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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
 
LIVE LHC Season Finale: 11 June 2026 |
- Hard Probes 2026 rehearsals, 15-19 June 2026
- ALICE UPC Workshop: Katowice, Poland, 15-19 June 2026
- ALICE Mini Week, 29 Jun - 3 July
- ALICE Week, 20-24 Jul 2026
- 7th ALICE Upgrade Week: Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14-18 September 2026
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Wuhan, 12–16 Oct 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- 2027 ALICE Meetings Calendar
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Jets boost nuclear coalescence: CERN Courier Energy Frontier Jun-Jul 2026
- Barbara Erazmus appointed Officer of the Legion of 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
- Detector Seminar, Friday 12 Jun 2026, 11:00: "Flashtherapy" by Claude BAILAT (CHUV (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois))
- QCD Seminars, Monday 15 Jun 2026, 14:00: "MiNNLOPS ttH with a point-wise combination of two-loop approximations" by Christian Biello
- NEHOP 2026 - New Horizons on Primordial Black Hole Physics: 15–19 Jun 2026, CERN
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 16 Jun 2026, 11:00: "Boosting the Higgs boson into unexplored territory with ATLAS" by Antonio De Maria (Nanjing University (CN))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 16 Jun 2026, 14:00: "High-energy scattering in gravity: Regge theory, shock waves and beyond" by Riccardo Gonzo (QMUL)
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 16 Jun 2026, 16:00: "Regulated chiral gauge theory and the strong CP problem" by David Kaplan
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 17 Jun 2026, 14:00: "Introducing primordial black holes" by Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex)
- Detector Seminar, Friday 19 Jun 2026, 11:00: "BASE-STEP: Transporting antiprotons in an open autonomous Penning trap system" by Marcel Leonhardt (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf (DE)), Christian Smorra (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf (DE))
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
- ALICE continued with Pb-Pb data taking with negative/negative magnet polarities.
- On Sunday morning, an access was granted to TOF to fix an issue with one faulty Maciste ACDC converter of the low-voltage system.
- On Monday morning, another trip of the solenoid was experienced, which was eventually understood as due to a human error during one of the periodic interventions.
- On Thursday, during the MD block for testing the new ion beams from the injectors, a run at 1 kHz was collected, in order to test the detector's performances.
- Pb-Pb data taking will continue up to Sunday morning at 7 a.m., when the High-Intensity test toward the HL-LHC operations will start.
- Run Manager (1-14 June 2026): Michal BROZ
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 17th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms, 14-19 Jun, Varenna, Italy
- INFN School of Statistics 2026, 14-19 Jun, Caserta, Italy
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- QCD 26: 29th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics, 20-24 Jul, Montpellier, France
- Call open for ALICE highlight talk + other contributions (deadline 20 Jun)
- Call open for ALICE highlight talk + other contributions (deadline 20 Jun)
- Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2026, 17-21 Aug, Helsinki, Finland
- International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics 2026 (ISMD 2026), 19-21 Aug, Chungly, Taiwan
- Call open for plenary talks (deadline 11 Jul)
- Call open for plenary talks (deadline 11 Jul)
- XV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2026), 19-30 Aug, Crete, Greece
- Call open for oral presentations for PWG overviews, detectors and specific upgrades subjects + outreach talks (deadline 20 Jun)
- Call open for oral presentations for PWG overviews, detectors and specific upgrades subjects + outreach talks (deadline 20 Jun)
- Corfu 2026 - Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, 23 Aug - 1 Sep, Corfu, Greece
- Call open for review talk + short young-scientists talks (deadline 15 Jun)
- Call open for review talk + short young-scientists talks (deadline 15 Jun)
- 9th Conference on Micropattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD2026), 31 Aug - 4 Sep, Prague, Czechia
- 14th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD14), 1-4 Sep, London, UK
- NSTAR 2026 - The 15th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons 7-11 Sep, Seville Spain
- 12th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging PIXEL2026, 8-12 Sep, Miyazaki,Japan
- Emmi Workshop: Light Ion Collisions 2026, 21-25 Sep, Heidelberg, Germany
- Call open for overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems + one to three abstracts for short contributions (deadline 1 Jul)
- Call open for overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems + one to three abstracts for short contributions (deadline 1 Jul)
- 16th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2026) , 28 Sep - 2 Oct, Oxford, UK
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 6 June 2026
- colleagues’ friends and family, Croatia, Serbia, Germany
- Tuesday 9 June 2026
- Arts@CERN artists Monika Emmanuelle Kazi and Nanna Debois Buhl
- Wednesday 10 June 2026
- Life Lab Foundation Bose Beamline Challenge, India
- Thursday 11 June 2026
- South Alabama and Baylor Universities, USA
- Saturday 6 June 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:
- LHC Live from ALICE
- 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