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No.427,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE Upgrade Week 2026 165 participants from 21 countries A heartfelt thank you to the organisers - especially Sabyasachi Siddhanta (Gudda) - for their excellent preparation, warm hospitality and efforts throughout the week. The beautiful seaside setting near Cagliari, made the week especially enjoyable and provided a welcoming and productive environment for discussions and for advancing the ALICE upgrade program! |
 ALICE Public Outreach event at Cagliari (15 Sep): QUANDO LA MATERIA ERA UN PLASMA: Viaggio con ALICE tra Universo primordiale, nuove tecnologie e ricadute per la società. |
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 22 Sept 2026, 11:00: "Three-baryon femtoscopy as an effective 3→3 scattering experiment at ALICE" by Raffaele Del Grande (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Wuhan, 12–16 Oct 2026. PLEASE REGISTER !!
- CERN Director-General Town Hall on 8 October, 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2027
- Works at Gate B: closures and access changes on the CERN Meyrin site from August 2026
- Redevelopment of CERN Gate B
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 22 Sept 2026, 11:00: "Three-baryon femtoscopy as an effective 3→3 scattering experiment at ALICE" by Raffaele Del Grande (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 23 Sept 2026, 14:00: "Hydrodynamics from microscopics" by Mark Mezei (University of Oxford)
- Detector Seminar, Friday 25 Sept 2026, 11:00: "New Frontiers in Positron Emission Tomography: From Technological Innovation to Transformative Applications" by Simon Cherry
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
 LS3 Activities at Point 2
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CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Emmi Workshop: Light Ion Collisions 2026, 21-25 Sep, Heidelberg, Germany
- LHC Days, 21-25 Sep, Split, Croatia
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
| Event | Location | Date | Abstract deadline | Speaking Oppotunities |
| The XLV international symposium on Physics in Collision (PIC2026) | Qhui Nhon, Vietnam | 5-9 Oct | ||
| QCD@LHC 2026: 16th International QCD@LHC Workshop | Oxford, UK | 28 Sep - 2 Oct | ||
| HEPMAD26: 16th High-Energy Physics Conference | Antananarivo, Madagascar |
26-31 Oct | ||
| HF-HNC 2026: 10th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Production in Hadron and Nuclear Collisions | Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
26-29 Oct |
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| Quark–Gluon Dynamics in the Nuclear Medium: (An ECT Workshop) | Trento, Italy | 9-13 Nov | 30 Sep | |
| 26th Zimányi Winter Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics (Zimanyi 26) | Budapest, Hungary | 30 Nov - 4 Dec | 28 Sep |
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| Kruger 2026: Discovery Physics at the LHC | Kruger National Park, South Africa | 30 Nov |
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| UPC 2026 - 3rd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra-Peripheral Collisions | Playa del Carmen, Mexico | 7-12 Dec | 15 Sep |
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| MIAMI 2026 Physics Conference | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA | 11-17 Dec |
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SCHOOLS
- 3rd CERN School of Computing on IT Services 2026, CERN, 9-13 Nov. Application closes: 12 Oct
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Jeju Island, Korea |
1 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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Jyväskylä, Finland |
7 - 11 June 2027 |
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Bucharest, Romania |
26 – 30 July |
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Bucharest, Romania |
13 – 17 September |
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Hefei, China |
17 – 23 October |
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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.
- ALICE Juniors website
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE Visit Restrictions: No underground visits during these periods:
- 15-18 September: PSS cabling, open UP25 tunnel
- 29 September – 28 October: opening Low Beta platform – passage of LHC magnets
- 19-20 October: smoke detection central replacement (in the shadow of the one above)
- Public Outreach Calendar: Visits
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 12 September 2026
- V Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace w Bielsku Bialej, Poland
- 100 years Briand-Stresemann, Germany;
- ALICE members’ friends, Germany, Russia
- Sunday 13 September 2026 A
- LICE member’s family, UK
- Monday 14 September 2026 c
- olleagues’ friends and family, Spain, Austria
- Bulgarian Engineering Teacher Programme
- Tuesday 15 September 2026
- High School Students, Georgia; St John Payne School, UK
- Wednesday 16 September 2026
- Scuola SECSAP del Moesano, Switzerland
- colleague’s friend, Italy
- Thursday 17 September 2026
- Zagreb Gymnasium, Croatia
- Friday 18 September 2026
- Black Label Alumni Group Delft Technical University, Netherlands;
- ALICE members’ friends, Germany, Switzerland
- Saturday 12 September 2026
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Collective flow in hypernuclei
- Congratulations to Laura Šerkšnytė
- Congratulations to ALICE member Pritam Chakraborty
- ALICE at ICHEP 2026
- Unboxing a particle detector | ALICE Experiment at CERN
- ALICE Week: July 2026
- UPB Tier1
- Oxygen-Oxygen collisions
- ALICE visits
- Congratulations to Barbara Erazmus!
- 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
- ALICE Inclusive Teamwork Workshop.
- 📅 Morning group: 21 September, 09:30–12:30 CEST https://indico.cern.ch/event/1676593/
- 📅 Afternoon group: 21 September, 14:00–17:00 CEST https://indico.cern.ch/event/1676596/
- "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
- 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
Please refer to the Job Announcements page for details.