News from the ALICE Collaboration | 25 November 2011 | Volume 2 Issue XX Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/sites/alicematters.web.cern.ch/files/html-letter/ALICEMattersVol2IssueXIII.html>. [http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/sites/alicematters.web.cern.ch/files/images/html-letter/Matters_email_logo.jpg]<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/> [http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/sites/alicematters.web.cern.ch/files/images/html-letter/V2I201.jpg]<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/annapiccotti> <http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/annapiccotti> In Memoriam: Anna Piccotti <http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/annapiccotti> The Nuclear Physics Our colleague Anna Piccotti passed away on November 15th as a result of a car accident she suffered a few days before. Her husband and two young sons survived. Active in the field of heavy-ion physics since the early nineties, as a member of the NA50 experiment... [http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/sites/alicematters.web.cern.ch/files/images/html-letter/V2I202.jpg]<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/newalicelogo> <http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/newalicelogo> A "revamped" logo for ALICE <http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/newalicelogo> Over the summer, upon request of our spokesperson, we started to work on branding and visual identity for the experiment. It immediately became clear to us that one of the first items to look at was our logo. We examined the current logo and quickly came to the conclusion… [http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/sites/alicematters.web.cern.ch/files/images/html-letter/V2I203.jpg]<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/thesisawards2011> ALICE 2011 Thesis Awards<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/thesisawards2011> Since 2008 two awards are given once a year for the most outstanding PhD thesis by members of the ALICE Collaboration in the field of physics and instrumentation, respectively. This year's winners reflect on their experiences... [http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/sites/alicematters.web.cern.ch/files/images/html-letter/V2I204.jpg]<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/cesarceballossanchez> Focus On: Cesar Ceballos Sanchez<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/cesarceballossanchez> Cuba. Most people’s minds will jump to the 1959 revolution, Guantanamo Bay or the US embargo. In antithesis, other peoples’ minds jump to cigars and rum. Against such polar... [http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/sites/alicematters.web.cern.ch/files/images/html-letter/V2I205.jpg]<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/LHCbook> New Book 'LHC' Chronicles the Construction of the Experiments<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/LHCbook> “LHC” by Peter Ginter, one of the world's best photographers, author Franzobel, and Rolf Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, is a coffee table staple... Decisions Taken at the ALICE Collaboration Board Meeting<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/CBmeeting> The latest ALICE Collaboration Board meeting was held on Friday 18th November. The following summarises the decisions taken... Professor Guy Paic Wins the Juchimán de Plata<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/juchimandeplata> Professor Guy Paic has received the “Juchimán de Plata” Award 2010 for his international contribution to Science and Technology. The award ceremony, on 11th November.. Update On the 2011 Heavy Ion Run<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/leadrunupdate> The data taking started on the night between November 5-6 when test beams were injected and brought to collisions. The number of events were few, around 10,000, but extremely useful.... Follow ALICE on Twitter<http://twitter.com/#!/ALICEexperiment> | Follow ALICE Matters on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alice-Matters/103041289764826> | Subscribe to the ALICE Matters RSS Feed<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/rss.xml> unsubscribe from ALICE Matters notifications<https://alicematters.web.cern.ch/subscribe> | view email in browser<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/sites/alicematters.web.cern.ch/files/html-letter/ALICEMattersVol2IssueXIIII.html> ALICE Matters<http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/> © 2011 CERN on behalf of the ALICE Experiment