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

15th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, October 4, 2010 (8:00 AM) to Friday, October 8, 2010 (6:00 PM)

Monday, October 4, 2010

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Entrance gate and TF building
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome address

9:05 AM The ESA Cosmic Vision programme - Christian Erd (ESA)

9:15 AM Workshop Goals - Makoto Asai

9:45 AM Reports from users domains - HEP - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

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

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

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

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

12:00 PM Improving examples - Makoto Asai (SLAC)

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

12:40 PM Introduction of parallel sessions - Andreas Schaelicke (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
12:50 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Cantine
2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Photon Models Validation & New Penelope08 Models - Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNGS)

2:35 PM PIXE & Atomic Deexcitation - Alfonso Mantero (Unknown) Alfonso Mantero

3:00 PM Geant4-DNA Status & Update - Mathieu Karamitros (Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG)) Mathieu Karamitros Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown)

3:25 PM EM Standard + Interfaces Updates - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)
3:50 PM Break
Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Validation of scattering models at high energies (by phone) - Orjan Dale (University of Bergen)

4:40 PM Simulation of Energy Deposition in Gases - Mary Tsagri

4:50 PM Fluctuation model upgrade - Michel Maire (LAPP)

5:10 PM An first attempt to lower the delta rays production down to 50 eV - Jean-Etienne Sauvestre (CEA, France)

5:30 PM Problems and requirements of space users - Giovanni Santin (ESA)
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Highlights of Current Beta and What's Left for December Release - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

4:30 PM Qt: Current status, remaining work to move from Beta to Full Release - Laurent GARNIER (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

5:00 PM gMocren and other new Volume Visualization Developments - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

5:20 PM How and why we updated the Vis usage in almost all of the Examples - John Allison (University of Manchester)

5:50 PM Discussion
6:00 PM Reception drink
Reception drink
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Wintergarden
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Architecture review report - John Apostolakis (CERN)

9:30 AM Status of SVN evaluation - Gunter Folger (CERN)

9:55 AM Perspective on Geant4 parallelization - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

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

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

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

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

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

11:54 AM Discussion on validation

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

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

12:34 PM 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 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Validation of electron, proton and alpha ranges - C. Zacharatou

2:30 PM Electron Energy Backscatter: Systematic comparison of Geant4 9.3 simulation against experimental data - A. Lechner A. Schaelicke

2:50 PM Multiple scattering model validation at low energy in water for Dose point kernels and pencil beam kernels (comparisons with EGSnrc and MCNP4C) - Y. Perrot

3:10 PM Validations of the standard EM physics for Radiotherapy applications (comparisons with measurements and EGSnrc) - Y. Perrot

3:30 PM Fano cavity results - M. Maire
2:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Migration from cvs to svn - Przemyslaw Adam Paprocki (Warsaw University of Technology)

2:45 PM Working with Geant4 svn repository - tutorial - Przemyslaw Adam Paprocki (Warsaw University of Technology)

3:00 PM Migration to cmake - Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)
3:50 PM Break
Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Current Status of Hadron-hadron Cross Section Theory

4:50 PM Hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Cross Sections

5:25 PM Technical Details of Implementation and Unification of Geant4 Hadronic Cross Sections
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM G4 MT prototype - how could code be integrated? - Xin Dong (Northeastern University)

5:00 PM Other Parallelism Options

5:15 PM Discussion
7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Physics Lists from a pedestrian - Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)

9:20 AM Multiple scattering and Em builders - vladimir ivanchenko (cern)

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM Architecture Review: Feedback - John Apostolakis (CERN)
12:50 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Introduction - Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)

2:20 PM Review of biasing options in other packages - John Apostolakis (CERN)

2:30 PM Biasing options in the hadronics : Leading Particle, (Total) Cross Section, Radioactive Decay - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

2:40 PM Reverse MC - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

2:50 PM Biasing option in GPS - Fan Lei (Unknown)

3:00 PM Geometrical biasing + Weight window technique - Alexander Howard (Unknown)

3:10 PM Scoring & biasing + Wrapper process - Makoto Asai (SLAC)

3:20 PM Implemented confidence level estimators - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

3:30 PM Discussion
2:10 PM - 3:50 PM

3:50 PM Break
Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Validation Status Report - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

4:35 PM Latest Validation Results at Intermediate Energies - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermilab)

4:50 PM Discussion of Hadronic Validation - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

5:10 PM Status Report on the Validation Framework - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

5:25 PM Summary of the EM Validation - Andreas Schaelicke (DESY, Zeuthen)

5:40 PM Joint Validation Discussion with EM Group - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Introduction - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

4:30 PM The FAST profiler and its application to G4 - Marc Paterno (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

4:50 PM Perfmon (HP) and PTU (Intel) use on simple G4 applications - John Apostolakis (CERN)

5:10 PM CMS Performance Survey Efforts - Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

5:20 PM Discussion on strategy/plan for 2011 - all
6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
Thursday, October 7, 2010
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Kernel : latest updates and plans - Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University)

9:25 AM Geometry: recent and on-going developments - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

9:50 AM Generic Processes & Material : latest updates and plans - Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)

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

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

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

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

12:35 PM Advanced examples: updates & plans - Francesco Romano (INFN/LNS) Francesco Romano (Unknown)
12:50 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Transition Region: Recent Results and Progress - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

2:25 PM Extending FTF to Lower Energies - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))

2:40 PM Extending Bertini to Higher Energies - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-Unknown-Unknown)

2:55 PM Shower Moments: A Compact Representation of Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

3:05 PM Selected Results from LHC and CALICE Calorimeters on Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN)

3:20 PM Discussion: Validating a Transition Region and Model Aspects Affecting Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN)
2:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM A Geant4 Magnetic Field Manager - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

2:30 PM Voxelised geometries intersected with a volume - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

2:50 PM Layered mass geometries - Shrin Enger (University Laval, Quebec)

3:00 PM A new shape: G4TorusStack - Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

3:20 PM Discussion on open issues and future developments
3:50 PM Break
Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 6:20 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM The SAID Database, Cross Sections and Geant4 Models - Frederick Jones (TRIUMF)

4:35 PM Future Development of INCL/ABLA - Pekka Kaitaniemi (Saclay/Helsinki)

4:50 PM QMD and Low Energy Neutron Development - Tatsumi Koi

4:55 PM Pi->n,gamma experiments? - Alexander Howard (Unknown)

5:00 PM Discussion: Medium Term Model Development

5:18 PM De-excitation following radioactive decay - Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNGS)

5:21 PM Radio Active Decay - Michel Maire (LAPP)

5:23 PM Discussion: Hadronic Physics Not Covered by Current Models

5:41 PM Discussion: Integration of Precompound/De-excitation with Other Models

5:45 PM G4Fragment & G4VPreCompoundModel - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

5:50 PM G4ExcitationHandler - Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla-Unkno)

5:55 PM Using PreCompound with Bertini - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-Unknown-Unknown)
4:20 PM - 5:10 PM

5:10 PM

5:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
Friday, October 8, 2010
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM P1-A New EM models and interfaces - Andreas Schaelicke (DESY Zeuthen)

9:10 AM P1-B Discuss recent changes in Vis - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

9:20 AM P2-A EM validation results - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown)

9:30 AM P2-B Migration to svn and to cmake - Gunter Folger (CERN)

9:40 AM P3-A Cross section re-design (Hadron-1) - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))

9:50 AM P3-B Technical aspects of proposed multi-threading approach - John Apostolakis (CERN)

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

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

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

10:30 AM P5-B Performance improvements - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
10:40 AM Break
Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Tf building, ground floor
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:40 PM Perspective and workshop closeout - Makoto Asai (SLAC) Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique)
2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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