18th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Sept 2013
24 Sept 2013
25 Sept 2013
26 Sept 2013
27 Sept 2013
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:00) ()
09:00
Plenary session 1 - Opening addresses / open requirements -Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) Dr Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES)) (until 10:45) ()
09:00 Welcome - Dr Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))   ()
09:15 Meeting Goals - Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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09:30 HEP - Energy Frontier - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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09:45 HEP - Intensity Frontier - Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)   ()
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10:00 HEP - Cosmic Frontier and Material Science - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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10:15 Space - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))   ()
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10:30 Medical - Joseph Perl (CERN)   ()
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10:45 --- Break ---
11:15
Plenary session 2 - Collaboration tools / testing / validation -Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) Gunter Folger (CERN) (until 13:00) ()
11:15 CMake/CTest/CDash - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)   ()
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11:39 Coverity, Valgrind - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
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11:51 Hadronic physics validation tool - Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
12:03 JIRA-based tools and Bugzilla - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))   ()
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12:15 Grid validation tool - Witold Pokorski (CERN)   ()
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12:27 Publication Board procedures - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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12:39 Web pages - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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09:00
Plenary session 3 - Geant4 version 10 (part 1) - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH)) (until 10:50) ()
09:00 Multi-threading in Geant4: a general introduction - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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09:30 Geant4 10.0.0beta: first results for MT (performance, physics validation, reproducibility) - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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09:50 Migration of examples and user code to MT mode - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))   ()
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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))   ()
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10:45 --- Break ---
11:15
Plenary session 4 - Developments in kernel (non-MT) -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) (until 13:10) ()
11:15 Status of developments in the Geometry - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
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11:35 Update on Tracking - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)   ()
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11:50 Recent developments in particles - Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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12:15 Update on Event biasing - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
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12:40 Update on physics vectors and global functions - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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09:00
Plenary session 5 - Geant4 version 10 (part 2) -Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 10:45) ()
09:00 Status of Documents - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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09:20 Basic and Extended Examples - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   ()
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09:40 Advanced Examples - Francesco Romano (Unknown)   ()
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10:00 Computing performance monitoring - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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10:20 Physics validation - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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10:45 --- Break ---
11:15
Plenary session 6 - GUI / Vis / Analysis updates - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) Joseph Perl (CERN) (until 13:00) ()
11:15 Updates on Intercoms / Interfaces - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))   ()
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11:40 Visualization - Joseph Perl (CERN)   ()
12:05 Qt - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)   ()
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12:20 Analysis - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   ()
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12:40 Discussion - Joseph Perl (CERN)   ()
09:00
Plenary session 7 - EM physics - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) (until 10:45) ()
09:00 Status of standard EM - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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09:30 Status of LowE EM - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   ()
10:00 Radiolysis - Mathieu Karamitros (Centre d'Etudes Nuclรฉaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG))   ()
10:30 Discussion   ()
10:45 --- Break ---
11:15
Plenary session 8 - Hadronic physics -Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 13:00) ()
11:15 Hadronic Development Highlights - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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11:45 Hadronic Cross Sections - Witold Pokorski (CERN)   ()
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11:55 Physics Lists - Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
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12:05 Hadronic Showers - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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12:20 Predicting Properties and Performance of Calorimeters - Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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12:35 Discussion   ()
09:00
Plenary session 9 - Report from parallel sessions - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla) Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab) (until 10:45) ()
09:00 Report from Parallel Session 1A - Geant4 general paper - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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09:10 Report from Parallel Session 1B - Physics validation tools - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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09:20 Report from Parallel Session 2A - Biasing - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
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09:30 Report from Parallel Session 2B - Hadronic testing - Gunter Folger (CERN) Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)   ()
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09:40 Report from Parallel Session 3A - Computing performance - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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09:50 Report from Parallel Session 3B - Visualization / GUI - Dr Koichi Murakami (KEK) Joseph Perl (CERN)   ()
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10:00 Report from Parallel Session 4A - Recent Hadronics developments and results - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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10:10 Report from Parallel Session 4B - Geometry work session - John Apostolakis (CERN) Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
Slides - summary
10:20 Report from Parallel Session 5A - New EM models and interfaces - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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10:30 Report from Parallel Session 5B - Basic and Extended Examples - Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH)) Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   ()
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10:45 --- Break ---
11:15
Plenary session 10 - Report from parallel sessions / Closing session -Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) (until 13:00) ()
11:15 Report from Parallel Session 7A - New EM Validation results - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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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)   ()
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11:35 Report from Parallel Session 8A - Vectorization / GPU - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))   ()
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11:45 Report from Parallel Session 8B - Improvement & Future of Hadronics Physics & Software - Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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11:55 Release schedule - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
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12:05 2014 Collaboration Meeting - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))   ()
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12:10 Closing remarks - Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
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PM
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Parallel session 1A - Geant4 general paper - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 16:00) ()
notes
14:30 Introduction and Outline - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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14:45 Extensions and Validation - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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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))   ()
notes
15:50 MC2013 Poster and Demonstration - Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
14:30
Parallel session 1B - Physics validation tools - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 16:00) ()
14:30 FNAL Validation DB status - Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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14:50 CERN SimplifiedCalorimeter web-system - George Lestaris (University of Athens (GR))   ()
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15:10 Sharing common code in ctest based testing - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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15:30 Test and observable inventory for ctest/cdash automatic testing - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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15:50 Discussion time   ()
16:00 --- Break ---
16:30
Parallel session 2A - Biasing - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)) (until 18:00) ()
16:30 Introduction - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
16:35 Progress in generic biasing development - Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
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16:55 Biasing in EM - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Daren Lewis Sawkey   ()
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17:10 Progress in Reverse MC (pres. by Alex, on behalf of Laurent) - Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH) Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))   ()
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17:20 Introducing Channeling Effects - Enrico Bagli   ()
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17:35 Discussion - 1 : directory structure for new code - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
17:50 Discussion - 2 : testing, validation, examples - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))   ()
16:30
Parallel session 2B - Hadronic testing - Gunter Folger (CERN) Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab) (until 18:00) ()
16:30 Summary of hadronic validation efforts - Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)   ()
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16:50 Hadronic system tests: evolving from "run to completion" to checking the output - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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17:10 Factorization of common code for the hadronic tests - Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)   ()
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17:25 Discussion time   ()
20:15
Welcome cocktail (until 21:15) ()
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Parallel session 3A - Computing performance - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 17:00) ()
14:30 G4CP Results and Issues from ALICE - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)   ()
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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))   ()
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15:00 G4CP Results and Issues from CMS - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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15:15 G4MT CP on MIC Architecture - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)   ()
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15:30 G4CPT Profiling Tools and Results - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
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15:45 EM Code Review - Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)   ()
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16:00 Discussion   ()
16:30 --- Break ---
14:30
Parallel session 3B - Visualization / GUI - Joseph Perl (CERN) Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 16:30) ()
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 ---
17:00
Parallel session 4A - Recent Hadronics developments and results -Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN) Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 19:20) ()
17:00 Hadronic Performance toward 10.0 - Sunanda Banerjee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))   ()
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17:20 INCL++ Development for 10.0 - Dr Davide Mancusi   ()
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17:40 BERT Development for 10.0 - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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18:00 Developments in Radioactive Decay - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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18:20 Recent Muon Stopping Developments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab) Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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18:40 NeutronHP Development and Plans - Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)   ()
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17:00
Parallel session 4B - Geometry work session -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN) (until 19:00) ()
17:00 Status of development of the Unified Solids library - Marek Gayer (CERN)   ()
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17:45 Optimizing geometry routines for (SIMD)vector particle tracking: A status report - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)   ()
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18:05 Developments for multi-threading: work-spaces - John Apostolakis (CERN)   ()
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18:25 Use of precise safety by EM processes & open issues - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)   ()
18:45 Discussion   ()
20:30 --- Steering Board working dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Parallel session 5A - New EM models and interfaces -Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 16:00) ()
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 - Mr Jonathan Madsen   ()
15:30 EM code review - Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)   ()
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14:30
Parallel session 5B - Basic and Extended Examples -Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH)) (until 16:00) ()
14:30 Testing graphics in Geant4 tests (test202) - Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)   ()
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14:45 Tools for calculations in microdosimetry and radiobiology - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla)   ()
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15:00 Examples with Macros and Other Resources - Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)   ()
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15:10 Status of the planned developments: coding guidelines, MT migration, g4tools migration, code review - Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))   ()
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15:40 Disussion   ()
16:00 --- Excursion ---
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Parallel session 7A - New EM Validation results - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) (until 17:10) ()
14:30 Archeometry using Geant4 EM physics - Mr Loic Martin (Bordeaux 3 University, France)   ()
14:50 Validation of Geant4 proton scattering (by Skype) - Sacha Schwarz   ()
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15:10 EM physics for proton therapy - Mr Jae Ik Shin (National Cancer Center, Seoul)   ()
15:30 Electron multiple scattering in Geant4 - Daren Lewis Sawkey   ()
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15:50 Discussion   ()
14:30
Parallel session 7B - Hadronics issues related to MT - Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio) Witold Pokorski (CERN) (until 16:50) ()
14:30 General ideas and next year plans for HAD and MT: Introduction - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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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))   ()
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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))   ()
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15:20 Cross Sections improvements for MT - Witold Pokorski (CERN)   ()
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15:40 Use of Ions in HAD for MT - Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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15:50 Discussion   ()
16:30 --- Break ---
17:00
Parallel session 8A - Vectorization / GPU - Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 19:00) ()
17:00 An Update on the Geant Vector Prototype - Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)   ()
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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))   ()
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17:50 Discussion   ()
18:00 Geant4 based simulation of radiotherapy in CUDA - Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))   ()
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18:20 Discussion   ()
18:30 Hybrid GATE: A CPU/GPU implementation for imaging and therapy applications - Julien Berte   ()
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18:50 Discussion   ()
17:00
Parallel session 8B - Improvement & Future of Hadronics Physics & Software -Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 19:00) ()
17:00 Anticipated Needs of LHC and Calice - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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17:20 New Fission Model - Brycen Linn Wendt   ()
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17:40 The Frontiers of Geant4 Hadronic Physics - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
17:50 Discussion   ()
18:10 NeutronHP, Hadronic Framework - Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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18:20 Simpler High Energy Models - Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
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18:30 Discussion   ()
21:00
Collaboration dinner (until 23:30) ()
13:00 --- Collaboration meeting adjourn ---
14:00
Oversight Board & Steering Board joint meeting (until 15:30) ()
15:30
Steering Board meeting (until 17:00) ()