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No.412,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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11 June 2026, 5 PM: Facebook and YouTube LIVE from CCC and the experiments:
join us at the ALICE Run Control at Point 2. - 7th ALICE Upgrade Week: Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14-18 September 2026:
- ALICE UPC Workshop: Katowice, Poland, 15-19 June 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- 2027 ALICE Meetings Calendar
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Barbara Erazmus appointed Officer of the Legion of Honour: (link)
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- ALICE warmly congratulates Barbara Erazmus on her appointment to the rank of Officer of the French Legion of Honour, France's highest national distinction for outstanding service to the nation.
Barbara Erazmus, Research Director at CNRS and Deputy Chair of NuPECC, and former Deputy Spokesperson of ALICE, received the insignia during a ceremony held on 26 May in Préfecture de Nantes.The distinction was bestowed by Michel Spiro, former President of the CERN Council, outgoing President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), and President of the Curie and Joliot-Curie Association, in the presence of Christelle Roy, Director of CNRS Nuclear and Particle Physics, the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3), and Pol-Bernard Gossiaux, Director of the Subatech laboratory.
The ceremony was attended by former ALICE Spokespersons Luciano Musa and Federico Antinori, colleagues from SUBATECH, and members of the wider scientific community.
This promotion from Chevalier (Knight) to Officer recognises Barbara’s outstanding contributions to science, her leadership within the nuclear-physics community, and her long-standing commitment to international scientific collaboration.
We extend our sincere congratulations to Barbara on this well-deserved honour.
- Call for new CC members for CF, LF and EM: deadline 12 June. Send mail to alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch
- New short-term unplanned medical, death and disability insurance for MPAs
- Machine Learning for Enhancing Data Reconstruction and Simulation in ALICE
- Accelerator Report: An important upgrade to the PS radiofrequency system and a heavy‑ion run in full swing: Roderik Bruce, Alex Huschauer and Matteo Solfaroli
- The CERN Council decided to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 8 Jun 2026, 14:00: "NNLOCAL, an update" by Francesco Tramontano (Universita di Napoli Federico II (IT))
- Archives, Library and Open Science events, Tuesday 9 Jun 2026, 11:00: "Improving the quality of research data through active data curation : implementation at Unisanté" by Céline Racine (Unisanté)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 9 Jun 2026, 11:00: "Enhancing New-Physics reach using Scouting data in the high-level trigger at CMS" by Elisa Fontanesi (CERN)
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 9 Jun 2026, 14:00: "Positivity of the gravitational path integral implies the axionic weak gravity conjecture" by Gabriele Di Ubaldo (Berkeley)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 10 Jun 2026, 11:30: "The Stochastic Schwinger Effect" by Azadeh Maleknejad (Swansea University (GB))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 11 Jun 2026, 11:00: "t tbar + gamma: [CMS, TH]" by Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (CERN), Daniel Stremmer (KIT)
- Arts at CERN Talk Series, Thursday 11 Jun 2026, 17:00: "Meet the Artists: Monika Emmanuelle Kazi and Nanna Debois Buhl"
- Detector Seminar, Friday 12 Jun 2026, 11:00: "Flashtherapy" by Claude BAILAT (CHUV (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois))
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
- LHC and ALICE
- LHC is continuing with Pb-Pb physics production. Last Friday, the intensity ramp up was completed, and the first fill at full machine confirmed that the knob settings identified during the background studies are properly mitigating the background and suitable for ALICE data taking with negative/negative magnet polarities.
Once entered into the full machine regime, ALICE started collecting PbPb data with very high efficiency. Last night, an issue in the cooling system of the ITS was experienced, but it was quickly fixed through an access, and ALICE is now back to data taking.
- LHC is continuing with Pb-Pb physics production. Last Friday, the intensity ramp up was completed, and the first fill at full machine confirmed that the knob settings identified during the background studies are properly mitigating the background and suitable for ALICE data taking with negative/negative magnet polarities.
- Open shift blocks:
If you have any question about the training and, overall, on how to get ready to cover these earlier shifts do not hesitate to contact us (alice-rc@cern.ch). Dedicated trainings can be arranged.
- a partial DCS expert block starting on June 8th (NN)
We need to urgently fill this shift.
- a partial DCS expert block starting on June 8th (NN)
- Run Manager (1-14 June 2026): Michal BROZ:
Michal Broz is a Physicist from CTU, Prague, and a specialist in ultraperipheral collisions and diffraction. He was convener of the UD PAG for Ultra peripheral collisions from 2016 to 2021, and convener of the PWG-UD from 2019 to 2021. During this period he was a member of the Physics board. In 2020 and 2021, during the critical phase of integration of detectors and final commissioning in preparation for RUN 3, he was FDD System Run Coordinator. Michal has a long-standing implication in operation at P2 as he holds the record of taking the maximum number of Shift Leader shifts in ALICE since SAMS is in place to collect the statistics. Since the beginning of Run 2, he has ensured at least a Run Manager mandate every year, with many of them occuring during the critical Heavy Ion period.
During his term, Michal will take care of consolidating the Pb-Pb physics production, the last of Run 3.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- EMMI Workshop, Mining for gluon saturation at the LHC and the future EIC, 6-10 Jul, GSI, Darmstadt
- Opportunities for one talk about QGP, one about FOCAL, ALICE general talk
- Opportunities for one talk about QGP, one about FOCAL, ALICE general talk
- XV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, 19-30 Aug, Kolymbari, Greece, Abstract submission open.
- Opportunities for One plenary talk on "ALICE Highlights" and Overview highlight plenary talks from each working group (physics, software, trigger/DAQ, detectors, etc). Please contact CC chairs.
- Opportunities for One plenary talk on "ALICE Highlights" and Overview highlight plenary talks from each working group (physics, software, trigger/DAQ, detectors, etc). Please contact CC chairs.
- Corfu Summer Institute, Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, 23 Aug - 1 Sep, Corfu, Greece
- Opportunities for One review talk from ALICE (1 hr) and Short young-scientist talks (15+5 mins). Please contact CC chairs.
- Opportunities for One review talk from ALICE (1 hr) and Short young-scientist talks (15+5 mins). Please contact CC chairs.
- Diffraction and Low-x 2026, 6-12 Sep, the call for abstracts is open.
- Speaking opportunities for FOCAL and UPC talks
- Speaking opportunities for FOCAL and UPC talks
- NSTAR 2026, Seville, Spain, 7-11 Sep, abstract deadline 30 Jun
- EMMI workshop on Light-Ion Collisions, 21-25 Sep, Heidelberg University, Germany; deadline: 1 July.
- Opportunities for an overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems and one to three abstracts for short contributions (12+3 min) by 1 July.
- Opportunities for an overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems and one to three abstracts for short contributions (12+3 min) by 1 July.
- 12th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging (PIXEL2026), 8-12 Sep 2026, Miyazaki, Japan, abstract deadline: 7 June
- Quark-Gluon Dynamics in the Nuclear Medium, 9-13 Nov 2026, Trento, Italy, abstract deadline: 30 Sep 2026
- Kruger26 (International Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC), 30 November – 4 December 2026, Kruger National Park, South Africa
- Invitations for 3 talks; Introduction to Heavy-Ion Physics, Jets and Heavy Flavour as QGP Probes, Advances in Detector Technology.
- UPC 2026: International workshop on the physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions, 7-12 December 2026, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, abstract deadline: 15 September
SCHOOLS
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21-26 Jun 2026 |
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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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21 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Sara, Davide, Meiyi)
- "Supporting early careers beyond CERN"
- 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 summarising the key results of the PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 30 May 2026
- King Edward VIth School, Southampton, UK
- Tuesday 2 June 2026
- Liceo Gandini, Lodi, Italy; VI LO, Poland
- UT Austin, USA
- colleague’s friends, UK
- Wednesday 3 June 2026
- Fort Worth Country Day, USA
- Thursday 4 June 2026
- Liceo Gandini, Lodi, Italy
- Friday 5 June 2026
- SEP + POIIB, Poland
- Saturday 30 May 2026
- IPPOG:
The 31st IPPOG Meeting took place at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1-4 June 2026
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1629755/
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Silvia on Social Media on the start of the heavy-ioin run!
- A new chapter of ALICE physics at LHCP 2026
- Building bridges towards ALICE 3: Japan
- Mexico in ALICE 3
- ALICE ITS3 by Alexander Kluge
- ALICE observes partonic flow even in small colliding systems
- Do all jets lose energy in the same way?
- International Women’s Day, 8 March
- LHC Career Event: 17 Mar 2026
- ALICE 3 MID
- ALICE EMCal
DIVERSITY
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Building on the 25 by’25 momentum, the Diversity & Inclusion Programme has launched Inclusion Matters, featuring 50 Inc. — a plan to co-create 50 practical actions that improve inclusion over the next five years. Already, 20 proposals have been submitted, including ideas to improve accessibility, create quiet zones, increase women speakers at events, use more inclusive language, and visibly support the Pride community. Read more in the CERN Bulletin You can take part by submitting your own proposal or contacting the ALICE Diversity Office: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch |
- "E-learning course “Ethics at CERN” for all CERN personnel":
To ensure that everyone is aware of the guidelines of our ethical framework, the HR Department has developed an e-learning course entitled “Ethics at CERN”, which is available in English and French on the CERN Learning Hub. As of now, this course is mandatory for all members of the CERN personnel. Ethics at CERN
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030.
- ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here. Your feedback is 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