27th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 26 September 2022 (08:30) to Friday 30 September 2022 (18:00)
Pôle Numérique Rennes Beaulieu (PNRB) (TA Beaulieu)

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
26 Sept 2022
27 Sept 2022
28 Sept 2022
29 Sept 2022
30 Sept 2022
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:00)
09:00
Plenary 1 - Opening addresses / open requirements - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Anna Zaborowska (CERN) (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Plenary 2 - Collaboration tools -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 12:30)
11:00 Git/CMake/C++ Updates - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))  
11:20 Performance Monitoring Tools - Dr 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 - Anna Zaborowska (CERN) Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (RU)) Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))  
12:05 Discussion  
09:00
Parallel 2A - Susanna Guatelli Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS) (until 10:30) (TD1)
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  
09:00
Parallel 2B - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Plenary 4 - Physics update I - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN) (until 12:30)
11:00 Status of EM physics - Prof. 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)  
09:00
Plenary 5 - Physics update II - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT) Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 10:30)
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 ---
10:50
Plenary 6 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, analysis, examples updates I - Makoto Asai (JLab) Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 12:00)
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  
09:00
Parallel 4A -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN) (until 10:30) (TD1)
09:00 Navigation Engines for GPUs - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)) Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
09:35 Symplectic integration - GSoC project update - divyansh tiwari  
09:50 Integration of QSS in Geant4 - an update - Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR)) Rodrigo Castro (ETH Zurich) Lucio Santi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)  
10:05 BVH Navigation - integration in Geant4 - Dr Guilherme Amadio (CERN)  
10:15 Computation of cubic volume and surface area - Evgueni Tcherniaev (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
10:25 Review of open tickets  
09:00
Parallel 4B - Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Plenary 7 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, analysis, examples updates II - Susanna Guatelli Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 12:30)
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 - Dr 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  
09:00
Parallel 6A - Laurent Garnier (until 10:30) (TD5)
09:00
Parallel 6B - Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:00 Calling Pythia8 generator to handle an interaction during a Geant4 simulation - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (Lund University (SE)) Einar Alfred Elen  
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 ---
11:00
Plenary 9 - Summary of parallel sessions - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 12:30)
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 - Susanna Guatelli Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS)  
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 - Susanna Guatelli Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
12:12 Summary of Parallel 4A: Geometry & alternative transport - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Parallel 1A - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Witold Pokorski (CERN) (until 15:30) (TD1)
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  
14:00
Parallel 1B - Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 15:30) (TD5)
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 ---
16:00
Plenary 3 - Collaboration Evolution - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Anna Zaborowska (CERN) (until 17:30)
16:00 How can Geant4 evolve? - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)  
16:30 Discussions  
17:30 --- Welcome cocktail ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Parallel 3A - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Susanna Guatelli (until 15:30) (TD1)
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 - Zhuxin Li Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) Claire Michelet  
15:20 Update on the advanced example Radioprotection - Jacopo Magini Francesco Romano  
14:00
Parallel 3B - Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 15:30) (TD5)
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))   (TP ETI (next building) access code 6865A6)
14:40 Recent developments in hadronics: integral approach, neutron general process, etc. - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   (TP ETI (next building) access code 6865A6)
15:20 Discussion   (TP ETI (next building) access code 6865A6)
15:30 --- break ---
16:00
Geant4 Technical Forum - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US)) (until 19:10)
16:00 Introduction - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
16:05 Status of 11.1 developments: non-physics part - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)  
16:25 Status of 11.1 developments: Electromagnetic physics part - Prof. 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 boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London) Prof. Stewart Takashi Boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
18:00 Using photogrammetry for automatic digital models generation - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
12:00 --- Excursion ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Parallel 5A - Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS) Susanna Guatelli (until 15:30) (TD1)
14:00 A novel extended example for the generation and tracking of inverse Compton scattering photons - Gianfranco Paternò Gianfranco Paterno  
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 - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
14:00
Parallel 5B - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Gunter Folger Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 15:30) (TD5)
14:00 Computing Performance Results and Issues: CMS - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   (TA beaulieu, access code: 69A639)
14:20 Computing Performance Results and Issues: ATLAS - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))   (TA beaulieu, access code: 69A639)
14:40 Computing Performance Task - summary, status and future updates - Julia Yarba   (TA beaulieu, access code: 69A639)
15:00 GSoC 2022 Project: Performance Analysis and Data Visualization for Geant4 - Mr Harshil Jani  
15:20 Discussion   (TA beaulieu, access code: 69A639)
15:30 --- break ---
16:00
Plenary 8 - Internal Seminars & Generation Transfer Knowledge - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) (until 17:30)
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 ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Plenary 10 - Summary of parallel sessions / closing session - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) Anna Zaborowska (CERN) (until 15:30)
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 - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)  
15:10 Closing remarks - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
15:25 Announcement of 28th Geant4 Collaboration Week - Dr Koichi Murakami  
15:30
Steering Board Meeting (until 17:30)