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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 RemarksSpeakers: 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 RemarksSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experimentsSpeaker: Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Open and new requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experimentsSpeaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experimentsSpeaker: Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico
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Open and new requirements - Medical and biological scienceSpeakers: Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla), Susanna Guatelli
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Open and new requirements - Space science and engineeringSpeaker: Giovanni Santin
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Break
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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 ReleaseSpeaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Lunch Break
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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
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 presentationsSpeaker: Dmitri Konstantinov (Chulalongkorn University (TH))
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G4CPT: Protocol EvolutionSpeakers: Julia Yarba, Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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geant-val: Status and challengesSpeaker: Dmitri Konstantinov (Chulalongkorn University (TH))
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Discussion Time
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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 checkSpeaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Update on sub-event parallelismSpeaker: Makoto Asai
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The RNTuple Storage FormatSpeaker: Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN & Goethe University Frankfurt)
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Status and recent developments in QSS in Geant4Speaker: Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))
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Plenary: GeometryConveners: Andrei Gheata (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
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The VecGeom surface modeller - updateSpeaker: Severin Diederichs (CERN)
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The Orange surface modeller - updateSpeaker: Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))
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New classes for Field ConfigurationSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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Plenary: UI and VisualisationConveners: John Allison, Laurent Garnier
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Lunch Break
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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 SummarySpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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New Extended Channeling ExamplesSpeaker: 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 ApplicationsSpeaker: Alberto Sciuto
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Effects of Oxygen depletion in extremely high dose rate proton irradiation investigated through the Scavenger exampleSpeakers: Fateme Farokhi (INFN LNS), Serena Fattori
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UHDR example updateSpeakers: Le Anh Tuan (IRSN), Ngoc Hoang Tran, Serena Fattori
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Advanced Examples SummarySpeaker: Francesco Romano
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eFLASH_radiotherapy and exp_microdosimetry examples: status and recent developmentsSpeaker: Giuliana Milluzzo
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Hadrontherapy example: Current Status and Future PerspectivesSpeaker: Giada Petringa
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Status and new developments for the Medical Linac ExampleSpeaker: Silvia Pozzi (INFN Roma1)
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IAEA Phase Space file statusSpeaker: Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)
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Contributions to Advanced Examples for ICRP Reference PhantomsSpeaker: 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 voxelisationSpeaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Discussion: parallelisation of physics initialisation phaseSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Discussion: handling of physics data filesSpeakers: 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/IBSSpeaker: Eun Ju Jeon (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)
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ATLASSpeaker: 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/CaTSSpeaker: Hans-Joachim Wenzel
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Celeritas status reportSpeaker: Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))
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Discussion on AdePT/Celeritas delta review
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Lunch Break
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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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Improvements in GFLASH fast sumulationSpeaker: Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Discussion points on Generic BiasingSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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A.O.B
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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 GenerationSpeaker: 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 applicationsSpeaker: Gianfranco Paterno (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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First integration of annihilation gamma quantum decoherence in Geant4Speaker: 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 reactionsSpeaker: Sherryn MacLeod (University Wollongong, Australia)
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RAON beam simulationSpeaker: Prof. Kihyeon Cho (KISTI (South Korea))
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Update on the emulation of QMD/BLOB models with Deep LearningSpeaker: Lorenzo Arsini ("Sapienza" University of Rome)
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How much precise can Geant4 be for proton-therapy, without QGSP_BIC_HPSpeaker: 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 crystalsSpeaker: Alexei Sytov (INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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Simulation of positronium decaySpeaker: 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 PhysicsSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico
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Physics improvements in neutronHP and comparison with standard codes for neutronicsSpeaker: 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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13:30
Lunch Break
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Event: Tour
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Social Dinner: Restaurant "Il Cortile delle Fate" in Aci Castello
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10:30
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Plenary: Free for discussion, Closeout
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DiscussionSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Closing RemarksSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Host closing remarksSpeaker: Prof. Alessia Tricomi (INFN-Catania)
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Steering Board: Meeting
