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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
 Celebrating the end of LHC Run 3 with ALICE and the exciting journey ahead! |
ALICE Physics Week: 12-16 October 2026 Wuhan, China Timetable REGISTER TODAY (deadline: 2 October 2026) |
- ALICE Visit Restrictions: No underground visits during 29 September – 28 October:
(opening of Low Beta platform – passage of LHC magnets)
- CERN Director-General Town Hall on 8 October, Main Auditorium (CERN)
- O2 Analysis Tutorial: 16–20 Nov 2026
- 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
- Detector Seminar, Friday 25 Sept 2026, 11:00: "New Frontiers in Positron Emission Tomography: From Technological Innovation to Transformative Applications" by Simon Cherry
- EP-IT Data Science Seminars, Wednesday 30 Sept 2026, 11:00: "Parnassus: A GPU-enabled, Python-based Package for Fast Particle Detector Simulation and Reconstruction" by Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 29 Sept 2026, 11:00: "Measurement of the Vcb element in top-quark pair events in CMS" by Riccardo Salvatico (CERN)
- Detector Seminar, Friday 2 Oct 2026, 11:00: "New concepts for scintillator-based particle tracking detectors" by Davide Sgalaberna (ETH Zurich (CH))
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: ITS Fully extracted
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CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
The XLV international symposium on Physics in Collision (PIC2026), 5-9 Oct, Qhui Nhon, Vietnam
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
| Event | Location | Date | Abstract deadline | Speaking Oppotunities |
| 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 |
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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
- 2027 ECFA Winter Instrumentation School in Particle Physics, CERN, 1-12 Feb 2027, Registration deadline: 15 Oct
| Upcoming major conferences | |||
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:
- 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 26 September 2026
- Scuola Normale, Pisa, Italy
- Alten group, Italy
- Epimelitiro Arkadias, Greece
- ALICE member’s friends, India
- Sunday 27 Septemeber 2026
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Monday 28 September 2026
- ALICE member’s friends, New Zealand
- Licei Alba, Italy
- Studienstiftung, Germany
- Rolex engineers, Switzerland
- Tuesday 29 September 2026
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Association de retraités d’organismes sociaux du Jura, France
- Thursday 1st October 2026
- I LO Lublin, Poland
- Hans Dietrich Genscher Gymnasium, Germany
VIP visit (Thursday 1 Oct) : Dr Marcus Pleyer, State Secretary
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, Federal Republic of Germany
Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Saturday 26 September 2026
- Whirlpools in the perfect fluid
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2026 and Outreach in Sardinia
- 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 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.