Name: 11th Geant4 Collaboration Workshop and Users Conference
Start: 2006-10-09T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2006-10-14T13:00:00+02:00
Location: LIP - Lisboa & IST - Lisboa

Monday 9 October 2006

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 08:45
08:45 Chair - Pedro Rodrigues
Chair - Pedro Rodrigues
08:45 - 10:10
Contributions

08:45 Welcome - Gaspar Barreira (LIP)

09:00 An Introduction to the Geant4 Collaboration - John Apostolakis (CERN)

09:30 MarsREC - An integrated tool for Mars Radiation Environment Characterization and Effects - Ana Keating (LIP)

09:50 Do we need to improve nuclear fragmentation models in GEANT4? - Igor Pshenichnov (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University)
10:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 Chair - Andreia Trindade
Chair - Andreia Trindade
10:40 - 12:00
Contributions

10:40 Simulation of a Radiation Monitor for Future Space Missions - Patricia Goncalves (LIP)

11:00 A Geant4-based simulation for hadron therapy - Tsukasa Aso

11:20 Software Suite for Particle Therapy Simulation - Takashi Sasaki

11:40 Calculation of secondary organ doses in proton therapy based on whole-body pediatric and adult phantoms - Christina Zacharatou Jarlskog
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 Chair - Ana Keating
Chair - Ana Keating
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Geant4 Simulation of the Pierre Auger Fluorescence Detector - Bernado Tome

14:20 The Need for Polarized Processes in Geant4 - Ralph DOLLAN

14:40 Application of the Geant4 Python Interface - Koichi Murakami

15:00 Report from Workshop on Hadron Shower Simulation (HSSW) at Fermilab - Dennis Wright
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:50
15:50 Chair - Patricia Goncalves
Chair - Patricia Goncalves
15:50 - 17:00
Contributions

15:50 Validation/Verification Activities in Geant4 - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

16:20 Event Biasing/Variance Reduction - Physics Based Biasing - Tinslay Jane Susan (Unknown)

16:40 Event Biasing/Variance Reduction - Geometry Based Biasing - Alexander Howard (Unknown)
17:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:00 - 17:20
17:20 Chair - Mario Pimenta
Chair - Mario Pimenta
17:20 - 19:00
Contributions

17:20 Geant4 simulations at the Physics-Biology interface - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown)

17:35 Geant4 Technical Forum - John Apostolakis (CERN)
Tuesday 10 October 2006

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Chair - Katsuya Amako
Chair - Katsuya Amako
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Working Objectives

09:30 Introduction to Parallel Sessions (parallel session chairs, 1 slide each)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Chair - Dennis Wright
Chair - Dennis Wright
10:30 - 12:15
Contributions

10:30 Hadronic Showers: Problems, Progress and Plans - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:10 Hadronic Models: Problems, Progress and Plans - Gunter Folger (CERN)

11:45 Discussion
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 14:00
14:00 Chair - Dennis Wright
Chair - Dennis Wright
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Recent Shower Shape Results from ATLAS and CMS - Gunter Folger (CERN)

14:20 Specific Validation Tests - Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)

14:40 Low Energy Neutron Energy Distributions (Geant4 vs. MCNPX) - Christina Zacharatou Jarlskog (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA)

15:00 Discussion
GUI and Geant4Py
GUI and Geant4Py
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Practical usage of Geant4Py packages

14:30 Gui aplications using wxPzthon and Tkinter

14:45 Users Comments

15:00 Discussions
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30
15:30 Chair - Makoto Asai
Chair - Makoto Asai
15:30 - 16:40
Contributions

15:30 Discussion session
Chair - Aatos Heikkinen
Chair - Aatos Heikkinen
15:30 - 16:40
Contributions

15:30 Isotope Choice for Elements in Hadronic Interactions - Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

15:50 Discussion

16:05 Combined Cross Sections and Elastic Scattering - Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)

16:25 Discussion
16:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00
17:00 Chair - Petteri Nieminen
Chair - Petteri Nieminen
17:00 - 18:10
Contributions

17:00 Recent NASA-related developments

17:05 Recent JAXA-related developments

17:10 Recent ESA-related developments

17:15 Discussion session
Chair - Gunter Folger
Chair - Gunter Folger
17:00 - 18:10
Contributions

17:00 Optimizing Bertini Cascade Speed - Michael Hannus

17:10 Bertini Cascade and the Coulomb Barrier - Aatos Heikkinen

17:20 Hadronics Examples, Ease of Use, and Documentation - Dennis Wright

17:30 Benchmarks and Data Collection - Dennis Wright

17:40 Discussion
Wednesday 11 October 2006
08:30 Chair - Vladimir Ivantchenko
Chair - Vladimir Ivantchenko
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Report on EM group activity - Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN, EMSU)

08:50 Evolution of MSC model - Laszlo Urban (Unknown)

09:00 Validation and TestEm series - Michel Maire (LAPP)

09:20 New EM polarisation library - Andreas Schaelicke (on behalf of DESY group)

09:40 Report on Low-energy EM group activity - Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Chair - Aatos Heikkinen
Chair - Aatos Heikkinen
10:30 - 12:15
Contributions

10:30 Simplified Glauber-Gribov Model for Geant4 Hadron Cross Sections - Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))

10:55 Neutron Interactions - Alexander Howard

11:20 Elastic Scattering - Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

11:45 Discussion
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 14:00
14:00 Chair - Vladimir Ivantchenko
Chair - Vladimir Ivantchenko
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Proton/ion Bragg peak validation - Alexandre Bagulya (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))

14:10 Validation of proton range in water - Tsukasa Aso

14:25 How to check the proton CSDA range? - Jean Jacquemier (LAPP) Michel Maire (LAPP)

14:40 Electron ranges - Jean Jacquemier (LAPP) Michel Maire (LAPP)

14:55 Fano cavity setup - Michel Maire (LAPP) Sabina Elles (LAPP)
Chair - Joseph Perl
Chair - Joseph Perl
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Redrawing Events on Switching to a Different Vis Driver

14:15 Streamlines

14:30 Making a Geant4 Movie

14:45 G4Rich/SmoothTrajectory

15:00 Removing imode

15:05 Additional Topics if Time Allows
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30

15:30 Chair - Marc Verderi
Chair - Marc Verderi
15:30 - 16:40
Chair - Peter Gumplinger
Chair - Peter Gumplinger
15:30 - 16:40
Contributions

15:30 Revision of Synchrotron radiation - Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))

15:45 On validation of EM models in G4.8.1 - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

16:00 Stopping powers validation - Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)

16:10 Stopping powers in gases - Michel Maire (Unknown)

16:20 Extensions of optical models - Patricia Goncalves (LIP)
16:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00
17:00 Chair - Gabriele Cosmo
Chair - Gabriele Cosmo
17:00 - 18:10
Contributions

17:00 Profiling simulation in ATLAS - Asai MAKOTO (SLAC)

17:20 Usage of Geometry modeler functionality in EM processes - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

17:40 Discussion
Chair - Maria Grazia Pia
Chair - Maria Grazia Pia
17:00 - 18:10
Contributions

17:00 Overview of recent and planned publications on project-specific topics

17:20 3rd Geant4 collaboration-wide paper
Thursday 12 October 2006
08:30 Chair - Makato Asai
Chair - Makato Asai
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Status of Category: Geometry - Witold Pokorski (CERN)

09:00 Status of Category: Digit Hit and Detector - Aso Tsukasa

09:10 Status of Category: Tracking - Takashi Sasaki

09:20 Status of Category: Visualization - John Allison (University of Manchester) Joseph Perl (Unknown) Tinslay Jane Susan

09:50 Status of Category: Configuration/Installation - Ian McLaren (CERN)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Chair - Joseph Perl
Chair - Joseph Perl
10:30 - 12:15
Contributions

10:30 Status of Category: Data (copyright issues) - John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:45 Status of Category: Documentation, including Novice and Extended Examples (what examples exist, their state of repair, what examples are missing. Physics validation issues are handled elsewhere) - Dennis Wright

11:15 Status of Category: Advanced Examples - Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)

11:45 Additional Topics: GUI using Python Wrappers - Hajime YOSHIDA (NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION)

12:00 Additional Topics: Histograms in Testing and Examples - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 14:00
14:00 Chair - Ian Mclaren
Chair - Ian Mclaren
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Integration of other Installation Guides

14:20 Configure on Windows

14:40 Other Distribution Mechanisms
Chair - Mikhail Kosov
Chair - Mikhail Kosov
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Reference Physics Lists - Gunter Folger (CERN)

14:10 SLAC Physics Lists - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

14:20 Physics Lists in Advanced Examples - Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)

14:30 Experimental Physics List QBBC - Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)

14:40 Current problems with Physics Lists setup - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

14:50 Discussion
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30
15:30 Chair - Takashi Sasaki
Chair - Takashi Sasaki
15:30 - 16:40
Contributions

15:30 GAMOS: a user-friendly and flexible framework for GEANT4 medical applications - Pedro Arce Dubois

15:45 Proposal for new Novice Medical Examples - Joseph Perl

15:55 Report on GATE

16:05 Carbon Physics Validation - Katsuya Amako

16:20 Recent development and plans on Ion physics - Aatos Heikkinen

16:35 Additional Topics as Time Allows
Chair - Dennis Wright
Chair - Dennis Wright
15:30 - 16:40
Contributions

15:30 Planned Development in Ion Interactions - Fan Lei (Unknown)

15:40 Status of Implementing INCL_ABLA into Geant4 - Pekka Kaitaniemi (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

15:55 New CHIPS Developments - Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

16:20 Discussion
16:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00
17:00 Chair - Aatos Heikkinen
Chair - Aatos Heikkinen
17:00 - 18:10
Contributions

17:00 G4NDL Use Restrictions and Policy

17:15 Review of Two Coordinator Concept

17:45 Discussion
Chair - Ian Mclaren
Chair - Ian Mclaren
17:00 - 18:10
Friday 13 October 2006
08:30 Hisaya Kurashige
Hisaya Kurashige
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Publications

08:30 Geant4 General Paper - Katsuya Amako (KEK)

08:45 discussion

08:55 Public Relations (web, tutorials, etc.)

08:55 How to contribute in the new Web Page - Dennis Wright (SLAC) Gunter Folger (CERN)

09:05 Experiences from tutorial courses of Geant4 - Makoto Asai (SLAC)

09:15 Experiences from tutorial courses of Geant4 - Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)

09:25 discussion

09:30 Emerging Applications and their Requirements

09:30 Latest INCL+ABLA validations and developments - Alain BOUDARD (SPhN-CEA-Saclay)

09:50 Activities of the ESA MarsREM project - Lei Fan
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Chair - John Apostolakis
Chair - John Apostolakis
10:30 - 12:15
Contributions

10:30 Performance

11:30 Parallel Navigation

11:45 Reorganization of Physics Lists

12:00 CLHEP and future evolution (built-in classes?)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 14:00
14:00 Chair - Makato Asai
Chair - Makato Asai
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Open work / discussion for parallel navigation
Chair - Maria Grazia Pia
Chair - Maria Grazia Pia
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Training Courses

14:20 Geant4 web

14:40 Conferences
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30
15:30 Koichi Murakami
Koichi Murakami
15:30 - 16:50
Contributions

15:30 Introduction

15:35 Geant4 regression tests on the GRID - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

16:00 GRID related activities in Japan - Koichi Murakami (KEK)

16:15 Disucussion
Chair - John Apostolakis
Chair - John Apostolakis
15:30 - 16:40

16:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00

17:00

17:00 - 18:10

Chair - John Apostolakis
Chair - John Apostolakis
17:00 - 18:10

19:00 Collaboration Dinner
Collaboration Dinner
19:00 - 23:00
Saturday 14 October 2006
09:00 Chair - Michel Maire
Chair - Michel Maire
09:00 - 10:50
Contributions

09:00 Reports from Parallel Sessions (approx 10 min each)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Chair - John Apostolakis
Chair - John Apostolakis
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Release Schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:20 Collaboration Matters (license, copyright, etc.)