cLIP - NEWSLETTER - FEBRUARY 2018

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Scientific Council Minutes

The minutes of the LIP Scientific Council of the past 20th December are available here.
The Scientific Council Regulation, with the modifications to Art. 9 approved in the plenary meeting, is published here.

LIP Reports and Plans 2018/19

31 Jan: Group reports must be in the DB
22 Feb: Circulate Technical Report
15 Mar: Circulate Public Report
5 Abr: Reports to be sent to the Advisory board

Last year reports:
Detailed report: in web.lip.pt or directly in https://www.lip.pt/lfiles/Relatorio-Tecnico-2017-2018.pdf

Public report: in www.lip.pt, web.lip.pt or directly in https://www.lip.pt/lfiles/Relatorio-Publico-2017-2018.pdf

FCT evaluation of R&D Units

The visit to LIP is expected soon, with:

Session with all researchers: presentation by the unit coordinator + questions
Session with PhD students + young PhDs

This is part of the evaluation on the last 5 years + next 5 years. The documentation LIP has delivered in January can be found here.

External

FCT Calls

Scientific Employment Stimulus 2018
Concurso Bolsas de Doutoramento 2019

The 2019 Calendar of FCT Calls can be found here. Notice Fundo CERN in jun/jul and PTDCs in nov.

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

This is the new FCT CV that will replace FCT SIG CV (and will gather the info spread in a number of platforms (FCT-SIG CV, DeGóis, RENATES, REBIDES, ORCID, RCAAP).
It will be used by FCT starting from the next calls (but still optional).

Webinar calendar (in PT and EN)
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research

First look at full run 2 data

The first CMS paper with about the full Run 2 data (140/fb, collected in 2016+2017+2018) reports the observation of two new bumps interpreted as excited states of the Bc family.
More info

ATLAS PhD grant awarded to Ana Peixoto, from LIP-Minho

More info

Rute Pedro in TileCal calibration

Rute Pedro has been appointed calibration co-coordinator of the ATLAS TileCal. Congratulations!

The ECFA Newsletter #2 is out

Recent inputs for the EPPS update:

- Future Circular Collider (FCC) Conceptual Design Report: Document | More info - ECFA detector panel report, with recommendations on future developments.

Events

Registration now open

Tools and hardware developed at LIP

Tools and hardware developed at LIP will be highlighted regularly in cLIP. Input welcome to outreach@lip.pt

LOMaC and the ATLAS upgrade

Two thousand optical fibres for the ATLAS upgrade prepared in LOMaC have been sent to Michigan State University, were new detector modules are being assembled.
They will later travel to CERN, to be installed on the ATLAS detector during 2019/2020.
More info

ANTS

Anger camera-type detector simulation and experimental data processing tools.

More info

ECO

Periodic Table Enigmas

In the 150 years of the Periodic Table, LIP is posting every Friday an enigma on an element, based on its relation to particle physics. The answer is published on the following Monday. Contributions are very welcome!
Contribute here, See already published enigmas.

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Sharing student project videos

We encourage all LIP students (and their groups) to send us materials they have produced concerning their research work at LIP. This include videos prepared in the context of “Projeto MEFT” and any others. We will be glad to share them in our site and social media!

Videos received up to now are collected here
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Masterclasses

The Calendar of the 2019 edition in Portugal can be found here.

For further info please contact abreu@lip.pt

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LIP in Program "Cientificamente Provável” from Rede de Bibliotecas Escolas

The collaborations of research institutions within this framework have been published. LIP is with the secondary schools of Restelo, Miraflores and D. Filipa de Lencastre.

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