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No.375,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October
- ALICE Physics Week: 3-7 Nov 2025 at CERN
- ALICE Week: 8-12 Dec 2025
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- "Access card at CERN: rules and good practice": Our access card is personal and plays a key role in ensuring collective security at CERN.
- "Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex, between precision repairs and future-facing studies" by Rende Steerenberg
- "Charting the Luminosity Capabilities of the CERN Large Hadron Collider with Various Nuclear Species
- ICFA Instrumentation Prizes Nomination 2026: due on 13 October 2025
ICFA is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2026 ICFA Instrumentation Awards. These awards are bestowed annually to recognise exceptional contributions to instrumentation that have advanced the field of particle physics. Nominations are due by 23:59 GMT on 13 October 2025.
- SEARCH2025 (20-24 Oct 2025 at CERN) Call for posters abstracts:
SEARCH, a bold new conference series designed to become a hub for exploring new physics discovery potential and breakthroughs at high-energy physics experiments. All talks are by invitation only. There will be however an open poster session. Submit here your POSTER abstract (deadline: 15 Sep 2025)!
- Move More, Eat Better: Tuesday 16 September: Boost your health at work by joining the CERN Medical Service campaign!
- "A new probe of radial flow": Energy Frontier, CERN Courier Jul/Aug 2025
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 1 October (extra-ordinary)
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extra-ordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "Invisibles Workshop 2025" 1–5 Sep 2025, CERN
- "ACAT 2025" 8–12 Sep 2025, Hamburg, Germany
- "TH Institute on Quantum Simulation & Computation in High-Energy Physics" 8–19 Sep 2025, CERN.
- "158th Meeting of the SPSC" 9 Sep 2025, 09:00, Main Auditorium (CERN).
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 9 Sep 2025, 11:00, 222/R-001 (CERN): "Searching for new physics at LHCb with the flavour changing neutral current decay" Tuesday 9 Sep 2025, 11:00
- "Future Circular Collider: A Physics Manifesto (3 part series)" Tuesday 16-18 Sept 2025, 11:00, Council Chamber (CERN)
by hristophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
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
- Open shift block: please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, LHC provided pp collisions at complete machine. The operation was very smooth, with around ~80% time in stable beam until the start of the MD on Monday morning.
- MD will last till Friday morning. Afterwards, an access is scheduled for dedicated X-ray scans of RF modules in different locations, in view of a possible increase in bunch intensity.
- ALCE data taking went quite smoothly. A total luminosity of 27.7/pb of pp data was recorded.
During the MD, a software update was deployed, followed by several tests by a software expert in standalone and global replay runs.
Sep 2025 morning shift at Point-2: Central shifters (Jeremy, Jonathan, Chunzheng, Jesper, Zhengqing) share a light moment with Silvia (Deputy Run Coordinator) and Adrian (Run Manager) while waiting for the LHC beam operations to resume!
- During the last week, LHC provided pp collisions at complete machine. The operation was very smooth, with around ~80% time in stable beam until the start of the MD on Monday morning.
- Run Manager started this week: Adrian Fereydon Nassirpour
Adrian obtained his Ph.D. from Lund University in the winter of 2022 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Sejong University in Korea. He began his career in ALICE in 2016 during his master's program, which focused on measuring the production of-mesons with respect to the event-shape observable “transverse spherocity”. This work continued into his Ph.D. studies, expanding to include multiple event-shape observables across a broad spectrum of light-flavour hadrons, resulting in several analyses and publications.
Since as early as 2017, Adrian has actively participated in both Run 2 and Run 3 data-taking periods, covering both pp and Pb–Pb collisions. He has served in several central shift roles, including DQM (under the old Run 2 framework), ECS, and Shift Leader. For his service task, he contributed to the decommissioning and recommissioning of the TPC during LS2.
Adrian’s current work at Sejong University focuses on two main physics analyses topics: a joint LF–JE analysis on resonance production inside jets, and a separate analysis on prompt photon reconstruction using a novel statistical approach. Additionally, since 2023, he has served as coordinator of the LF–Resonance PAG, overseeing and guiding several Run 2 and Run 3 analyses. Recently, a significant focus has been on the continued development of the light-ion resonance analyses.
During his mandate, he will organize the operation during the Machine Development and the continuation of the pp production.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Initial Stages 2025, Taipei, 7-12 September
- 23rd International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniquest in Physics Research: AI meets Reality (ACAT 2025), 8-12 September
- Low-x 2025, Medulin, Istria, Croatia, 8-12 September
- 15th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2025), Stony Brook,USA, 8-12 September
- ELMA Workshop on "Energy Loss measurements with MAPS, Trieste, Italy, 10-11 September
- 4th African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2025), Lomé, Togo, 14-20 September
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- EARCH2025, CERN, 20-24 October. abstract deadline for posters 15 September Invitation to submit poster abstracts
- Baryons 2025 (The 2025 International Conference on the Structure of Baryons), Jeju, South Korea, 10-14 November, abstract deadline 31 August
- 2025 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC2025) , Guangzhou, China, 6-10 November, abstract deadline 15 September
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop (ROOT 2025), Valencia, Spain, 17-21 November, abstract deadline 15 September
- ExHIC-d 2025 (ExHIC-d workshop on QCD and hadronic dense matter),Jeju, South Korea, 15-17 November, abstract deadline 31 August
- 25th ZIMÁNYI WINTER WORKSHOP ON HEAVY ION PHYSICS,Budapest,Hungary, 1-5 December, abstract deadline 19 October
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities, Tokyo, Japan, 17-21 November, abstract deadline 31 August, parallel talks. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- MIAMI 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida, US, 12-18 Dec 2025, Invitation for a review talk + additional talks contact CC chairs
- 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors (PD2025) , Bologna, Italy, 3 December, abstract deadline 10 September
- 7th International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP2026) TIFR, Mumbai, Maharastra, India, 2-6 February, abstract deadline 1 September
SCHOOLS
- EDIT 2026 Instrumentation School at CERN , 3 March, registration deadline 1 October
Upcoming major conferences
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8-12 Sep 2025 |
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22-27 Mar 2026 |
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18-22 May 2026 |
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31 May - 5 June 2026 |
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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
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- Diversity Office - Open Junior Rep Position: A Junior Representative is needed in the Diversity and Inclusion Office! If you wish to learn more (about the term, the responsibilities, the selection process…) and you are considering applying, reach out to alice-diversity-office@cern.ch. You can also write directly to Ananya, the former Junior Rep in the D&I, ananya.rai@cern.ch to get more insights on the role.
- 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.
- Link to all ALICE Theses
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
- Diversity Office - Open Junior Rep Position: A Junior Representative is needed in the Diversity and Inclusion Office! If you wish to learn more (about the term, the responsibilities, the selection process…) and you are considering applying, reach out to alice-diversity-office@cern.ch. You can also write directly to Ananya, the former Junior Rep in the D&I, ananya.rai@cern.ch to get more insights on the role.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits:
- Saturday 30 August 2025
- UK University of Leeds, Ukraine
- Monday 1st September 2025
- BRIN official groups, Indonesia
- VIP visit : His Excellency Mr Randolph De Battista, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,
- Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva
- Tuesday 2 September 2025
- Lanitio Lykeio, Cyprus; colleague’s friends, Canada
- VIP visit: Professor Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology, Republic of India
- Wednesday 3 September 2025
- Index School, Poland;
- Gymnazium Rajec Jestrebi, Czech Republic;
- Purdue University students/alumni, USA;
- colleague’s friends, Denmark
- Thursday 4 September 2025
- Etablissement Primaire et Secondaire de Lutry, Switzerland;
- colleague’s friends, Spain
- Friday 5 September 2025
- colleague’s friends, Czech Republic
- colleague’s friends, Czech Republic
- Saturday 30 August 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary of India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
- Visit of His Excellency Mr. Rudy Montero Mata, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology, and Environment, Republic of Cuba
- RICH prototype for ALICE 3 tested at PS
- ALICE Juniors Talk Brazil
- ALICE’s new management team
- ALICE Thesis Award 2025
- It's Oxygen time at the LHC
DIVERSITY
- ALICE workshop on inclusive teamwork - AM cohort: 9 and 23 Sept 2025, 09:30
- ALICE workshop on inclusive teamwork - PM cohort: 9 and 23 Sept 2025, 14:00
This workshop is particularly important for people with management roles (PAG coordinator, PWG convener, team leaders, project leaders, run managers and other coordinating roles), but the workshop is open to all ALICE members. Please register promptly - seat allocation starts at the end of August.
- 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.