ALICE Outreach. |
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- Conference Committee Membership: 1 mandate from 1 July 2025 to 31 June 2027 with expertise in HF/DQ.
If you are interested to join Conference Comittee or want to propose someone: please contact CC chairs before 30 April.
- 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
- 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)
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 1 Apr 2025, 16:00: "Understanding the structure of 16C and the B(E2) problem through Large-Scale Shell-Model (LSSM) calculations" by Khuliso Murulane (University of Johannesburg)
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 1 Apr 2025, 17:00: "Catching Dense Spectra at Large Spin" by Sridip Pal (Caltech)
- TH Journal Club on Strings & QFT, Wednesday 2 Apr 2025, 11:00: "Large charge meets semiclassics in N=4 Super Yang-Mills" by Cristoforo Iossa (SISSA, Trieste; INFN, Trieste)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 2 Apr 2025, 11:30: "Black holes with electroweak hair" by Mikhail Volkov
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 3 Apr 2025, 16:30: "Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path?" by Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montreal)
- "Symposium to celebrate Ugo Amaldi’s 90th birthday" 4 Apr 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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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
- Due to a major leak in the cooling of the LAr calorimeter of ATLAS the start of the re-commissioning with beam has to be postponed by approximately one week and is expected to start around the 8 April. The exact day depends on the progress of the repair of the leak. Nevertheless the closure of the machine will be done according to the original schedule in the upcoming week to allow the machine to start the major part of the machine checkout already before the repair of ATLAS is finished.
- Preparation for ALICE:
- The detector activities in the ALICE cavern will be finished by Friday this week. Last Saturday morning the operation with a 24h shift crew restarted at P2 with the collection of COSMIC data for alignment of the central barrel and is advancing quite well. Up to now more than 115h of good COSMICS data are recorded.
- Last Friday the magnet was ramped up to full field for 4h hours at each polarity to check the stability of the cooling circuit. During this campaign, FIT experts carried out gain measurements on FT0 and FV0. The same measurements were repeated on Monday with the low solenoid field.
- On Thursday morning the weekly software update was carried. During this also EPN infrastructure nodes were moved to new servers running with the new OS.
- New Run Manager (17-30 Mar 2025): Cristian Andrei
- Shifts booking 2025: The booking of shifts is going quite well. Please get in contact with Run Coordination in case of questions.
We are still missing shifters in the first weeks of April.
Open shifts in April: - Shift Leaders:
- 5.- 6. Apr. (Nights)
- 3.- 8. Apr. (Full block)
- 5. Apr. (Morning)
- 8. Apr. (Afternoon)
- 9. Apr. (Night)
- 7.- 12. Apr (Full block)
- 23.- 28. Apr.
- ECS:
- Full Blocks: 9 - 14 Apr
| 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 |
| 8 Apr | Start of beam commissioning |
| 2 May | First stable beams |
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Moriond/QCD2025: 59th Rencontres de Moriond on "QCD & High Energy Interactions", La Thuile (Italy), 30 March - 6 April
- High energy probes of the initial stages, CERN, 31 March to 4 April 2025
- HEPiX spring 2025 workshop , Lugano, Switzerland, 31 March to 4 April
- Hadron in Nucleus 2025 (HIN25), Kyoto, Japan, 2-4 April
- 31st International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2025), Frankfurt, Germany, 6-12 April
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
- 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
- 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2025), Marseille France
(central Submission), 7 July, abstract deadline 15 April, Contact PWG conveneers for abstract submission
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August, abstract deadline 30 April
- 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
- 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 have stopped as of 27 March.
- ALICE visits
- Saturday 22 March 2025
- British School of Paris, France
- University Students from Padova, Italy
- Former students from Liceo Scientifico Einstein, Torino, Italy
- Applied Microcosm Collective, Switzerland; ALICE open visit
- ALICE members’ friends, Switzerland, Italy
- Sunday 23 March 2025
- ALICE members’ friends, Spain, Italy, France
- Monday 24 March 2025
- Dell/Swisscom, Switzerland
- Amsterdam University of Sciences, Netherlands
- ALICE members’ family and friends, Italy, France
- Professional visitors CNPEM Brazil
- Tuesday 25 March 2025
- 2nd Gymnasium of Peraia, Greece
- Zanneio Model High School of Piraeus, Greece
- Polhemskolan, Sweden
- Association des pensionnes État de Genève, Switzerland
- Dell/UBS, Switzerland
- ALICE member’s friends, Germany
- Wednesday 26 March 2025
- Liceo Giuseppe Peano di Tortona, Italy
- FCC - Industry visit, Switzerland
- Interactive Things GmbH, Switzerland
- ALICE members’ friends, Greece, France; ALICE open visit; CERN colleagues
- Saturday 22 March 2025
- ALICE virtual visits:
- Wednesday 26 March 2025 ALICE virtual visit for Royal University of Bhutan
- Wednesday 26 March 2025 ALICE virtual visit for Royal University of Bhutan
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Saturday 22 March 2025 ALICE Masterclasses in Warsaw University of Technology
- Monday 24 March 2025 ALICE Masterclasses in Padua, Vienna, Magurele, Sofia and Lyon
- Wednesday 26 March 2025 ALICE Masterclasses online for students from the Royal University of Bhutan
- 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!