No.434,
Twiki link
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ALICE/AliceNewsletter6Nov2026

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

Celebrating 30 Years of ALICE at GSI

GSI
 
On 3 November 2026, our ALICE group at GSI Darmstadt celebrated 30 years of its contributions to ALICE. The event brought together former and current collaborators for a memorable reunion, celebrating three decades of scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and friendships. The lively presentations and discussions were enriched with fascinating anecdotes, personal memories, and stories from the early days of ALICE, bringing its history to life.

The celebration included a special GSI-FAIR colloquium featuring talks by Anton Andronic, Tetyana Galatyuk, and Andrea Dainese, highlighting ALICE's remarkable journey in characterizing deconfined quark-gluon matter and the exciting scientific opportunities ahead with the future programmes at FAIR and with ALICE 3.

The event was a wonderful celebration of three decades of scientific collaboration, friendship, and shared achievements.


More information: Anniversary celebration | Special colloquium



 

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Results of the extraordinary CB meeting 30 October 2026:
 

  • Elected members of the Management Board: Marie Germain (Nantes, FR) and Sabyasachi Siddhanta (Cagliari INFN, IT)
     
  • Member of the Conference Committee: Swati Saha (CERN)

 

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:

https://open-days-2027-activities.web.cern.ch/

(In order to prioritise activities and align them with the available budget, the deadline for submitting activity requests is 15 November 2026.)

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

MFT Extraction during LS3

LS3 Activities at Point 2: MFT extraction

Weblink  and   CDS link for photos
  • 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)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
Event Date Location Abstract deadline Speaking Oppotunities
Workshop on Exotic Hadrons: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Lattice QCD 24-27 Nov Nagoya, Japan    
26th Zimányi Winter Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics (Zimanyi 26 30 Nov-4 Dec Budapest, Hungary    
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    
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)
Bormio 2027 - 63rd International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics 25-29 Jan Bormio, Italy    
SCHOOLS

 

 

UPCOMING MAJOR CONFERENCES

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

Vancouver, Canada
31 May 2027 - 4 June 2027		  

Jyväskylä, Finland
7 - 11 June 2027		  

Bucharest, Romania
26 - 30 July		  
  • Abstract submission deadline: 29 April
  • Early Registration deadline: 4 June
  • 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

  • Public Outreach Calendar: Visits
     
  • ALICE Visits this week:
     
    • Saturday 31 October 2026
      • colleagues’ friends, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy
    • Monday 2 November 2026
      • Mairie de Prévessin-Moëns, France
      • Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany
    • Tuesday 3 November 2026
      • SAE, Switzerland; PSI, Switzerland
      • ALICE open visit
    • Wednesday 4 November 2026
      • Liceo Scientifico Enrico Fermi Alghero, Italy
      • 2nd General Lyceum of Patra, Greece
      • Liceo Cattaneo, Torino, Italy
      • Press Visit
    • Thursday 5 November 2026 
      • SBI Romandi, Switzerland; Arcade84, Switzerland
      • IEEE, USA
      • ALICE member’s friends, Italy
    • Friday 6 November 2026
      • Dell/Swisscom, Switzerland
      • Firelabnet
      • participants of ITSF2026 (International Timing and Sync Forum)
      • Iseta Eca, France
      • ALICE open visit

         

Recent Social Media Highlights:

DIVERSITY

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Date Listed Position Location Deadline
6 Nov Assistant Professor - Open Physics Field UC Berkeley, USA 15 Nov
6 Nov Technicien pour la jouvence du détecteur CMS du LHC CEA Saclay, France  
6 Nov CERN Summer Student Programme 2027 (Member and Non-Member State) CERN 21 Jan
6 Nov Applied Physicist/Engineer - ATLAS ITk CERN 8 Nov
6 Nov Event Reconstruction Physicist CERN 13 Nov
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
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 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
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
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