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News from the ALICE Collaboration | 17 October 2011 | Volume 2 Issue
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Indian President
visits ALICE <http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/indian-president-visits-alice>

On 1 October, ALICE had the chance to host Her Excellency, Mrs. Pratibha
Devisingh Patil, President of India, on a tour of the experiment and its
control room. ALICE was the only experiment visited by the head of state, in
part due to its large Indian collaboration....
<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/alice-at-ars-electronica>

ALICE @ Ars Electronica
<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/alice-at-ars-electronica>

CERN and ALICE featured prominently recently, at a renowned arts event in
Austria. The ‘Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology and Society’ in
Linz is the most important festival of digital art worldwide...
<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/htl-compress-tpc-data>
Using the High Level Trigger to compress TPC
data<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/htl-compress-tpc-data>

The ALICE detectors can read out data at much higher rate than what can be
handled by the data acquisition and storage systems. The High Level Trigger
(HLT) has been designed to make use of this gap in data bandwidth and
thereby maximizing the physics output of ALICE...
<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/doe-visit>
Undersecretary for Science for the Department of Energy
visits<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/doe-visit>

The Undersecretary for Science for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Dr.
Steven Koonin, paid a visit to CERN on 14 – 15 September. In addition to
many other activities at CERN, Dr. Koonin toured ALICE and spoke with
various ALICE members at Point 2...
<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/my-journey-into-particle-physics>
My journey into particle
physics<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/my-journey-into-particle-physics>

My journey into particle physics – it started way back when I was still an
undergraduate at Warwick university. I was in my second year doing a
bachelor’s degree in Maths and Physics when I was offered a 10-week summer
placement to work with York Ramachers on a Warwick-based experiment. The
work and department were so good that within a few weeks of the placement, I
had decided to apply for a PhD a year later, and had three offers to choose
from...
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