18th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

23 Sept 2013, 08:00 → 27 Sept 2013, 18:00 Europe/Madrid

Seville, Spain

The 18th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting will take place in Seville, Spain, from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th of September 2013. This is a Geant4 Collaborators only meeting. The main web page of this collaboration meeting, including registration forms is: http://congreso.us.es/geant42013/

Monday 23 September

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:45 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))

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

09:15 Meeting Goals

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides MeetingGoals.pdf MeetingGoals.pptx

09:30 HEP - Energy Frontier

Speaker: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides talk_requirementsHEP_seville2013-2.pdf

09:45 HEP - Intensity Frontier

Speaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

Slides klg_FNALIFExp_g420130923.pdf

10:00 HEP - Cosmic Frontier and Material Science

Speaker: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

Slides HEP_Cosmic_Froniter_and_Material_Science.pdf

10:15 Space

Speaker: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides ah_space_plenary.pdf

10:30 Medical

Speaker: Joseph Perl (CERN)

Slides MedicalRequirementsSeville_20130923a.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 13:00 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 CMake/CTest/CDash

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

Slides G4CMake-Plenary2-BenMorgan.pdf geant4-dev-pocketguide.pdf

11:39 Coverity, Valgrind

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Slides Coverity_Valgrind.pdf Coverity_Valgrind.pptx

11:51 Hadronic physics validation tool

Speaker: Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides

• G4Validation.pdf
• G4Validation.pdf
• G4Validation.pptx

12:03 JIRA-based tools and Bugzilla

Speaker: Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

Slides jira_bugzilla.pdf jira_bugzilla.pptx

12:15 Grid validation tool

Speaker: Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Slides GRIDG4.pdf

12:27 Publication Board procedures

Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides PubTools.pdf PubTools.ppt

12:39 Web pages

Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Kelsey_G4Web.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 16:00 Parallel session 1A - Geant4 general paper

Collection and review of sections written for general paper
Discussion of contents of introduction and summary
Planning future work

Conveners: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

notes EduPad for contributions during discussions

14:30 Introduction and Outline

Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides GenPaper.pdf GenPaper.ppt

14:45 Extensions and Validation

Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides G4_Paper_Extensions.pdf

15:10 Discussion of Reference Papers

Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:30 Discussion of Section Content

Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

notes Discussion minutes and input from section authors

15:50 MC2013 Poster and Demonstration

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:30 → 16:00 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 FNAL Validation DB status

Speakers: Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides G4Validation_parallel.pdf G4Validation_parallel.pptx

14:50 CERN SimplifiedCalorimeter web-system

Speaker: George Lestaris (University of Athens (GR))

Slides CollMeeting.pdf

15:10 Sharing common code in ctest based testing

Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides Sharing_common_code.pdf

15:30 Test and observable inventory for ctest/cdash automatic testing

Speakers: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN), Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides Automatic_testing.pdf

15:50 Discussion time

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:00 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))

16:30 Introduction

Speaker: Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

16:35 Progress in generic biasing development

Speaker: Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

Slides Parallel-2A-Verderi-bis.pdf Parallel-2A-Verderi-bis.pptx

16:55 Biasing in EM

Speakers: Daren Lewis Sawkey, Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides EMBiasing.pdf

17:10 Progress in Reverse MC (pres. by Alex, on behalf of Laurent)

Speakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)

Slides Laurent_G4RMC_G4Meeting2013.pdf Laurent_G4RMC_G4Meeting2013.ppt

17:20 Introducing Channeling Effects

Speaker: Enrico Bagli

Slides ebagli_130923_SevillaG4.pdf ebagli_130923_SevillaG4.pptx

17:35 Discussion - 1 : directory structure for new code

Speakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

17:50 Discussion - 2 : testing, validation, examples

Speakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

16:30 → 18:00 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 Summary of hadronic validation efforts

Speaker: Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

Slides HAD-Val-Summary-Sept2013.pdf

16:50 Hadronic system tests: evolving from "run to completion" to checking the output

Speaker: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

Slides Hadronics_testing_-_physics_validationa.pdf

17:10 Factorization of common code for the hadronic tests

Speaker: Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

Slides HAD-Val-CommonSW.pdf

17:25 Discussion time

20:15 → 21:15 Welcome cocktail

Tuesday 24 September

09:00 → 10:50 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 Multi-threading in Geant4: a general introduction

Speaker: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

Slides General_Introduction.pdf

09:30 Geant4 10.0.0beta: first results for MT (performance, physics validation, reproducibility)

Speakers: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN), Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides talk_testMT_seville2013.pdf

09:50 Migration of examples and user code to MT mode

Speakers: Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)), Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

Slides examples_mt.pdf Presentation with updated guidelines

10:15 Path to Version 10.0: review of missing action items and discussion

Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

Slides MT_todos.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 13:10 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 Status of developments in the Geometry

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Slides Geometry-Updates.pdf Geometry-Updates.pptx

11:35 Update on Tracking

Speaker: Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)

Slides Tracking_update.pdf Tracking_update.pptx

11:50 Recent developments in particles

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides KernelUpdates.pdf KernelUpdates.pptx

12:15 Update on Event biasing

Speaker: Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

Slides Plenary4-Verderi.pdf Plenary4-Verderi.pptx

12:40 Update on physics vectors and global functions

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides G4POW.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 17:00 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 G4CP Results and Issues from ALICE

Speaker: Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

Slides G4PerformanceALICESevilla.pdf

14:45 G4CP Results and Issues from ATLAS

Speakers: John Apostolakis (CERN), John Derek Chapman (University of Cambridge (GB)), Zachary Louis Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides ATLAS_SimBench_2013.09.23.pdf

15:00 G4CP Results and Issues from CMS

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides CMSperf.pdf

15:15 G4MT CP on MIC Architecture

Speaker: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

Slides MT_Perforamnces_MIC.pdf

15:30 G4CPT Profiling Tools and Results

Speaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides performance_syjun.pdf

15:45 EM Code Review

Speaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

Slides klg_EMCodeReview_g420130924p.pdf

16:00 Discussion

16:30 Break

14:30 → 16:30 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))

14:30 Vis MT, what we want long term, what we have already achieved, what we can get done in time for release 10

Speaker: Joseph Perl (CERN)

14:55 Harmonizing verbosity between GUI and Vis

Speaker: 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?

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

15:40 Qt5. Will we support it in release 10, or should this wait?

Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

15:50 Testing of Visualization. Screen captures on test202 with xwfb. Reference images

Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

16:05 OpenGL migration from verion 2.1 to 3.2. Changes, problems, performance

Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

16:20 Web driver for Geant4. Current status, possible usages and technical problems

Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

16:30 → 17:00 Break

17:00 → 19:20 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 Hadronic Performance toward 10.0

Speaker: Sunanda Banerjee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

Slides Validation_G4_01.pdf

17:20 INCL++ Development for 10.0

Speaker: Dr Davide Mancusi

Slides Mancusi_INCLXX.pdf

17:40 BERT Development for 10.0

Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Bertini_10.0.pdf

18:00 Developments in Radioactive Decay

Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides RDMPlan.pdf RDMPlan.ppt

18:20 Recent Muon Stopping Developments

Speakers: Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab), Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides klg_muonStopping_g420130924.pdf

18:40 NeutronHP Development and Plans

Speaker: Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

Slides EMendoza_G4_Sevilla_Sept2013.pdf

17:00 → 19:00 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 Status of development of the Unified Solids library

Speaker: Marek Gayer (CERN)

Slides current-status-of-the-development-of-the-unified-solids-library3.pdf current-status-of-the-development-of-the-unified-solids-library3.pptx

17:45 Optimizing geometry routines for (SIMD)vector particle tracking: A status report

Speaker: Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

Slides SevillaGeomSIMDRefact.pdf

18:05 Developments for multi-threading: work-spaces

Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides Extending_G4MT_for_TBB_-_Status_Sept_2013.pdf

18:25 Use of precise safety by EM processes & open issues

Speakers: John Apostolakis (CERN), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

18:45 Discussion

20:30 → 23:00 Steering Board working dinner

Wednesday 25 September

09:00 → 10:45 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 Status of Documents

Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides DocWG_10.0.pdf

09:20 Basic and Extended Examples

Speaker: Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Slides examples_plenary.pdf

09:40 Advanced Examples

Speaker: Francesco Romano (Unknown)

Slides romano_advanced_examples_WK2013.pdf

10:00 Computing performance monitoring

Speaker: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides DE-G4CPTask.pdf DE-G4CPTask.pptx

10:20 Physics validation

Speaker: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)

Slides Physics_Validation_Report.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 13:00 Plenary session 6 - GUI / Vis / Analysis updates

Highlights of developments

Conveners: Joseph Perl (CERN), Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

11:15 Updates on Intercoms / Interfaces

Speaker: Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

Slides ui_update.pdf ui_update.pptx

11:40 Visualization

Speaker: Joseph Perl (CERN)

12:05 Qt

Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

Slides 013-Seville-PlenaryQtDriver.pdf

12:20 Analysis

Speaker: Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Slides analysis.pdf

12:40 Discussion

Speaker: Joseph Perl (CERN)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 16:00 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)

14:30 PIXE spectra of complex samples

Speaker: Ana Canaveira Gouveia Taborda

14:50 New low energy gamma models

Speaker: Jeremy Brown

15:10 New low energy electron models

Speaker: Mr Jonathan Madsen

15:30 EM code review

Speaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

Slides klg_EMCodeReview_g420130925e.pdf

14:30 → 16:00 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 Testing graphics in Geant4 tests (test202)

Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

Slides 2013-Seville-TestingSession.pdf 2013-Seville-TestingSession.ppt

14:45 Tools for calculations in microdosimetry and radiobiology

Speaker: Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla)

Slides MACG_18thG4CM.pdf

15:00 Examples with Macros and Other Resources

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)

Slides G42013-DataPaths-BenMorgan.pdf

15:10 Status of the planned developments: coding guidelines, MT migration, g4tools migration, code review

Speakers: Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)), Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

Slides examples_parallel.pdf

15:40 Disussion

16:00 → 22:30 Excursion

Thursday 26 September

09:00 → 10:45 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 Status of standard EM

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides EMSTDstatus.pdf

09:30 Status of LowE EM

Speaker: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:00 Radiolysis

Speaker: Mathieu Karamitros (Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG))

10:30 Discussion

10:45 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 13:00 Plenary session 8 - Hadronic physics

Highlights of developments

Conveners: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN), Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:15 Hadronic Development Highlights

Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Kelsey_Had_Summary.pdf

11:45 Hadronic Cross Sections

Speaker: Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Slides XSG4.pdf

11:55 Physics Lists

Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)

Slides Hadronic_Physics_Lists.pdf Hadronic_Physics_Lists.pptx

12:05 Hadronic Showers

Speaker: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides talk_hadronicShowers_seville2013.pdf

12:20 Predicting Properties and Performance of Calorimeters

Speaker: Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides G4colmtg.pdf G4colmtg.pptx

12:35 Discussion

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 17:10 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)

14:30 Archeometry using Geant4 EM physics

Speaker: Mr Loic Martin (Bordeaux 3 University, France)

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

Speaker: Sacha Schwarz

Slides Geant4Workshop_Seville2013_SachaSchwarz.pdf

15:10 EM physics for proton therapy

Speaker: Mr Jae Ik Shin (National Cancer Center, Seoul)

15:30 Electron multiple scattering in Geant4

Speaker: Daren Lewis Sawkey

Slides emsc_g410beta.cand01.pdf emsc_g410beta.cand01.ppt

15:50 Discussion

14:30 → 16:50 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 General ideas and next year plans for HAD and MT: Introduction

Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Kelsey_Had_MT.pdf

14:40 Hadronic Process Interface changes for MT

Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides MT_Hadronics.pdf

15:00 Reducing memory footprint: strategies for MT

Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Memory_Reduction_HAD.pdf

15:20 Cross Sections improvements for MT

Speaker: Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Slides MTXSG4.pdf

15:40 Use of Ions in HAD for MT

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides IonsUpdate.pdf IonsUpdate.pptx

15:50 Discussion

16:30 → 17:00 Break

17:00 → 19:00 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 An Update on the Geant Vector Prototype

Speaker: Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)

Slides G4workshop2013-sanit.pdf

17:20 Discussion

17:30 An Update on a GPU Prototype

Speakers: Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides gpu_syjun.pdf

17:50 Discussion

18:00 Geant4 based simulation of radiotherapy in CUDA

Speaker: Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

Slides G4CU-G4WS13_v3.pdf G4CU-G4WS13_v3.pptx

18:20 Discussion

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

Speaker: Julien Berte

Slides hGATE_Bert_G4_meeting.pdf

18:50 Discussion

17:00 → 19:00 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 lists

Conveners: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

17:00 Anticipated Needs of LHC and Calice

Speaker: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides talk_anticipated_needs_lhc_calice.pdf

17:20 New Fission Model

Speaker: Brycen Linn Wendt

Slides BWendt_-_FissFragGen_-_Sept26CollWkshp.pdf BWendt_-_FissFragGen_-_Sept26CollWkshp.pptx

17:40 The Frontiers of Geant4 Hadronic Physics

Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides

• ideas_future_hadronics_seville2013.pdf
• NewG4Phys.pdf
• NewG4Phys.ppt

17:50 Discussion

18:10 NeutronHP, Hadronic Framework

Speaker: Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides NeutronHP_package_and_Hadronic_Framework.pdf NeutronHP_package_and_Hadronic_Framework.pptx

18:20 Simpler High Energy Models

Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides NewStringModels.pdf NewStringModels.ppt

18:30 Discussion

21:00 → 23:30 Collaboration dinner

Friday 27 September

09:00 → 10:45 Plenary session 9 - Report from parallel sessions

Parallel 1A-5B (10 minutes each, including discussion)

Conveners: Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab), Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla)

09:00 Report from Parallel Session 1A - Geant4 general paper

Speakers: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides GenPaper.pdf GenPaper.ppt

09:10 Report from Parallel Session 1B - Physics validation tools

Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides Parallel1BReport.pdf

09:20 Report from Parallel Session 2A - Biasing

Speakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

Slides ah_summary_parallel_2a.pdf

09:30 Report from Parallel Session 2B - Hadronic testing

Speakers: Gunter Folger (CERN), Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

Slides 2B-Summary.pdf

09:40 Report from Parallel Session 3A - Computing performance

Speakers: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides session_3A_performance.pdf

09:50 Report from Parallel Session 3B - Visualization / GUI

Speakers: Joseph Perl (CERN), Dr Koichi Murakami (KEK)

Slides Parallel3B.pdf

10:00 Report from Parallel Session 4A - Recent Hadronics developments and results

Speakers: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Parallel_4A.pdf

10:10 Report from Parallel Session 4B - Geometry work session

Speakers: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides - summary GeometrySummary-G4Wrk2013.pdf

10:20 Report from Parallel Session 5A - New EM models and interfaces

Speakers: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides Summary5A.pdf

10:30 Report from Parallel Session 5B - Basic and Extended Examples

Speakers: Dr Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)), Peter Gumplinger (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))

Slides examples_parallel_summary_v1.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 13:00 Plenary session 10 - Report from parallel sessions / Closing session

Parallel 7A-8B (10 minutes each, including discussion)
Collaboration matters, release schedule

Conveners: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

11:15 Report from Parallel Session 7A - New EM Validation results

Speakers: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides Summary7A.pdf

11:25 Report from Parallel Session 7B - Hadronics issues related to MT

Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Slides Parallel7BReport.pdf

11:35 Report from Parallel Session 8A - Vectorization / GPU

Speakers: Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides DE-VecGPU.pdf TS-8A.pdf

11:45 Report from Parallel Session 8B - Improvement & Future of Hadronics Physics & Software

Speakers: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides FutureHad.pdf FutureHad.ppt

11:55 Release schedule

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Slides Geant4-Release-10.0.pdf Geant4-Release-10.0.ppt

12:05 2014 Collaboration Meeting

Speaker: Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

Slides g4-2014.pdf g4-2014.pptx

12:10 Closing remarks

Speakers: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

Slides ClosingRemarks.pdf ClosingRemarks.pptx

13:00 → 13:05 Collaboration meeting adjourn

14:00 → 15:30 Oversight Board & Steering Board joint meeting

15:30 → 17:00 Steering Board meeting