Name: 23rd Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2018-08-27T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-08-31T18:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

23rd Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 27 August 2018 (08:00) to Friday 31 August 2018 (18:00)

Monday 27 August 2018

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome by Mr. Holger Radner, vice Mayor of Lund - Holger Radner (Vice Mayor, Lund)

09:10 Opening remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:15 Open requirements - LHC and other HEP energy frontier experiments - Mihaly Novak (CERN)

09:30 Open requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

09:45 Open requirements - Nuclear physics and engineering, material science - Dennis Herbert Wright

10:00 Open requirements - Space science and engineering - Giovanni Santin (ESA)

10:15 Open requirements - Medical and bio science - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Updates on Geant4 Documentation - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

11:15 Updates on Geant4 Website/Drupal - Gunter Folger (CERN)

11:30 Updates on Geant4 Development Tools: CMake, Data - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

11:45 Geant4 Git Migration: Timetable and Discussion - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) Gunter Folger (CERN)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 New 5D gamma conversion model - Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:20 New model of 3 gamma annihilation - Andrei Alkin (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU))

14:40 Models for simulation of Gold nanoparticles - Dosatsu Sakata (University of Tsukuba (JP))

15:00 New PIXE cross sections and validation of Auger electrons - Susanna Guatelli
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Profiling for low energy physics - Kihyeon Cho

14:15 Medcial Domain - Susanna Guatelli

14:30 ALICE - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:45 ATLAS - John Apostolakis (CERN)

15:00 CMS - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:15 Intensity Frontier - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:40
Contributions

16:00 Geant4 low-energy models for electron transport in liquid water - I. Kyriakou

16:20 New low energy elastic model for gammas - M. Omer

16:40 CPA100 models for Geant4-DNA - M. C. Bordage

17:00 Validation of the Geant4 EM physics for modelling high energy synchrotron beamlines - S. Guatelli
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Documentation update - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

16:20 Documentation Discussion 1 - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

16:30 Documentation Discussion 2 - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

16:45 Videos - Laurent Garnier
Tuesday 28 August 2018
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Update of Standard EM Models - Mihaly Novak (CERN)

09:30 Status of Standard EM libraries - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

10:00 Status of Low-energy EM Physics - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 High Energy Hadronic Models: Status and Plans - Gunter Folger

11:20 Low Energy Hadronic Models: Status and Plans - Laurent Desorgher

11:40 Hadronic Validation: Status and Plans - Dennis Wright

12:00 Hadronic Model Discussion
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Very High Energy Models - Khaled Abdellatif

14:15 FTF and QGS Models: Status and Plans - Gunter Folger

14:30 INCL++ Status and Plans - Jean-Christophe David

14:45 Bertini Cascade Staus and Plans - Dennis Wright

15:00 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Sub-event parallelism - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:12 Unified tracking mechanism for exotic particles (ions, muonic atoms, radicals, hyper-nuclear, phonon, e/h) - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Hisaya Kurashige (Kobe University (JP))

14:24 Revisit / retreat production thresholds and physics process framework - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:36 Refactoring transportation - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

14:48 Use of HPC - Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:00 Extending crystal structure capabilities - Enrico Bagli (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

15:12 TiMemory performance monitoring - Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:24 Open discussion
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Results from CMS Test Beam and Run 2 - S. Banerjee, V. Ivantchenko - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

16:15 INCL++ Parameter Study - Jean-Christophe David - Jean-Christophe David

16:30 FTF Configuration Interface - Julia Yarba - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Julia Yarba

16:45 FTF + Bertini Parameter Study - Robert Hatcher - Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)

17:15 Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Updates on solids modelling in VecGeom - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

16:20 Latest developments in navigation with VecGeom - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

16:40 Investigations in the ATLAS geometry - Evgueni Tcherniaev (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

17:00 Updated field thresholds for looping particles - John Apostolakis (CERN)

17:20 Review of open issues and discussion
Wednesday 29 August 2018
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Hadron Therapy Validation - Susanna Guatelli

09:15 High Precision Hadron Models: Status and Plans - Pedro Arce

09:30 Radioactive Decay Model: Status and Plans - Laurent Desorgher

09:45 Precompound and Deexcitation Models - Vladimir Ivantchenko

10:00 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:10 Variance reduction using multi-stage simulations - Pete Truscott

09:30 Update on Channeling - Enrico Bagli (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

09:45 Update on Generic Biasing - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:00 Having a Differential Cross-Section Class - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:10 Discussion on open issues
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Biasing in Geant4 - an Update - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:20 Validation Strategies and Tools - Gunter Folger (CERN)

11:40 Discussion
12:00

12:00 - 19:00
Thursday 30 August 2018
09:00 Kernel, GUI/Vis, examples updates
Kernel, GUI/Vis, examples updates
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Status of multithreading / Kernel updates - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:20 GUI / Vis updates / Intercom updates - John Allison Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

09:40 Examples updates - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:55 Analysis updates - Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:15 Geometry updates - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Migration to C++11/14/17 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

11:30 Integrating R&D outcomes - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:00 Git openness - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) Pere Mato Vila (CERN)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Physics List Factory - an Update - Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)

14:20 Geant4 val - Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (R)

14:40 DoSSiER - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:00 (Extension of 7A) - Introduction - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

15:05 (Extension of 7A) - Machine Learning in simulation & discussion - Marilena Bandieramonte (CERN)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Current status of the Geant4 Advanced Examples - Susanna Guatelli

14:15 Hadrontherapy: status, recent updates, and new developments - G. Petringa

14:30 B&E Examples WG: Work plan items - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:45 VIS, UI clean-up - John Allison

14:55 New OpNovice2 example - Daren Sawkey

15:00 New extended/physicslists category - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:05 New extensibleFactory example - Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)

15:10 DICOM2 + Proposal for new demonstration of using statistic tools - Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Geant4 tasking model - Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:20 Geant4 + GPUs - Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:30 GeantV status and performance - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

16:45 Applying vectorisation to Geant4 - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

17:00 Vectorisation of EM physics - Marilena Bandieramonte (CERN)

17:15 Vectorisation of Bertini cascade - Guilherme Lima (FermiLab (US))
16:00 - 17:30

19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Friday 31 August 2018
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 ProtonHP: Status and Problems - Pablo Cirrone

09:10 Discussion of ParticleHP Maintenance - Michel Maire

09:30 (Extension of 7A) - Vectorisation of RND engines - John Apostolakis (CERN) Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:45 (Extension of 7A) - Optical Photon Mediator for Vectorization, GPU and FastSim - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:55 (Extension of 7A) - Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Global update on vis - John Allison

09:10 Inventor driver status - Fred Jones (TRIUMF (CA))

09:20 Exploring G4 on Android and iOS. - Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:30 Qt driver status - Laurent Garnier

09:40 Other driver status

09:50 Open discution
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Report on Parallel Session 1A and 2A - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) Mihaly Novak (CERN) Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS)

11:15 Report on Parallel Session 1B - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Gunter Folger (CERN)

11:23 Report on Parallel Session 2B - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) Laurent Garnier

11:31 Report on Parallel Session 3B - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

11:39 Report on Parallel Session 4B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)

11:47 Report on Parallel Session 5B - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

11:55 Report on Parallel Session 6A - Gunter Folger (CERN) Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:03 Report on Parallel Session 6B - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Susanna Guatelli

12:11 Report on Parallel Session 7B - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Gunter Folger (CERN)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Report on Parallel Session 3A, 4A, 5A and 8A - Dennis Herbert Wright Julia Yarba Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Gunter Folger (CERN)

14:20 Report on Parallel Session 7A - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

14:35 Report on Parallel Session 8B - John Allison Laurent Garnier

14:43 Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

14:58 Next collaboration meeting - Paul Gueye (Hampton University)

15:03 Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
15:30

15:30 - 15:45

15:30 - 17:00

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