Geant4 Review 2007

16 Apr 2007, 14:15 → 20 Apr 2007, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Charlie Young (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center SLAC)

Review of Geant4 Collaboration, focusing on physics performance, computing performance and usability
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Review Committee Report (submitted 30 April 2008) Report_-_final-1.pdf

Monday, 16 April

Day 1 - pm

1 Introduction. Mandate

Speaker: Dr Petteri Nieminen (ESA)

2 Geant4 Overview

Speaker: John Apostolakis

Slides Geant4-Intro-Overview.pdf Geant4-Intro-Overview.ppt

3 User presentation (LHC physics)

Speaker: Tancredi Carli (CERN)

Slides vg4review.pdf vg4review.ppt

16:15 break

4 User presentation (shielding)

Speaker: Sayed Rokni (SLAC)

Slides Shielding_Rokni_2007_.pdf Shielding_Rokni_2007_.ppt

5 Executive session

Tuesday, 17 April

Day 2 - am

6 Executive session

7 User presentation (ILC & other HEP Physics)

Speaker: Erika Garutti (DESY)

Slides e_garutti.ppt.ppt

8 User presentation (HEP usability)

Speaker: Gloria Corti (CERN)

Slides GCorti-G4Review-20070417.pdf GCorti-G4Review-20070417.ppt

11:30 break

9 User presentation (medical)

Speaker: Nicolas Karakatsanis (National Technical University of Athens)

Slides Geant4_medicalusersreview_2007_NKarakatsanis.pdf Geant4_medicalusersreview_2007_NKarakatsanis.ppt

13:00 Lunch

Day 2 -pm

10 User presentation (space)

Speaker: Robert Weller (Vanderbilt)

Slides Weller_Geant4_Review_20070416.pdf

11 Q&A

15:00 break

12 Electromagnetic physics 'Standard' - Overview

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

Slides StandardEM.pdf

13 Q&A

14 The Fano cavity precision test

Speaker: Michel Maire (LAPP)

Slides FanoCavity.pdf

15 Q&A

16 Geant4 Low energy EM physics

Speaker: Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)

Slides llowE_3.pdf

17 Q&A

18 Executive session

Wednesday, 18 April

Day 3

19 Executive session

20 Geant4 Hadronics - overview

Speaker: Mr Aatos Heikkinen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

Slides hadronicsOverviewDraft070417.pdf hadronicsOverview-revised.pdf

21 Questions

22 Hadronic validation: Part 1 Thin-target

Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

Slides HadVal1-revised.pdf HadVal1-revised.ppt

23 Questions

11:00 break

24 Shower Shapes

Speaker: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides showerG4Review07.pdf

25 Questions

26 Overview of developments - CHIPS

Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

Slides G4ReviewCHIPS.pdf G4ReviewCHIPS.ppt

27 Questions

13:00 Lunch break

28 Physics Lists and using hadronic physics

Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)

Slides PhysicsLists.pdf

29 Questions

30 Hadronic Validation, part 2

Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)

Slides HadVal2-revised.pdf HadVal2-revised.ppt

31 Questions

32 Hadronics: other issues

Slides

• ah_tarc_g4review_180407.ppt
• SATIF8andRelatedWorks.pdf
• SATIF8andRelatedWorks.ppt

33 Q&A

16:00 break

34 Executive session. Questions re physics.

Thursday, 19 April

Day 4

35 Executive session

36 Geometry: performance, usability, tools

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Slides GeomRevQ.pdf GeomRevQ.ppt

37 Q&A

38 Performance for space applications

Speaker: Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA)

Slides Geant4_Review_Performance_For_Space.ppt.pdf Geant4_Review_Performance_For_Space.ppt.ppt

39 Q&A

40 CPU performance - EM

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

Slides PerformanceEM.pdf

41 Q&A

42 CPU performance - benchmarks

Speaker: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides cpuG4Review07.pdf

43 Q&A

11:00 break

44 Release Notes, Beta testing and QA, external interfaces, ..

Speaker: Gabriele Cosmo

Slides AnswersRevQ.pdf AnswersRevQ.ppt

45 Q&A

46 User-submitted classes/modules, documentation

Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides Global-Issues.pdf Global-Issues.ppt

47 Q&A

48 Event Biasing and Scoring in Geant4: a short overview

Speaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC)

Slides EventBiasingAndScoring.ppt

49 Q&A

50 Usability: Visualisation and UI

Speaker: Joseph Perl

Slides G4VisReview07.pdf G4VisReview07.ppt

51 Q&A

13:15 Lunch break

52 Executive session

15:45 break

53 Follow-up on physics

54 Follow-up on usability

55 Executive session

Friday, 20 April

Day 5

56 Additional follow-ups

57 Executive session

58 Close out

Slides Combined.pdf Combined.ppt