We are pleased to inform you that some ALICE polars are now available at the Secretariat !
Do not hesitate and go to have yours !

Polar cardigans are available for 45 chf each, black for men and purple for women.
Blue men polar jackets are sold 60 chf each,
and black women polar jackets are sold 50 chf each.

Switcher quality, different sizes available.

See you soon at the Secretariat !

This is the first announcement for the 'Forum on Tracking Detector Mechanics' to be held at CERN, 3-4 July 2012 in the BE Auditorium, Room 6-2-024. It would be a pleasure for us to welcome you at CERN to this event.

 The goal of this forum is an exchange of experience obtained during the design, construction installation of the current LHC tracking detectors. Evaluation of where ample or insufficient emphasis was put, problems encountered as well as excellent solutions found in order to improve performance and reliability of future tracking detectors.

REGISTRATION:

We would appreciate if you could use the online Registration form on the Forum home page:

https://indico.cern.ch/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py?confId=192033
 
The forum will be limited to a maximum of 120 participants.

There are no registration fees for the Forum. Refreshments at coffee breaks will be provided but lunches are not included. There will be a charge (around 60 CHF) for the (optional) workshop dinner to be held Tuesday evening, 3 July. Receipts for the dinner fee will be available.

Best Regards, Hans Postema for the Organising Committee.

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 Provisional list of topics:

- Cooling issues inside tracker volume
- Supply and return lines inside full detector volume
- Deflection, stability and precision of the structures, achieved and revisited    
   requirements for the next generation
- Detectors, sub-detectors and components must survive transport loads
- Thermal expansion differences inside the detector

Dear Colleagues,

The “Jardin de Capucine”, a new childcare facility built exclusively for CERN personnel, including users, has opened its doors on 1 November 2011. It is very conveniently located at only a few hundred meters from CERN entrance E, and it offers childcare facilities for children from 4 months up to 4 years of age.

CERN Management has specifically earmarked 4 places (of the 40 available) for short term child care. Short term should be understood as any period of one week to up to 3 months. A place and can be booked in advance for any period in 2012 by contacting directly the crèche. Places will be allocated on a first come/first served basis.

These 4 places have now been available for a few months, but none has ever been used. It is clear that should this situation continue, this short term child care will be discontinued.

Do not hesitate to directly contact the “Jardin de Capucine” if you need more information.

The CERN car sharing service is a self-service scheme providing a pool of 30 CERN cars available for pick-up free of charge from 13 points around the Meyrin and Prévessin sites. From Thursday, 1st December 2011, the service will be open to all members of the CERN personnel and contractors' personnel, in the framework of their professional activities at CERN only. The conditions of use can be consulted at:

http://gs-dep.web.cern.ch/en/content/Mobility/Car_sharing

To be able to use the service, members of the CERN personnel and contractors' personnel must:

• have a contractual link to CERN,
• possess an e-mail address registered in the CERN databases;
• hold an RFID access card, which can be obtained from the CERN Car Pool on presentation of a valid CERN access card. Car Pool, Building 130-R-012, open Monday-Friday, 8.00 a.m.-12.00 noon/1.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m.
  https://gs-dep.web.cern.ch/en/content/car-pool

A selection of articles on ALICE available on: http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/en/Chapter4/Chapter4Newspapers-en.html