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)
Maison Saint-Yves

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

10 Sept 2012

11 Sept 2012

12 Sept 2012

13 Sept 2012

14 Sept 2012

08:30	Registration (until 09:00) ()
09:00	Plenary session 1 : Opening Addresses -Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) (until 10:30) ()
09:00	Welcome (workshop logistics) - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) () Slides
09:10	Meeting goals - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
09:30	Report from user domains : HENP - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) Witold Pokorski (CERN) () Slides
09:45	Report from user domains : Space - Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA) () Slides
10:00	Report from user domains : Medical - Joseph Perl (CERN) () Slides
10:15	Report from user domains : LBE - Dennis Wright (SLAC) () Slides
10:30	--- Break ---
11:00	Plenary session 2 : Open Requirements / Collaboration Tools -Dr Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES)) Mr Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS) (until 12:30) ()
11:00	CMS requirements on multi-threading - Dr Christopher Jones (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides
11:15	LHCb requirements on CMake configuration - Witold Pokorski (CERN) () Slides
11:30	CMake, CMakeLists.txt and SVN - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) () Paper Slides
11:45	Unit test and integration test - Gunter Folger (CERN) () Slides
12:00	Performance monitoring - Dr Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides
12:15	Testing Geant4 using Cmake/Ctest/Cdash - Dr Pere Mato Vila (CERN) () Slides

09:00	Plenary session 3 : Electromagnetic physics (Std-EM, LowE-EM) -Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 10:30) ()
09:00	Validation of Geant4 versus EGS - Dr Yann Perrot () Slides
09:20	Geant4 EM physics progress by ESA - Giovanni Santin (Universita degli Studi di Trieste) () Slides
09:40	EM physics for LHC - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) () Slides
10:05	Geant4-DNA progress - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) ()
10:30	--- Break ---
11:00	Plenary session 4 : Hadronic physics -Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 12:30) ()
11:00	Status of Hadronic Shower Simulation for LHC - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) () Slides
11:25	Recent Developments in Fritiof (FTF) Model - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU)) () Slides
11:50	Using Bertini Cascade for Lepto-nuclear and Stopping Processes - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
12:15	Discussion - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) ()

09:00	Plenary session 5 : Ongoing Developments I (Non-Physics) - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) (until 10:30) ()
09:00	Developments in Geometry - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) () Slides
09:15	New Developments in Analysis - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) ()
09:30	Progress in Extended Examples - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) ()
09:50	Status and Evolution of Geant4 GUI - Mr Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS) () Slides
10:05	Updates on Run, Event and Detector WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
10:20	Physics List - Gunter Folger (CERN) () Slides
10:30	--- Break ---
11:00	Plenary session 6 : Towards Geant4 version X, part 1 -Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) (until 12:30) ()
11:00	Merging Geant4-MT to the main development trunk and deadlines - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) () Slides
11:25	Foreseen key interface changes in kernel and common users classes - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
11:40	How to migrate an application to Geant4 MT - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
11:50	Geant4-MT migration and Examples issues - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) () Slides
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)) () Slides

09:00	Plenary session 7 : Ongoing Developments II (Physics) - Michel Maire (LAPP) Gunter Folger (CERN) (until 10:30) ()
09:00	Status of biasing in G4 - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) () Slides
09:15	New developments and tests in ReverseMC - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH) () Slides
09:30	Improvements in radioactive decay model and data - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH) () Slides
09:45	Recent and ongoing developments in hadronics - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) () Slides
10:00	Performance monitoing - Dr Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides
10:30	--- Break ---
11:00	Plenary session 8 : Towards Geant4 version X, part 2 - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 12:30) ()
11:00	Introduction - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
11:05	Run, Event & Detector WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
11:10	Tracking WG - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) ()
11:15	Geometry WG - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) () Slides
11:20	Particle & Track WG - Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University (JP)) ()
11:25	Processes & Material WG - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) () Slides
11:30	Standard EM WG - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) () Slides
11:35	Low-energy EM WG - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) ()
11:40	Hadronics WG - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) () Slides
11:45	Persistency WG - Dr 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 - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) () Slides
12:05	Advanced Examples WG - Francesco Romano (Unknown) () Slides
12:10	Documentation WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) ()
12:15	Software Management WG - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) () Slides
12:20	Testing & Quality Assurance WG - Gunter Folger (CERN) ()
12:25	Physics List - Gunter Folger (CERN) ()

09:00	Plenary session 9 : Parallel Session Reports - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Witold Pokorski (CERN) (until 10:30) ()
09:00	Report from parallel session 1A - Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA) () Slides
09:10	Report from parallel session 1B - Gunter Folger (CERN) ()
09:20	Report from parallel session 2A - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) () Slides
09:30	Report from parallel session 2B - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Slides
09:40	Report from parallel session 3A - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides
09:50	Report from parallel session 3B - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) () Slides
10:00	Report from parallel session 4A - Gunter Folger (CERN) ()
10:10	Report from parallel session 4B - Joseph Perl (CERN) () Slides
10:20	Report from parallel session 5A - Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES)) ()
10:30	--- Break ---
11:00	Plenary session 10 : Closing Session - Alexander Howard (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik) (until 12:30) ()
11:00	Report from parallel session 5B - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) () Slides
11:10	Report from parallel session 6A - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
11:20	Report from parallel session 6B - Joseph Perl (CERN) () Slides
11:30	Report from parallel session 7A - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) () Slides
11:40	Report from parallel session 7B - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) () Slides
11:50	Report from parallel session 8A - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) () Slides
12:00	Report from parallel session 8B - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) () Slides
12:10	Release schedule - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) () Slides
12:20	Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides

12:30	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Parallel session 1A : New EM model developments -Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA) (until 15:30) ()
14:00	New Compton model - Jeremy Brown () Slides
14:20	The X-Ray Rayleigh scattering model for EM standard package - Vladimir Grichine (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) () Slides
14:30	The MuElec extension for microdosimetry in Silicon - Melanie Raine () Slides
14:50	Modeling biological structures with protein data bank - Jonathan Madsen ()
15:10	Atomic deexcitation modelling - Alfonso Mantero () Slides
14:00	Parallel session 1B: Testing and QA - Gunter Folger (CERN) (until 15:30) ()
14:00	Regular performance monitoring - tools, process, and results - Dr Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides
14:20	Profiling Geant4 with Dtrace and reordering execution for performance gain - Efstathios Kamperis () Slides
14:35	Performance of ATLAS G4 simulation - Elmar Ritsch (University of Innsbruck (AT)) () Slides
14:45	Performance of CMS G4 simulation - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides
14:55	cvmfs to distribute Geant4 - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) () Slides
15:10	Testing shifts - experience and topics for improvement; guided discussion ()
15:30	--- Break ---
16:00	Parallel session 2A : New EM validation results -Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) (until 18:00) ()
16:00	Validation of high energy muon scattering using L3 data - Michael Schenk () Slides
16:20	American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Force Group on Monte Carlo Validation Sets: Geant4 related findings - Mr Ioannis Sechopoulos () Slides
16:40	Validation of gamma processes - Anton Ivantchenko (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) () Slides
17:00	NCC proton therapy validation activities - Dr Se Byeong Lee () Slides
17:20	RBE computations in Geant4 medical applications - Francesco Romano (Unknown) ()
17:40	Discussion on validation and Physics List - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) ()
16:00	Parallel session 2B : Parallelization Efforts -Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) (until 18:00) ()
16:00	Goals of session - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Slides
16:05	C++ 11 Threads and Geant4-MT - Dr Marc Paterno (Fermilab) () code Paper Slides
16:20	Geant4-MT: Addressing requirement for dispatch-type parallelism ()
16:35	Parallel Geant4 beyond Multi-threading - Introduction - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Slides
16:40	G4 on GPU: Improving Navigation in Voxel geometries - Dhruva Tirumala Bukkapatnam () Slides
16:50	G4 on GPU: Propagation in Field and EM Bremstrahlung process - Mr Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Dr Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides dwjang_geant_collaboration_Sep2012.pdf g4_on_gpu_collab12_syjun.pdf Geant4Collaboration-GPU-Prototype.pdf
17:20	G4 on GPU: SLAC/Stanford/Nvidia/KEK prototype - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) () Slides
17:35	G4 on GPU: Discussion ()
17:45	Report on Vector Prototype - Andrei Gheata (CERN) () Slides
18:15	Welcome Wine & Chesse (until 19:30) ()

12:30	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Parallel session 3A : Hadronic Validation - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 15:35) ()
14:00	Current Coverage of Hadronic Validation - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
14:15	Discussion on Haronic Validation Coverage - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides 3A-GeneralHadVal-Discussion.pdf 3A-GeneralHadVal-Discussion.pptx Comments_on_modeling_of_hadron-nucleus_interactions.pdf Comments_on_modeling_of_hadron-nucleus_interactions.pptx
14:35	Validation for LHC experiments - Witold Pokorski (CERN) () Slides
14:45	Discussion and Plans on Validation for LHC experiments - Witold Pokorski (CERN) Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) ()
15:05	Physics Performance and Benchmarking INCL++ - Dr Alain BOUDARD (SPhN-CEA-Saclay) () Slides
14:00	Parallel session 3B : Tools for Development and Testing of Geant4 Libraries and Applications -Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) (until 15:30) ()
14:00	Introduction and Aims - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) () Slides
14:10	Topics from Attendees - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) () Slides
15:30	--- Break ---
16:00	Parallel session 4A : Hadronic Issues - Gunter Folger (CERN) (until 18:00) ()
16:00	Production of excited fragments with delayed decay (isomers) - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) () Slides
16:10	Models for quasi-elastic - Witold Pokorski (CERN) () Slides
16:30	Nuclear recoils: when to generate or supress () Slides
16:50	False/Failed hadronic interactions () Slides
17:10	Setting options/parameters for hadronic models () Slides
16:00	Parallel session 4B : Visualization - Joseph Perl (CERN) (until 18:00) ()
16:00	Updates to OpenInventor Visualization - Fred Jones ()
16:20	Updates to Qt Visualization - Mr Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS) () Slides
16:40	Challenges of Vis Testing on so many Diverse Platforms - Joseph Perl (CERN) () Slides
17:00	Visualization for Geant4.10 - John Allison (University of Manchester (GB)) ()
17:30	General Discussion - Joseph Perl (CERN) ()
19:30	Steering Board working dinner (until 21:30) ()

12:30	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Parallel session 5A : Ion-Ion interactions - Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES)) (until 15:30) ()
14:00	Ion/Ion validation in Geant4 for space applications - Anton Ivantchenko (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) () Slides
14:20	Recent development and nucleus-nucleus extension of INCL++ - Davide Mancusi () Slides
14:40	Status of Charged Particle HP - Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT) () Slides
15:00	Interfaces, hadronic model organization and requirements for low energy ion-ion reactions - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
14:00	Parallel session 5B : Geometry WG working session -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 15:30) ()
14:00	Unified Solids - Marek Gayer (CERN) () Slides
14:30	CAD to GDML converter - Emmanuel Delage (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC)) () Slides
14:40	Surface-normal on global coordinates issue - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Slides
15:00	Review of thread-safety for sharable data in geometry classes - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN) () Slides
15:20	Discussion ()
15:30	--- Break ---
16:00	Parallel session 6A : Rethinking the Hadronic Framework - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 18:00) () slides
16:00	Introduction of Main Issues - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
16:20	Collection of Other Issues ()
16:40	Discussion and work () Slides
16:00	Parallel session 6B : Visualization Working Session - Joseph Perl (CERN) (until 18:00) ()

12:30	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Parallel session 7A : Tools and Strategies for Physics Validation - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) (until 15:30) ()
14:00	Experience in using Geant4 on the GRID - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) Witold Pokorski (CERN) Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA) () Slides
14:20	Prospects for FNAL validation DB - Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) () Slides
14:50	KISTI resources - Prof. Kihyeon Cho (KISTI) Dr Soonwook Hwang (KiSTi Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KR)) () Slides
15:10	Experience with CTest/CDash for physics validation - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) () Slides
14:00	Parallel session 7B : Work on Extended Examples -Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) (until 15:30) ()
14:00	Status of Work on Extended Examples - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) () Slides
14:30	Visualization commands in examples - John Allison (University of Manchester (GB)) () Slides
14:45	New Classes of General Interest: G4CommandLineOptions, G4RejectionTechnique, G4StatisticalManager - Jonathan Madsen ()
15:05	EM examples review; Proposal for G4UserParameters Class - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) () Slides
15:20	AOB ()
15:30	--- Break ---
16:00	Parallel session 8A : Hadronic Discussion -Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 18:00) ()
16:00	Muon stopping - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
16:20	How to treat consistently "hybrid processes", like electro-nuclear; the problem of hadronic dependencies - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
16:40	How to make hadronics workable for nuclear physics - Michel Maire (LAPP) ()
17:00	Access to Datasets - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) () Slides
17:20	Making Bertini more physically realistic - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) () Slides
17:40	Better modularization of the hadronic physics library, e.g. compiling G4 without CHIPS - Witold Pokorski (CERN) ()
16:00	Parallel session 8B : Event Biasing -Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) (until 18:00) ()
16:00	Progress in EM - Daren Lewis Sawkey () Slides
16:20	Progress on occurrence biasing: formalism, ToyMC validation, case of varying cross-sections - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH) () Slides
16:40	Geometry biaising facilities - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) () Slides
17:00	Final state biasing: forced flight (along direction), other ? - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) () Slides
17:20	General Discussion : -feedback on design; -plans for 9.6; -plans for X ()
19:00	Collaboration dinner (until 21:30) ()

12:30	--- Collaboration meeting adjourn ---
14:00	Oversight Board + Steering Board joint meeting (until 15:30) ()
15:30	--- Break ---
16:00	Steering Board meeting (until 18:00) ()

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