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)
ESA/ESTEC (Tf building, ground floor)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Oct 4, 2010

Oct 5, 2010

Oct 6, 2010

Oct 7, 2010

Oct 8, 2010

8:00 AM	--- Registration ---
9:00 AM	Plenary Session I : Goals and Reports from user domains -Dr Petteri Nieminen (ESA) (until 10:40 AM) ()
9:00 AM	Welcome address () Slides
9:05 AM	The ESA Cosmic Vision programme - Dr Christian Erd (ESA) () Slides
9:15 AM	Workshop Goals - Makoto Asai () Slides
9:45 AM	Reports from users domains - HEP - Andrea Dotti (CERN) () Slides
10:00 AM	Reports from user domains - Space - Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA) () Slides
10:15 AM	Reports from user domains - Medical - Joseph Perl (Unknown) () Slides
10:40 AM	--- Break ---
11:10 AM	Plenary Session II : Documentation / Examples / Monitoring / Testing - Joseph Perl (Unknown) (until 12:50 PM) ()
11:10 AM	Report from Performance Monitoring Team - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) () Slides
11:40 AM	Documentation, status and issues - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University) () Slides
12:00 PM	Improving examples - Makoto Asai (SLAC) () Slides
12:20 PM	How to Contribute to System Testing and Extract Results - Gunter Folger (CERN) () Slides
12:40 PM	Introduction of parallel sessions - Andreas Schaelicke (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)) () Slides

9:00 AM	Plenary Session IV : Technical Challenges -Dr Takashi Sasaki (KEK) (until 10:40 AM) ()
9:00 AM	Architecture review report - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Slides
9:30 AM	Status of SVN evaluation - Gunter Folger (CERN) () Slides
9:55 AM	Perspective on Geant4 parallelization - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)) () Slides
10:20 AM	Discussion ()
10:40 AM	--- Break ---
11:10 AM	Plenary Session V : Hadron and ion physics validation and development -Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) (until 12:50 PM) ()
11:10 AM	Overview of validation at "low" energies (below 4 GeV) - Anton Ivantchenko (Novosibirsk State University) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA) () Slides
11:22 AM	Overview of validation at transition and high energies (above 5 GeV) - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermilab) Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab) () Slides
11:34 AM	Overview of ion-ion validation - Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC) Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR)) () Slides Ion-Ion-Overview-Koi.pptx Uzhi_aC.pdf Uzhi_aC.ppt
11:46 AM	Validation infrastructure: improvements and status - Julia Yarba (Unknown) () Slides
11:54 AM	Discussion on validation ()
12:09 PM	Recent data/MC comparisons - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermilab) () Slides
12:19 PM	Recent improvements of Bertini model - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-Unknown-Unknown) Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University) () Slides
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) () Slides

9:00 AM	Plenary Session VI : New physics model development and physics list - Michel Maire (LAPP) (until 11:20 AM) ()
9:00 AM	Physics Lists from a pedestrian - Dr Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique) () Slides
9:20 AM	Multiple scattering and Em builders - vladimir ivanchenko (cern) () Slides
10:10 AM	Overview of physics_lists module - Gunter Folger (cern) () Slides
10:55 AM	improvement of FTF model - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (cern) () Slides
11:20 AM	--- Break ---
11:30 AM	Plenary Session VII : Evolution of key interfaces - Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH)) (until 12:50 PM) ()
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 - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko () Slides
12:10 PM	GetVelocity() - Makoto Asai (SLAC) Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University) () Slides
12:30 PM	Architecture Review: Feedback - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Document

9:00 AM	Plenary Session VIII : Status/progress reports of developments (1) - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)) (until 10:40 AM) ()
9:00 AM	Kernel : latest updates and plans - Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University) () Slides
9:25 AM	Geometry: recent and on-going developments - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) () Slides
9:50 AM	Generic Processes & Material : latest updates and plans - Dr Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique) () Slides
10:15 AM	Scoring : latest updates and plans - Tsukasa Aso (TNCT) () Slides
10:40 AM	--- Break ---
11:10 AM	Plenary Session IX : Status/progress reports of developments (2) -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 12:50 PM) ()
11:10 AM	CMake configuration management system in Geant4 - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick, STFC) () Slides
11:40 AM	Recent & planned developments in Visualization - Joseph Perl (Unknown) () Slides
12:10 PM	UI & Interfaces: latest updates - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)) () Slides
12:35 PM	Advanced examples: updates & plans - Dr Francesco Romano (INFN/LNS) Francesco Romano (Unknown) () Slides

9:00 AM	Plenary Session X : Summary reports from the parallel sessions - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown) (until 10:40 AM) ()
9:00 AM	P1-A New EM models and interfaces - Dr Andreas Schaelicke (DESY Zeuthen) () Slides
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)) () Slides
9:50 AM	P3-B Technical aspects of proposed multi-threading approach - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Slides
10:00 AM	P4-A Review of existing biasing options - Dr Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique) () Slides
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) - Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab) () Slides
10:30 AM	P5-B Performance improvements - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) () Slides
10:40 AM	--- Break ---
11:10 AM	Plenary Session XI : Collaboration Matters and Future Developments -Dr Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique) (until 1:00 PM) ()
11:10 AM	P6-A Transition region/shower shape (Hadron-3) - Andrea Dotti (CERN) () Slides
11:20 AM	P6-B Development planning and review of open issues (1) (Geometry) - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) () Slides
11:30 AM	P7-A New models and requirements (Hadron-4) - Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC) () Slides
11:40 AM	P7-B Development planning and review of open issues (2) (Geometry) - Makoto Asai (SLAC) ()
11:50 AM	Geant4 9.4 release - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) () Slides
12:05 PM	Report from the Publication Board - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University) () Slides
12:25 PM	Credibility - Bugzilla, HyperNews, Requirement tracking - Makoto Asai (SLAC) Dr Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique) ()
12:40 PM	Perspective and workshop closeout - Makoto Asai (SLAC) Dr Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique) ()

12:50 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:10 PM	Plenary Session III : EM Physics Validation and Development - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermilab) (until 3:50 PM) ()
2:10 PM	Photon Models Validation & New Penelope08 Models - Dr Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNGS) () Slides
2:35 PM	PIXE & Atomic Deexcitation - Alfonso Mantero (Unknown) Alfonso Mantero ()
3:00 PM	Geant4-DNA Status & Update - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown) Mathieu Karamitros (Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG)) Mathieu Karamitros ()
3:25 PM	EM Standard + Interfaces Updates - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA) () Slides
3:50 PM	--- Break ---
4:20 PM	Parallel 1-A : New EM models and interfaces -Dr Schaelicke Andreas (DESY, Zeuthen) (until 6:00 PM) ()
4:20 PM	Validation of scattering models at high energies (by phone) - Orjan Dale (University of Bergen) () Slides
4:40 PM	Simulation of Energy Deposition in Gases - Mary Tsagri () Slides
4:50 PM	Fluctuation model upgrade - Michel Maire (LAPP) () Slides
5:10 PM	An first attempt to lower the delta rays production down to 50 eV - Jean-Etienne Sauvestre (CEA, France) () Slides
5:30 PM	Problems and requirements of space users - Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA) () Slides
4:20 PM	Parallel 1-B : Discuss Recent Changes in Vis - Joseph Perl (Unknown) (until 6:00 PM) ()
4:20 PM	Highlights of Current Beta and What's Left for December Release - Joseph Perl (Unknown) () Slides
4:30 PM	Qt: Current status, remaining work to move from Beta to Full Release - Mr Laurent GARNIER (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS) () HTML Slide Slides
5:00 PM	gMocren and other new Volume Visualization Developments - Joseph Perl (Unknown) () Slides
5:20 PM	How and why we updated the Vis usage in almost all of the Examples - John Allison (University of Manchester) () Slides
5:50 PM	Discussion ()
6:00 PM	--- Reception drink ---

12:50 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:10 PM	Parallel 2-A : New EM validation results - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown) (until 3:50 PM) ()
2:10 PM	Validation of electron, proton and alpha ranges - Dr C. Zacharatou () Slides
2:30 PM	Electron Energy Backscatter: Systematic comparison of Geant4 9.3 simulation against experimental data - Dr A. Lechner Dr A. Schaelicke () Slides
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) - Mr Y. Perrot ()
3:10 PM	Validations of the standard EM physics for Radiotherapy applications (comparisons with measurements and EGSnrc) - Mr Y. Perrot ()
3:30 PM	Fano cavity results - M. Maire () Slides
2:10 PM	Parallel 2-B : Migration to svn and to cmake - Gunter Folger (CERN) (until 3:50 PM) ()
2:10 PM	Migration from cvs to svn - Przemyslaw Adam Paprocki (Warsaw University of Technology) () Slides
2:45 PM	Working with Geant4 svn repository - tutorial - Przemyslaw Adam Paprocki (Warsaw University of Technology) () Slides
3:00 PM	Migration to cmake - Dr Ben Morgan (University of Warwick) ()
3:50 PM	--- Break ---
4:20 PM	Parallel 3-A : Cross section re-design (Hadron-1) - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR)) (until 6:00 PM) ()
4:20 PM	Current Status of Hadron-hadron Cross Section Theory () Slides
4:50 PM	Hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Cross Sections ()
5:25 PM	Technical Details of Implementation and Unification of Geant4 Hadronic Cross Sections () Slides
4:20 PM	Parallel 3-B : Technical aspects of proposed multi-threading approach -Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) (until 6:00 PM) ()
4:20 PM	G4 MT prototype - how could code be integrated? - Xin Dong (Northeastern University) () Slides
5:00 PM	Other Parallelism Options ()
5:15 PM	Discussion ()
7:00 PM	Steering Board working dinner - Makoto Asai (SLAC) (until 9:00 PM) ()

12:50 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:10 PM	Parallel 4-A : Review of existing biasing options -Dr Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique) (until 3:50 PM) ()
2:10 PM	Introduction - Dr Marc Verderi (LLR IN2P3/Ecole polytechnique) () Slides
2:20 PM	Review of biasing options in other packages - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) ()
2:30 PM	Biasing options in the hadronics : Leading Particle, (Total) Cross Section, Radioactive Decay - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University) () Slides
2:40 PM	Reverse MC - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH) ()
2:50 PM	Biasing option in GPS - Fan Lei (Unknown) () Slides
3:00 PM	Geometrical biasing + Weight window technique - Alexander Howard (Unknown) () Slides
3:10 PM	Scoring & biasing + Wrapper process - Makoto Asai (SLAC) ()
3:20 PM	Implemented confidence level estimators - Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC) () Slides
3:30 PM	Discussion ()
2:10 PM	Parallel 4-B : Qt at other Vis work remaining for December release - Joseph Perl (Unknown) (until 3:50 PM) ()
3:50 PM	--- Break ---
4:20 PM	Parallel 5-A : Validation suite (Hadron-2) -Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab) (until 6:00 PM) ()
4:20 PM	Validation Status Report - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University) () Slides
4:35 PM	Latest Validation Results at Intermediate Energies - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermilab) () Slides
4:50 PM	Discussion of Hadronic Validation - Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab) () Minutes
5:10 PM	Status Report on the Validation Framework - Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab) () Slides
5:25 PM	Summary of the EM Validation - Dr Andreas Schaelicke (DESY, Zeuthen) () Slides
5:40 PM	Joint Validation Discussion with EM Group - Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab) () Minutes
4:20 PM	Parallel 5-B : Geant4 Computing Performance - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) (until 6:00 PM) ()
4:20 PM	Introduction - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) () Slides
4:30 PM	The FAST profiler and its application to G4 - Marc Paterno (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) () Slides
4:50 PM	Perfmon (HP) and PTU (Intel) use on simple G4 applications - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Slides
5:10 PM	CMS Performance Survey Efforts - Dr Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) () Slides
5:20 PM	Discussion on strategy/plan for 2011 - all ()
6:30 PM	Banquet (until 10:00 PM) (Tf building, ground floor)

12:50 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:10 PM	Parallel 6-A : Transition region/shower shape (Hadron-3) - Andrea Dotti (CERN) (until 3:50 PM) ()
2:10 PM	Transition Region: Recent Results and Progress - Andrea Dotti (CERN) () Slides
2:25 PM	Extending FTF to Lower Energies - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR)) () Slides
2:40 PM	Extending Bertini to Higher Energies - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-Unknown-Unknown) () Slides
2:55 PM	Shower Moments: A Compact Representation of Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN) () Slides
3:05 PM	Selected Results from LHC and CALICE Calorimeters on Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN) () Slides
3:20 PM	Discussion: Validating a Transition Region and Model Aspects Affecting Shower Shapes - Andrea Dotti (CERN) () Slides
2:10 PM	Parallel 6-B : Development planning and review of open issues (1) (Geometry) -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 3:50 PM) ()
2:10 PM	A Geant4 Magnetic Field Manager - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH) () Slides
2:30 PM	Voxelised geometries intersected with a volume - Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT) () Slides
2:50 PM	Layered mass geometries - Dr Shrin Enger (University Laval, Quebec) () Slides
3:00 PM	A new shape: G4TorusStack - Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH)) () Slides
3:20 PM	Discussion on open issues and future developments () Slides
3:50 PM	--- Break ---
4:20 PM	Parallel 7-A : New models and requirements (Hadron-4) -Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC) (until 6:20 PM) ()
4:20 PM	The SAID Database, Cross Sections and Geant4 Models - Dr Frederick Jones (TRIUMF) () Slides
4:35 PM	Future Development of INCL/ABLA - Dr Pekka Kaitaniemi (Saclay/Helsinki) () Slides
4:50 PM	QMD and Low Energy Neutron Development - Dr Tatsumi Koi () Slides
4:55 PM	Pi->n,gamma experiments? - Alexander Howard (Unknown) () Slides
5:00 PM	Discussion: Medium Term Model Development () Slides
5:18 PM	De-excitation following radioactive decay - Dr Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNGS) () Slides
5:21 PM	Radio Active Decay - Michel Maire (LAPP) () Slides
5:23 PM	Discussion: Hadronic Physics Not Covered by Current Models () Slides
5:41 PM	Discussion: Integration of Precompound/De-excitation with Other Models () Slides
5:45 PM	G4Fragment & G4VPreCompoundModel - Prof. 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) () Slides
4:20 PM	Parallel 7-B : Development planning and review of open issues (2) (Geometry) - Makoto Asai (SLAC) (until 5:10 PM) ()
5:10 PM	Improving examples - Makoto Asai (SLAC) (until 6:00 PM) (Tf building, ground floor)

2:00 PM	Steering Board meeting - Makoto Asai (SLAC) (until 3:40 PM) ()
4:00 PM	Oversight Board + Steering Board joint meeting -Dr Amber Boehnlein (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY) Makoto Asai (SLAC) (until 6:00 PM) ()

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