*EXTRAORDINARIO*" Notar día, lugar y hora. " Studying nuclear matter under extreme conditions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC

Heavy-ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) allow to study
nuclear matter under extreme conditions of temperature and energy-density,
where the transition to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is expected to occur.
ALICE is a unique general-purpose heavy-ion detector at the LHC, designed to
fulfil challenging tracking and particle-identification requirements. The
experiment is able to identify particles in a wide momentum range by combining
different detecting systems and techniques. In this seminar I will describe
the experimental apparatus and report on the main results. Particular focus
will be given on the production of identified particles and on the study of
collective phenomena and macroscopic statistical properties of the produced
matter.