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17th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 10 September 2012 (08:30) to Friday 14 September 2012 (18:00)
Maison Saint-Yves

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
10 Sept 2012
11 Sept 2012
12 Sept 2012
13 Sept 2012
14 Sept 2012
AM
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))   ()
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09:10 Meeting goals - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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09:30 Report from user domains : HENP - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) Witold Pokorski (CERN)   ()
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09:45 Report from user domains : Space - Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA)   ()
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10:00 Report from user domains : Medical - Joseph Perl (CERN)   ()
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10:15 Report from user domains : LBE - Dennis Wright (SLAC)   ()
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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))   ()
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11:15 LHCb requirements on CMake configuration - Witold Pokorski (CERN)   ()
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11:30 CMake, CMakeLists.txt and SVN - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)   ()
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11:45 Unit test and integration test - Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
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12:00 Performance monitoring - Dr Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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12:15 Testing Geant4 using Cmake/Ctest/Cdash - Dr Pere Mato Vila (CERN)   ()
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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   ()
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09:20 Geant4 EM physics progress by ESA - Giovanni Santin (Universita degli Studi di Trieste)   ()
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09:40 EM physics for LHC - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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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)   ()
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11:25 Recent Developments in Fritiof (FTF) Model - Vladimir Uzhinskiy (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))   ()
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11:50 Using Bertini Cascade for Lepto-nuclear and Stopping Processes - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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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)   ()
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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)   ()
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10:05 Updates on Run, Event and Detector WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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10:20 Physics List - Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
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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)   ()
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11:25 Foreseen key interface changes in kernel and common users classes - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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11:40 How to migrate an application to Geant4 MT - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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11:50 Geant4-MT migration and Examples issues - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   ()
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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))   ()
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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))   ()
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09:15 New developments and tests in ReverseMC - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)   ()
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09:30 Improvements in radioactive decay model and data - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)   ()
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09:45 Recent and ongoing developments in hadronics - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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10:00 Performance monitoing - Dr Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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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))   ()
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11:05 Run, Event & Detector WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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11:10 Tracking WG - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)   ()
11:15 Geometry WG - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
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11:20 Particle & Track WG - Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University (JP))   ()
11:25 Processes & Material WG - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
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11:30 Standard EM WG - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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11:35 Low-energy EM WG - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   ()
11:40 Hadronics WG - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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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))   ()
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12:05 Advanced Examples WG - Francesco Romano (Unknown)   ()
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12:10 Documentation WG - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
12:15 Software Management WG - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)   ()
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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)   ()
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09:10 Report from parallel session 1B - Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
09:20 Report from parallel session 2A - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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09:30 Report from parallel session 2B - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)   ()
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09:40 Report from parallel session 3A - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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09:50 Report from parallel session 3B - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)   ()
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10:00 Report from parallel session 4A - Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
10:10 Report from parallel session 4B - Joseph Perl (CERN)   ()
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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)   ()
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11:10 Report from parallel session 6A - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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11:20 Report from parallel session 6B - Joseph Perl (CERN)   ()
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11:30 Report from parallel session 7A - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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11:40 Report from parallel session 7B - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   ()
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11:50 Report from parallel session 8A - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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12:00 Report from parallel session 8B - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
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12:10 Release schedule - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
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12:20 Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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PM
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   ()
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14:20 The X-Ray Rayleigh scattering model for EM standard package - Vladimir Grichine (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))   ()
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14:30 The MuElec extension for microdosimetry in Silicon - Melanie Raine   ()
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14:50 Modeling biological structures with protein data bank - Jonathan Madsen   ()
15:10 Atomic deexcitation modelling - Alfonso Mantero   ()
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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))   ()
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14:20 Profiling Geant4 with Dtrace and reordering execution for performance gain - Efstathios Kamperis   ()
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14:35 Performance of ATLAS G4 simulation - Elmar Ritsch (University of Innsbruck (AT))   ()
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14:45 Performance of CMS G4 simulation - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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14:55 cvmfs to distribute Geant4 - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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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   ()
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16:20 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Force Group on Monte Carlo Validation Sets: Geant4 related findings - Mr Ioannis Sechopoulos   ()
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16:40 Validation of gamma processes - Anton Ivantchenko (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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17:00 NCC proton therapy validation activities - Dr Se Byeong Lee   ()
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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)   ()
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16:05 C++ 11 Threads and Geant4-MT - Dr Marc Paterno (Fermilab)   ()
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16:20 Geant4-MT: Addressing requirement for dispatch-type parallelism   ()
16:35 Parallel Geant4 beyond Multi-threading - Introduction - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)   ()
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16:40 G4 on GPU: Improving Navigation in Voxel geometries - Dhruva Tirumala Bukkapatnam   ()
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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))   ()
17:20 G4 on GPU: SLAC/Stanford/Nvidia/KEK prototype - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))   ()
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17:35 G4 on GPU: Discussion   ()
17:45 Report on Vector Prototype - Andrei Gheata (CERN)   ()
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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))   ()
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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)   ()
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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)   ()
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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)   ()
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14:10 Topics from Attendees - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)   ()
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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)   ()
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16:10 Models for quasi-elastic - Witold Pokorski (CERN)   ()
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16:30 Nuclear recoils: when to generate or supress   ()
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16:50 False/Failed hadronic interactions   ()
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17:10 Setting options/parameters for hadronic models   ()
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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)   ()
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16:40 Challenges of Vis Testing on so many Diverse Platforms - Joseph Perl (CERN)   ()
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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)   ()
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14:20 Recent development and nucleus-nucleus extension of INCL++ - Davide Mancusi   ()
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14:40 Status of Charged Particle HP - Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)   ()
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15:00 Interfaces, hadronic model organization and requirements for low energy ion-ion reactions - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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14:00
Parallel session 5B : Geometry WG working session -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Unified Solids - Marek Gayer (CERN)   ()
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14:30 CAD to GDML converter - Emmanuel Delage (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC))   ()
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14:40 Surface-normal on global coordinates issue - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)   ()
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15:00 Review of thread-safety for sharable data in geometry classes - Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)   ()
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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) ()
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16:00 Introduction of Main Issues - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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16:20 Collection of Other Issues   ()
16:40 Discussion and work   ()
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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)   ()
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14:20 Prospects for FNAL validation DB - Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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14:50 KISTI resources - Prof. Kihyeon Cho (KISTI) Dr Soonwook Hwang (KiSTi Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KR))   ()
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15:10 Experience with CTest/CDash for physics validation - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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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))   ()
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14:30 Visualization commands in examples - John Allison (University of Manchester (GB))   ()
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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))   ()
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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))   ()
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16:20 How to treat consistently "hybrid processes", like electro-nuclear; the problem of hadronic dependencies - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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16:40 How to make hadronics workable for nuclear physics - Michel Maire (LAPP)   ()
17:00 Access to Datasets - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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17:20 Making Bertini more physically realistic - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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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   ()
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16:20 Progress on occurrence biasing: formalism, ToyMC validation, case of varying cross-sections - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)   ()
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16:40 Geometry biaising facilities - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))   ()
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17:00 Final state biasing: forced flight (along direction), other ? - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
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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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