23rd Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
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Plenary 1 - Opening address / open requirements¶Conveners: Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico, Xiaoxiao Cai (ESS/DTU)
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Speakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Mihaly Novak (CERN)
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Speaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright
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Speaker: Giovanni Santin (ESA)
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Speaker: Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
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Plenary 2 - Collaboration tools, documentation, web¶
- Git, Drupal
- Documentation enhancements
- Web page enhancements
Conveners: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))-
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Speaker: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))
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Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Speaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))Geant4 Data Questionnaire Responses
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Speakers: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), Gunter Folger (CERN)
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lunch break 1h 30m
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Parallel 1A - New EM physics models¶
Discussion on EM physics models
Conveners: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN)-
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Speakers: Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Andrei Alkin (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU))
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Speaker: Dosatsu Sakata (University of Tsukuba (JP))
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Parallel 1B - Computing performance¶
- Results and issues from HEP experiments and Other fields
- Performance profiling and benchmarking (tools and applications)
- Discussions
Conveners: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Gunter Folger (CERN)-
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Speaker: Kihyeon Cho
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Speaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speakers: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Parallel 2A - New EM validation results¶
Discussion on EM validation and EM physics configuration
Conveners: Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3), Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS)- 16:00
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Speaker: S. Guatelli
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Parallel 2B - Documentation working session¶
Documentation, videos, web pages
Conveners: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Laurent Garnier-
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update on the current status of the Geant4 documentation and request for inputs for future features.
Speaker: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) -
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- release schedule and location of development documents (for
public access?) - What about beta releases?
Speaker: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) - release schedule and location of development documents (for
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- Alternative formats? Should we consider epub, mobi, whatever or just pdf and html?
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Videos for Geant4
- tutorials
- demonstrations
- publicity/outreach
Content - what should we make videos of?
Maintenance/keeping up-to-dateSpeaker: Laurent Garnier
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Plenary 3 - Electromagnetic Physics Updates¶
EM physics models updates (including physics lists)
Conveners: Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN), Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)- 09:00
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Plenary 4 - Physics updates 2¶
Hadronic physics models updates (including physics lists)
Conveners: Dennis Herbert Wright, Gunter Folger (CERN)-
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Parallel 3A - Status of development and validation of hadronic physics models, part I¶
Review and discussion of the major hadronic physics models, starting from high-energy and going down in (projectile) energies.
This is the first part, covering string models, cascade models, and (if time allows) precompound and de-excitation models.Conveners: Julia Yarba, Dennis Herbert Wright-
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Parallel 3B - Near-term kernel developments¶
Discuss and plan the near-term development items. Items include but not limited to:
- Sub-event parallelism
- Unified tracking mechanism for exotic particles (ions, muonic atoms, radicals, hyper-nuclear, phonon, e/h)
- Revisit / retreat production thresholds and physics process framework
- Refactoring transportation
- Use of HPC
- Extending crystal structure capabilitiesConveners: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)-
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Speaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Unified tracking mechanism for exotic particles (ions, muonic atoms, radicals, hyper-nuclear, phonon, e/h)¶ 12mSpeakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University (JP))
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Speaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
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Speaker: Enrico Bagli (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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Speaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Parallel 4A - Status of development and validation of hadronic physics models, part II¶
Review and discussion of the major hadronic physics models, starting from high-energy and going down in (projectile) energies.
This is the second part, covering the remaining major models not covered in the first part, e.g. ParticleHP, Radioactive Decay, etc.Conveners: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Dennis Herbert Wright-
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Speakers: Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Speaker: Jean-Christophe David
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Speakers: Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Julia Yarba
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Speaker: Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)
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Parallel 4B - Geometry working session¶
- Performance & optimisations
- Integration with VecGeom
- Review of open issues
Conveners: Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)- 16:00
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Speaker: Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)
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Speaker: Evgueni Tcherniaev (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))
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Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Parallel 5A - Low energy hadronic physics¶
This session is dedicated to low-energy hadronic physics, in particular for topics that were either not covered in the second hadronic parallel session, or discussed/presented only briefly during the previous parallel session and that need further time.
Conveners: Dennis Herbert Wright, Gunter Folger (CERN)-
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Parallel 5B - Biasing¶
Update the current status of biasing options and discuss about work plan
Conveners: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))-
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Speakers: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Pete Truscott
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Speaker: Enrico Bagli (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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Speaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Plenary 5 - Generic process, physics validation and validation tools¶
- Biasing updates
- Physics validation strategies and tools
Conveners: Gunter Folger (CERN), Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))-
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Speaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Plenary 6 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, examples updates: Kernel, GUI/Vis, examples updates¶Conveners: Laurent Garnier, Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
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Speaker: Dr Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Speakers: John Allison, Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Speaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Plenary 7 - Code evolution strategies¶
- Git openness
- C++11/14/17
- Integrating longer-term R&D outcomes
Conveners: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)-
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Speaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Speaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Speakers: Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), Pere Mato Vila (CERN)
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Parallel 6A - Open topics in physics lists and validation tools¶
DoSSiER
process level/ physics list level tests
Physics list documentation, userDoc & generated doc
Geant validation DB
Template removal in physics lists, if progress
Physics lists factories,
Physics lists examples & documentationConveners: Gunter Folger (CERN), Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))-
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Speaker: Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)
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Speaker: Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (R)
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Speaker: Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Speakers: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Presentation of what could bring Machine Learning to simulation, and discussion on it.
Speaker: Marilena Bandieramonte (CERN)
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Parallel 6B - Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples¶
Presentation of development in extended and advanced examples
Discussion: Status of Work Plan 2018 ItemsConveners: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Susanna Guatelli-
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Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
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Speaker: G. Petringa
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Speaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)
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Speaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Parallel 7A - Medium- and longer-term R&Ds¶
Discuss R&D activities related to machine learning, parallelism, vectorization in general, and Geant-V status, use of co-processor, etc.
Note that the session has been extended partly to 6A and 8A.Conveners: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Witold Pokorski (CERN)-
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Speaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Speaker: Marilena Bandieramonte (CERN)
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Speaker: Guilherme Lima (FermiLab (US))
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Parallel 7B - Git Workflows for Development and Testing Geant4¶
Feedback on current Git workflow
Current issues, identify missing/needed features
Public/Private Development and integration with Issue tracking
Working session on adding tools for workflow and to assist testingConveners: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Gunter Folger (CERN) - 19:00 → 22:00
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Parallel 8A - Technical aspects of hadronic physics and remaining topics¶
This fourth, and last hadronic parallel session is meant to cover technical aspects of hadronic physics, as well as any other topic which needs further discussions or relevant presentations that could not be included in the previous three parallel sessions.
Conveners: Gunter Folger (CERN), Dennis Herbert Wright-
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Speakers: John Apostolakis (CERN), Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Speaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Parallel 8B - Updates on Vis¶
- Global update on vis
- Qt driver status
- Other drivers status
Conveners: John Allison, Laurent Garnier- 09:00
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Speaker: Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Plenary 8 - Summary of parallel sessions¶
Reports from parallel sessions
Conveners: Dr Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory), Xiaoxiao Cai (ESS/DTU)-
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Report from EM physics parallel sessions
Speakers: Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN), Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3), Mihaly Novak (CERN), Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS) -
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Speakers: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Speakers: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Laurent Garnier
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Speakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
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Speakers: Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Speakers: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))
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Speakers: Gunter Folger (CERN), Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Speakers: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Susanna Guatelli
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Speakers: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Plenary 9 - Summary of parallel sessions / closing session¶
Reports from parallel sessions
Release schedule
Next meeting
Closing remarksConveners: Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS), Paul Gueye (Hampton University)-
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Reports on hadronic physics parallel sessions
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Speakers: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Speakers: John Allison, Laurent Garnier
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Speakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Steering Board meeting¶Conveners: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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