29th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 7 October 2024 (09:00) to Friday 11 October 2024 (18:00)
Hotel Four Points by Sheraton

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024
AM
09:00
Plenary: Opening addresses & Open requirements - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 10:49)
09:00 Welcome/Hosts Opening Remarks - Prof. Stefano Romano (Physics Department, University of Catania) giacomo cuttone Santo Gammino (INFN/LNS) Luciano Pandola (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy)  
09:30 Spokes Opening Remarks - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
09:35 Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
09:50 Open and new requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
10:05 Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico  
10:20 Open and new requirements - Medical and biological science - Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla) Susanna Guatelli  
10:35 Open and new requirements - Space science and engineering - Giovanni Santin  
10:50 --- Break ---
11:20
Plenary: Collaboration Matters 1 - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Alvaro Tolosa-Delgado (CERN) (until 12:30)
11:20 4th Geant4 general paper - Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
11:55 Thinking towards the next Geant4 Major Release - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))  
09:00
Plenary: Geometry - John Apostolakis (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN) (until 10:45)
09:00 Update on Geometry developments - Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
09:20 The VecGeom surface modeller - update - Severin Diederichs (CERN)  
09:55 The Orange surface modeller - update - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))  
10:25 New classes for Field Configuration - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:45 --- Break ---
11:15
Plenary: UI and Visualisation - Laurent Garnier John Allison (until 12:30)
09:00
Plenary: Computing Performance - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba (until 10:30)
09:00 CUP/IBS - Eun Ju Jeon (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)  
09:18 ALICE - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
09:36 ATLAS - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
09:54 CMS - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
10:12 IMCC - Nazar Bartosik (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Plenary: R&D - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Witold Pokorski (CERN) (until 12:30)
11:00 Update on Opticks/CaTS - Hans-Joachim Wenzel  
11:25 AdePT status report - Juan Gonzalez Caminero  
11:50 Celeritas status report - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))  
12:15 Discussion on AdePT/Celeritas delta review  
09:00
Plenary: Electromagnetic Physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) (until 10:30)
09:00 News from G4-Med project - Susanna Guatelli  
09:18 Status of EM physics - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
09:36 Progress in Geant4 DNA - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) Ngoc Hoang Tran  
09:54 Geant4 ab-initio models on channeling, channeling radiation and coherent pair production in oriented crystals - Alexei Sytov (INFN, Ferrara (IT))  
10:12 Simulation of positronium decay - Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Plenary: Hadronic Physics - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 12:00)
11:00 Status of Hadronic Physics - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
11:30 Physics improvements in neutronHP and comparison with standard codes for neutronics - Loïc Thulliez (CEA-Saclay)  
10:00
Plenary: Collaboration Matters 2 & Followup Discussions - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 10:30)
10:00 INCLXX: status and plans for the treatment of antibaryons, neutrinos, and uncertainties/errors - Jean-Christophe David  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Plenary: Free for discussion, Closeout (until 12:30)
11:00 Discussion - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
12:00 Release Schedule - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)  
12:10 Closing Remarks - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
12:15 Announcement of 30th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting - Makoto Asai  
12:20 Host closing remarks - Prof. Alessia Tricomi (INFN-Catania)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Plenary: Development Tools - Dima Konstantinov (IHEP) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 15:30)
14:00 User and Developer Systems and Tools: Update - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) Gunter Folger Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))  
14:18 Prototype Git-based database for Geant4 papers and presentations - Dmitri Konstantinov (Chulalongkorn University (TH))  
14:36 G4CPT: Protocol Evolution - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba  
14:54 geant-val: Status and challenges - Dmitri Konstantinov (Chulalongkorn University (TH))  
15:12 Discussion Time  
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Plenary: Geant4 Kernel - Makoto Asai Andrea Dell'Acqua (CERN) (until 17:30)
16:00 Recap of multithreading and tools for thread-safety check - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))  
16:20 Update on sub-event parallelism - Makoto Asai  
16:40 Updates on Analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
17:00 The RNTuple Storage Format - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN & Goethe University Frankfurt)  
17:15 Status and recent developments in QSS in Geant4 - Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))  
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Plenary: Basic, Extended, and Advanced Examples - Francesco Romano Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 15:30)
14:00 Basic and Extended Examples Summary - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
14:15 New Extended Channeling Examples - Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))  
14:22 The Radiobiology Example: A Flexible Framework for Machine Learning, Phase Space testing and beyond in Monte Carlo Applications - Alberto Sciuto  
14:29 Effects of Oxygen depletion in extremely high dose rate proton irradiation investigated through the Scavenger example - Serena Fattori Fateme Farokhi (INFN LNS)  
14:36 UHDR example update - Le Anh Tuan (IRSN) Serena Fattori Ngoc Hoang Tran  
14:43 Advanced Examples Summary - Francesco Romano  
14:55 eFLASH_radiotherapy and exp_microdosimetry examples: status and recent developments - Giuliana Milluzzo  
15:03 Hadrontherapy example: Current Status and Future Perspectives - Giada Petringa  
15:11 Status and new developments for the Medical Linac Example - Silvia Pozzi (INFN Roma1)  
15:19 IAEA Phase Space file status - Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)  
15:24 Contributions to Advanced Examples for ICRP Reference Phantoms - Yeon Soo Yeom  
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Breakout 1: Parallelisation of Initialisation - Makoto Asai Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 17:30)
16:00 Discussion: parallelisation of geometry voxelisation - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
16:30 Discussion: parallelisation of physics initialisation phase - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN)  
17:00 Discussion: handling of physics data files - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN)  
16:00
Breakout 2: (Tuesday, Empty) (until 17:30)
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Plenary: Generic Processes and Materials - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 15:30)
14:00 ML fast sim developments - Peter McKeown (CERN)  
14:20 Improvements in GFLASH fast sumulation - Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
14:40 Discussion points on Generic Biasing - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
15:00 A.O.B  
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Breakout 1: Electromagnetic Physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN) (until 17:30)
16:00 On the Gamma-Ray Conversion pdf: Towards a Direct 5D Event Generation - Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
16:18 New extended examples to explore Channeling effects in oriented crystals and their applications - Gianfranco Paterno (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))  
16:36 First integration of annihilation gamma quantum decoherence in Geant4 - Julien Bordes  
16:54 Geant4-DNA Development for Atmospheric Applications - Francesca Nicolanti  
17:12 Problems in EM physics - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
16:00
Breakout 2: Hadronic Physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (until 17:40)
16:00 Benchmarking Monte Carlo codes for the modelling of low-energy neutron production target reactions - Sherryn MacLeod (University Wollongong, Australia)  
16:20 RAON beam simulation - Prof. Kihyeon Cho (KISTI (South Korea))  
16:40 Update on the emulation of QMD/BLOB models with Deep Learning - Lorenzo Arsini ("Sapienza" University of Rome)  
17:00 How much precise can Geant4 be for proton-therapy, without QGSP_BIC_HP - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)  
12:30
Technical Forum (until 13:30)
13:30 --- Lunch Break ---
15:30
Event (until 20:00)
20:00
Social Dinner (until 23:00)
14:00
Steering Board (until 17:00)