Name: 17th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2012-09-10T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2012-09-14T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Maison Saint-Yves

17th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 10 September 2012 (08:30) to Friday 14 September 2012 (18:00)

Monday 10 September 2012

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome (workshop logistics) - Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

09:10 Meeting goals - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

09:30 Report from user domains : HENP - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

09:45 Report from user domains : Space - Giovanni Santin (ESA)

10:00 Report from user domains : Medical - Joseph Perl (CERN)

10:15 Report from user domains : LBE - Dennis Wright (SLAC)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 CMS requirements on multi-threading - Christopher Jones (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:15 LHCb requirements on CMake configuration - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

11:30 CMake, CMakeLists.txt and SVN - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

11:45 Unit test and integration test - Gunter Folger (CERN)

12:00 Performance monitoring - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:15 Testing Geant4 using Cmake/Ctest/Cdash - Pere Mato Vila (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 New Compton model - Jeremy Brown

14:20 The X-Ray Rayleigh scattering model for EM standard package - Vladimir Grichine (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

14:30 The MuElec extension for microdosimetry in Silicon - Melanie Raine

14:50 Modeling biological structures with protein data bank - Jonathan Madsen

15:10 Atomic deexcitation modelling - Alfonso Mantero
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Regular performance monitoring - tools, process, and results - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:20 Profiling Geant4 with Dtrace and reordering execution for performance gain - Efstathios Kamperis

14:35 Performance of ATLAS G4 simulation - Elmar Ritsch (University of Innsbruck (AT))

14:45 Performance of CMS G4 simulation - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:55 cvmfs to distribute Geant4 - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

15:10 Testing shifts - experience and topics for improvement; guided discussion
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Validation of high energy muon scattering using L3 data - Michael Schenk

16:20 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Force Group on Monte Carlo Validation Sets: Geant4 related findings - Ioannis Sechopoulos

16:40 Validation of gamma processes - Anton Ivantchenko (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

17:00 NCC proton therapy validation activities - Se Byeong Lee

17:20 RBE computations in Geant4 medical applications - Francesco Romano (Unknown)

17:40 Discussion on validation and Physics List - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Goals of session - John Apostolakis (CERN)

16:05 C++ 11 Threads and Geant4-MT - Marc Paterno (Fermilab)

16:20 Geant4-MT: Addressing requirement for dispatch-type parallelism

16:35 Parallel Geant4 beyond Multi-threading - Introduction - John Apostolakis (CERN)

16:40 G4 on GPU: Improving Navigation in Voxel geometries - Dhruva Tirumala Bukkapatnam

16:50 G4 on GPU: Propagation in Field and EM Bremstrahlung process - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:20 G4 on GPU: SLAC/Stanford/Nvidia/KEK prototype - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

17:35 G4 on GPU: Discussion

17:45 Report on Vector Prototype - Andrei Gheata (CERN)
18:15

18:15 - 19:30
Tuesday 11 September 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Validation of Geant4 versus EGS - Yann Perrot

09:20 Geant4 EM physics progress by ESA - Giovanni Santin (Universita degli Studi di Trieste)

09:40 EM physics for LHC - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

10:05 Geant4-DNA progress - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Status of Hadronic Shower Simulation for LHC - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

11:25 Recent Developments in Fritiof (FTF) Model - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))

11:50 Using Bertini Cascade for Lepto-nuclear and Stopping Processes - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:15 Discussion - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:35
Contributions

14:00 Current Coverage of Hadronic Validation - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:15 Discussion on Haronic Validation Coverage - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:35 Validation for LHC experiments - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

14:45 Discussion and Plans on Validation for LHC experiments - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

15:05 Physics Performance and Benchmarking INCL++ - Alain BOUDARD (SPhN-CEA-Saclay)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Introduction and Aims - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

14:10 Topics from Attendees - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Production of excited fragments with delayed decay (isomers) - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

16:10 Models for quasi-elastic - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

16:30 Nuclear recoils: when to generate or supress

16:50 False/Failed hadronic interactions

17:10 Setting options/parameters for hadronic models
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Updates to OpenInventor Visualization - Fred Jones

16:20 Updates to Qt Visualization - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

16:40 Challenges of Vis Testing on so many Diverse Platforms - Joseph Perl (CERN)

17:00 Visualization for Geant4.10 - John Allison (University of Manchester (GB))

17:30 General Discussion - Joseph Perl (CERN)
19:30

19:30 - 21:30
Wednesday 12 September 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Developments in Geometry - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

09:15 New Developments in Analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

09:30 Progress in Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

09:50 Status and Evolution of Geant4 GUI - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

10:05 Updates on Run, Event and Detector WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

10:20 Physics List - Gunter Folger (CERN)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Merging Geant4-MT to the main development trunk and deadlines - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:25 Foreseen key interface changes in kernel and common users classes - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:40 How to migrate an application to Geant4 MT - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:50 Geant4-MT migration and Examples issues - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

12:05 Geant4-MT migration and Visualization issues - Joseph Perl (CERN)

12:17 Geant4-MT migration and GUI issues - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Ion/Ion validation in Geant4 for space applications - Anton Ivantchenko (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

14:20 Recent development and nucleus-nucleus extension of INCL++ - Davide Mancusi

14:40 Status of Charged Particle HP - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

15:00 Interfaces, hadronic model organization and requirements for low energy ion-ion reactions - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Unified Solids - Marek Gayer (CERN)

14:30 CAD to GDML converter - Emmanuel Delage (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC))

14:40 Surface-normal on global coordinates issue - John Apostolakis (CERN)

15:00 Review of thread-safety for sharable data in geometry classes - John Apostolakis (CERN)

15:20 Discussion
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Introduction of Main Issues - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

16:20 Collection of Other Issues

16:40 Discussion and work
16:00 - 18:00
Thursday 13 September 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Status of biasing in G4 - Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

09:15 New developments and tests in ReverseMC - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

09:30 Improvements in radioactive decay model and data - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

09:45 Recent and ongoing developments in hadronics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

10:00 Performance monitoing - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:05 Run, Event & Detector WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:10 Tracking WG - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)

11:15 Geometry WG - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:20 Particle & Track WG - Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University (JP))

11:25 Processes & Material WG - Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

11:30 Standard EM WG - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

11:35 Low-energy EM WG - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:40 Hadronics WG - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:45 Persistency WG - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:50 User & Category Interfaces WG - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

11:55 Visualization WG - Joseph Perl (CERN)

12:00 Novice & Extended Examples WG - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

12:05 Advanced Examples WG - Francesco Romano (Unknown)

12:10 Documentation WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:15 Software Management WG - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

12:20 Testing & Quality Assurance WG - Gunter Folger (CERN)

12:25 Physics List - Gunter Folger (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Experience in using Geant4 on the GRID - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Giovanni Santin (ESA) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

14:20 Prospects for FNAL validation DB - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:50 KISTI resources - Kihyeon Cho (KISTI) Soonwook Hwang (KiSTi Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KR))

15:10 Experience with CTest/CDash for physics validation - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Status of Work on Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

14:30 Visualization commands in examples - John Allison (University of Manchester (GB))

14:45 New Classes of General Interest: G4CommandLineOptions, G4RejectionTechnique, G4StatisticalManager - Jonathan Madsen

15:05 EM examples review; Proposal for G4UserParameters Class - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

15:20 AOB
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Muon stopping - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

16:20 How to treat consistently "hybrid processes", like electro-nuclear; the problem of hadronic dependencies - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

16:40 How to make hadronics workable for nuclear physics - Michel Maire (LAPP)

17:00 Access to Datasets - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

17:20 Making Bertini more physically realistic - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

17:40 Better modularization of the hadronic physics library, e.g. compiling G4 without CHIPS - Witold Pokorski (CERN)
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Progress in EM - Daren Lewis Sawkey

16:20 Progress on occurrence biasing: formalism, ToyMC validation, case of varying cross-sections - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

16:40 Geometry biaising facilities - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

17:00 Final state biasing: forced flight (along direction), other ? - Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

17:20 General Discussion : -feedback on design; -plans for 9.6; -plans for X
19:00

19:00 - 21:30
Friday 14 September 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Report from parallel session 1A - Giovanni Santin (ESA)

09:10 Report from parallel session 1B - Gunter Folger (CERN)

09:20 Report from parallel session 2A - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

09:30 Report from parallel session 2B - John Apostolakis (CERN)

09:40 Report from parallel session 3A - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:50 Report from parallel session 3B - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

10:00 Report from parallel session 4A - Gunter Folger (CERN)

10:10 Report from parallel session 4B - Joseph Perl (CERN)

10:20 Report from parallel session 5A - Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Report from parallel session 5B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:10 Report from parallel session 6A - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:20 Report from parallel session 6B - Joseph Perl (CERN)

11:30 Report from parallel session 7A - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

11:40 Report from parallel session 7B - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

11:50 Report from parallel session 8A - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

12:00 Report from parallel session 8B - Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

12:10 Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

12:20 Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
12:30 Collaboration meeting adjourn
Collaboration meeting adjourn
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