Widening participation for better communications at LIP
APRIL - 2020
#STAYatHOME
The fight against Covid-19 locked us all at home, for the common good. Communicating is even more important now! This is what the LIP community did spontaneously: creating or strengthening the group's communication channels, exchanging papers and models about the pandemic, or with initiatives to help the SNS. In this newsletter, we aim to gather useful or interesting information for the peculiar moment we are living, and to launch, here and there, a challenge… join us, let’s stand together!
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#STAYatHOME
The fight against Covid-19 locked us all at home, for the common good. Communicating is even more important now! This is what the LIP community did spontaneously: creating or strengthening the group's communication channels, exchanging papers and models about the pandemic, or with initiatives to help the SNS. In this newsletter, we aim to gather useful or interesting information for the peculiar moment we are living, and to launch, here and there, a challenge… join us, let’s stand together!
Widening participation for better communications at LIP
APRIL - 2020
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NEWSLETTER
MAR 2018
LIP Advisory and Sc Council in virtual mode
- LIP's Detailed and Public 2019/2020 reports
(please send your final comments by April 30 to catarina@lip.pt) - Advisory meeting Agenda, 15-16 April
- doodle for the next SC plenary meeting (until 17/4)
Master thesis tele-defense
Our colleague Ricardo Barrué successfully defended his master's thesis in what may have been the first fully virtual defense at IST. More infoInside CERN
CERN went from over 9000 people on site every day to around 350. Our colleague Christophe Pires, from the COMPASS group, is one of them, and shares this experience with us.Teleworking competition
- LIP Computing news:
What changed? - Inside CERN
CERN went from over 9000 people on site every day to around 350. Our colleague Christophe Pires, from the COMPASS group, is one of them.
Tele-working survey
- Working from home, or at home
trying to work? - What are the worst enemies
of telework?
2. Children at home;
3. School at home;
4. Housekeeping
LIP events dates
- Strong Interactions in Lisbon, IST, 8 Jun?
- PANIC2020, FCUL, 31 Aug
- Teachers’ School, CERN, 6 Sep
- Data Science School, Coimbra, 19 Out
- IDPASC School, Nazaré, 24 May 2021
FCT News
- PTDC extended until 30/4
- PT-CERN PhD grants:
student applications by 30/4 - Impact of COVID-19 on FCT-funded projects
- Automatic one-month extensions of grants
- Covid-19 related calls:
- Research 4 Covid-19
- DOCTORATES 4 Covid-19
- AI 4 Covid-19 - General Covid-19 info for the scientific community
- Portal Science 4 Covid-19
University news
More info and resources
(Covid-19 related)
• Government
• DGS
• CERN - Discover CERN online
• Ciência Viva
(Other)
• Home schooling
• Particle Game
• QuarkNet resources
LIP Internship program
Extra flexibility due to Covid-19:- 4th edition of LIP Internship Program this Summer
- Project proposals submission up to April 26th
- Online presentation sessions:
Minho 15/April; Coimbra 22/ April;
Lisboa 29/April, at 14h00.
LIP event dates
- Strong Interactions in Lisbon, Cancelled
- PANIC2020, FCUL, 31 Aug
- CERN Teachers’ School, Cancelled
- Data Science School, Coimbra, 19 Oct
- IDPASC School, Nazaré, postponed to
24 May 2021
local_cafe COFFEE TIME
We created a virtual meeting point. Every Thursday at 10h30, just pass by and see who’s there for a chat and a coffee.Note: For a more regular contact there is a Slack channel chat lipworld.slack.com
Flyers about LIP
This is meant to be the first and most general one of a family of flyers on more specific topics: the different research areas or research lines at LIP; advanced training at LIP, etc. Please have a look, comments and suggestions are most welcome!
Updating the research group info on the LIP website
The texts introducing the research groups, competence centers or infrastructures in the LIP website are an important visiting card. They should be concise and understandable by those who visit us. This is particularly important in view of the ongoing evaluation of the research units.
Please remember these texts can be updated directly in the LIP database.
Twitter, #LHCIMC18 #PTIMC18
Inside CERN closeHIDE
Christophe Pires 2020-04-15
Two questions and answers:
cLIP: Why are you one of the persons who have to be at CERN now?
Christophe Pires: I am one of the COMPASS persons who is "always" here. The responsibility of our group is the Detector Control System (DCS), and in addition I help here and there when necessary. During this closing, and any other closing, it is necessary to ensure security and maintenance of the experience, from gas systems to the materials used by the target system. Much of the information for monitoring is available in the DCS, but some of it is not, such as the status of the gas system bubblers. One of my tasks at this point is to go through a checklist, similar to that of shifters during data taking. Regarding the materials of the target system, they are stored in dewars with liquid nitrogen and each week someone has to add more nitrogen. The aim is to keep them at an appropriate temperature, making sure they don't loose their properties, otherwise it will not be possible to take data with them. Other than that, I continue to work on DCS and from time to time in other activities. Taking into account the framework of the urgent activities defined by CERN, we do what is possible to start already recovering some of the delay that the closure of CERN is causing.
cLIP: What is it like to go to CERN now?
Christophe Pires: Going to CERN now is different from usual, but somewhat similar to other closing periods (Sundays, holidays, winter shutdown). There's almost no one, neither on the road nor at CERN, and we say "Hello, how are you, etc." keeping distances with the other people who are always here, especially security and cleaning service people. Personally, it seems to me that these two groups must be experiencing great differences and perhaps they should be given more emphasis. I'm usually on the Prévessin site. Here, I noticed that the deers are now feel more at ease inside CERN! On the Meyrin side, I know, for example, that Restaurant No. 1 is still open in a reduced mode, which I assume is useful for people there.