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)

27th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, September 26, 2022 (8:30 AM) to Friday, September 30, 2022 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 26, 2022

8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
9:00 AM Plenary 1 - Opening addresses / open requirements
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Laurent Garnier

9:05 AM Opening remarks - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

9:15 AM Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

9:30 AM Open and new requirements - Medical and bio science - Susanna Guatelli

9:45 AM Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (Lund University (SE))

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

10:15 AM Open and new requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiment - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
11:00 AM Plenary 2 - Collaboration tools
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

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

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

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

11:45 AM 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 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
2:00 PM Parallel 1A: R&D Task Force activities
R&D Task Force activities
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TD1
Contributions

2:00 PM AdePT status report and discussion - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

2:30 PM Celeritas status report and discussion - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

3:00 PM Opticks status update and discussion - Hans-Joachim Wenzel
Parallel 1B: Status of hadronic models and validation - 1st part
Status of hadronic models and validation - 1st part
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TD5
Contributions

2:00 PM Status and prospectives for the Geant4 string models, FTF and QGS - Vladimir Uzhinskii (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

2:40 PM Update on tuning FTF model parameters - Julia Yarba

3:00 PM Discussion
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
4:00 PM Plenary 3 - Collaboration Evolution
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu acess code: 673A55
Contributions

4:00 PM How can Geant4 evolve? - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

4:30 PM Discussions
5:30 PM Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
9:00 AM Parallel 2A: New developments for EM physics
New developments for EM physics
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TD1
Contributions

9:00 AM Recent developments and validation of Geant4 PIXE - Susanna Guatelli

9:20 AM New Geant4 model of channeling in crystals and its potential applications - Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

9:40 AM Development of a physics list for radiation protection studies in space - Jay Archer (University of Wollongong)

10:00 AM Development of Geant4-DNA for atmosphere simulations - Carlo Mancini Terracciano francesca nicolanti
Parallel 2B: Biasing and Fast Simulation update
Biasing and Fast Simulation update
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TD3 Access code : 71475B
Contributions

9:00 AM Command-based scoring vs general biasing and GFlash - Makoto Asai (JLab)

9:30 AM Status of GFlash example for sampling calorimeter - Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:00 AM Discussion
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
11:00 AM Plenary 4 - Physics update I
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: TA beaulieu, access code:420031
Contributions

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

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

12:00 PM Ideas for accelerating EM physics simulation in HEP - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
2:00 PM Parallel 3A: Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples
Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TD1
Contributions

2:00 PM hadronic/ParticleFluence - Alberto Ribon

2:07 PM dna/moleculardna - Hoang Tran - Hoang Tran

2:14 PM Parameterisations/Par04 - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

2:21 PM runAndEvent/RE07 - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)

2:30 PM Update on the basic and extended examples - Ivana Hrivnacova

2:45 PM Update on the advanced examples - Susanna Guatelli

2:55 PM Fast drawing in the “ICRP HumanPhantoms" - John Allison

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

3:20 PM Update on the advanced example Radioprotection - Francesco Romano Jacopo Magini
Parallel 3B: Status of hadronic models and validation - part II
Status of hadronic models and validation - part II
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TD5
Contributions

2:00 PM Continuation of yesterday's talk on tuning FTF model parameters - Julia Yarba

2:20 PM Alpha particles produced by protons in B-11 (Geant4) - Vladimir Grichine (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

2:40 PM Recent developments in hadronics: integral approach, neutron general process, etc. - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

3:20 PM Discussion
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
4:00 PM Geant4 Technical Forum
4:00 PM - 7:10 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

4:00 PM Introduction - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

4:05 PM Status of 11.1 developments: non-physics part - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

4:25 PM Status of 11.1 developments: Electromagnetic physics part - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

4:45 PM Update of the optical light transport in Geant4 to model optical coating - Laurie CAPPELLUGOLA

5:10 PM Radioactive decay simulation of superheavy nuclei in Geant4 - Rikel Chakma

5:35 PM 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)

6:00 PM Using photogrammetry for automatic digital models generation - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
9:00 AM Plenary 5 - Physics update II
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

9:00 AM Update on Geant4 hadronic physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

9:30 AM Physics validation of Geant4 via calorimeter test-beam set-ups, and their inclusion in geant-val - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)

10:00 AM Fluka-Cern status and plans, Moira, and scoring - Gabrielle Hugo (CERN)
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
10:50 AM Plenary 6 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, analysis, examples updates I
10:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

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

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

11:30 AM Update on sub-event level parallelism
12:00 PM Excursion
Excursion
12:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, September 29, 2022
9:00 AM Parallel 4A: Geometry & alternative transport
Geometry & alternative transport
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TD1
Contributions

9:00 AM Navigation Engines for GPUs - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

9:35 AM Symplectic integration - GSoC project update - divyansh tiwari

9:50 AM 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 AM BVH Navigation - integration in Geant4 - Guilherme Amadio (CERN)

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

10:25 AM Review of open tickets
Parallel 4B: Discussion related to hadronic physics - part I
Discussion related to hadronic physics - part I
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

9:00 AM Replacing ParticleHP cross sections with user's ones - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

9:30 AM Recent developments in thermal neutrons - Loic Jerome Thulliez

10:00 AM Variance reduction using Adaptive Multilevel Splitting (AMS) - Eric Dumonteil (DAPNIA)
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
11:00 AM Plenary 7 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, analysis, examples updates II
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

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

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

11:35 AM Status/Updates of Geant4Py - Koichi Murakami

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

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

12:15 PM Updates on Advanced examples - Susanna Guatelli
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
2:00 PM Parallel 5A: New results for EM physics
New results for EM physics
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TD1
Contributions

2:00 PM A novel extended example for the generation and tracking of inverse Compton scattering photons - Gianfranco Paterno Gianfranco Paternò

2:20 PM 2022 update of the microelec module - Christophe Inguimbert (ONERA)

2:40 PM Final implementation of RPWBA model in Geant4-DNA for proton transport up to 300 MeV - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

3:00 PM Discussion - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
Parallel 5B: Computing performance profiling and monitoring
Computing performance profiling and monitoring
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TD5
Contributions

2:00 PM Computing Performance Results and Issues: CMS - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

2:20 PM Computing Performance Results and Issues: ATLAS - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

2:40 PM Computing Performance Task - summary, status and future updates - Julia Yarba

3:00 PM GSoC 2022 Project: Performance Analysis and Data Visualization for Geant4 - Harshil Jani

3:20 PM Discussion
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
4:00 PM Plenary 8 - Internal Seminars & Generation Transfer Knowledge
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

4:00 PM Introduction to discussion - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

4:15 PM Discusion - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

5:00 PM An Introduction to GPUs and their Applicability to MC - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)
7:00 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Room: Crêperie « la rozelle » 14 rue du Penhoët, 35000 Rennes
Friday, September 30, 2022

9:00 AM Parallel 6A: Visualization update
Visualization update
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TD5
Parallel 6B: Discussion related to hadronic physics - part II (TBC)
Discussion related to hadronic physics - part II (TBC)
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

9:00 AM Calling Pythia8 generator to handle an interaction during a Geant4 simulation - Einar Alfred Elen Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (Lund University (SE))

9:30 AM Update on the extension of the INCL model for antiprotons - Demid Zharenov

10:00 AM Fluka-Cern hadronic event generator interface - Gabrielle Hugo (CERN)
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: TA Beaulieu
11:00 AM Plenary 9 - Summary of parallel sessions
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:12 PM Summary of Parallel 4A: Geometry & alternative transport - John Apostolakis (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
2:00 PM Plenary 10 - Summary of parallel sessions / closing session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu
Contributions

2:00 PM Summary of Parallel 5B: Computing performance profiling and monitoring - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

2:20 PM Summary of Parallel sessions: Status of hadronic models and validation - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

2:40 PM Summary of Parallel 6A: Visualization update - Laurent Garnier

3:00 PM Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

3:10 PM Closing remarks - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

3:25 PM Announcement of 28th Geant4 Collaboration Week - Koichi Murakami
3:30 PM Steering Board Meeting

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: TA Beaulieu