Getting started with Geant4 - theory and practice

from Monday 9 December 2024 (09:00) to Friday 13 December 2024 (15:00)
Universidad Nacional

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024
AM
09:15 Introduction: What is Geant4 ? - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
10:30 --- Break ---
10:50 Hands-on: First look at virtual machine and one Geant4 application - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
09:00 Review of homework - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
10:15 Visualisation - lecture & hands-on - Mihaly Novak (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)  
11:05 --- Break ---
11:20 Materials - lecture & hands-on - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
09:30 Review of homework - questions & answers - John Apostolakis (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
10:00 Extracting information - part 1: User Actions - Mihaly Novak (CERN)  
10:30 Hands on - John Apostolakis (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
11:15 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Hands on (continued) - Mihaly Novak (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)  
09:00 Review of homework - questions & answers - John Apostolakis (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN)  
10:00 Sensitive Detectors  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 Messengers - how to use them and to create one - Mihaly Novak (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)  
08:35 Review of homework - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
09:50 Hadronic physics - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
10:40 Defining / using magnetic field - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:25 Hands-on: magnetic field - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
PM
12:15 --- Lunch Break ---
13:45 Key concepts of C++  
14:15 Describing your detector - Concepts - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
15:00 Hands on: Adding volumes to the world - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
16:00 Questions & Answers plus Homework  
16:15 --- Adjourn ---
17:00 --- Home work ---
14:00 Applications of Geant4 - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
14:25 Generation of primaries - lecture & hands-on - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
15:25 --- Adjourn ---
17:00 --- Home work ---
12:45 Extracting information: Part 2 - scoring and hits - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
13:15 --- Adjourn ---
14:30 --- Home work ---
12:45 --- Lunch Break ---
13:45 Electromagnetic physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)  
14:45 --- Installing Geant4 on your system (Optional) ---
17:00 --- Home work ---
12:10 Multi-threading - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
13:00 Followup topics - questions & answers - John Apostolakis (CERN)  
13:30 --- Adjourn ---