SEMINARIO DE FISICA TEORICA I Y II Titulo: The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC Conferenciante: Panagiota Foka (GSI Darmstadt ) Dia y hora: 29, 14:30 (aula 6A) Resumen: The ALICE experiment at the LHC collider of CERN starts counting down expecting the start-up of the LHC which is planned for this summer. Although ALICE was optimised for heavy-ion physics, will participate in the first pp run with the aim to, not only prepare and understand the apparatus for the upcoming heavy-ion runs, but also to contribute to genuine pp physics. The physics objectives, the status of the apparatus and the computing challenges faced for the preparation of data taking and physics analysis will be presented.