11th Geant4 Collaboration Workshop and Users Conference

from Monday, 9 October 2006 (08:00) to Saturday, 14 October 2006 (13:00)
LIP - Lisboa & IST - Lisboa

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Oct 2006
10 Oct 2006
11 Oct 2006
12 Oct 2006
13 Oct 2006
14 Oct 2006
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
08:45
Plenary Session 1 - Users Session (until 10:10) ()
08:45 Welcome - Gaspar Barreira (LIP)   ()
09:00 An Introduction to the Geant4 Collaboration - John Apostolakis (CERN)   ()
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09:30 MarsREC - An integrated tool for Mars Radiation Environment Characterization and Effects - Ms Ana Keating (LIP)   ()
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09:50 Do we need to improve nuclear fragmentation models in GEANT4? - Dr Igor Pshenichnov (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University)   ()
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10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40
Plenary Session 2 - Users Session (until 12:00) ()
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10:40 Simulation of a Radiation Monitor for Future Space Missions - Dr Patricia Goncalves (LIP)   ()
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11:00 A Geant4-based simulation for hadron therapy - Tsukasa Aso   ()
11:20 Software Suite for Particle Therapy Simulation - Takashi Sasaki   ()
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11:40 Calculation of secondary organ doses in proton therapy based on whole-body pediatric and adult phantoms - Christina Zacharatou Jarlskog   ()
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08:30 --- Registration ---
09:00
Plenary Session 1 (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Welcome   ()
09:15 Working Objectives   ()
Slides
09:30 Introduction to Parallel Sessions (parallel session chairs, 1 slide each)   ()
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:15) ()
10:30 Hadronic Showers: Problems, Progress and Plans - Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
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11:10 Hadronic Models: Problems, Progress and Plans - Dr Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
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11:45 Discussion   ()
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08:30
Plenary Session 1 - Status, Verification, Validation of EM Physics (until 10:00) ()
08:30 Report on EM group activity - Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN, EMSU)   ()
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08:50 Evolution of MSC model - Laszlo Urban (Unknown)   ()
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09:00 Validation and TestEm series - Michel Maire (LAPP)   ()
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09:20 New EM polarisation library - Andreas Schaelicke (on behalf of DESY group)   ()
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09:40 Report on Low-energy EM group activity - Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)   ()
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10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:15) ()
10:30 Simplified Glauber-Gribov Model for Geant4 Hadron Cross Sections - Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))   ()
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10:55 Neutron Interactions - Alexander Howard   ()
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11:20 Elastic Scattering - Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))   ()
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11:45 Discussion   ()
08:30
Plenary Session 1 (until 10:00) ()
08:30 Status of Category: Geometry - Witold Pokorski (CERN)   ()
Slides
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 - Joseph Perl (Unknown) John Allison (University of Manchester) Tinslay Jane Susan   ()
09:50 Status of Category: Configuration/Installation - Ian McLaren (CERN)   ()
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:15) ()
10:30 Status of Category: Data (copyright issues) - 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) - Dennis Wright   ()
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11:15 Status of Category: Advanced Examples - Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)   ()
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11:45 Additional Topics: GUI using Python Wrappers - Prof. Hajime YOSHIDA (NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION)   ()
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12:00 Additional Topics: Histograms in Testing and Examples - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
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08:30
Plenary Session 1 (until 10:00) ()
08:30 Geant4 General Paper - Katsuya Amako (KEK)   ()
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08:30 Publications   ()
08:45 discussion   ()
08:55 How to contribute in the new Web Page - Dennis Wright (SLAC) Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
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08:55 Public Relations (web, tutorials, etc.)   ()
09:05 Experiences from tutorial courses of Geant4 - Makoto Asai (SLAC)   ()
09:15 Experiences from tutorial courses of Geant4 - Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)   ()
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09:25 discussion   ()
09:30 Emerging Applications and their Requirements   ()
09:30 Latest INCL+ABLA validations and developments - Dr Alain BOUDARD (SPhN-CEA-Saclay)   ()
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09:50 Activities of the ESA MarsREM project - Lei Fan   ()
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10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:15) ()
10:30 Performance   ()
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11:30 Parallel Navigation   ()
11:45 Reorganization of Physics Lists   ()
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12:00 CLHEP and future evolution (built-in classes?)   ()
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09:00
Plenary Session 1 (until 10:50) ()
09:00 Reports from Parallel Sessions (approx 10 min each)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary Session 2 (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Release Schedule - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
Slides
11:20 Collaboration Matters (license, copyright, etc.)   ()
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary Session 3 - Users Session (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Geant4 Simulation of the Pierre Auger Fluorescence Detector - Bernado Tome   ()
14:20 The Need for Polarized Processes in Geant4 - Ralph DOLLAN   ()
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14:40 Application of the Geant4 Python Interface - Koichi Murakami   ()
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15:00 Report from Workshop on Hadron Shower Simulation (HSSW) at Fermilab - Dennis Wright   ()
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50
Plenary Session 4 - Users Session (until 17:00) ()
15:50 Validation/Verification Activities in Geant4 - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)   ()
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16:20 Event Biasing/Variance Reduction - Physics Based Biasing - Tinslay Jane Susan (Unknown)   ()
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16:40 Event Biasing/Variance Reduction - Geometry Based Biasing - Alexander Howard (Unknown)   ()
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17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:20
Plenary Session 5 - Users Session (until 19:00) ()
17:20 Geant4 simulations at the Physics-Biology interface - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Unknown)   ()
17:35 Geant4 Technical Forum - John Apostolakis (CERN)   ()
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Parallel Session 1 - GUI (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Practical usage of Geant4Py packages   ()
document
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14:30 Gui aplications using wxPzthon and Tkinter   ()
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14:45 Users Comments   ()
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15:00 Discussions   ()
14:00
Parallel Session 1 - Verification / Validation / Performance for Hadronics I (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Recent Shower Shape Results from ATLAS and CMS - Dr Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
Slides
14:20 Specific Validation Tests - Dr Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)   ()
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14:40 Low Energy Neutron Energy Distributions (Geant4 vs. MCNPX) - Christina Zacharatou Jarlskog (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA)   ()
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15:00 Discussion   ()
15:10 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Parallel Session 2 - Event Biasing / Variance Reduction (until 16:40) ()
15:30 Discussion session   ()
15:30
Parallel Session 2 - Verification / Validation / Performance for Hadronics II (until 16:40) ()
15:30 Isotope Choice for Elements in Hadronic Interactions - Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))   ()
Slides
15:50 Discussion   ()
16:05 Combined Cross Sections and Elastic Scattering - Dr Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)   ()
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16:25 Discussion   ()
16:40 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Parallel Session 3 - Aerospace Applications (until 18:10) ()
17:00 Recent NASA-related developments   ()
17:05 Recent JAXA-related developments   ()
17:10 Recent ESA-related developments   ()
17:15 Discussion session   ()
17:00
Parallel Session 3 - Verification / Validation / Performance for Hadronics III (until 18:10) ()
17:00 Optimizing Bertini Cascade Speed - Michael Hannus   ()
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17:10 Bertini Cascade and the Coulomb Barrier - Dr Aatos Heikkinen   ()
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17:20 Hadronics Examples, Ease of Use, and Documentation - Dennis Wright   ()
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17:30 Benchmarks and Data Collection - Dennis Wright   ()
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17:40 Discussion   ()
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Parallel Session 1 - Verification / Validation / Performance for EM Processes I (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Proton/ion Bragg peak validation - Alexandre Bagulya (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))   ()
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14:10 Validation of proton range in water - Tsukasa Aso   ()
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14:25 How to check the proton CSDA range? - Michel Maire (LAPP) Jean Jacquemier (LAPP)   ()
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14:40 Electron ranges - Michel Maire (LAPP) Jean Jacquemier (LAPP)   ()
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14:55 Fano cavity setup - Michel Maire (LAPP) Sabina Elles (LAPP)   ()
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14:00
Parallel Session 1 - Visualization (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Redrawing Events on Switching to a Different Vis Driver   ()
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14:15 Streamlines   ()
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14:30 Making a Geant4 Movie   ()
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14:45 G4Rich/SmoothTrajectory   ()
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15:00 Removing imode   ()
15:05 Additional Topics if Time Allows   ()
15:10 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Parallel Session 2 - Parallel Navigation, Shower parameterization, etc. (until 16:40) ()
15:30
Parallel Session 2 - Verification / Validation / Performance for EM Processes II (until 16:40) ()
15:30 Revision of Synchrotron radiation - Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))   ()
Slides
15:45 On validation of EM models in G4.8.1 - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   ()
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16:00 Stopping powers validation - Dr Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)   ()
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16:10 Stopping powers in gases - Michel Maire (Unknown)   ()
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16:20 Extensions of optical models - Dr Patricia Goncalves (LIP)   ()
16:40 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Parallel Session 3 - Performance for Tracking and Geometry (until 18:10) ()
17:00 Profiling simulation in ATLAS - Dr Asai MAKOTO (SLAC)   ()
Slides
17:20 Usage of Geometry modeler functionality in EM processes - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)   ()
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17:40 Discussion   ()
17:00
Parallel Session 3 - Publications (until 18:10) ()
17:00 Overview of recent and planned publications on project-specific topics   ()
17:20 3rd Geant4 collaboration-wide paper   ()
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Parallel Session 1 - Configuration / Installation (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Integration of other Installation Guides   ()
14:20 Configure on Windows   ()
14:40 Other Distribution Mechanisms   ()
14:00
Parallel Session 1 - Physics Lists (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Reference Physics Lists - Dr Gunter Folger (CERN)   ()
Slides
14:10 SLAC Physics Lists - Dennis Wright (SLAC)   ()
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14:20 Physics Lists in Advanced Examples - Dr Maria Grazia Pia (INFN GENOVA)   ()
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14:30 Experimental Physics List QBBC - Dr Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN)   ()
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14:40 Current problems with Physics Lists setup - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   ()
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14:50 Discussion   ()
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15:10 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Parallel Session 2 - Medical Applications (until 16:40) ()
15:30 GAMOS: a user-friendly and flexible framework for GEANT4 medical applications - Pedro Arce Dubois   ()
Slides
15:45 Proposal for new Novice Medical Examples - Joseph Perl   ()
15:55 Report on GATE   ()
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16:05 Carbon Physics Validation - Katsuya Amako   ()
16:20 Recent development and plans on Ion physics - Dr Aatos Heikkinen   ()
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16:35 Additional Topics as Time Allows   ()
15:30
Parallel Session 2 - New Hadronics Models + Ions (until 16:40) ()
15:30 Planned Development in Ion Interactions - Fan Lei (Unknown)   ()
Slides
15:40 Status of Implementing INCL_ABLA into Geant4 - Pekka Kaitaniemi (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)   ()
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15:55 New CHIPS Developments - Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))   ()
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16:20 Discussion   ()
16:40 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Parallel Session 3 - Hadronic Group Organizational Meeting (until 18:10) ()
Minutes
17:00 G4NDL Use Restrictions and Policy   ()
Slides
17:15 Review of Two Coordinator Concept   ()
17:45 Discussion   ()
17:00
Parallel Session 3 - System Testing (until 18:10) ()
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Parallel Session 1 - Parallel Navigation - Scoring (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Open work / discussion for parallel navigation   ()
14:00
Parallel Session 1 - Public Relations (web, tutorials, etc.) (until 15:10) ()
14:00 Training Courses   ()
Slides
14:20 Geant4 web   ()
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14:40 Conferences   ()
15:10 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Parallel Session 2 - Grid or Other Parallel Processing Solutions (no SB members in attendance) (until 16:50) ()
15:30 Introduction   ()
15:35 Geant4 regression tests on the GRID - Alberto Ribon (CERN)   ()
Slides
16:00 GRID related activities in Japan - Koichi Murakami (KEK)   ()
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16:15 Disucussion   ()
15:30
Parallel Session 2 - Steering Board I (until 16:40) ()
16:40 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Parallel Session 3 - Open Slot (no SB members in attendance) (until 18:10) ()
17:00
Parallel Session 3 - Steering Board II (until 18:10) ()
19:00 --- Collaboration Dinner ---