Name: 27th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2022-09-26T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-30T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Pôle Numérique Rennes Beaulieu (PNRB)

Monday, 26 September 2022

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Laurent Garnier

09:05 Opening remarks - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:15 Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

09:30 Open and new requirements - Medical and bio science - Susanna Guatelli

09:45 Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (Lund University (SE))

10:00 Open and new requirements - Space science and engineering - Giovanni Santin (ESA)

10:15 Open and new requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiment - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

11:00 Git/CMake/C++ Updates - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

11:20 Performance Monitoring Tools - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)

11:35 Update on geant-val - Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (RU))

11:45 Migration of Geant4 Website - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) Anna Zaborowska (CERN) Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (RU))

12:05 Discussion
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
14:00 R&D Task Force activities
R&D Task Force activities
14:00 - 15:30
Room: TD1
Contributions

14:00 AdePT status report and discussion - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

14:30 Celeritas status report and discussion - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

15:00 Opticks status update and discussion - Hans-Joachim Wenzel
Status of hadronic models and validation - 1st part
Status of hadronic models and validation - 1st part
14:00 - 15:30
Room: TD5
Contributions

14:00 Status and prospectives for the Geant4 string models, FTF and QGS - Vladimir Uzhinskii (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

14:40 Update on tuning FTF model parameters - Julia Yarba

15:00 Discussion
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: TA Beaulieu acess code: 673A55
Contributions

16:00 How can Geant4 evolve? - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

16:30 Discussions
17:30 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
17:30 - 19:30
Tuesday, 27 September 2022
09:00 New developments for EM physics
New developments for EM physics
09:00 - 10:30
Room: TD1
Contributions

09:00 Recent developments and validation of Geant4 PIXE - Susanna Guatelli

09:20 New Geant4 model of channeling in crystals and its potential applications - Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

09:40 Development of a physics list for radiation protection studies in space - Jay Archer (University of Wollongong)

10:00 Development of Geant4-DNA for atmosphere simulations - Carlo Mancini Terracciano francesca nicolanti
Biasing and Fast Simulation update
Biasing and Fast Simulation update
09:00 - 10:30
Room: TD3 Access code : 71475B
Contributions

09:00 Command-based scoring vs general biasing and GFlash - Makoto Asai (JLab)

09:30 Status of GFlash example for sampling calorimeter - Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:00 Discussion
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: TA beaulieu, access code:420031
Contributions

11:00 Status of EM physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

11:30 Status of the G4-Med tests for bio-medical applications - Susanna Guatelli

12:00 Ideas for accelerating EM physics simulation in HEP - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
14:00 Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples
Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples
14:00 - 15:30
Room: TD1
Contributions

14:00 hadronic/ParticleFluence - Alberto Ribon

14:07 dna/moleculardna - Hoang Tran - Hoang Tran

14:14 Parameterisations/Par04 - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

14:21 runAndEvent/RE07 - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)

14:30 Update on the basic and extended examples - Ivana Hrivnacova

14:45 Update on the advanced examples - Susanna Guatelli

14:55 Fast drawing in the “ICRP HumanPhantoms" - John Allison

15:05 An advanced example for 3D imaging of microscopic samples by proton tomography - Claire Michelet Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) Zhuxin Li

15:20 Update on the advanced example Radioprotection - Francesco Romano Jacopo Magini
Status of hadronic models and validation - part II
Status of hadronic models and validation - part II
14:00 - 15:30
Room: TD5
Contributions

14:00 Continuation of yesterday's talk on tuning FTF model parameters - Julia Yarba

14:20 Alpha particles produced by protons in B-11 (Geant4) - Vladimir Grichine (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

14:40 Recent developments in hadronics: integral approach, neutron general process, etc. - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

15:20 Discussion
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
16:00
16:00 - 19:10
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

16:05 Status of 11.1 developments: non-physics part - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

16:25 Status of 11.1 developments: Electromagnetic physics part - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

16:45 Update of the optical light transport in Geant4 to model optical coating - Laurie CAPPELLUGOLA

17:10 Radioactive decay simulation of superheavy nuclei in Geant4 - Rikel Chakma

17:35 Pyg4ometry : python library for creating, processing, converting and editing Geant4 geometry - Stewart Takashi Boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London) Stewart boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London)

18:00 Using photogrammetry for automatic digital models generation - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
Wednesday, 28 September 2022
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

09:00 Update on Geant4 hadronic physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

09:30 Physics validation of Geant4 via calorimeter test-beam set-ups, and their inclusion in geant-val - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)

10:00 Fluka-Cern status and plans, Moira, and scoring - Gabrielle Hugo (CERN)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 10:50
Room: TA Beaulieu
10:50
10:50 - 12:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

10:50 Update on Geometry developments - John Apostolakis (CERN)

11:10 Developments on Fast Simulation - Dalila Salamani (CERN)

11:30 Update on sub-event level parallelism
12:00 Excursion
Excursion
12:00 - 20:30
Thursday, 29 September 2022
09:00 Geometry & alternative transport
Geometry & alternative transport
09:00 - 10:30
Room: TD1
Contributions

09:00 Navigation Engines for GPUs - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

09:35 Symplectic integration - GSoC project update - divyansh tiwari

09:50 Integration of QSS in Geant4 - an update - Lucio Santi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Rodrigo Castro (ETH Zurich) Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))

10:05 BVH Navigation - integration in Geant4 - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)

10:15 Computation of cubic volume and surface area - Evgueni Tcherniaev (University of Pittsburgh (US))

10:25 Review of open tickets
Discussion related to hadronic physics - part I
Discussion related to hadronic physics - part I
09:00 - 10:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

09:00 Replacing ParticleHP cross sections with user's ones - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

09:30 Recent developments in thermal neutrons - Loic Jerome Thulliez

10:00 Variance reduction using Adaptive Multilevel Splitting (AMS) - Eric Dumonteil (DAPNIA)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

11:00 Updates on analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

11:15 New features and developments in visualization and GUI - Laurent Garnier

11:35 Status/Updates of Geant4Py - Koichi Murakami

11:50 Future of Geant4-Python bindings - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

12:05 Updates on Basic and extended examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

12:15 Updates on Advanced examples - Susanna Guatelli
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
14:00 New results for EM physics
New results for EM physics
14:00 - 15:30
Room: TD1
Contributions

14:00 A novel extended example for the generation and tracking of inverse Compton scattering photons - Gianfranco Paterno Gianfranco Paternò

14:20 2022 update of the microelec module - Christophe Inguimbert (ONERA)

14:40 Final implementation of RPWBA model in Geant4-DNA for proton transport up to 300 MeV - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

15:00 Discussion - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
Computing performance profiling and monitoring
Computing performance profiling and monitoring
14:00 - 15:30
Room: TD5
Contributions

14:00 Computing Performance Results and Issues: CMS - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

14:20 Computing Performance Results and Issues: ATLAS - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

14:40 Computing Performance Task - summary, status and future updates - Julia Yarba

15:00 GSoC 2022 Project: Performance Analysis and Data Visualization for Geant4 - Harshil Jani

15:20 Discussion
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

16:00 Introduction to discussion - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

16:15 Discusion - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

17:00 An Introduction to GPUs and their Applicability to MC - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)
19:00 Banquet
Banquet
19:00 - 23:00
Room: Crêperie « la rozelle » 14 rue du Penhoët, 35000 Rennes
Friday, 30 September 2022

09:00 Visualization update
Visualization update
09:00 - 10:30
Room: TD5
Discussion related to hadronic physics - part II (TBC)
Discussion related to hadronic physics - part II (TBC)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

09:00 Calling Pythia8 generator to handle an interaction during a Geant4 simulation - Einar Alfred Elen Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (Lund University (SE))

09:30 Update on the extension of the INCL model for antiprotons - Demid Zharenov

10:00 Fluka-Cern hadronic event generator interface - Gabrielle Hugo (CERN)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

11:00 Summary of Parallel 1A - R&D Task Force activities - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

11:18 Summary of Parallel 2A/5A - New developments for EM physics - Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS) Susanna Guatelli

11:36 Summary of Parallel 2B: Biasing and Fast Simulation update - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:54 Summary of Parallel 3A - Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Susanna Guatelli

12:12 Summary of Parallel 4A: Geometry & alternative transport - John Apostolakis (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: TA Beaulieu
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

14:00 Summary of Parallel 5B: Computing performance profiling and monitoring - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:20 Summary of Parallel sessions: Status of hadronic models and validation - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

14:40 Summary of Parallel 6A: Visualization update - Laurent Garnier

15:00 Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

15:10 Closing remarks - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:25 Announcement of 28th Geant4 Collaboration Week - Koichi Murakami
15:30

15:30 - 17:30
Room: TA Beaulieu