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22nd Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

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


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 25, 2017
Sep 26, 2017
Sep 27, 2017
Sep 28, 2017
Sep 29, 2017
AM
11:00 AM
Registration (until 11:30 AM) (Building 32, room G01)
11:30 AM
Plenary 1 - Opening address / open requirements (until 1:05 PM)
11:30 AM Welcome - Prof. 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  
9:00 AM
Plenary 3 - Validation and tests (until 10:30 AM) (Building 32, room G01)
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 - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Alexandre Bagulya (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))  
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 ---
11:00 AM
Plenary 4 - Updates on kernel and geometry (until 12:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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  
9:00 AM
Plenary 5 - Updates on GUI, Vis and examples (until 10:30 AM) (Building 32, room G01)
9:00 AM Visualization and GUIs - Laurent Garnier  
9:20 AM Analysis and g4tools - Guy Barrand (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)) Ivana Hrivnacova (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 ---
11:00 AM
Plenary 6 - Updates on EM physics and validation (including physics lists for EM) (until 12:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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))  
9:00 AM
Parallel 6A - Low-energy hadronic physics (until 10:30 AM) (Building 32, room G01)
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 - Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS) Carlo Mancini Terracciano (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
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))  
9:00 AM
Parallel 6B - Geometry working session (until 10:30 AM) (Building 6, room 210)
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 - John Apostolakis (CERN) Dmitry Sorokin  
10:00 AM Review of open issues and discussion  
10:30 AM --- break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary 7 - Updates on Hadronic physics and validation (including physics lists for hadron) (until 12:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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  
9:00 AM
Parallel 8A - Technical aspects related to hadronic physics and remaining topics (until 10:30 AM) (Building 32, room G01)
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  
9:00 AM
Parallel 8B - Status of biasing (until 10:30 AM) (Building 6, room 210)
9:00 AM Introduction - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Alexander Howard (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (CH))  
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 ---
11:00 AM
Plenary 9 - Report from parallel sessions (until 12:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
11:00 AM Report on Parallel Session 1A - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Gunter Folger (CERN)  
11:07 AM Report on Parallel Session 1B - Laurent Garnier Joseph Perl  
11:14 AM Report on Parallel Session 2A - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Mihaly Novak (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 - Dr Sebastien Laurent Incerti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Susanna Guatelli  
11:35 AM Report on Parallel Session 3B - Soon Yung Jun Gunter Folger (CERN)  
11:42 AM Report on Parallel Session 4A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Julia Yarba  
11:49 AM Report on Parallel Session 4B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) Benjamin Morgan  
11:56 AM Report on Parallel Session 5A - Dennis Herbert Wright Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
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 - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico Alberto Ribon (CERN)  
12:17 PM Report on Parallel Session 6B - John Apostolakis (CERN) Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)  
PM
1:05 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary 2 - Collaboration tools (until 3:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Parallel 1A - Open topics in physics lists and validation tools (until 5:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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  
4:00 PM
Parallel 1B - Visualization (until 5:30 PM) (Building 6, room 210)
4:00 PM GPU Optical Photon Simulation for Particle Physics with NVIDIA OptiX - simon blyth  
4:20 PM Discussion  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Parallel 2A - New EM validation results (until 3:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
2:00 PM Validation of Geant4 for Microbeam Radiation Therapy - Mathew Cameron  
2:20 PM Recent developments for archaeometry - Dr 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  
2:00 PM
Parallel 2B - Basic and extended examples (until 3:30 PM) (Building 6, room 210)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Parallel 3A - Development of new EM models, part I (until 5:30 PM)
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  
4:00 PM
Parallel 3B - Computing performance (until 5:30 PM) (Building 6, room 210)
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  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Parallel 4A - Hadronic models: development & validation, part I (until 3:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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  
2:00 PM
Parallel 4B - Migration of Geant4 Version Control to Git Working Session (until 3:30 PM) (Building 6, room 210)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Parallel 5A - Hadronic models: development & validation, part II (until 5:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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  
4:00 PM
Parallel 5B - Development of new EM models, part II (until 5:30 PM) (Building 6, room 210)
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  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary 8 - Documentation (until 3:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Parallel 7A - Documentation working session (until 5:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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  
4:00 PM
Parallel 7B - Parallelism and vectorization (until 5:30 PM) (Building 6, room 210)
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 (until 10:00 PM) (City Beach Function Centre, 1 Marine Drive, Wollongong)
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary 10 - Report from parallel sessions / Closing session (until 3:30 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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 - Soon Yung Jun John Apostolakis (CERN)  
2:14 PM Report on Parallel Session 8A - Gunter Folger (CERN) Alberto Ribon (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 (until 3:40 PM)
3:40 PM
Steering Board meeting (until 5:00 PM) (Building 32, room G01)
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