23rd Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
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Plenary 1 - Opening address / open requirementsConveners: Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico, Xiaoxiao Cai (ESS/DTU)
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Welcome by Mr. Holger Radner, vice Mayor of Lund 10mSpeaker: Mr Holger Radner (Vice Mayor, Lund)
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Opening remarks 5mSpeakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Open requirements - LHC and other HEP energy frontier experiments 15mSpeaker: Mihaly Novak (CERN)
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Open requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments 15mSpeaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Open requirements - Nuclear physics and engineering, material science 15mSpeaker: Dennis Herbert Wright
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Open requirements - Space science and engineering 15mSpeaker: Giovanni Santin (ESA)
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Open requirements - Medical and bio science 15mSpeaker: 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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Updates on Geant4 Documentation 15mSpeaker: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))
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Updates on Geant4 Website/Drupal 15mSpeaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Updates on Geant4 Development Tools: CMake, Data 15mSpeaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))Geant4 Data Questionnaire Responses
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Geant4 Git Migration: Timetable and Discussion 45mSpeakers: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), Gunter Folger (CERN)
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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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New 5D gamma conversion model 20mSpeakers: Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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New model of 3 gamma annihilation 20mSpeaker: Andrei Alkin (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU))
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Models for simulation of Gold nanoparticles 20mSpeaker: Dosatsu Sakata (University of Tsukuba (JP))
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New PIXE cross sections and validation of Auger electrons 20mSpeaker: Susanna Guatelli
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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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Profiling for low energy physics 15mSpeaker: Kihyeon Cho
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ALICE 15mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Intensity Frontier 15mSpeakers: 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
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Geant4 low-energy models for electron transport in liquid water 20mSpeaker: I. Kyriakou
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New low energy elastic model for gammas 20mSpeaker: M. Omer
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CPA100 models for Geant4-DNA 20mSpeaker: M. C. Bordage
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Validation of the Geant4 EM physics for modelling high energy synchrotron beamlines 20mSpeaker: S. Guatelli
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Parallel 2B - Documentation working session
Documentation, videos, web pages
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Documentation update 20m
update on the current status of the Geant4 documentation and request for inputs for future features.
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Documentation Discussion 1 10m
- 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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Documentation Discussion 2 15m
- Alternative formats? Should we consider epub, mobi, whatever or just pdf and html?
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Videos 45m
Videos for Geant4
- tutorials
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- 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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High Energy Hadronic Models: Status and Plans - Gunter Folger 20m
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Low Energy Hadronic Models: Status and Plans - Laurent Desorgher 20m
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Hadronic Validation: Status and Plans - Dennis Wright 20m
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Hadronic Model Discussion 30m
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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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Very High Energy Models - Khaled Abdellatif 15m
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FTF and QGS Models: Status and Plans - Gunter Folger 15m
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INCL++ Status and Plans - Jean-Christophe David 15m
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Bertini Cascade Staus and Plans - Dennis Wright 15m
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Discussion 30m
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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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Sub-event parallelism 12mSpeaker: 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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Revisit / retreat production thresholds and physics process framework 12mSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Refactoring transportation 12mSpeakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
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Extending crystal structure capabilities 12mSpeaker: Enrico Bagli (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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TiMemory performance monitoring 12mSpeaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Open discussion 6m
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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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Results from CMS Test Beam and Run 2 - S. Banerjee, V. Ivantchenko 15mSpeakers: Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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INCL++ Parameter Study - Jean-Christophe David 15mSpeaker: Jean-Christophe David
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FTF Configuration Interface - Julia Yarba 15mSpeakers: Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Julia Yarba
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FTF + Bertini Parameter Study - Robert Hatcher 30mSpeaker: Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)
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Discussion 15m
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Parallel 4B - Geometry working session
- Performance & optimisations
- Integration with VecGeom
- Review of open issues
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Latest developments in navigation with VecGeom 20mSpeaker: Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)
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Investigations in the ATLAS geometry 20mSpeaker: Evgueni Tcherniaev (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))
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Updated field thresholds for looping particles 20mSpeaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Review of open issues and discussion 10m
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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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Hadron Therapy Validation - Susanna Guatelli 15m
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High Precision Hadron Models: Status and Plans - Pedro Arce 15m
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Radioactive Decay Model: Status and Plans - Laurent Desorgher 15m
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Precompound and Deexcitation Models - Vladimir Ivantchenko 15m
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Discussion 30m
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Parallel 5B - Biasing
Update the current status of biasing options and discuss about work plan
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Introduction 10mSpeakers: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Variance reduction using multi-stage simulations 20mSpeaker: Pete Truscott
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Update on Channeling 15mSpeaker: Enrico Bagli (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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Update on Generic Biasing 15mSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Having a Differential Cross-Section Class 10mSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Discussion on open issues 20m
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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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Biasing in Geant4 - an Update 20mSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Validation Strategies and Tools 20mSpeaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Discussion 20m
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Excursion
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Plenary 6 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, examples updates: Kernel, GUI/Vis, examples updatesConveners: Laurent Garnier, Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
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Status of multithreading / Kernel updates 20mSpeaker: Dr Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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GUI / Vis updates / Intercom updates 20mSpeakers: John Allison, Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Examples updates 15mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Analysis updates 20mSpeaker: 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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Migration to C++11/14/17 30mSpeaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Integrating R&D outcomes 30mSpeaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Git openness 30mSpeakers: 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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Physics List Factory - an Update 20mSpeaker: Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)
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Geant4 val 20mSpeaker: Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (R)
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DoSSiER 20mSpeaker: Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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(Extension of 7A) - Introduction 5mSpeakers: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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(Extension of 7A) - Machine Learning in simulation & discussion 25m
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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Current status of the Geant4 Advanced Examples 15mSpeaker: Susanna Guatelli
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Hadrontherapy: status, recent updates, and new developments 15mSpeaker: G. Petringa
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B&E Examples WG: Work plan items 15mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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New extended/physicslists category 5mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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New extensibleFactory example 5mSpeaker: Robert William Hatcher (Fermilab)
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DICOM2 + Proposal for new demonstration of using statistic tools 15mSpeaker: 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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Geant4 tasking model 20mSpeaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Vectorisation of EM physics 15mSpeaker: Marilena Bandieramonte (CERN)
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Vectorisation of Bertini cascade 15mSpeaker: 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
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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.
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ProtonHP: Status and Problems - Pablo Cirrone 10m
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Discussion of ParticleHP Maintenance - Michel Maire 20m
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(Extension of 7A) - Vectorisation of RND engines 15mSpeakers: John Apostolakis (CERN), Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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(Extension of 7A) - Optical Photon Mediator for Vectorization, GPU and FastSim 10mSpeaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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(Extension of 7A) - Discussion 35m
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Parallel 8B - Updates on Vis
- Global update on vis
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Global update on vis 10mSpeaker: John Allison
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Exploring G4 on Android and iOS. 10mSpeaker: Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Other driver status 10m
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- Open inventor
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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 on Parallel Session 1A and 2A 15m
Report from EM physics parallel sessions
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Report on Parallel Session 1B 8mSpeakers: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Report on Parallel Session 2B 8mSpeakers: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Laurent Garnier
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Report on Parallel Session 3B 8mSpeakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
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Report on Parallel Session 4B 8mSpeakers: Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Report on Parallel Session 5B 8mSpeakers: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))
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Report on Parallel Session 6A 8mSpeakers: Gunter Folger (CERN), Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Report on Parallel Session 6B 8mSpeakers: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Susanna Guatelli
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Report on Parallel Session 7B 8mSpeakers: 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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Report on Parallel Session 3A, 4A, 5A and 8A 20m
Reports on hadronic physics parallel sessions
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Report on Parallel Session 7A 15mSpeakers: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Closing remarks 15mSpeakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Adjourn
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Steering Board meetingConveners: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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