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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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6 Oct 2026: Release of the book: "Quark-Gluon Plasma: 50 Years and Beyond"
The book comprises of two complementary parts: (I) personal reflections by some of the eminent scientists who have been part of the QGP journey since its early years, sharing their memories, experiences, and perspectives, (II) topical reviews that trace the evolution of theoretical approaches and experimental programs for studying various QGP signatures.
We are particularly delighted that many ALICE colleagues have contributed to this book. We are truly grateful to all of them!
Open Access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-27608-7
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Science Hall, CCNU Wuhan, 12-16 October
- Timetable with important information
- Outreach events during the ALICE Physics Week 2026:
- Public Outreach event: "Our Mysterious Universe: A Journey with CERN" featuring Pengfei Zhuang, Kai Schweda and Hengtong Ding
- ALICE Masterclass with Simone Ragoni
- ALICE/CERN Outreach booth
- Public Outreach event: "Our Mysterious Universe: A Journey with CERN" featuring Pengfei Zhuang, Kai Schweda and Hengtong Ding
- Timetable with important information
- CERN LHC Seminar rehearsal, Wednesday 14 Oct 2026, 09:30: "Hyperon (Λ) polarization along the beam axis in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=√5.36 TeV" Junlee Kim (Fudan University (CN))
(LHC Seminar on 20 October at CERN). - 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
ALICE-Japan Workshop 2026 in Tsukuba: 24-25 Sept 2026
 ALICE Spokesperson Kai Schweda visits Shandong University in Qingdao, an ALICE Associate Member Institute, where he meets with the Laboratory's Director, the Dean, and members of the ALICE team, including Qinghua Xu and Haifeng Li. |
CERN Courier Energy Frontier: 17 Sep 2026
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EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 12 Oct 2026, 14:00: "From precision nucleon tomography to quantum information" by Ding-Yu Shao (Fudan University (Shanghai))
- Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme, Wednesday 14 Oct 2026, 14:00: "Feebly Interacting Particles III: Searches at the LHC" by Albert De Roeck (Imperial College (GB))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 14 Oct 2026, 14:00: "Imagine dragons: quests for physics beyond the standard model" by Brando Bellazzini (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 15 Oct 2026, 13:30: "Minimal Dark Matter in the sky: indirect detection probes of MDM 5plet" Giulio Marino
- Detector Seminar, Friday 16 Oct 2026, 11:00: "A Decade of Timepix for Beam Instrumentation at CERN: Looking Back and Ahead" by Hampus Sandberg (CERN)
- Moving out of Academia - From Fundamental Research to Real-World Technology, 16 Oct 2026. 14:00
- BE Seminars, Friday 16 Oct 2026, 16:00: "Soft Robots for Hard-to-Reach Places: Design and Deployment at CERN" by Mr Harald Minde Hansen (CERN (BE-CEM-MRO))
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: Low-beta platform open
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CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
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 3 October 2026
- Class reunion of the scientific high school Opc88, Switzerland
- Wednesday 7 October 2026
- 5th Gymnasium of Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Hitachi Supply Chain Europe, Switzerland
- NNV PWS (Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging Profielwerkstuk), Netherlands
- Thursday 8 October 2026
- Sint Vitus College, Netherlands
- IFAE ATLAS Pixel Group, Morocco
- Friday 9 October 2026
- Prague British International School, Czech Republic
- colleague’s friends, Spain
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Recent Social Media Highlights:
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- Saturday 3 October 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.