18th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Seville, Spain
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Registration
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Plenary session 1 - Opening addresses / open requirements
Opening addresses / open requirements / issues from users
Conveners: Dr Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))-
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Welcome 15mSpeaker: Dr Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))
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Break 30m
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Plenary session 2 - Collaboration tools / testing / validation
CMake, CDash/CTest, validation tools, publication tool, etc.
Conveners: Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick), Gunter Folger (CERN)- 11:15
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Hadronic physics validation tool 10mSpeaker: Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Lunch break 1h 30m
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Parallel session 1A - Geant4 general paper
Collection and review of sections written for general paper
Discussion of contents of introduction and summary
Planning future workConveners: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))- 14:30
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Discussion of Reference Papers 20mSpeaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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MC2013 Poster and Demonstration 10mSpeaker: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Parallel session 1B - Physics validation tools
- FNAL DB
- Sharing common code in ctest based testing
- Further extending ctest system for physics validation: produce prioritized list of quantities to check
- CERN SimplifiedCalorimeter web-system (t.b.c.)
- Discussion on next steps
Conveners: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))- 14:30
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Discussion time 10m
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Break 30m
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Parallel session 2A - Biasing
o status report
- presentations, discussions on existing, missing, difficulties, design, etc.
o finalizing for 10.0:
- functionalities provided
- directory structure
- tests and examples
- documentation
o paper(s) :
- one "theory" + one "design and implementation" ; or one all together ?Conveners: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))-
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Introduction 5mSpeaker: Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
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Discussion - 1 : directory structure for new code 15mSpeakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
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Discussion - 2 : testing, validation, examples 10mSpeakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
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Parallel session 2B - Hadronic testing
- Coverage of hadronic validation efforts
- Factorization of common code for hadronic tests
- Hadronic system tests: evolving from just run to completion to some kind of check of the output
- Discussion
Conveners: Gunter Folger (CERN), Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)- 16:30
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Discussion time 35m
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Welcome cocktail
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Plenary session 3 - Geant4 version 10 (part 1)
Thread safety, Major API changes
Conveners: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))- 09:00
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Plenary session 4 - Developments in kernel (non-MT)
Geometry, particle table, biasing, globals, tracking
Conveners: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)- 11:15
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Lunch break 1h 30m
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Parallel session 3A - Computing performance
- Computing performance benchmarking and monitoring including G4MT
- Computing performance issues from experiments ( ... may be 2-3 talks)
- EM code review from the performance perspective.
- Discussion
Conveners: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))- 14:30
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Discussion 30m
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Parallel session 3B - Visualization / GUI
This will be a working session on visualization and GUI issues.
There will be no formal talks, but participants may bring slides that outline issues to be discussed and worked on. All collaboration members are welcome to participate, and their input will be appreciated, but discussions may move quickly and may assume a high level of familiarity with the existing visualization and GUI design.Conveners: Joseph Perl (CERN), Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))-
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Vis MT, what we want long term, what we have already achieved, what we can get done in time for release 10 25mSpeaker: Joseph Perl (CERN)
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Harmonizing verbosity between GUI and Vis 15mSpeaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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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? 15mSpeaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Considering a Geant4 Configuration File where one could put information about: Macro folder, Data folder. Removing all genenv statements from Geant4 15mSpeaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Qt5. Will we support it in release 10, or should this wait? 10mSpeaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Testing of Visualization. Screen captures on test202 with xwfb. Reference images 15mSpeaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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OpenGL migration from verion 2.1 to 3.2. Changes, problems, performance 15mSpeaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Web driver for Geant4. Current status, possible usages and technical problems 10mSpeaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Parallel session 4A - Recent Hadronics developments and results
Status report of all on-going developments in hadronics, possibly with some (even very preliminary) results. A few hadronic topics could be already covered by plenary talks: in these cases, more technical details, or discussions, could be reserved to this parallel session.
Conveners: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))- 17:00
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Parallel session 4B - Geometry work session
Review of recent developments and updates to the geometry module.
Status of the development of the new Unified Solids Library.
Review of multi-threading adaptations for thread-private memory initialisation.
Use of navigation utilities from EM processes.Conveners: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)- 17:00
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Use of precise safety by EM processes & open issues 20mSpeakers: John Apostolakis (CERN), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Discussion 15m
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Steering Board working dinner 2h 30m
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Plenary session 5 - Geant4 version 10 (part 2)
Work plan of Documents, examples toward version 10, validation procedures, post 10.0 release
Conveners: Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)), Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))- 09:00
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Plenary session 6 - GUI / Vis / Analysis updates
Highlights of developments
Conveners: Joseph Perl (CERN), Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))- 11:15
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Visualization 25mSpeaker: Joseph Perl (CERN)
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Discussion 20mSpeaker: Joseph Perl (CERN)
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Lunch break 1h 30m
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Parallel session 5A - New EM models and interfaces
discussion on new models, migration to MT and new interfaces
Conveners: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)-
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PIXE spectra of complex samples 20mSpeaker: Ana Canaveira Gouveia Taborda
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New low energy gamma models 20mSpeaker: Jeremy Brown
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New low energy electron models 20mSpeaker: Mr Jonathan Madsen
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Parallel session 5B - Basic and Extended Examples
Basic And Extended Examples working session
Conveners: Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)), Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))- 14:30
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Disussion 20m
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Excursion 6h 30m
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Plenary session 7 - EM physics
Highlights of developments
Conveners: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)- 09:00
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Status of LowE EM 30mSpeaker: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Radiolysis 30mSpeaker: Mathieu Karamitros (Centre d'Etudes Nuclรฉaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG))
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Discussion 15m
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Break 30m
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Plenary session 8 - Hadronic physics
Highlights of developments
Conveners: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN), Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))- 11:15
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Discussion 25m
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Lunch break 1h 30m
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Parallel session 7A - New EM Validation results
EM validation results and problems
Conveners: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)-
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Archeometry using Geant4 EM physics 20mSpeaker: Mr Loic Martin (Bordeaux 3 University, France)
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EM physics for proton therapy 20mSpeaker: Mr Jae Ik Shin (National Cancer Center, Seoul)
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Discussion 40m
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Parallel session 7B - Hadronics issues related to MT
- Ions (stable nuclei and isomers)
- hadronic cross sections
- any other hadronic issue relevant for MT
Conveners: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Witold Pokorski (CERN)- 14:30
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Discussion 30m
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Parallel session 8A - Vectorization / GPU
Vectorization / GPU
Conveners: Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))- 17:00
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Discussion 10m
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Discussion 10m
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Discussion 10m
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Parallel session 8B - Improvement & Future of Hadronics Physics & Software
Keeping both a medium-term and a long-term prospective, some topics of discussions could be:
- evolution, extension and improvement of hadronic physics
- default hadronic cross sections and models
- hadronic framework
- how hadronic physics is used in physics listsConveners: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))- 17:00
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The Frontiers of Geant4 Hadronic Physics 10mSpeaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Discussion 20m
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Discussion 30m
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Collaboration dinner
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Plenary session 9 - Report from parallel sessions
Parallel 1A-5B (10 minutes each, including discussion)
Conveners: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla)- 09:00
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Break 30m
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Plenary session 10 - Report from parallel sessions / Closing session
Parallel 7A-8B (10 minutes each, including discussion)
Collaboration matters, release scheduleConveners: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))- 11:15
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Collaboration meeting adjourn 5m
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Oversight Board & Steering Board joint meeting
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Steering Board meeting
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