Name: 28th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2023-09-25T08:00:00+09:00
End: 2023-09-29T17:00:00+09:00
Location: Hokkaido University

28th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 25 September 2023 (08:00) to Friday 29 September 2023 (17:00)

Monday 25 September 2023

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and opening remarks - Taeko Matsuura (Hokkaido University) Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

09:15 Introduction to the Collaboration Meeting - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:30 HEP requirements - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

09:45 Medical and bio-science requirements - Susanna Guatelli

10:00 Nuclear physics requirements - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico

10:15 Open and new requirements: HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Room A
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

11:00 Geant4 Development Status and Updates - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

11:25 Geant-Val Status and Updates - Dmitri Konstantinov (University of Virginia (US)) Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)

11:50 Geant4 Web Presence Status and Updates - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

12:10 Free Discussion
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Room A
14:00 New EM developments
New EM developments
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

14:00 X-Ray reflection process - Helmut Burkhardt (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

14:15 Development of new low energy EM models to describe ionisation in the atmosphere - francesca nicolanti

14:30 Geant4 channeling and Baier-Katkov models and their applications in accelerator physics, particle physics and space science - Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

14:45 Latest development of the quantum entangled simulation of the annihilation gammas in Geant4 - Julien Bordes

15:00 Activities and EM developments at LNS Catania - Pablo Cirrone (Unknown) Serena Fattori

15:15 Discussion on EM bug reports and problems - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
Generic Processes & Materials
Generic Processes & Materials
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Hokkaido University
Contributions

14:00 Updates on Par04 and fast simulation - Anna Zaborowska (CERN) Dalila Salamani (CERN)

14:30 Progress with using geant-val - Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:45 Update on command-based scorers (TBC) - Makoto Asai (Jefferson Lab, US)

15:05 Discussion time
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Room A
16:00 Feed-back on Collaboration Evolution
Feed-back on Collaboration Evolution
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

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

16:10 Report from Evolution Task Force (includes 15' discussion time) - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

16:50 Report from Early Career Researchers Committee (ECRC) (includes 15' discussion time) - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)

17:15 General Discussion
17:30 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
17:30 - 19:30
Room: Room A
Tuesday 26 September 2023

08:00 Registration & lectures (L01, L02, L03, L04, H02)
Registration & lectures (L01, L02, L03, L04, H02)
08:00 - 12:10
09:00 Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples
Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

09:00 Extended example: analysis/AnaEx03 - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

09:05 Extended example: medical/dna/jetcounter - Beata Brzozowska (University of Warsaw) Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Hoang Tran

09:10 Extended example: medical/dna/dnadamage2 - Dominguez Kondo Naoki (UCSF) Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Hoang Tran

09:15 Extended example: medical/dna/UHDR - Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Hoang Tran

09:20 Extended example: medical/radiobiology - Pablo Cirrone

09:25 Advanced example: hadrontherapy - Pablo Cirrone

09:35 Advanced examples: eFlash_radiotherapy and radioprotection - Giuliana Miluzzo (INFN Catania)

09:45 New space physics examples derived from ATHENA telescope - Ronny Stanzani

09:55 A PoC for a graphical Geant4 Interface and simulation management: potential users and possibilities - Alfonso Mantero (Swhard srl)

10:05 Status of IAEAphsp example - MIGUEL ANTONIO CORTES GIRALDO Not Supplied

10:15 Geant4 teaching/learning opportunities - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
Geometry Working Session
Geometry Working Session
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Hokkaido University
Contributions

09:00 QSS: status / update - Lucio Santi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Rodrigo Castro (ETH Zurich) Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))

09:20 VecGeom - developments / plans - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Juan Gonzalez Caminero

09:40 Orange modeller: update - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

10:00 Geometry Converter: an update - Guilherme Lima (FermiLab (US))

10:15 Open Issues - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Room A
11:00 Physics I : Hadronic Physics
Physics I : Hadronic Physics
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

11:00 Update on Geant4 hadronic physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:25 Introducing "tunes" in hadronic models - Julia Yarba

11:40 Validation of Geant4 physics via calorimeter test-beam set-ups in geant-val - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)

12:00 Antiproton annihilation in INCL - Demid Zharenov
12:10 Medical tutorial break
Medical tutorial break
12:10 - 13:30

12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00

13:30 Lectures & Hands-on (L05, H02, Hands-on 1)
Lectures & Hands-on (L05, H02, Hands-on 1)
13:30 - 17:30
14:00 Hadronic 1
Hadronic 1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

14:00 Development and implementation of a new Geant4 QMD model and its validation - Yoshihide Sato

14:20 Graph Neural Networks for fast emulation of nuclear interaction models - Lorenzo Arsini

14:40 Update on tuning of hadronic model parameters - Julia Yarba
Computing Performance
Computing Performance
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Hokkaido University
Contributions

14:00 ALICE - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

14:10 ATLAS - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

14:20 CMS - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

14:30 LHCb - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

14:40 IF/Neutrino - Hans-Joachim Wenzel

14:50 IBS/Underground Physics - Eunju Jeon (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)

15:00 Medical Physics - Susanna Guatelli

15:10 Discussion
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Room A
16:00 Kernel I : Geometry, Run, Event, etc.
Kernel I : Geometry, Run, Event, etc.
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

16:00 Status of Geometry developments - John Apostolakis (CERN)

16:20 Update on sub-event level parallelism - Makoto Asai (Jefferson Lab, US)

16:40 Status of developments on Fast Simulation - Anna Zaborowska (CERN) Dalila Salamani (CERN)

17:00 Thoughts on parallelisation of initialisation phase and open issues - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

17:20 Discussion
Wednesday 27 September 2023

09:00 Lectures (L06 - L11)
Lectures (L06 - L11)
09:00 - 12:30
Kernel II : GUI, Vis, Examples, etc.
Kernel II : GUI, Vis, Examples, etc.
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

09:00 Update on the Geant4 Documentation - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

09:10 Geant4 GUI Interface - Koichi Murakami

09:25 Geant4 Visualisation - John Allison

09:35 Update on the Geant4 Analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

09:45 Update on the Basic and Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

10:00 Update on the Advanced Examples - Susanna Guatelli

10:15 Geant4 learning/teaching tools - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Room A
11:00 Internal Communication Tools & Procedures; Publication Board Tools
Internal Communication Tools & Procedures; Publication Board Tools
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

11:00 Discussion
(free)
(free)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Hokkaido University

12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00

Medical tutorial break
Medical tutorial break
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 Hands-on 2 & 3
Hands-on 2 & 3
14:00 - 17:30
New EM validations
New EM validations
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

14:00 Model of the single Coulomb scattering of e-/e+ based on numerical DCS from DPWA - Mihaly Novak (CERN)

14:15 Bragg Peak validation - MIGUEL ANTONIO CORTES GIRALDO Not Supplied

14:30 Validation of Geant4 fragmentation for incident alpha particles - David Bolst (University of Wollongong)

14:45 Modelling the Response of CLLBC(Ce) and TLYC(Ce) SiPM-Based Radiation Detectors in Mixed Radiation Fields with Geant4 - Jeremy Brown

15:00 Calculation of early DNA damage in astronauts: update and future perspectives - Jay Archer (University of Wollongong)

15:15 Geant4 based Dose Planning Monte Carlo (DPM) - Mihaly Novak (CERN)
Visualization
Visualization
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Hokkaido University

15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Physics II : EM physics
Physics II : EM physics
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

16:00 Status update on Geant4 EM physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

16:30 The G4-Med project: status update. - Susanna Guatelli

17:00 Geant4-DNA: status update - Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS)
19:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Thursday 28 September 2023

09:00 Lectures (L12 - L14), Hand-on, Q/A & closing session
Lectures (L12 - L14), Hand-on, Q/A & closing session
09:00 - 12:30
Hadronic 2
Hadronic 2
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

09:00 n_TOF flux validation - Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)

09:20 Beam simulation depending on physics lists - Kihyeon Cho
R&D TF
R&D TF
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Hokkaido University
Contributions

09:00 AdePT progress report - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)

09:30 Celeritas progress report - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

10:00 Opticks progress report - Hans-Joachim Wenzel
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Room A
11:00 Future Looking
Future Looking
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

11:00 Status of python interfaces to Geant4 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

11:20 Julia interface to Geant4 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) Pere Mato Vila (CERN)

11:40 CPU power efficiency in data centers - Koichi Murakami

12:00 On differentiable programming and Geant4 - Mihaly Novak (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Developers session
Developers session
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

14:00 Kernel / non-physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

14:20 Hadronic physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

14:40 EM Physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Mihaly Novak (CERN) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

15:00 Non-C++ interfaces to Geant4 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

15:10 Geant4.jl - New Interface to Simulation Applications - Pere Mato Vila (CERN)
15:30 Users session
Users session
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Room A
Contributions

15:30 Application of Geant4 for proton therapy research ~ An example case of Hokkaido University - Taeko Matsuura

16:00 Teaching Geant4 to Beginners - Ken Sutherland
Friday 29 September 2023
09:00 Summary of parallel sessions I
Summary of parallel sessions I
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

09:00 Parallel 1A: New EM developments - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)

09:13 Parallel 1B: Generic Processes & Materials - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:26 Parallel 2A: Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Susanna Guatelli

09:39 Parallel 2B: Geometry Working Session - John Apostolakis (CERN)

09:52 Parallel 3A: Hadronic I - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

10:05 Parallel 3B: Computing Performance - Gunter Folger Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:18 Parallel 4A: Internal Communication Tools & Procedures; Publication Board Tools - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Summary of parallel sessions II & closing remarks
Summary of parallel sessions II & closing remarks
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

11:00 Parallel 5A: New EM validations - Jay Archer Jay Archer (University of Wollongong)

11:15 Parallel 5B: Visualization - Laurent Garnier

11:30 Parallel 6A: Hadronic II - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:45 Parallel 6B: R&D TF - John Apostolakis (CERN)

12:00 Release Schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

12:10 Closing Remarks - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:20 Announcement of 29th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting - Pablo Cirrone
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 17:00
Room: Room A

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