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, September 25, 2017 (8:00 AM) to Friday, September 29, 2017 (8:00 PM)

Monday, September 25, 2017

11:00 AM Registration

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:30 AM Plenary 1 - Opening address / open requirements
11:30 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:41 PM Open requirements - Medical application - Susanna Guatelli

12:53 PM Open requirements - Material science - Dennis Herbert Wright
1:05 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
2:00 PM Plenary 2 - Collaboration tools
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

2:00 PM Drupal - Gunter Folger (CERN)

2:20 PM Update on Geant4 CMake, Modularization, and Data - Benjamin Morgan

2:40 PM Geant4 on Docker and Azure - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

3:00 PM Migration of Geant4 to Git - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
4:00 PM Parallel 1A - Open topics in physics lists and validation tools
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

4:00 PM DoSSiER - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

4:20 PM Geant Validation DB - Dmitri Konstantinov (Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (RU))

4:40 PM Physics List Documentation - Dennis Herbert Wright
Parallel 1B - Visualization
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

4:00 PM GPU Optical Photon Simulation for Particle Physics with NVIDIA OptiX - simon blyth

4:20 PM Discussion
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
9:00 AM Plenary 3 - Validation and tests
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

9:00 AM Grid Validation Tools - Dmitri Konstantinov (Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (RU))

9:15 AM DoSSiER - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

9:30 AM Geometry - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

9:40 AM CMS Simulation with VecGeom - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

9:55 AM Validation of EM Physics - Alexandre Bagulya (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

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

10:20 AM Hadronic Physics Lists and Calorimetry - Alberto Ribon (CERN)
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:00 AM Plenary 4 - Updates on kernel and geometry
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
2:00 PM Parallel 2A - New EM validation results
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

2:00 PM Validation of Geant4 for Microbeam Radiation Therapy - Mathew Cameron

2:20 PM Recent developments for archaeometry - Loic Martin

2:40 PM Spin relativistic corrections to the GS e-/e+ multiple scattering model - Mihaly Novak (CERN)

3:10 PM Experimental Validation of a Monte Carlo code for Breast Dosimetry applications - Cristian Fedon
Parallel 2B - Basic and extended examples
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

2:00 PM New DICOM HEAD reader - Susanna Guatelli

2:10 PM New dna examples: icsd, mfd, slowing, spower - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

2:35 PM New biasing/GB05,GB06 examples - Marc Verderi

2:40 PM New exoticphysics/dmparticle example - Vladimir Grichine (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

2:45 PM New radiaoactivedecay/Activation example - Michel Maire (LAPP)

2:50 PM Status of Work Plan 2017 Items - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
4:00 PM Parallel 3A - Development of new EM models, part I
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

4:00 PM Geant4-DNA cross section models for gas - Heidi Nettlebeck

4:30 PM New ANSTO PIXE cross sections in Geant4 - Samer Bakr

5:00 PM Review and update of photoeffect models (remote) - Marinela Bandieramonte
Parallel 3B - Computing performance
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

4:00 PM Geant4 profiling performance for Medical Physics - Kihyeon Cho

4:20 PM Proposal on New Performance Tests for Medical Physics - Susanna Guatelli

4:30 PM G4CPT: LArTest - Soon Yung Jun

4:50 PM CMS G4 Module Computing Performance - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

5:05 PM Report from ATLAS - John Apostolakis (CERN)

5:20 PM Discussion
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
9:00 AM Plenary 5 - Updates on GUI, Vis and examples
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

9:00 AM Visualization and GUIs - Laurent Garnier

9:20 AM Analysis and g4tools - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Guy Barrand (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

9:40 AM Geant4Py - Koichi Murakami

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

10:15 AM Advanced Examples - Francesco Romano
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:00 AM Plenary 6 - Updates on EM physics and validation (including physics lists for EM)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

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

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

12:00 PM Low-energy and DNA progress - Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
2:00 PM Parallel 4A - Hadronic models: development & validation, part I
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

2:00 PM Update on High Energy Hadronic Models - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

2:15 PM Highlights from Cascade Models - Jason Hirtz

2:30 PM Highlights from Precompound and Deexcitation Models - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

2:45 PM Validation of Geant4 Physics List using CMS Data - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

3:00 PM Discussion
Parallel 4B - Migration of Geant4 Version Control to Git Working Session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

2:00 PM Use of Git in CMS - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

2:10 PM Use of Git in ATLAS - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

2:20 PM Discussion
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
4:00 PM Parallel 5A - Hadronic models: development & validation, part II
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

4:00 PM Muonic Atom Developments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

4:15 PM Neutrino Scattering Update - Dennis Herbert Wright

4:30 PM Update on Radioactive Decay - Dennis Herbert Wright

4:45 PM Discussion
Parallel 5B - Development of new EM models, part II
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

4:00 PM Geant4-DNA cross section models for gold - Dousatsu Sakata

4:20 PM Geant4-DNA cross section models for liquid water - Ioanna Kyriakou

4:40 PM Low energy electron scattering testing update (presented by S. Guatelli) - Paolo Dondero

5:00 PM Gamma conversion models in Geant4 - Farah Hariri

5:15 PM Reading and visualizing DICOM data in GAMOS and GEANT4 - Pedro Arce
Thursday, September 28, 2017
9:00 AM Parallel 6A - Low-energy hadronic physics
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

9:00 AM Ion fragmentation in ion therapy - David Bolst (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

9:15 AM Validation of fragmentation in vivo - Andrew Chacon

9:30 AM 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)

9:45 AM Low energy neutron updates - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

10:00 AM Hadronic developer parameters - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
Parallel 6B - Geometry working session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of validation of VecGeom - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

9:20 AM Recent updates to voxelisation system and solids - Evgueni Tcherniaev (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

9:40 AM Overview of new FSAL and interpolating steppers - Dmitry Sorokin John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:00 AM Review of open issues and discussion
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:00 AM Plenary 7 - Updates on Hadronic physics and validation (including physics lists for hadron)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

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

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

11:40 AM Progress on Validation - Julia Yarba

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

12:20 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
2:00 PM Plenary 8 - Documentation
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

2:00 PM Update on Migration from docbook to Sphinx - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

2:20 PM Common Format/Design for Web Pages (discussion)

2:45 PM The Geant4 Logo and Videos - Laurent Garnier

3:05 PM Documentation of Physics Lists (discussion)
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
4:00 PM Parallel 7A - Documentation working session
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

4:00 PM Documenting Physics List Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

4:15 PM Requests for physics model documentation

4:30 PM Discussion of Automated Documentation

4:45 PM Working session
Parallel 7B - Parallelism and vectorization
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

4:00 PM Deterministic transport independent of the order of tracking - Dmitry Savin (Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA))

4:20 PM Update on GeantV - Federico Carminati (CERN)

4:40 PM Enabling vectorisation in Geant4 and single-particle GeantV tracking - John Apostolakis (CERN)

5:00 PM Discussion
7:00 PM Banquet

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: City Beach Function Centre, 1 Marine Drive, Wollongong
Friday, September 29, 2017
9:00 AM Parallel 8A - Technical aspects related to hadronic physics and remaining topics
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

9:00 AM 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)

9:20 AM Technical Aspects of Varying Hadronic Model Parameters and Studying Sensitivity of Simulated Results - Julia Yarba

9:40 AM Discussion
Parallel 8B - Status of biasing
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Building 6, room 210
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

9:05 AM Independent geometrical biasing of multiple particle types : the case of electrons in radiotherapy - Daren Sawkey

9:25 AM Interaction forcing for reverse gamma - Laurent Desorgher

9:45 AM Channeling process interface to generic biasing : pending issues - Enrico Bagli (Universita di Ferrara & INFN (IT))

9:55 AM Status of generic biasing - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:15 AM Discussion
10:30 AM break
break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Building 32, room G01
11:00 AM Plenary 9 - Report from parallel sessions
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:17 PM Report on Parallel Session 6B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
2:00 PM Plenary 10 - Report from parallel sessions / Closing session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01
Contributions

2:00 PM Report on Parallel Session 7A - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Dennis Herbert Wright

2:07 PM Report on Parallel Session 7B - John Apostolakis (CERN) Soon Yung Jun

2:14 PM Report on Parallel Session 8A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Gunter Folger (CERN)

2:21 PM Report on Parallel Session 8B - Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

2:28 PM Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

2:43 PM 2018 Collaboration Meeting - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico

2:58 PM Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
3:30 PM Adjourn

3:30 PM - 3:40 PM

3:40 PM Steering Board meeting

3:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Building 32, room G01

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