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, September 25, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Friday, September 29, 2023 (5:00 PM)

Monday, September 25, 2023

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room A
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and opening remarks - Taeko Matsuura (Hokkaido University) Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

9:15 AM Introduction to the Collaboration Meeting - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

9:30 AM HEP requirements - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

9:45 AM Medical and bio-science requirements - Susanna Guatelli

10:00 AM Nuclear physics requirements - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico

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

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

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

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

12:10 PM Free Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Room A
2:00 PM New EM developments
New EM developments
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

2:00 PM X-Ray reflection process - Helmut Burkhardt (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

2:15 PM Development of new low energy EM models to describe ionisation in the atmosphere - francesca nicolanti

2:30 PM Geant4 channeling and Baier-Katkov models and their applications in accelerator physics, particle physics and space science - Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

2:45 PM Latest development of the quantum entangled simulation of the annihilation gammas in Geant4 - Julien Bordes

3:00 PM Activities and EM developments at LNS Catania - Pablo Cirrone (Unknown) Serena Fattori

3:15 PM Discussion on EM bug reports and problems - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
Generic Processes & Materials
Generic Processes & Materials
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hokkaido University
Contributions

2:00 PM Updates on Par04 and fast simulation - Anna Zaborowska (CERN) Dalila Salamani (CERN)

2:30 PM Progress with using geant-val - Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

2:45 PM Update on command-based scorers (TBC) - Makoto Asai (Jefferson Lab, US)

3:05 PM Discussion time
3:30 PM Break
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room A
4:00 PM Feed-back on Collaboration Evolution
Feed-back on Collaboration Evolution
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

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

4:10 PM Report from Evolution Task Force (includes 15' discussion time) - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

4:50 PM Report from Early Career Researchers Committee (ECRC) (includes 15' discussion time) - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)

5:15 PM General Discussion
5:30 PM Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Room A
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

8:00 AM Registration & lectures (L01, L02, L03, L04, H02)
Registration & lectures (L01, L02, L03, L04, H02)
8:00 AM - 12:10 PM
9:00 AM Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples
Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room A
Contributions

9:00 AM Extended example: analysis/AnaEx03 - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

9:05 AM Extended example: medical/dna/jetcounter - Beata Brzozowska (University of Warsaw) Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Hoang Tran

9:10 AM Extended example: medical/dna/dnadamage2 - Dominguez Kondo Naoki (UCSF) Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Hoang Tran

9:15 AM Extended example: medical/dna/UHDR - Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Hoang Tran

9:20 AM Extended example: medical/radiobiology - Pablo Cirrone

9:25 AM Advanced example: hadrontherapy - Pablo Cirrone

9:35 AM Advanced examples: eFlash_radiotherapy and radioprotection - Giuliana Miluzzo (INFN Catania)

9:45 AM New space physics examples derived from ATHENA telescope - Ronny Stanzani

9:55 AM A PoC for a graphical Geant4 Interface and simulation management: potential users and possibilities - Alfonso Mantero (Swhard srl)

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

10:15 AM Geant4 teaching/learning opportunities - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
Geometry Working Session
Geometry Working Session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Hokkaido University
Contributions

9:00 AM QSS: status / update - Lucio Santi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Rodrigo Castro (ETH Zurich) Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))

9:20 AM VecGeom - developments / plans - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Juan Gonzalez Caminero

9:40 AM Orange modeller: update - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

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

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

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

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

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

12:00 PM Antiproton annihilation in INCL - Demid Zharenov
12:10 PM Medical tutorial break
Medical tutorial break
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

1:30 PM Lectures & Hands-on (L05, H02, Hands-on 1)
Lectures & Hands-on (L05, H02, Hands-on 1)
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
2:00 PM Hadronic 1
Hadronic 1
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

2:00 PM Development and implementation of a new Geant4 QMD model and its validation - Yoshihide Sato

2:20 PM Graph Neural Networks for fast emulation of nuclear interaction models - Lorenzo Arsini

2:40 PM Update on tuning of hadronic model parameters - Julia Yarba
Computing Performance
Computing Performance
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hokkaido University
Contributions

2:00 PM ALICE - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

2:10 PM ATLAS - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

2:20 PM CMS - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

2:30 PM LHCb - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

2:40 PM IF/Neutrino - Hans-Joachim Wenzel

2:50 PM IBS/Underground Physics - Eunju Jeon (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)

3:00 PM Medical Physics - Susanna Guatelli

3:10 PM Discussion
3:30 PM Break
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room A
4:00 PM Kernel I : Geometry, Run, Event, etc.
Kernel I : Geometry, Run, Event, etc.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

4:00 PM Status of Geometry developments - John Apostolakis (CERN)

4:20 PM Update on sub-event level parallelism - Makoto Asai (Jefferson Lab, US)

4:40 PM Status of developments on Fast Simulation - Anna Zaborowska (CERN) Dalila Salamani (CERN)

5:00 PM Thoughts on parallelisation of initialisation phase and open issues - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

5:20 PM Discussion
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

9:00 AM Lectures (L06 - L11)
Lectures (L06 - L11)
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Kernel II : GUI, Vis, Examples, etc.
Kernel II : GUI, Vis, Examples, etc.
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room A
Contributions

9:00 AM Update on the Geant4 Documentation - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

9:10 AM Geant4 GUI Interface - Koichi Murakami

9:25 AM Geant4 Visualisation - John Allison

9:35 AM Update on the Geant4 Analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

9:45 AM Update on the Basic and Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

10:00 AM Update on the Advanced Examples - Susanna Guatelli

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

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

12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Medical tutorial break
Medical tutorial break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Hands-on 2 & 3
Hands-on 2 & 3
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
New EM validations
New EM validations
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

2:00 PM Model of the single Coulomb scattering of e-/e+ based on numerical DCS from DPWA - Mihaly Novak (CERN)

2:15 PM Bragg Peak validation - MIGUEL ANTONIO CORTES GIRALDO Not Supplied

2:30 PM Validation of Geant4 fragmentation for incident alpha particles - David Bolst (University of Wollongong)

2:45 PM Modelling the Response of CLLBC(Ce) and TLYC(Ce) SiPM-Based Radiation Detectors in Mixed Radiation Fields with Geant4 - Jeremy Brown

3:00 PM Calculation of early DNA damage in astronauts: update and future perspectives - Jay Archer (University of Wollongong)

3:15 PM Geant4 based Dose Planning Monte Carlo (DPM) - Mihaly Novak (CERN)
Visualization
Visualization
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Hokkaido University

3:30 PM Break
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Physics II : EM physics
Physics II : EM physics
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

4:00 PM Status update on Geant4 EM physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

4:30 PM The G4-Med project: status update. - Susanna Guatelli

5:00 PM Geant4-DNA: status update - Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS)
7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, September 28, 2023

9:00 AM Lectures (L12 - L14), Hand-on, Q/A & closing session
Lectures (L12 - L14), Hand-on, Q/A & closing session
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Hadronic 2
Hadronic 2
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room A
Contributions

9:00 AM n_TOF flux validation - Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)

9:20 AM Beam simulation depending on physics lists - Kihyeon Cho
R&D TF
R&D TF
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Hokkaido University
Contributions

9:00 AM AdePT progress report - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)

9:30 AM Celeritas progress report - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

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

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

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

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

12:00 PM On differentiable programming and Geant4 - Mihaly Novak (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Developers session
Developers session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

2:00 PM Kernel / non-physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

2:20 PM Hadronic physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

2:40 PM EM Physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Mihaly Novak (CERN) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

3:00 PM Non-C++ interfaces to Geant4 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

3:10 PM Geant4.jl - New Interface to Simulation Applications - Pere Mato Vila (CERN)
3:30 PM Users session
Users session
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

3:30 PM Application of Geant4 for proton therapy research ~ An example case of Hokkaido University - Taeko Matsuura

4:00 PM Teaching Geant4 to Beginners - Ken Sutherland
Friday, September 29, 2023
9:00 AM Summary of parallel sessions I
Summary of parallel sessions I
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room A
Contributions

9:00 AM Parallel 1A: New EM developments - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)

9:13 AM Parallel 1B: Generic Processes & Materials - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

9:26 AM Parallel 2A: Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Susanna Guatelli

9:39 AM Parallel 2B: Geometry Working Session - John Apostolakis (CERN)

9:52 AM Parallel 3A: Hadronic I - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

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

10:18 AM 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 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Summary of parallel sessions II & closing remarks
Summary of parallel sessions II & closing remarks
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

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

11:15 AM Parallel 5B: Visualization - Laurent Garnier

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

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

12:00 PM Release Schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

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

12:20 PM Announcement of 29th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting - Pablo Cirrone
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room A

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