29th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, October 7, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 11, 2024 (6:00 PM)
Hotel Four Points by Sheraton

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 7, 2024
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 9, 2024
Oct 10, 2024
Oct 11, 2024
AM
9:00 AM
Plenary: Opening addresses & Open requirements - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 10:49 AM)
9:00 AM 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)  
9:30 AM Spokes Opening Remarks - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
9:35 AM Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
9:50 AM Open and new requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
10:05 AM Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico  
10:20 AM Open and new requirements - Medical and biological science - Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla) Susanna Guatelli  
10:35 AM Open and new requirements - Space science and engineering - Giovanni Santin  
10:50 AM --- Break ---
11:20 AM
Plenary: Collaboration Matters 1 - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Alvaro Tolosa-Delgado (CERN) (until 12:30 PM)
11:20 AM 4th Geant4 general paper - Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
11:55 AM Thinking towards the next Geant4 Major Release - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))  
9:00 AM
Plenary: Geometry - John Apostolakis (CERN) Andrei Gheata (CERN) (until 10:45 AM)
9:00 AM Update on Geometry developments - Andrei Gheata (CERN)  
9:20 AM The VecGeom surface modeller - update - Severin Diederichs (CERN)  
9:55 AM The Orange surface modeller - update - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))  
10:25 AM New classes for Field Configuration - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:45 AM --- Break ---
11:15 AM
Plenary: UI and Visualisation - Laurent Garnier John Allison (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM
Plenary: Computing Performance - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM CUP/IBS - Eun Ju Jeon (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)  
9:18 AM ALICE - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
9:36 AM ATLAS - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
9:54 AM CMS - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
10:12 AM IMCC - Nazar Bartosik (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
10:30 AM --- Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary: R&D - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Witold Pokorski (CERN) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Update on Opticks/CaTS - Hans-Joachim Wenzel  
11:25 AM AdePT status report - Juan Gonzalez Caminero  
11:50 AM Celeritas status report - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))  
12:15 PM Discussion on AdePT/Celeritas delta review  
9:00 AM
Plenary: Electromagnetic Physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM News from G4-Med project - Susanna Guatelli  
9:18 AM Status of EM physics - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
9:36 AM Progress in Geant4 DNA - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) Ngoc Hoang Tran  
9:54 AM Geant4 ab-initio models on channeling, channeling radiation and coherent pair production in oriented crystals - Alexei Sytov (INFN, Ferrara (IT))  
10:12 AM Simulation of positronium decay - Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
10:30 AM --- Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary: Hadronic Physics - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Status of Hadronic Physics - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
11:30 AM Physics improvements in neutronHP and comparison with standard codes for neutronics - Loïc Thulliez (CEA-Saclay)  
10:00 AM
Plenary: Collaboration Matters 2 & Followup Discussions - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 10:30 AM)
10:00 AM INCLXX: status and plans for the treatment of antibaryons, neutrinos, and uncertainties/errors - Jean-Christophe David  
10:30 AM --- Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary: Free for discussion, Closeout (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Discussion - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
12:00 PM Release Schedule - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)  
12:10 PM Closing Remarks - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
12:15 PM Announcement of 30th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting - Makoto Asai  
12:20 PM Host closing remarks - Prof. Alessia Tricomi (INFN-Catania)  
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary: Development Tools - Dima Konstantinov (IHEP) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM User and Developer Systems and Tools: Update - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) Gunter Folger Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))  
2:18 PM Prototype Git-based database for Geant4 papers and presentations - Dmitri Konstantinov (Chulalongkorn University (TH))  
2:36 PM G4CPT: Protocol Evolution - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba  
2:54 PM geant-val: Status and challenges - Dmitri Konstantinov (Chulalongkorn University (TH))  
3:12 PM Discussion Time  
3:30 PM --- Break ---
4:00 PM
Plenary: Geant4 Kernel - Makoto Asai Andrea Dell'Acqua (CERN) (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM Recap of multithreading and tools for thread-safety check - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))  
4:20 PM Update on sub-event parallelism - Makoto Asai  
4:40 PM Updates on Analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
5:00 PM The RNTuple Storage Format - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN & Goethe University Frankfurt)  
5:15 PM Status and recent developments in QSS in Geant4 - Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary: Basic, Extended, and Advanced Examples - Francesco Romano Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Basic and Extended Examples Summary - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
2:15 PM New Extended Channeling Examples - Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))  
2:22 PM The Radiobiology Example: A Flexible Framework for Machine Learning, Phase Space testing and beyond in Monte Carlo Applications - Alberto Sciuto  
2:29 PM Effects of Oxygen depletion in extremely high dose rate proton irradiation investigated through the Scavenger example - Serena Fattori Fateme Farokhi (INFN LNS)  
2:36 PM UHDR example update - Le Anh Tuan (IRSN) Serena Fattori Ngoc Hoang Tran  
2:43 PM Advanced Examples Summary - Francesco Romano  
2:55 PM eFLASH_radiotherapy and exp_microdosimetry examples: status and recent developments - Giuliana Milluzzo  
3:03 PM Hadrontherapy example: Current Status and Future Perspectives - Giada Petringa  
3:11 PM Status and new developments for the Medical Linac Example - Silvia Pozzi (INFN Roma1)  
3:19 PM IAEA Phase Space file status - Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)  
3:24 PM Contributions to Advanced Examples for ICRP Reference Phantoms - Yeon Soo Yeom  
3:30 PM --- Break ---
4:00 PM
Breakout 1: Parallelisation of Initialisation - Makoto Asai Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM Discussion: parallelisation of geometry voxelisation - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
4:30 PM Discussion: parallelisation of physics initialisation phase - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN)  
5:00 PM Discussion: handling of physics data files - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN)  
4:00 PM
Breakout 2: (Tuesday, Empty) (until 5:30 PM)
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary: Generic Processes and Materials - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM ML fast sim developments - Peter McKeown (CERN)  
2:20 PM Improvements in GFLASH fast sumulation - Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
2:40 PM Discussion points on Generic Biasing - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
3:00 PM A.O.B  
3:30 PM --- Break ---
4:00 PM
Breakout 1: Electromagnetic Physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN) (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM On the Gamma-Ray Conversion pdf: Towards a Direct 5D Event Generation - Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
4:18 PM New extended examples to explore Channeling effects in oriented crystals and their applications - Gianfranco Paterno (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))  
4:36 PM First integration of annihilation gamma quantum decoherence in Geant4 - Julien Bordes  
4:54 PM Geant4-DNA Development for Atmospheric Applications - Francesca Nicolanti  
5:12 PM Problems in EM physics - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
4:00 PM
Breakout 2: Hadronic Physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (until 5:40 PM)
4:00 PM Benchmarking Monte Carlo codes for the modelling of low-energy neutron production target reactions - Sherryn MacLeod (University Wollongong, Australia)  
4:20 PM RAON beam simulation - Prof. Kihyeon Cho (KISTI (South Korea))  
4:40 PM Update on the emulation of QMD/BLOB models with Deep Learning - Lorenzo Arsini ("Sapienza" University of Rome)  
5:00 PM How much precise can Geant4 be for proton-therapy, without QGSP_BIC_HP - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)  
12:30 PM
Technical Forum (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
3:30 PM
Event (until 8:00 PM)
8:00 PM
Social Dinner (until 11:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Steering Board (until 5:00 PM)