Name: 18th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2013-09-23T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-09-27T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Seville, Spain

18th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 23 September 2013 (08:00) to Friday 27 September 2013 (18:00)

Monday 23 September 2013

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

09:15 Meeting Goals - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

09:30 HEP - Energy Frontier - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

09:45 HEP - Intensity Frontier - Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

10:00 HEP - Cosmic Frontier and Material Science - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

10:15 Space - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

10:30 Medical - Joseph Perl (CERN)
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Contributions

11:15 CMake/CTest/CDash - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

11:39 Coverity, Valgrind - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:51 Hadronic physics validation tool - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:03 JIRA-based tools and Bugzilla - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

12:15 Grid validation tool - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

12:27 Publication Board procedures - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:39 Web pages - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Introduction and Outline - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:45 Extensions and Validation - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:10 Discussion of Reference Papers - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:30 Discussion of Section Content - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:50 MC2013 Poster and Demonstration - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 FNAL Validation DB status - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:50 CERN SimplifiedCalorimeter web-system - George Lestaris (University of Athens (GR))

15:10 Sharing common code in ctest based testing - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:30 Test and observable inventory for ctest/cdash automatic testing - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

15:50 Discussion time
16:00 Break
Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Introduction - Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

16:35 Progress in generic biasing development - Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

16:55 Biasing in EM - Daren Lewis Sawkey Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

17:10 Progress in Reverse MC (pres. by Alex, on behalf of Laurent) - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

17:20 Introducing Channeling Effects - Enrico Bagli

17:35 Discussion - 1 : directory structure for new code - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

17:50 Discussion - 2 : testing, validation, examples - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Summary of hadronic validation efforts - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

16:50 Hadronic system tests: evolving from "run to completion" to checking the output - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

17:10 Factorization of common code for the hadronic tests - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

17:25 Discussion time
20:15

20:15 - 21:15
Tuesday 24 September 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Contributions

09:00 Multi-threading in Geant4: a general introduction - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

09:30 Geant4 10.0.0beta: first results for MT (performance, physics validation, reproducibility) - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:50 Migration of examples and user code to MT mode - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

10:15 Path to Version 10.0: review of missing action items and discussion - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:10
Contributions

11:15 Status of developments in the Geometry - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:35 Update on Tracking - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)

11:50 Recent developments in particles - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:15 Update on Event biasing - Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

12:40 Update on physics vectors and global functions - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 17:00
Contributions

14:30 G4CP Results and Issues from ALICE - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

14:45 G4CP Results and Issues from ATLAS - John Apostolakis (CERN) John Derek Chapman (University of Cambridge (GB)) Zachary Louis Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

15:00 G4CP Results and Issues from CMS - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

15:15 G4MT CP on MIC Architecture - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

15:30 G4CPT Profiling Tools and Results - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:45 EM Code Review - Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

16:00 Discussion
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Vis MT, what we want long term, what we have already achieved, what we can get done in time for release 10 - Joseph Perl (CERN)

14:55 Harmonizing verbosity between GUI and Vis - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

15:10 Getting rid of abort statements. In the UI context, it's really painful to have an application that crashes. The worst use case is the case of a missing datafile. Would rather the application ask for the missing data folder. And what does abort of a thread mean in the MT case? - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

15:25 Considering a Geant4 Configuration File where one could put information about: Macro folder, Data folder. Removing all genenv statements from Geant4 - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

15:40 Qt5. Will we support it in release 10, or should this wait? - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

15:50 Testing of Visualization. Screen captures on test202 with xwfb. Reference images - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

16:05 OpenGL migration from verion 2.1 to 3.2. Changes, problems, performance - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

16:20 Web driver for Geant4. Current status, possible usages and technical problems - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
16:30 Break
Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:20
Contributions

17:00 Hadronic Performance toward 10.0 - Sunanda Banerjee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

17:20 INCL++ Development for 10.0 - Davide Mancusi

17:40 BERT Development for 10.0 - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

18:00 Developments in Radioactive Decay - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

18:20 Recent Muon Stopping Developments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab) Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

18:40 NeutronHP Development and Plans - Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)
17:00 - 19:00
Contributions

17:00 Status of development of the Unified Solids library - Marek Gayer (CERN)

17:45 Optimizing geometry routines for (SIMD)vector particle tracking: A status report - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

18:05 Developments for multi-threading: work-spaces - John Apostolakis (CERN)

18:25 Use of precise safety by EM processes & open issues - John Apostolakis (CERN) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

18:45 Discussion
20:30 Steering Board working dinner
Steering Board working dinner
20:30 - 23:00
Wednesday 25 September 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Status of Documents - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

09:20 Basic and Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

09:40 Advanced Examples - Francesco Romano (Unknown)

10:00 Computing performance monitoring - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:20 Physics validation - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Contributions

11:15 Updates on Intercoms / Interfaces - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

11:40 Visualization - Joseph Perl (CERN)

12:05 Qt - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

12:20 Analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

12:40 Discussion - Joseph Perl (CERN)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 PIXE spectra of complex samples - Ana Canaveira Gouveia Taborda

14:50 New low energy gamma models - Jeremy Brown

15:10 New low energy electron models - Jonathan Madsen

15:30 EM code review - Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Testing graphics in Geant4 tests (test202) - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

14:45 Tools for calculations in microdosimetry and radiobiology - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla)

15:00 Examples with Macros and Other Resources - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

15:10 Status of the planned developments: coding guidelines, MT migration, g4tools migration, code review - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

15:40 Disussion
16:00 Excursion
Excursion
16:00 - 22:30
Thursday 26 September 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Status of standard EM - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

09:30 Status of LowE EM - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:00 Radiolysis - Mathieu Karamitros (Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG))

10:30 Discussion
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Contributions

11:15 Hadronic Development Highlights - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:45 Hadronic Cross Sections - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

11:55 Physics Lists - Gunter Folger (CERN)

12:05 Hadronic Showers - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

12:20 Predicting Properties and Performance of Calorimeters - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:35 Discussion
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 17:10
Contributions

14:30 Archeometry using Geant4 EM physics - Loic Martin (Bordeaux 3 University, France)

14:50 Validation of Geant4 proton scattering (by Skype) - Sacha Schwarz

15:10 EM physics for proton therapy - Jae Ik Shin (National Cancer Center, Seoul)

15:30 Electron multiple scattering in Geant4 - Daren Lewis Sawkey

15:50 Discussion
14:30 - 16:50
Contributions

14:30 General ideas and next year plans for HAD and MT: Introduction - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:40 Hadronic Process Interface changes for MT - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:00 Reducing memory footprint: strategies for MT - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:20 Cross Sections improvements for MT - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

15:40 Use of Ions in HAD for MT - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:50 Discussion
16:30 Break
Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:00
Contributions

17:00 An Update on the Geant Vector Prototype - Federico Carminati (CERN)

17:20 Discussion

17:30 An Update on a GPU Prototype - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:50 Discussion

18:00 Geant4 based simulation of radiotherapy in CUDA - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

18:20 Discussion

18:30 Hybrid GATE: A CPU/GPU implementation for imaging and therapy applications - Julien Berte

18:50 Discussion
17:00 - 19:00
Contributions

17:00 Anticipated Needs of LHC and Calice - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

17:20 New Fission Model - Brycen Linn Wendt

17:40 The Frontiers of Geant4 Hadronic Physics - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

17:50 Discussion

18:10 NeutronHP, Hadronic Framework - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

18:20 Simpler High Energy Models - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

18:30 Discussion
21:00

21:00 - 23:30
Friday 27 September 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Report from Parallel Session 1A - Geant4 general paper - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

09:10 Report from Parallel Session 1B - Physics validation tools - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:20 Report from Parallel Session 2A - Biasing - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

09:30 Report from Parallel Session 2B - Hadronic testing - Gunter Folger (CERN) Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

09:40 Report from Parallel Session 3A - Computing performance - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:50 Report from Parallel Session 3B - Visualization / GUI - Joseph Perl (CERN) Koichi Murakami (KEK)

10:00 Report from Parallel Session 4A - Recent Hadronics developments and results - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

10:10 Report from Parallel Session 4B - Geometry work session - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:20 Report from Parallel Session 5A - New EM models and interfaces - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

10:30 Report from Parallel Session 5B - Basic and Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Contributions

11:15 Report from Parallel Session 7A - New EM Validation results - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

11:25 Report from Parallel Session 7B - Hadronics issues related to MT - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

11:35 Report from Parallel Session 8A - Vectorization / GPU - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:45 Report from Parallel Session 8B - Improvement & Future of Hadronics Physics & Software - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:55 Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

12:05 2014 Collaboration Meeting - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

12:10 Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
13:00 Collaboration meeting adjourn
Collaboration meeting adjourn
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