No.433,
Twiki link
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ALICE/AliceNewsletter30Oct2026

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

ALICE Italia 2026: the Italian ALICE community meets in Vercelli
ALICE Italia 2026
 
The third edition of ALICE Italia took place in Vercelli from 27 to 30 October 2026, hosted by the Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO). The meeting brought together colleagues from across the Italian ALICE community, with more than 50 presentations covering ongoing activities and future plans in computing, physics and detector upgrades, including ITS3 and ALICE 3. The sessions offered opportunities to share results and experience, coordinate activities across institutes and connect current analyses with preparations for the experiment’s future.

As part of its outreach programme, the meeting included a public lecture by Nicolò Jacazio, taking the local community on a journey from ordinary matter to the quark-gluon plasma and explaining how ALICE studies it. This was followed by an interactive session featuring Marta Razza and Fabrizio Chinu, recipients of the ALICE Breakthrough Prize PhD grant, who shared their experiences as PhD students at CERN with UPO physics students.

Informal exchanges and the social dinner continued the discussions beyond the meeting room, while giving participants a taste of Vercelli and its local traditions.

 

Countdown to the CERN Open Days 2027:

 

From 24 to 26 September 2027, CERN will open its doors to the public for three special days of visits, events, hands-on activities and more!

Do you have an idea for an activity?
Submit your proposal by 15 November:
https://open-days-2027-activities.web.cern.ch/

 

EVENTS OF INTEREST

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

ALICE cavern

LS3 Activities at Point 2: Platform fully closed, normal visits resume
  • LHC magnets transported through PX24 shaft and low-beta platform closed again
  • TPC survey done
  • ITS Fully extracted
  • MFT has finalized the C-side disconnection
  • ITS de-cabling completed
  • MFT getting disconnected
  • CERN #PhotoOfTheWeek: TRD disconnection
  • TRD Disconnection started on 3 Aug and completed on 21 Aug.  Pictures in CDS
  • FIT-A removal: 31 Aug.

CONFERENCES

CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)

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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
Event Date Location Abstract deadline Speaking Oppotunities
Quark–Gluon Dynamics in the Nuclear Medium: (An ECT Workshop) 9-13 Nov Trento, Italy    
Workshop on Exotic Hadrons: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Lattice QCD 9-13 Nov Nagoya, Japan    
26th Zimányi Winter Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics (Zimanyi 26) 9-13 Nov Budapest, Hungary  
  • Recent results from the ALICE experiment (Zoom also possible)
Kruger 2026: Discovery Physics at the LHC 30 Nov - 4 Dec Kruger National Park, South Africa    
UPC 2026 - 3rd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra-Peripheral Collisions
 		 7-12 Dec Playa del Carmen, Mexico  
  • Recent results, ongoing analyses, and new developments relevant to UPCs
MIAMI 2026 Physics Conference 11-17 Dec Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA  
  • ALICE overview talk + contributed talks
Quarkonia as Tools 2027 3-9 Jan Assois, France    
HEPNP 2027 - 10th International Conference on High Energy, Particles and Nuclear Physics in the LHC Era 18-22 Jan Valparaiso, Chile  
  • Two plenaries and three parallel talks from ALICE (deadline 30/11)
SCHOOLS

 

 

 

Upcoming major conferences

Jeju Island, Korea
1 - 27 Mar 2027
  • Early Registration deadline: 31 December

Jyväskylä, Finland
7 - 11 June 2027		  
  • EPS HEP 2027
Bucharest, Romania
26 – 30 July		  
  • CHEP 2027
Bucharest, Romania
13 – 17 September		  
  • SQM 2027
Hefei, China
17 – 23 October		  

 

 

JUNIOR'S CORNER

Message from Junior Representatives (Sara, Davide, Meiyi)

OUTREACH NEWS

DIVERSITY

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

 
Date Listed Position Location Deadline
30 Oct Postdoctoral position - ALICE (IFJ PAN, Cracow
Contact: Marek Kowalski		 16 Nov
30 Oct Assistant Professor - Open Physics Field UC Berkeley, USA 15 Nov
30 Oct Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Cosmology University of Chicago 15 Jan
30 Oct ATLAS Postdoc position Columbia University Nevis Labs 7 Jan
30 Oct tSPECT - PhD position on neutron lifetime experiment Mainz University 16 Nov
23 Oct PhD on the ALICE 3 Outer Tracker MBI, Vienna
Contact: Prof. David Dobrigkeit Chinellato		 30 Oct
23 Oct Open-Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Experimental Nuclear or High Energy Physics Ohio State University
Contact: Prof. Mike Lisa		 15 Nov
23 Oct Research Associate in Particle Physics on ATLAS University of Manchester 19 Nov
23 Oct Postdoc in Collider Phenomenology INFN, Bologna 12 Nov
23 Oct Wilson Fellowship Associate Scientist Fermilab 4 Dec
23 Oct Assistant Professor in Experimental Particle Physics University of Texas at Austin 2 Dec
23 Oct Development of a 4D tracking system based on advanced Resistive Silicon Detectors (RSD) and associated readout electronics INFN 19 Nov
16 Oct Postdoc (ALICE) IFJ PAN, Krakow
Contact:Jacek Otwinowski		 16 Nov
16 Oct Postdoctoral researcher on FCC-ee vertex detector development and physics performance evaluation IPHC, Strasbourg 1 Dec
16 Oct Assistant / Associate Professor in Particle Physics Imperial College London 25 Nov
16 Oct Tenure-track assistant professor UC, Berkeley 15 Nov
9 Oct Two Postdoc Positions (ALICE) Institute of Nuclear Physics Kraków, Poland. Contact:
Prof. dr hab. Marek Kowalski		 9 Nov
9 Oct Assistant Professor (E) / Reader (F) in High Energy Physics Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 14 Nov
9 Oct Electronics Design Engineer for Instrumentation Design Lab University of Kansas 4 Jan
9 Oct Postdoctoral Research Associate (ATLAS) Tufts University 6 Nov
9 Oct Lederman Fellowship Research Associate Fermilab 4 Nov
2 Oct High-Energy Nuclear Theory faculty position Vanderbilt University 1 Nov
2 Oct Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Physics Villanova University 15 Nov
2 Oct Postdoctoral position (ATLAS) Max Planck Inst, Garching 31 Oct
2 Oct Assistant or Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy - Experimental High Energy Physics University of Oklahoma 14 Nov
25 Sep Postdoctoral Researchers in Particle Physics and Quantum Computing Northwestern University 7 Jan
25 Sep Detector Simulation Physicist CERN 1 Jan
25 Sep Applied Physicist – ATLAS Muon LS3 Integration and Installation Manager CERN 1 Jan
18 Sep Postdoctoral researcher in particle detector physics and scientific instrumentation University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, IPHC 30 Nov
18 Sep Postdoctoral Research Position in Experimental High-Energy Physics - CMS University of Tarapacá, Chile 31 Oct
18 Sep Postdoctoral Researcher in FASER UC, Irvine 31 Dec
11 Sep Assistant/Associate Professor of Experimental Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics Purdue University 4 Dec
11 Sep Research Scientist IIT Bombay, Mumbai 10 Dec
11 Sep Postdoctoral Researcher (ATLAS) University of California, Irvine 31 Dec
4 Sep Assistant Professor University of Michigan 1 Nov
28 Aug Postdoctoral Research Associate (ATLAS) Argonne National Laboratory 31 Dec
28 Aug Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Texas at Arlington 1 Dec
14 Aug CCAPP Postdoctoral Fellows Ohio State University 23 Nov
14 Aug Foreign Faculty Position  SGT University, India 31 Dec
7 Aug Short-Term Internship CERN 1 Nov
3 Jul Director of High Energy Physics Division Argonne National Laboratory 31 Dec
13 Mar Assistant Professor in experimental particle physics Indian Inst. Tech. Madras, Chennai 31 Dec
Please refer to the Job Announcements page for details.
 
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