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Hotel Four Points by Sheraton
Hotel Four Points by Sheraton
Description
The Geant4 group of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare is glad to host the XXIX Geant4 Collaboration Meeting in Catania, Italy, from October 7th to 11th, 2024. The event is restricted to members and contributors of the Geant4 Collaboration and to guests invited by the Steering Board.
The venue of the Collaboration Meeting is the Sheraton Four Point Hotel in Catania.
Registration, travel, and accomodation details are on the Meeting Website.
The meeting also incorporates the 62nd Geant4 Technical Forum on Thursday 10th October at 12:30CEST.
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Plenary: Opening addresses & Open requirementsConveners: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Welcome/Hosts Opening Remarks 30mSpeakers: Luciano Pandola (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy), Santo Gammino (INFN/LNS), Prof. Stefano Romano (Physics Department, University of Catania), giacomo cuttone
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Spokes Opening Remarks 5mSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments 14mSpeaker: Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Open and new requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments 14mSpeaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments 14mSpeaker: Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico
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Open and new requirements - Medical and biological science 14mSpeakers: Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla), Susanna Guatelli
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Open and new requirements - Space science and engineering 14mSpeaker: Giovanni Santin
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Break 30m
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Plenary: Collaboration Matters 1Conveners: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Alvaro Tolosa-Delgado (CERN)
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Thinking towards the next Geant4 Major Release 35mSpeaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Lunch Break 1h 30m
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Plenary: Development ToolsConveners: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Dima Konstantinov (IHEP)
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User and Developer Systems and Tools: Update 18m
Covering Geant4's website, Discourse forum, and Bugzilla instance for user support. Developer tools of Coverity/CMake/CI are updated.
Speakers: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), Gunter Folger -
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Prototype Git-based database for Geant4 papers and presentations 18mSpeaker: Dmitri Konstantinov (Chulalongkorn University (TH))
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G4CPT: Protocol Evolution 18mSpeakers: Julia Yarba, Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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geant-val: Status and challenges 18mSpeaker: Dmitri Konstantinov (Chulalongkorn University (TH))
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Discussion Time 18m
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Plenary: Geant4 KernelConveners: Andrea Dell'Acqua (CERN), Makoto Asai
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Recap of multithreading and tools for thread-safety check 20mSpeaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Update on sub-event parallelism 20mSpeaker: Makoto Asai
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The RNTuple Storage Format 15mSpeaker: Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN & Goethe University Frankfurt)
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Status and recent developments in QSS in Geant4 15mSpeaker: Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))
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Plenary: GeometryConveners: Andrei Gheata (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Update on Geometry developments 20mSpeaker: Andrei Gheata (CERN)
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The VecGeom surface modeller - update 25mSpeaker: Severin Diederichs (CERN)
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The Orange surface modeller - update 25mSpeaker: Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))
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New classes for Field Configuration 20mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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Plenary: UI and VisualisationConveners: John Allison, Laurent Garnier
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Lunch Break 1h 30m
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Plenary: Basic, Extended, and Advanced ExamplesConveners: Francesco Romano, Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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Basic and Extended Examples Summary 15mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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New Extended Channeling Examples 7mSpeaker: Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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The Radiobiology Example: A Flexible Framework for Machine Learning, Phase Space testing and beyond in Monte Carlo Applications 7mSpeaker: Alberto Sciuto
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Effects of Oxygen depletion in extremely high dose rate proton irradiation investigated through the Scavenger example 7mSpeakers: Fateme Farokhi (INFN LNS), Serena Fattori
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UHDR example update 7mSpeakers: Le Anh Tuan (IRSN), Ngoc Hoang Tran, Serena Fattori
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Advanced Examples Summary 12mSpeaker: Francesco Romano
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eFLASH_radiotherapy and exp_microdosimetry examples: status and recent developments 8mSpeaker: Giuliana Milluzzo
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Hadrontherapy example: Current Status and Future Perspectives 8mSpeaker: Giada Petringa
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Status and new developments for the Medical Linac Example 8mSpeaker: Silvia Pozzi (INFN Roma1)
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IAEA Phase Space file status 5mSpeaker: Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)
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Contributions to Advanced Examples for ICRP Reference Phantoms 5mSpeaker: Yeon Soo Yeom
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Breakout 1: Parallelisation of InitialisationConveners: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), Makoto Asai
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Discussion: parallelisation of geometry voxelisation 30mSpeaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Discussion: parallelisation of physics initialisation phase 30mSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Discussion: handling of physics data files 30mSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Breakout 2: (Tuesday, Empty)
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Plenary: Computing PerformanceConveners: Julia Yarba, Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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CUP/IBS 18mSpeaker: Eun Ju Jeon (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)
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ATLAS 18mSpeaker: Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Plenary: R&DConveners: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Update on Opticks/CaTS 25mSpeaker: Hans-Joachim Wenzel
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Celeritas status report 25mSpeaker: Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))
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Discussion on AdePT/Celeritas delta review 15m
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Lunch Break 1h 30m
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Plenary: Generic Processes and MaterialsConveners: Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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ML fast sim developments 20mSpeaker: Peter McKeown (CERN)
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Improvements in GFLASH fast sumulation 20mSpeaker: Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Discussion points on Generic Biasing 20mSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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A.O.B 30m
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Breakout 1: Electromagnetic PhysicsConveners: Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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On the Gamma-Ray Conversion pdf: Towards a Direct 5D Event Generation 18mSpeaker: Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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New extended examples to explore Channeling effects in oriented crystals and their applications 18mSpeaker: Gianfranco Paterno (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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First integration of annihilation gamma quantum decoherence in Geant4 18mSpeaker: Julien Bordes
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Breakout 2: Hadronic PhysicsConveners: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico
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Benchmarking Monte Carlo codes for the modelling of low-energy neutron production target reactions 20mSpeaker: Sherryn MacLeod (University Wollongong, Australia)
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RAON beam simulation 20mSpeaker: Prof. Kihyeon Cho (KISTI (South Korea))
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Update on the emulation of QMD/BLOB models with Deep Learning 20mSpeaker: Lorenzo Arsini ("Sapienza" University of Rome)
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How much precise can Geant4 be for proton-therapy, without QGSP_BIC_HP 20mSpeaker: Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
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Plenary: Electromagnetic PhysicsConveners: Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Geant4 ab-initio models on channeling, channeling radiation and coherent pair production in oriented crystals 18mSpeaker: Alexei Sytov (INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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Simulation of positronium decay 18mSpeaker: Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Plenary: Hadronic PhysicsConveners: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico
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Status of Hadronic Physics 30mSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico
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Physics improvements in neutronHP and comparison with standard codes for neutronics 30mSpeaker: Loïc Thulliez (CEA-Saclay)
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Technical Forum: User Session
62nd Geant4 Technical Forum, the agenda is external to this meeting, see the URL below.
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Lunch Break 1h 30m
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Event: Tour
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Social Dinner: Restaurant "Il Cortile delle Fate" in Aci Castello
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Plenary: Free for discussion, Closeout
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Discussion 1hSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Closing Remarks 5mSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Host closing remarks 10mSpeaker: Prof. Alessia Tricomi (INFN-Catania)
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Steering Board: Meeting
