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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
 ALICE in Quark Matter 2025:
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- Quark Matter rehearsals: 31 March - 4 April:
- 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
- "Symposium to celebrate Ugo Amaldi’s 90th birthday" 4 Apr 2025
- Positivity, Amplitudes, and Phenomenology: 7–11 Apr 2025 CERN
- 5th ICFA Beam Dynamics Mini-Workshop on Machine Learning for Particle Accelerators: 8–11 Apr 2025, CERN
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 8 Apr 2025, 11:00, Council Chamber CERN: "Symmetry properties of all-charm tetraquarks with CMS" by Andrei Gritsan (Johns Hopkins University (US))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 8 Apr 2025, 14:00: "Solving four-dimensional superconformal Yang-Mills theories with Tracy-Widom distribution" by Zoltan Bajnok (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics)
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 8 Apr 2025, 16:00: "Decorrelating lattice correlators" by Dr Antonin Portelli
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 8 Apr 2025, 16:00: "When is “ab initio” not “ab initio”?" by Steven Karataglidis (University of Melbourne/University of Johannesburg)
- Detector Seminar, Friday 11 Apr 2025, 11:00, 13/2-005 (CERN): "ALICE ITS3 - A bent wafer-scale monolithic pixel detector" by Alex Kluge
- BE Seminars, Friday 11 Apr 2025, 16:30: "Longitudinal beam observation along the CERN complex" by Amaury Beeckman
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 repair of the cooling leak in ATLAS could be finished successfully during the last weekend. The closing of ATLAS started beginning of the week and is expected to be finished till Monday 7 April. During this period the machine checkout will be carried out (excluding ATLAS) and will be finalized on till the 8 April including ATLAS.
- The first beam in the LHC are expected on 8 or 9 April.
During the machine checkout, the tests of the transfer line will be carried out on Friday 4 April.
- Preparation in ALICE:
- ALICE cavern was patrolled last Monday and is closed since Wednesday for the machine checkout.
All maintenance activities by the detector could be finished. - Some issue appeared during the last days, most of them could be fixed before and the cavern closure.
- Due to CERN-wide power glitch on Thursday several LVPS of TRD required an intervention in the cavern, which could be carried out directly in the shadow of machine checkout after the power glitch. During this access also an issue in MCH data and a LV as well as gas leak, which appeared during closing and could not be fixed before Wednesday, were fixed.
- During the machine checkout the recording of cosmics data is continuing. So far more then 210h of cosmics data were recorded for alignment.
- ALICE cavern was patrolled last Monday and is closed since Wednesday for the machine checkout.
- This week Adam Matyja started his term as Run Manager (31 Mar - 13 Apr):
Adam is a physicist from Cracow. He was the Physics Analysis Group (PAG) coordinator of ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC) between 2021 and 2023. He worked for the TPC Krypton calibration in Run 1 and Run 2. In Run 2 he was EMCAL Photon analysis coordinator and worked on EMCAL time calibration. He has a strong experience in central shifts with many central positions covered since the beginning of ALICE Operations. During the last year, he did already Run Manager terms.
During his mandate, Adam will supervise the restart of machine commissioning, and likely the first beams circulating in the LHC. During this first part of the machine commissioning the experiment will remain Super Safe (SS). Adam will therefore coordinate the validation and final commissioning of all the developments carried out during the YETS. He will supervise the data taking with global SYNTHETIC and REPLAY runs, as well as - until the restart of beam commissioning - COSMIC runs for additional statistics for alignment.
- Shifts booking 2025:
The shift schedule for 2025 filled quite well during the year.
Thanks to many local emergency shifters, several shifts could be filled in the upcoming week. We are still missing shifter for a few days.
Please get in contact with RC in case you are available for single days.
- Open shifts:
- Shift Leaders:
- 5 - 6 Apr. (Nights)
- 5 Apr. (Afternoon)
- 7 Apr. (Night)
- 8 Apr. (Afternoon)
- 10 Apr. (Night)
- ECS:
- Full Blocks: 9 - 14 Apr
- Shift Leaders:
- Open shifts:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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.
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August, abstract deadline 30 April
- 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 15 April, Invitation to submit ALICE abstracts, in particular to young members
- 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
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- 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
- 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 15 April
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- 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.
- 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
- LICE visits
- Saturday 29 March 2025
- Liceo Scientifico Calzecchi Onesti 2, Liceo Scientifico Onesti Fermo, Italy
- Tuesday 1 April 2025
- LO nr 1 im M Skolodwska-Curie, Poland
- LO nr 1 im M Skolodwska-Curie, Poland
- Wednesday 2 March 2025
- Newlands Girls School, UK
- Local Schools from Saint Genis-Pouilly, France
- 2nd High School of Ioannina, Greece; 1st High School of Elefsina, Greece
- Thursday 3 April 2025
- Mandoulidis High School, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Friday 4 April 2025
- Zespol Szkol Technicznych i Ogolnoksztalcacych nr 3 im Abramowskiego w Katowicach, Poland
- participants of Particle Therapy Masterclass at CERN
- Saturday 29 March 2025
- ALICE virtual visits:
- Thursday 3 April 2025 ALICE
- virtual visit for participants of online masterclass in Greece
- Friday 4 April 2025 ALICE
- virtual visit for participants of Particle Therapy Masterclasses in Romania and North Macedonia
- Thursday 3 April 2025 ALICE
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Tuesday 1 April 2025:
- ALICE Masterclasses in Jyväskylä and Nantes
- Thursday 3 April 2025
- ALICE Masterclasses online in Greece
- in person in Gqeberha, South Africa and UNAM, Mexico
- Tuesday 1 April 2025:
- 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!