Name: 22nd Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2017-09-25T08:00:00+10:00
End: 2017-09-29T20:00:00+10:00
Location: No location set

22nd Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 25 September 2017 (08:00) to Friday 29 September 2017 (20:00)

Monday 25 September 2017

11:00

11:00 - 11:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:30
11:30 - 13:05
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

11:30 Welcome - Anatoly Rosenfeld (CMRP, University of Wollongong)

11:40 Opening remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:45 Open requirements - LHC and other HEP energy frontier experiments - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:57 Open requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:09 HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:17 Open requirements - Nuclear physics and engineering - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico

12:29 Open requirements - Space application - Michael John Taylor

12:41 Open requirements - Medical application - Susanna Guatelli

12:53 Open requirements - Material science - Dennis Herbert Wright
13:05 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:05 - 14:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

14:00 Drupal - Gunter Folger (CERN)

14:20 Update on Geant4 CMake, Modularization, and Data - Benjamin Morgan

14:40 Geant4 on Docker and Azure - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:00 Migration of Geant4 to Git - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

16:00 DoSSiER - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

16:20 Geant Validation DB - Dmitri Konstantinov (Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (RU))

16:40 Physics List Documentation - Dennis Herbert Wright
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

16:00 GPU Optical Photon Simulation for Particle Physics with NVIDIA OptiX - simon blyth

16:20 Discussion
Tuesday 26 September 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

09:00 Grid Validation Tools - Dmitri Konstantinov (Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (RU))

09:15 DoSSiER - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:30 Geometry - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

09:40 CMS Simulation with VecGeom - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:55 Validation of EM Physics - Alexandre Bagulya (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

10:10 Validation of Hadronic Physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

10:20 Hadronic Physics Lists and Calorimetry - Alberto Ribon (CERN)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

11:00 Kernel Updates - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:20 Status of Multi-Threading - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

11:40 Geometry & Persistency Update - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

12:00 Status of biasing - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:20 Discussion
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

14:00 Validation of Geant4 for Microbeam Radiation Therapy - Mathew Cameron

14:20 Recent developments for archaeometry - Loic Martin

14:40 Spin relativistic corrections to the GS e-/e+ multiple scattering model - Mihaly Novak (CERN)

15:10 Experimental Validation of a Monte Carlo code for Breast Dosimetry applications - Cristian Fedon
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

14:00 New DICOM HEAD reader - Susanna Guatelli

14:10 New dna examples: icsd, mfd, slowing, spower - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:35 New biasing/GB05,GB06 examples - Marc Verderi

14:40 New exoticphysics/dmparticle example - Vladimir Grichine (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

14:45 New radiaoactivedecay/Activation example - Michel Maire (LAPP)

14:50 Status of Work Plan 2017 Items - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

16:00 Geant4-DNA cross section models for gas - Heidi Nettlebeck

16:30 New ANSTO PIXE cross sections in Geant4 - Samer Bakr

17:00 Review and update of photoeffect models (remote) - Marinela Bandieramonte
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

16:00 Geant4 profiling performance for Medical Physics - Kihyeon Cho

16:20 Proposal on New Performance Tests for Medical Physics - Susanna Guatelli

16:30 G4CPT: LArTest - Soon Yung Jun

16:50 CMS G4 Module Computing Performance - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:05 Report from ATLAS - John Apostolakis (CERN)

17:20 Discussion
Wednesday 27 September 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

09:00 Visualization and GUIs - Laurent Garnier

09:20 Analysis and g4tools - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Guy Barrand (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

09:40 Geant4Py - Koichi Murakami

10:00 Basic & Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

10:15 Advanced Examples - Francesco Romano
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

11:00 Status and progress in standard EM (remote) - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

11:30 Geant4 Physics Capability for Heavy Ion Therapy - Susanna Guatelli

12:00 Low-energy and DNA progress - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

14:00 Update on High Energy Hadronic Models - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

14:15 Highlights from Cascade Models - Jason Hirtz

14:30 Highlights from Precompound and Deexcitation Models - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

14:45 Validation of Geant4 Physics List using CMS Data - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:00 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

14:00 Use of Git in CMS - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

14:10 Use of Git in ATLAS - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:20 Discussion
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

16:00 Muonic Atom Developments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

16:15 Neutrino Scattering Update - Dennis Herbert Wright

16:30 Update on Radioactive Decay - Dennis Herbert Wright

16:45 Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

16:00 Geant4-DNA cross section models for gold - Dousatsu Sakata

16:20 Geant4-DNA cross section models for liquid water - Ioanna Kyriakou

16:40 Low energy electron scattering testing update (presented by S. Guatelli) - Paolo Dondero

17:00 Gamma conversion models in Geant4 - Farah Hariri

17:15 Reading and visualizing DICOM data in GAMOS and GEANT4 - Pedro Arce
Thursday 28 September 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

09:00 Ion fragmentation in ion therapy - David Bolst (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

09:15 Validation of fragmentation in vivo - Andrew Chacon

09:30 Carbon fragmentation measurements and validation of the Geant4 nuclear reaction models for hadrontherapy - Carlo Mancini Terracciano (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS)

09:45 Low energy neutron updates - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

10:00 Hadronic developer parameters - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

09:00 Status of validation of VecGeom - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

09:20 Recent updates to voxelisation system and solids - Evgueni Tcherniaev (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

09:40 Overview of new FSAL and interpolating steppers - Dmitry Sorokin John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:00 Review of open issues and discussion
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

11:00 Highlights from High Energy Hadronic Physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:20 Highlights from Low Energy Hadronic Physics - Dennis Herbert Wright

11:40 Progress on Validation - Julia Yarba

12:00 Process Level Tests - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:20 Discussion
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

14:00 Update on Migration from docbook to Sphinx - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

14:20 Common Format/Design for Web Pages (discussion)

14:45 The Geant4 Logo and Videos - Laurent Garnier

15:05 Documentation of Physics Lists (discussion)
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

16:00 Documenting Physics List Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

16:15 Requests for physics model documentation

16:30 Discussion of Automated Documentation

16:45 Working session
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

16:00 Deterministic transport independent of the order of tracking - Dmitry Savin (Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA))

16:20 Update on GeantV - Federico Carminati (CERN)

16:40 Enabling vectorisation in Geant4 and single-particle GeantV tracking - John Apostolakis (CERN)

17:00 Discussion
19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Room: City Beach Function Centre, 1 Marine Drive, Wollongong
Friday 29 September 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

09:00 Complete description of the 12C(n,n'3a) and 12C(n,a)9Be reactions in the High Precision neutron model - Aczel Regino Garcia Rios (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

09:20 Technical Aspects of Varying Hadronic Model Parameters and Studying Sensitivity of Simulated Results - Julia Yarba

09:40 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:05 Independent geometrical biasing of multiple particle types : the case of electrons in radiotherapy - Daren Sawkey

09:25 Interaction forcing for reverse gamma - Laurent Desorgher

09:45 Channeling process interface to generic biasing : pending issues - Enrico Bagli (Universita di Ferrara & INFN (IT))

09:55 Status of generic biasing - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:15 Discussion
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

11:00 Report on Parallel Session 1A - Gunter Folger (CERN) Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:07 Report on Parallel Session 1B - Joseph Perl Laurent Garnier

11:14 Report on Parallel Session 2A - Mihaly Novak (CERN) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

11:21 Report on Parallel Session 2B - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

11:28 Report on Parallel Session 3A - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Susanna Guatelli

11:35 Report on Parallel Session 3B - Gunter Folger (CERN) Soon Yung Jun

11:42 Report on Parallel Session 4A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Julia Yarba

11:49 Report on Parallel Session 4B - Benjamin Morgan Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:56 Report on Parallel Session 5A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Herbert Wright

12:03 Report on Parallel Session 5B - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Susanna Guatelli

12:10 Report on Parallel Session 6A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico

12:17 Report on Parallel Session 6B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Building 32, room G01
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

14:00 Report on Parallel Session 7A - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Dennis Herbert Wright

14:07 Report on Parallel Session 7B - John Apostolakis (CERN) Soon Yung Jun

14:14 Report on Parallel Session 8A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Gunter Folger (CERN)

14:21 Report on Parallel Session 8B - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:28 Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

14:43 2018 Collaboration Meeting - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico

14:58 Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
15:30

15:30 - 15:40

15:40

15:40 - 17:00
Room: Building 32, room G01

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