11th Geant4 Collaboration Workshop and Users Conference

9 Oct 2006, 08:00 → 14 Oct 2006, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

LIP - Lisboa & IST - Lisboa

The Workshop consists of: 1) an open Users Session, starting on Monday 9 October, where users have the opportunity to present their work with Geant4 and to discuss with the Geant4 Collaboration; 2) a set of sessions (10-14 October) open to the Geant4 Collaboration and invited participants; This part of the Workshop is by invitation only.

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Monday 9 October

08:00 → 08:45 Registration

08:45 → 10:10 Plenary Session 1 - Users Session: Chair - Pedro Rodrigues

08:45 Welcome

Speaker: Gaspar Barreira (LIP)

09:00 An Introduction to the Geant4 Collaboration

Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides Geant4-intro.pdf Geant4-intro.ppt

09:30 MarsREC - An integrated tool for Mars Radiation Environment Characterization and Effects

Speaker: Ms Ana Keating (LIP)

Slides AKeating_G4workshop.pdf AKeating_G4workshop.ppt

09:50 Do we need to improve nuclear fragmentation models in GEANT4?

Speaker: Dr Igor Pshenichnov (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University)

Slides Lisbon.pdf

10:10 → 10:40 Coffee Break

10:40 → 12:00 Plenary Session 2 - Users Session: Chair - Andreia Trindade

slides G4_Workshop.ppt

10:40 Simulation of a Radiation Monitor for Future Space Missions

A simulation study of a baseline configuration for a next generation of light, compact and low power consuming radiation monitors for future space missions is presented. The instrument concept studied performs not only as a radiation switch, providing ancillary radiation environment information to the spacecraft, but also as a scientific instrument, capable of measuring electrons with energies between between ~100 KeV and 20 MeV, and protons and ions with energies ranging between 0.5 MeV and 150 MeV. A fast simulation tool based on a simulation of the instrument using the GEANT4 simulation toolkit is presented.

Speaker: Dr Patricia Goncalves (LIP)

Slides G4_Workshop.pdf

11:00 A Geant4-based simulation for hadron therapy

Speaker: Tsukasa Aso

11:20 Software Suite for Particle Therapy Simulation

Speaker: Takashi Sasaki

Slides geant4ws2006.pdf

11:40 Calculation of secondary organ doses in proton therapy based on whole-body pediatric and adult phantoms

Speaker: Christina Zacharatou Jarlskog

Slides Phantoms_CZJ.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary Session 3 - Users Session: Chair - Ana Keating

14:00 Geant4 Simulation of the Pierre Auger Fluorescence Detector

Speaker: Bernado Tome

Slides

• Tome_Geant4_2006.pdf
• Tome_Geant4_2006.pdf
• Tome_Geant4_2006.ppt

14:20 The Need for Polarized Processes in Geant4

Speaker: Ralph DOLLAN

Slides rd_G4lisbon.pdf rd_G4lisbon.ppt

14:40 Application of the Geant4 Python Interface

Speaker: Koichi Murakami

Slides g4py-lisboa.pdf g4py-lisboa.ppt

15:00 Report from Workshop on Hadron Shower Simulation (HSSW) at Fermilab

Speaker: Dennis Wright

Slides HSSW.pdf HSSW.ppt

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 17:00 Plenary Session 4 - Users Session: Chair - Patricia Goncalves

15:50 Validation/Verification Activities in Geant4

Speaker: Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

Slides G4WorkshopValidation.pdf

16:20 Event Biasing/Variance Reduction - Physics Based Biasing

Speaker: Tinslay Jane Susan (Unknown)

Slides EventBiasing.pdf

16:40 Event Biasing/Variance Reduction - Geometry Based Biasing

Speaker: Alexander Howard (Unknown)

Slides ah_biasing_scoring_lisbon.pdf ah_biasing_scoring_lisbon.ppt

17:00 → 17:20 Coffee break

17:20 → 19:00 Plenary Session 5 - Users Session: Chair - Mario Pimenta

17:20 Geant4 simulations at the Physics-Biology interface

Speaker: Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown)

17:35 Geant4 Technical Forum

Open Technical Forum meeting for discussion of user issues

Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)

Tuesday 10 October

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:00 Plenary Session 1: Chair - Katsuya Amako

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Working Objectives

Slides Workshop-2006-goals.pdf Workshop-2006-goals.ppt

09:30 Introduction to Parallel Sessions (parallel session chairs, 1 slide each)

Slides

• Parallel Navigation
• Performance for Tracking & Geometry
• Physics Lists

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:15 Plenary Session 2: Chair - Dennis Wright

10:30 Hadronic Showers: Problems, Progress and Plans

Speaker: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides ribonShowerLisbon06.pdf

11:10 Hadronic Models: Problems, Progress and Plans

Speaker: Dr Gunter Folger (CERN)

Slides Hadronic_Models.pdf Hadronic_Models.ppt

11:45 Discussion

Slides CrossSections.pdf CrossSections.ppt

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:10 Parallel Session 1 - Verification / Validation / Performance for Hadronics I: Chair - Dennis Wright

14:00 Recent Shower Shape Results from ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Dr Gunter Folger (CERN)

Slides Shower_shape_results_from_Atlas_and_CMS.pdf Shower_shape_results_from_Atlas_and_CMS.ppt

14:20 Specific Validation Tests

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)

Slides HadronVerification.pdf

14:40 Low Energy Neutron Energy Distributions (Geant4 vs. MCNPX)

Speaker: Christina Zacharatou Jarlskog (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA)

Slides Physics_CZJ.pdf

15:00 Discussion

14:00 → 15:10 Parallel Session 1 - GUI: GUI and Geant4Py

14:00 Practical usage of Geant4Py packages

document Geant4Py_Class_Table.xls

Slides g4py-parallel-lisboa06.pdf g4py-parallel-lisboa06.ppt

14:30 Gui aplications using wxPzthon and Tkinter

Slides 2006OctoberLisboaGUIParallel.pdf 2006OctoberLisboaGUIParallel.ppt

14:45 Users Comments

Slides GUIParallelMichel.pdf GUIParallelMichel.ppt

15:00 Discussions

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:40 Parallel Session 2 - Event Biasing / Variance Reduction: Chair - Makoto Asai

15:30 Discussion session

Items: - surveying what we have, what is missing - reorganize / unify the usage of biasing options - improve documentation - work plan

15:30 → 16:40 Parallel Session 2 - Verification / Validation / Performance for Hadronics II: Chair - Aatos Heikkinen

15:30 Isotope Choice for Elements in Hadronic Interactions

Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

Slides Isotopes.pdf Isotopes.ppt

15:50 Discussion

16:05 Combined Cross Sections and Elastic Scattering

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)

Slides Combined.pdf

16:25 Discussion

16:40 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:10 Parallel Session 3 - Aerospace Applications: Chair - Petteri Nieminen

17:00 Recent NASA-related developments

17:05 Recent JAXA-related developments

17:10 Recent ESA-related developments

17:15 Discussion session

17:00 → 18:10 Parallel Session 3 - Verification / Validation / Performance for Hadronics III: Chair - Gunter Folger

17:00 Optimizing Bertini Cascade Speed

Speaker: Michael Hannus

Slides 0610101700talkAHandMHoptimize.pdf

17:10 Bertini Cascade and the Coulomb Barrier

Speaker: Dr Aatos Heikkinen

Slides 0610101700talkAHcoulomb.pdf

17:20 Hadronics Examples, Ease of Use, and Documentation

Speaker: Dennis Wright

Slides HadEaseDoc.pdf HadEaseDoc.ppt

17:30 Benchmarks and Data Collection

Speaker: Dennis Wright

Slides Benchmarks1.pdf Benchmarks1.ppt

17:40 Discussion

Wednesday 11 October

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary Session 1 - Status, Verification, Validation of EM Physics: Chair - Vladimir Ivantchenko

08:30 Report on EM group activity

Speaker: Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN, EMSU)

Slides StatusEM.pdf

08:50 Evolution of MSC model

Speaker: Laszlo Urban (Unknown)

Slides msc_evolution.pdf

09:00 Validation and TestEm series

Speaker: Michel Maire (LAPP)

Slides testem_series.pdf

09:20 New EM polarisation library

Speaker: Andreas Schaelicke (on behalf of DESY group)

Slides lisbon_schaelicke.pdf

09:40 Report on Low-energy EM group activity

Speaker: Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)

Slides lowe.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:15 Plenary Session 2: Chair - Aatos Heikkinen

10:30 Simplified Glauber-Gribov Model for Geant4 Hadron Cross Sections

Speaker: Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))

Slides ggGrichine06.pdf

10:55 Neutron Interactions

Speaker: Alexander Howard

Slides ah_neutron_interactions.ppt ah_neutron_interactions_web.pdf

11:20 Elastic Scattering

Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

Slides Elastic.pdf Elastic.ppt

11:45 Discussion

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:10 Parallel Session 1 - Verification / Validation / Performance for EM Processes I: Chair - Vladimir Ivantchenko

14:00 Proton/ion Bragg peak validation

Speaker: Alexandre Bagulya (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))

Slides BraggPeak.pdf

14:10 Validation of proton range in water

Speaker: Tsukasa Aso

Slides AsoG4WSRanget.pdf AsoG4WSRanget.ppt

14:25 How to check the proton CSDA range?

Speakers: Jean Jacquemier (LAPP), Michel Maire (LAPP)

Slides p-range.pdf

14:40 Electron ranges

Speakers: Jean Jacquemier (LAPP), Michel Maire (LAPP)

Slides e-range.pdf

14:55 Fano cavity setup

Speakers: Michel Maire (LAPP), Sabina Elles (LAPP)

Slides FanoCavity.pdf

14:00 → 15:10 Parallel Session 1 - Visualization: Chair - Joseph Perl

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

Slides Event_refreshing.pdf

14:15 Streamlines

Slides FieldVisualisation.pdf FieldVisualisation.ppt

14:30 Making a Geant4 Movie

Slides Making_a_movie.pdf Making_a_movie.ppt

14:45 G4Rich/SmoothTrajectory

Slides Smooth_and_Rich.pdf Smooth_and_Rich.ppt

15:00 Removing imode

15:05 Additional Topics if Time Allows

1) Trajectory drawing in exampleN03. 2) Implementing more basic features (2/3D text, background colour, window positioning, line width, G4Atts,...) in all vis drivers. 3) Status of the Geant4 Visualization Paper

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:40 Parallel Session 2 - Parallel Navigation, Shower parameterization, etc.: Chair - Marc Verderi

15:30 → 16:40 Parallel Session 2 - Verification / Validation / Performance for EM Processes II: Chair - Peter Gumplinger

15:30 Revision of Synchrotron radiation

Speaker: Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))

Slides SRG4rel80.pdf

15:45 On validation of EM models in G4.8.1

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides Kadri_July.pdf

16:00 Stopping powers validation

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)

Slides StoppingPowers.pdf

16:10 Stopping powers in gases

Speaker: Michel Maire (Unknown)

Slides dedx.pdf

16:20 Extensions of optical models

Speaker: Dr Patricia Goncalves (LIP)

Slides

• AugerMultiscattering.pdf
• AugerMultiscattering.ppt
• Surfaces.pdf
• Surfaces.ppt

16:40 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:10 Parallel Session 3 - Performance for Tracking and Geometry: Chair - Gabriele Cosmo

17:00 Profiling simulation in ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Asai MAKOTO (SLAC)

Slides TrackingPerformance.pdf TrackingPerformance.ppt

17:20 Usage of Geometry modeler functionality in EM processes

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

Slides EMandTracking.pdf

17:40 Discussion

17:00 → 18:10 Parallel Session 3 - Publications: Chair - Maria Grazia Pia

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

Discussion Please prepare a brief informal report of your WG/project's published papers, papers submitted for publication and papers currently in preparation for journal submission

17:20 3rd Geant4 collaboration-wide paper

Discussion

Thursday 12 October

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary Session 1: Chair - Makato Asai

08:30 Status of Category: Geometry

Speaker: Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Slides Geometry-Lisbon-06.pdf Geometry-Lisbon-06.ppt

09:00 Status of Category: Digit Hit and Detector

Speaker: Aso Tsukasa

09:10 Status of Category: Tracking

Speaker: Takashi Sasaki

09:20 Status of Category: Visualization

Speakers: John Allison (University of Manchester), Joseph Perl (Unknown), Tinslay Jane Susan

Slides

• TrajectoryHitVis.pdf
• TrajectoryHitVis.ppt
• VisStatus.pdf
• Visualization Status

09:50 Status of Category: Configuration/Installation

Speaker: Ian McLaren (CERN)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:15 Plenary Session 2: Chair - Joseph Perl

10:30 Status of Category: Data (copyright issues)

Speaker: Dr 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)

Speaker: Dennis Wright

Slides NoviceExtended.pdf NoviceExtended.ppt

11:15 Status of Category: Advanced Examples

Speaker: Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)

Slides advanced_examples.pdf

11:45 Additional Topics: GUI using Python Wrappers

Speaker: Prof. Hajime YOSHIDA (NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION)

Slides 2006OctoberLisboaPlenary.pdf 2006OctoberLisboaPlenary.ppt

12:00 Additional Topics: Histograms in Testing and Examples

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Slides analysis.pdf analysis.ppt

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:10 Parallel Session 1 - Configuration / Installation: Chair - Ian Mclaren

14:00 Integration of other Installation Guides

14:20 Configure on Windows

14:40 Other Distribution Mechanisms

14:00 → 15:10 Parallel Session 1 - Physics Lists: Chair - Mikhail Kosov

14:00 Reference Physics Lists

Physics Lists made at CERN and distributed together with the Geant4 kernel for references on this or that set of Geant4 physics (LHEP, QGSP, etc)

Speaker: Dr Gunter Folger (CERN)

Slides ReferencePhysicsLists.pdf ReferencePhysicsLists.ppt

14:10 SLAC Physics Lists

A physics lists set with own Web Site, covering BaBar physics list experience and including physics lists for ILC and asrophysics

Speaker: Dennis Wright (SLAC)

Slides SLACPhysLists.pdf SLACPhysLists.ppt

14:20 Physics Lists in Advanced Examples

Advanced examples have own Web Site, where an experience of the Use Case physics lists is accumulated

Speaker: Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)

Slides physicslist_advanced_examples.pdf physicslist_advanced_examples.ppt

14:30 Experimental Physics List QBBC

A new combination of physics models (QGSC, Bertini, Binary, CHIPS) is selected for hadronic part of the Physics List with a minimal usage of the parameterized LHEP package.

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)

Slides QBBC.pdf QBBC.ppt

14:40 Current problems with Physics Lists setup

Discuss the user support and possible configuration of centralized Physics Lists

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Slides phys-list.pdf phys-list.ppt

14:50 Discussion

In this discussion we should find a centralized solution for support of Physics Lists, which covers approved physics processes for a particular version of Geant4 and generalizes the ambiguous solutions

Slides MulChoicePL.pdf MulChoicePL.ppt

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:40 Parallel Session 2 - Medical Applications: Chair - Takashi Sasaki

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

Speaker: Pedro Arce Dubois

Slides gamos.g4ws06.pdf gamos.g4ws06.ppt

15:45 Proposal for new Novice Medical Examples

Speaker: Joseph Perl

15:55 Report on GATE

Slides Santin_Geant406_GATE_v02.pdf Santin_Geant406_GATE_v02.ppt

16:05 Carbon Physics Validation

Speaker: Katsuya Amako

Slides

• MedicalParallelP152Experiment.pdf
• MedicalParallelP152Experiment.pdf
• MedicalParallelP152Experiment.ppt

16:20 Recent development and plans on Ion physics

Speaker: Dr Aatos Heikkinen

Slides 0610121620talkAHions.pdf

16:35 Additional Topics as Time Allows

15:30 → 16:40 Parallel Session 2 - New Hadronics Models + Ions: Chair - Dennis Wright

15:30 Planned Development in Ion Interactions

Speaker: Fan Lei (Unknown)

Slides fl_ion-ion-_parallel.ppt

15:40 Status of Implementing INCL_ABLA into Geant4

Speaker: Pekka Kaitaniemi (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

Slides inclabla.pdf

15:55 New CHIPS Developments

Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))

Slides CHIPSdevelopment.pdf CHIPSdevelopment.ppt

16:20 Discussion

16:40 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:10 Parallel Session 3 - Hadronic Group Organizational Meeting: Chair - Aatos Heikkinen

Minutes 0610121700minutesChairGroupMeeting.pdf

17:00 G4NDL Use Restrictions and Policy

Slides G4NDL.pdf G4NDL.ppt

17:15 Review of Two Coordinator Concept

17:45 Discussion

17:00 → 18:10 Parallel Session 3 - System Testing: Chair - Ian Mclaren

Friday 13 October

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary Session 1: Hisaya Kurashige

08:30 Geant4 General Paper

Speaker: Katsuya Amako (KEK)

Slides ConsiderationG4GeneralPaper.pdf ConsiderationG4GeneralPaper.ppt

08:30 Publications

08:45 discussion

08:55 How to contribute in the new Web Page

Speakers: Dennis Wright (SLAC), Gunter Folger (CERN)

Slides WebCont.pdf WebCont.ppt

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

09:05 Experiences from tutorial courses of Geant4

Speaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC)

09:15 Experiences from tutorial courses of Geant4

Speaker: Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)

Slides training.pdf training.ppt

09:25 discussion

09:30 Emerging Applications and their Requirements

09:30 Latest INCL+ABLA validations and developments

Speaker: Dr Alain BOUDARD (SPhN-CEA-Saclay)

Slides Lisbonne_INCL_ABLA.pdf Lisbonne_INCL_ABLA.ppt

09:50 Activities of the ESA MarsREM project

Speaker: Lei Fan

Slides emerging_requirements.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:15 Plenary Session 2: Chair - John Apostolakis

10:30 Performance

Slides Performance-gean4-workshop_RJ_CERN.pdf Performance-gean4-workshop_RJ_CERN.ppt

11:30 Parallel Navigation

11:45 Reorganization of Physics Lists

Slides Physics-Lists-Reorganisation.pdf Physics-Lists-Reorganisation.ppt

12:00 CLHEP and future evolution (built-in classes?)

Slides clhep.pdf clhep.ppt

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:10 Parallel Session 1 - Parallel Navigation - Scoring: Chair - Makato Asai

14:00 Open work / discussion for parallel navigation

This is a work / discussion session for parallel navigation. Focus is put on the scoring mechanism for parallel world(s), which includes scoring process and generating / updating step information for each parallel world.

14:00 → 15:10 Parallel Session 1 - Public Relations (web, tutorials, etc.): Chair - Maria Grazia Pia

14:00 Training Courses

Courses at key sites to organize in 2007 Courses addressing specific user communities Update and maintenance of training material Coordination of training teams

Slides training.pdf training.ppt

14:20 Geant4 web

Feedback from operating the new web Extension/improvement of the the Geant4 web content

Slides WebCont.pdf WebCont.ppt

14:40 Conferences

Coverage of main conferences relevant to Geant4 Topics for collaboration-wide conference contributions

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:50 Parallel Session 2 - Grid or Other Parallel Processing Solutions (no SB members in attendance): Koichi Murakami

15:30 Introduction

15:35 Geant4 regression tests on the GRID

Speaker: Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides ribonTestingLisbon06.pdf

16:00 GRID related activities in Japan

Speaker: Koichi Murakami (KEK)

Slides GRID-japan.pdf GRID-japan.ppt

16:15 Disucussion

15:30 → 16:40 Parallel Session 2 - Steering Board I: Chair - John Apostolakis

16:40 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:10 Parallel Session 3 - Open Slot (no SB members in attendance)

17:00 → 18:10 Parallel Session 3 - Steering Board II: Chair - John Apostolakis

19:00 → 23:00 Collaboration Dinner

Saturday 14 October

09:00 → 10:50 Plenary Session 1: Chair - Michel Maire

09:00 Reports from Parallel Sessions (approx 10 min each)

Slides

• configurations_system test
• EM physics
• EventBiasingParallelSession.pdf
• EventBiasingParallelSession.ppt
• GRID
• GRID-summary.pdf
• GUI
• Hadronic Physics
• HadronicSummary.pdf
• ian2.pdf
• index
• index.pdf
• Medical Applications Summary
• ParallelWorldNavigationSession.pdf
• ParallelWorldNavigationSession.ppt
• Performance for Geometry & Tracking Summary
• Physics Lists Summary
• space applications
• Space_Applications_Parallel_Session_Minutes.pdf
• SummarRreportGUIParallelSession.pdf
• Summary-of-data.pdf
• Summary-of-data.ppt
• VisParallelSummary.pdf
• Visualization Parallel Session Summary

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary Session 2: Chair - John Apostolakis

11:00 Release Schedule

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Slides Release-schedule.pdf Release-schedule.ppt

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