Name: 12th Geant4 Collaboration Workshop
Start: 2007-09-13T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2007-09-19T19:00:00+02:00
Location: The Birchcliffe Centre

12th Geant4 Collaboration Workshop

from Thursday, 13 September 2007 (09:00) to Wednesday, 19 September 2007 (19:00)

Monday, 10 September 2007
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Thursday, 13 September 2007

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary Session 1
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Welcome to the 12th GEANT4 Workshop at Hebden Bridge - John Allison

09:10 Issues for the Workshop - John Apostolakis (CERN)

09:30 New developments in Geant4 hadronic physics - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

09:45 Event biasing in Geant4 - Alexander Howard (Unknown)

10:00 Geant4 in medical physics - Joseph Perl (Unknown)

10:30 Geant4 validation with test beam data from LHC calorimetry - Pavol Strizenec
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Plenary Session 2 - Users Session
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 CALICE report - Nigel K. Watson (Univercity of Birmingham)

12:00 GEANT4 and the Underground Physics Community - Luciano Pandola (Unknown)

12:30 User Presentation - Space Physics - Giovanni Santin (ESA)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Parallel Session 1 (a) - Low Background Experiments
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Muon-Induced Neutrons Measured with ZEPLIN-II Veto - Alexandre LINDOTE (LIP-Coimbra, Portugal)

14:20 EDELWEISS-II Muon-Veto Simulations with GEANT4 - Markus HORN (Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany)

14:40 Muon Propagation in Rock with GEANT4, FLUKA and MUSIC - Francisco IGUAZ (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)

15:00 Muon-Induced Neutron Simulations with GEANT4 - Stephan SCHOLL (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Parallel Session 2 (a) - Medical / Gate Applications
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Validation of dose deposited for 125l brachytherapy sources (low-energy photons) - Lydia Maigne (LPC, Clermont Ferrand, France)

14:20 Deployment of GATE/G4 simulations on a grid architecture - Lydia Maigne (LPC, Clermont Ferrand, France)

14:40 Simulating CT imaging with GATE - Franca Cassol Brunner (CPPM Marseille, France)

15:00 Overview of VRTs in GATE and Geant4

15:20 Discussion
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Parallel Session 1 (b) - Low Background Experiments
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Low-Energy Neutron Propagation in GEANT4 and MCNPX - Matthew ROBINSON (University of Sheffield, UK)

16:20 New Geant4 Models for Muon Nuclear Interactions - Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

16:40 MaGe: a MC Framework for Gerda and Majorana Experiments - Luciano PANDOLA (INFN, Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy)

17:00 Simulation of the COBRA Double-Beta Decay Experiment - Ben MORGAN (University of Warwick, UK)

17:20 Discussion & Summary
Parallel Session 2 (b) - Medical / Gate Applications
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 The Italian activity of the LNS-INFN Group - Francesco Romano (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - INFN / Catania University) Pablo Cirrone (Unknown)

16:30 Geant4 simulation of HIBMC facility using DICOM - Tomohiro Yamashita (Kobe University, Japan)

16:50 GAMOS status and plans - Pedro Arce (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

17:10 Recent developments in Geant4 related activities at CENBG - Sébastien Incerti (CENBG, IN2P3 - CNRS- Bordeaux 1 University)

17:30 Discussion & Summary (incl Geant4/GATE meeting summary (TBC))
Friday, 14 September 2007
09:00 Geometry Challenges
09:00 - 09:45
Contributions

09:00 Faster Navigation for Regular Voxel Geometries - Pedro ARCE

09:25 Trade-offs and speed-ups - discussion - Panel
09:45 Tools using GEANT4
09:45 - 10:30
Contributions

09:45 Space : Common challenges, issues arising from integration G4 - Fan Lei (Unknown)

10:05 Discussion on commonalities & needs of engineering-type applications based on Geant4 - Panel
10:30 Enabling experienced users to aid other users

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 CPU Performance
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 New Benchmarks for HEP Geant4 CPU performance - Tatiana Nikitina (CERN)

11:45 Atlas experience with Geant4 performance - Andrea Di Simone (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

12:05 Performance and Numerical Stability - Daniel Elvira (FNAL)

12:25 Recommendations for improving application performance - Alexander Howard (Unknown)

12:40 Discussion on CPU Performance
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Parallel Session 1 - Low-Energy & Optical
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 New Model for Simulation of Light Reflection in GEANT4 - Claudio SILVA (LIP-Coimbra, Portugal)

14:20 Simulation of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils Using GEANT4 - Ricardo PINHO (LIP-Coimbra, Portugal)

14:40 BESIII Detector Simulation with Geant4 - Huaimin Liu (IHEP, Beijing)

15:00 Discussion
Parallel Session 2- Aero/Space Applications
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 FASTRAD - Pierre Pourrouquet (TRAD)

14:30 MARSREM - Pete Truscott (Qinetiq)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Physics Validation and Shower Shapes
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 LHC Shower Update - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

16:20 New CHIPS Implementations of High Energy Diffraction and Coherent Charge Exchange - Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

16:40 New CMS Measurements of Transverse and Longitudinal Shower Shapes - Sunanda Banerjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))

17:00 Geant4 Hadronic Validation efforts at FNAL - Sunanda Banerjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))

17:20 Validation Tests - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

17:40 Comparison of G4 Processes with p (40 MeV) + A Data - Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
Tutorials
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - kernel structure, user classes

16:30 Material description

16:45 Geometry - solid, logical volume, physical volume

17:30 Primary particle

17:45 EM field
19:00 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
19:00 - 23:00
Saturday, 15 September 2007
09:00 Saturday Plenary 1 - News from Geant4
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Electromagnetic physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

09:30 Hadronic Physics - Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

10:10 Physics Lists : Use Cases and guidelines - Gunter Folger (CERN)

10:45 Error Propagation in Geant4 9.0 - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Technical Forum (Plenary)
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Technical Forum
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Optional Excursion

14:00 - 19:00
Tutorial
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Overview of Processes and Physics List

14:15 EM physics

15:00 Hadronic physics - 1
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Tutorial
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Hadronic physics - 2

16:30 Scoring, stacking

17:00 GUI / VIS overview

17:20 Examples and documents

17:40 Introduction to Geant4 applications
19:00 PUB
PUB
19:00 - 20:00
Sunday, 16 September 2007
09:15 Excursion am
09:15 - 13:00
Contributions

09:15 Bus leaves Moyles at 09:15

09:45 Arrive Oxenhope

10:15 Take train

10:30 Journey on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

11:00 Visit railway museums

12:00 Ride with Thomas the Tank Engine
13:00 Lunch at the Old White Lion, Haworth
Lunch at the Old White Lion, Haworth
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Excursion pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Or Shop in Haworth for souvenirs

14:00 Visit Bronte Parsonage Museum

14:00 Or Walk back to Hebden Bridge over the moors

14:00 Or Travel back to Oxenhope by train