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Seville, Spain
Seville, Spain
Description
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/
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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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Break
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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)- 8
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Hadronic physics validation tool¶Speaker: Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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JIRA-based tools and Bugzilla¶Speaker: Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
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Publication Board procedures¶Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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13:00
Lunch break
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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))-
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Introduction and Outline¶Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Extensions and Validation¶Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Discussion of Reference Papers¶Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Discussion of Section Content¶Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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MC2013 Poster and Demonstration¶Speaker: 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))-
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FNAL Validation DB status¶Speakers: Dr Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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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))
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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)
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Discussion time¶
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16:00
Break
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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))- 25
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Progress in Reverse MC (pres. by Alex, on behalf of Laurent)¶Speakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Laurent Desorgher (SpaceIT GmbH)
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Discussion - 1 : directory structure for new code¶Speakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
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Discussion - 2 : testing, validation, examples¶Speakers: 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)
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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))-
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Multi-threading in Geant4: a general introduction¶Speaker: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)
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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))
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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))
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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))
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10:45
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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)- 40
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Recent developments in particles¶Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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13:00
Lunch break
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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))- 45
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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))
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G4MT CP on MIC Architecture¶Speaker: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio)
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G4CPT Profiling Tools and Results¶Speaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Discussion¶
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16:30
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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¶Speaker: Joseph Perl (CERN)
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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?¶Speaker: 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¶Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Qt5. Will we support it in release 10, or should this wait?¶Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Testing of Visualization. Screen captures on test202 with xwfb. Reference images¶Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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OpenGL migration from verion 2.1 to 3.2. Changes, problems, performance¶Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Web driver for Geant4. Current status, possible usages and technical problems¶Speaker: Laurent Garnier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Break
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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))-
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Hadronic Performance toward 10.0¶Speaker: Sunanda Banerjee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))
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BERT Development for 10.0¶Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Developments in Radioactive Decay¶Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Recent Muon Stopping Developments¶Speaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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NeutronHP Development and Plans¶Speaker: Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)
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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) -
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Steering Board working dinner
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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)) -
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Break
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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))-
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Updates on Intercoms / Interfaces¶Speaker: Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
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13:00
Lunch break
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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)- 81
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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))- 85
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Tools for calculations in microdosimetry and radiobiology¶Speaker: Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla)
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Examples with Macros and Other Resources¶Speaker: Dr Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)
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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))
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Disussion¶
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Excursion
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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) -
10:45
Break
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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)) -
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Lunch break
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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)-
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General ideas and next year plans for HAD and MT: Introduction¶Speaker: Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Hadronic Process Interface changes for MT¶Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Reducing memory footprint: strategies for MT¶Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Use of Ions in HAD for MT¶Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Discussion¶
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16:30
Break
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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))- 111
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Discussion¶
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An Update on a GPU Prototype¶Speakers: Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Discussion¶
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Geant4 based simulation of radiotherapy in CUDA¶Speaker: Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
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Discussion¶
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Hybrid GATE: A CPU/GPU implementation for imaging and therapy applications¶Speaker: Julien Berte
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Discussion¶
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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))- 119
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The Frontiers of Geant4 Hadronic Physics¶Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Discussion¶
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NeutronHP, Hadronic Framework¶Speaker: Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Simpler High Energy Models¶Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Discussion¶
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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)-
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Report from Parallel Session 1A - Geant4 general paper¶Speakers: Dennis Herbert Wright (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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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))
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Report from Parallel Session 2A - Biasing¶Speakers: Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
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Report from Parallel Session 2B - Hadronic testing¶Speakers: Gunter Folger (CERN), Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)
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Report from Parallel Session 3A - Computing performance¶Speakers: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Report from Parallel Session 3B - Visualization / GUI¶Speakers: Joseph Perl (CERN), Dr Koichi Murakami (KEK)
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Report from Parallel Session 4A - Recent Hadronics developments and results¶Speakers: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN), Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Report from Parallel Session 4B - Geometry work session¶Speakers: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
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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)
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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))
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Break
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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))-
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Report from Parallel Session 7A - New EM Validation results¶Speakers: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Report from Parallel Session 7B - Hadronics issues related to MT¶Speakers: Andrea Dotti (Geant 4 Associates International Experts in Radiation Simulatio), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Report from Parallel Session 8A - Vectorization / GPU¶Speakers: Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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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))
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2014 Collaboration Meeting¶Speaker: Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
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Closing remarks¶Speakers: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Dr Marc Verderi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
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Collaboration meeting adjourn
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