Name: 15th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2010-10-04T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-10-08T18:00:00+02:00
Location: ESA/ESTEC

Monday, 4 October 2010

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Entrance gate and TF building
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Welcome address

09:05 The ESA Cosmic Vision programme - Christian Erd (ESA)

09:15 Workshop Goals - Makoto Asai

09:45 Reports from users domains - HEP - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

10:00 Reports from user domains - Space - Giovanni Santin (ESA)

10:15 Reports from user domains - Medical - Joseph Perl (Unknown)
10:40 Break
Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Tf building, ground floor
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Report from Performance Monitoring Team - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

11:40 Documentation, status and issues - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

12:00 Improving examples - Makoto Asai (SLAC)

12:20 How to Contribute to System Testing and Extract Results - Gunter Folger (CERN)

12:40 Introduction of parallel sessions - Andreas Schaelicke (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
12:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 - 14:10
Room: Cantine
14:10
14:10 - 15:50
Contributions

14:10 Photon Models Validation & New Penelope08 Models - Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNGS)

14:35 PIXE & Atomic Deexcitation - Alfonso Mantero (Unknown) Alfonso Mantero

15:00 Geant4-DNA Status & Update - Mathieu Karamitros (Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG)) Mathieu Karamitros Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown)

15:25 EM Standard + Interfaces Updates - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)
15:50 Break
Break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Tf building, ground floor
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 Validation of scattering models at high energies (by phone) - Orjan Dale (University of Bergen)

16:40 Simulation of Energy Deposition in Gases - Mary Tsagri

16:50 Fluctuation model upgrade - Michel Maire (LAPP)

17:10 An first attempt to lower the delta rays production down to 50 eV - Jean-Etienne Sauvestre (CEA, France)

17:30 Problems and requirements of space users - Giovanni Santin (ESA)
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 Highlights of Current Beta and What's Left for December Release - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

16:30 Qt: Current status, remaining work to move from Beta to Full Release - Laurent GARNIER (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

17:00 gMocren and other new Volume Visualization Developments - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

17:20 How and why we updated the Vis usage in almost all of the Examples - John Allison (University of Manchester)

17:50 Discussion
18:00 Reception drink
Reception drink
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Wintergarden
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Architecture review report - John Apostolakis (CERN)

09:30 Status of SVN evaluation - Gunter Folger (CERN)

09:55 Perspective on Geant4 parallelization - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

10:20 Discussion
10:40 Break
Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Tf building, ground floor
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Overview of validation at "low" energies (below 4 GeV) - Anton Ivantchenko (Novosibirsk State University) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

11:22 Overview of validation at transition and high energies (above 5 GeV) - Julia Yarba (Fermilab) Sunanda Banerjee (Fermilab)

11:34 Overview of ion-ion validation - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC) Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))

11:46 Validation infrastructure: improvements and status - Julia Yarba (Unknown)

11:54 Discussion on validation

12:09 Recent data/MC comparisons - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermilab)

12:19 Recent improvements of Bertini model - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University) Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-Unknown-Unknown)

12:34 The pre-compound and evaporation models: status and recent improvements - Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla-Unkno)
12:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 - 14:10
Room: Tf building, ground floor
14:10
14:10 - 15:50
Contributions

14:10 Validation of electron, proton and alpha ranges - C. Zacharatou

14:30 Electron Energy Backscatter: Systematic comparison of Geant4 9.3 simulation against experimental data - A. Lechner A. Schaelicke

14:50 Multiple scattering model validation at low energy in water for Dose point kernels and pencil beam kernels (comparisons with EGSnrc and MCNP4C) - Y. Perrot

15:10 Validations of the standard EM physics for Radiotherapy applications (comparisons with measurements and EGSnrc) - Y. Perrot

15:30 Fano cavity results - M. Maire
14:10 - 15:50
Contributions

14:10 Migration from cvs to svn - Przemyslaw Adam Paprocki (Warsaw University of Technology)

14:45 Working with Geant4 svn repository - tutorial - Przemyslaw Adam Paprocki (Warsaw University of Technology)

15:00 Migration to cmake - Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)
15:50 Break
Break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Tf building, ground floor
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 Current Status of Hadron-hadron Cross Section Theory

16:50 Hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Cross Sections

17:25 Technical Details of Implementation and Unification of Geant4 Hadronic Cross Sections
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 G4 MT prototype - how could code be integrated? - Xin Dong (Northeastern University)

17:00 Other Parallelism Options

17:15 Discussion
19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
09:00
09:00 - 11:20
Contributions

09:00 Physics Lists from a pedestrian - Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)

09:20 Multiple scattering and Em builders - vladimir ivanchenko (cern)

10:10 Overview of physics_lists module - Gunter Folger (cern)

10:55 improvement of FTF model - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (cern)
11:20 Break
Break
11:20 - 11:30
Room: Tf building, ground floor
11:30
11:30 - 12:50
Contributions

11:30 Presentation of Reverse MC - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

11:50 A Proposal for an Introduction of a Simple Variable Density Approach - Vladimir Ivantchenko

12:10 GetVelocity() - Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University) Makoto Asai (SLAC)

12:30 Architecture Review: Feedback - John Apostolakis (CERN)
12:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 - 14:10
Room: Tf building, ground floor
14:10
14:10 - 15:50
Contributions

14:10 Introduction - Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)

14:20 Review of biasing options in other packages - John Apostolakis (CERN)

14:30 Biasing options in the hadronics : Leading Particle, (Total) Cross Section, Radioactive Decay - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

14:40 Reverse MC - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

14:50 Biasing option in GPS - Fan Lei (Unknown)

15:00 Geometrical biasing + Weight window technique - Alexander Howard (Unknown)

15:10 Scoring & biasing + Wrapper process - Makoto Asai (SLAC)

15:20 Implemented confidence level estimators - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

15:30 Discussion
14:10 - 15:50

15:50 Break
Break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Tf building, ground floor
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 Validation Status Report - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

16:35 Latest Validation Results at Intermediate Energies - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermilab)

16:50 Discussion of Hadronic Validation - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

17:10 Status Report on the Validation Framework - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

17:25 Summary of the EM Validation - Andreas Schaelicke (DESY, Zeuthen)

17:40 Joint Validation Discussion with EM Group - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)
16:20 - 18:00
Contributions

16:20 Introduction - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

16:30 The FAST profiler and its application to G4 - Marc Paterno (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

16:50 Perfmon (HP) and PTU (Intel) use on simple G4 applications - John Apostolakis (CERN)

17:10 CMS Performance Survey Efforts - Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

17:20 Discussion on strategy/plan for 2011 - all
18:30

18:30 - 22:00
Room: Tf building, ground floor
Thursday, 7 October 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Kernel : latest updates and plans - Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University)

09:25 Geometry: recent and on-going developments - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

09:50 Generic Processes & Material : latest updates and plans - Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)

10:15 Scoring : latest updates and plans - Tsukasa Aso (TNCT)
10:40 Break
Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Tf building, ground floor
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 CMake configuration management system in Geant4 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick, STFC)

11:40 Recent & planned developments in Visualization - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

12:10 UI & Interfaces: latest updates - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

12:35 Advanced examples: updates & plans - Francesco Romano (INFN/LNS) Francesco Romano (Unknown)
12:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 - 14:10
Room: Tf building, ground floor
14:10
14:10 - 15:50
Contributions

14:10 Transition Region: Recent Results and Progress - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

14:25 Extending FTF to Lower Energies - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))

14:40 Extending Bertini to Higher Energies - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-Unknown-Unknown)

14:55 Shower Moments: A Compact Representation of Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

15:05 Selected Results from LHC and CALICE Calorimeters on Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

15:20 Discussion: Validating a Transition Region and Model Aspects Affecting Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN)
14:10 - 15:50
Contributions

14:10 A Geant4 Magnetic Field Manager - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

14:30 Voxelised geometries intersected with a volume - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

14:50 Layered mass geometries - Shrin Enger (University Laval, Quebec)

15:00 A new shape: G4TorusStack - Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

15:20 Discussion on open issues and future developments
15:50 Break
Break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Tf building, ground floor
16:20
16:20 - 18:20
Contributions

16:20 The SAID Database, Cross Sections and Geant4 Models - Frederick Jones (TRIUMF)

16:35 Future Development of INCL/ABLA - Pekka Kaitaniemi (Saclay/Helsinki)

16:50 QMD and Low Energy Neutron Development - Tatsumi Koi

16:55 Pi->n,gamma experiments? - Alexander Howard (Unknown)

17:00 Discussion: Medium Term Model Development

17:18 De-excitation following radioactive decay - Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNGS)

17:21 Radio Active Decay - Michel Maire (LAPP)

17:23 Discussion: Hadronic Physics Not Covered by Current Models

17:41 Discussion: Integration of Precompound/De-excitation with Other Models

17:45 G4Fragment & G4VPreCompoundModel - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

17:50 G4ExcitationHandler - Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla-Unkno)

17:55 Using PreCompound with Bertini - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-Unknown-Unknown)
16:20 - 17:10

17:10

17:10 - 18:00
Room: Tf building, ground floor
Friday, 8 October 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 P1-A New EM models and interfaces - Andreas Schaelicke (DESY Zeuthen)

09:10 P1-B Discuss recent changes in Vis - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

09:20 P2-A EM validation results - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown)

09:30 P2-B Migration to svn and to cmake - Gunter Folger (CERN)

09:40 P3-A Cross section re-design (Hadron-1) - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))

09:50 P3-B Technical aspects of proposed multi-threading approach - John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:00 P4-A Review of existing biasing options - Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)

10:10 P4-B Qt at other Vis work remaining for December release - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

10:20 P5-A Validation suite (Hadron-2) - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

10:30 P5-B Performance improvements - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
10:40 Break
Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Tf building, ground floor
11:10
11:10 - 13:00
Contributions

11:10 P6-A Transition region/shower shape (Hadron-3) - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

11:20 P6-B Development planning and review of open issues (1) (Geometry) - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:30 P7-A New models and requirements (Hadron-4) - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

11:40 P7-B Development planning and review of open issues (2) (Geometry) - Makoto Asai (SLAC)

11:50 Geant4 9.4 release - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

12:05 Report from the Publication Board - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

12:25 Credibility - Bugzilla, HyperNews, Requirement tracking - Makoto Asai (SLAC) Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)

12:40 Perspective and workshop closeout - Makoto Asai (SLAC) Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)
14:00

14:00 - 15:40

16:00

16:00 - 18:00