Name: 24th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2019-09-23T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-09-27T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Jefferson Lab

Monday 23 September 2019

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: F113
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F113
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Amber Boehnlein (Jefferson Lab)

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

09:15 Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

09:30 Open and new requirements - HEP Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers experiments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

09:45 Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

10:00 Open and new requirements - Space science and engineering - Dennis Herbert Wright

10:15 Open and new requirements - Medical and bio science - José Ramos Mendoz (UCSF)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: F113
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F113
Contributions

11:00 Migration of User Forum to Discourse - Dennis Herbert Wright

11:15 Geant4 CMake/Buildsystem Updates - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

11:35 Git/GitLab/GitHub Update - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

11:55 Documentation Update and Discussion - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: F113
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: F113
Contributions

14:00 Changes to Physics Lists - Gunter Folger (CERN)

14:15 EM infrastructure and Physics Lists update - Aleksandr Bagulia (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

14:30 geant-val

14:45 Updates to DoSSiER - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:00 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: L102
Contributions

14:00 Developments in 10.5 and for 10.6 - John Allison

14:20 Vis mini-workshop 2019 - John Allison

14:40 G4Tools - Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:00 Qt and OpenGL updates - Laurent Garnier

15:20 Discussion
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: F113
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: F113
Contributions

16:00 INCL++ - Recent Progress, Status and Plans - Jean-Christophe David

16:20 The Bertini Model - Recent Progress, Status and Plans - Dennis Herbert Wright

16:40 The FTF and QGS Models - Recent Progress, Status and Plans - Vladimir Uzhinskii (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)) Alberto Ribon (CERN)

17:10 Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: L102
Contributions

16:00 Introduction / general news - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

16:10 Update on GFlash revision (remote or local speaker) - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

16:40 From Woodcock viewpoint to weight calculation for occurrence biasing of charged particles - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

17:10 Discussion
Tuesday 24 September 2019

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: F113
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F113
Contributions

09:00 Status of Electromagnetic Physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

09:40 High Energy Hadronic Physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

10:00 Low Energy Hadronic Physics - Dennis Herbert Wright

10:20 Discussion
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: F113
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F113
Contributions

11:00 Status of physics lists and geant-val - Gunter Folger (CERN)

11:15 Varying Model Parameters - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:35 Discussion
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: F113
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: F113
Contributions

14:00 Varrying Bertini Model Parameters - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:25 FTF Parameter API - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:50 Validation Using CMS Data - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

15:15 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: L102
Contributions

14:00 Extended examples: Progress with work plan items - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:15 Advanced examples: progress - Susanna Guatelli

14:30 Example dna/microprox - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)

14:35 Example dna/chem5 - Jose Ramos Mendez (University of California San Francisco)

14:40 Example dna/dnadamage1 - Tran Ngoc Hoang ( Ton Duc Thang University)

14:45 Calculation of microdosimetric quantities of proton track segments with Geant4-DNA - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

15:00 new MPI/exMPI04 - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:05 Proposal for a new medical extended example - Susanna Guatelli

15:10 Hadrontherapy: status and validation - Pablo Cirrone (Unknown)
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: F113

16:00

16:00 - 18:00
Room: F113
Wednesday 25 September 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F113
Contributions

09:00 New Geant4-DNA physics models for electrons in DNA-related material (remote) - Marie-Claude Bordage

09:15 New Geant4-DNA physics models for electrons in gold (remote) - Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)

09:30 Status of MPEXS-DNA - Shogo Okada (KEK, Japan)

09:45 Geant4-DNA for other solid state materials - Susanna Guatelli

10:00 Directional brem splitting - Daren Sawkey

10:15 X-ray fluorescence with ANSTO libraries - Susanna Guatelli
09:00 - 10:30
Room: L102
Contributions

09:00 Sub-event parallelism

09:15 Unified tracking mechanism for exotic particles (ions, muonic atoms, radicals, hyper-nuclear, phonon, e/h)

09:30 Revisit / retreat production thresholds and physics process framework

09:45 Refactoring transportation

10:00 Extension of command-based scorer

10:15 Update on Geant4 and timemory - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: F113
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F113
Contributions

11:00 Status of task level parallelism - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:20 Status of event biasing & fast simulation - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

11:40 Review of Production Thresholds - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:00 Geometry updates - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

12:20 Discussion
12:30

12:30 - 20:30
Room: F113
Thursday 26 September 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F113
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

09:20 Videos - Laurent Garnier

09:30 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: L102
Contributions

09:00 Geant4 Task Force for R&Ds - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

09:05 Geant Exascale pilot - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:20 Making Geant4 stepping stateless - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

09:35 Geant4 Tasking model - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:50 VectorFlow framework - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

10:05 Machine Learning-based fast simulation framework - Ioana Ifrim (CERN)

10:20 Discussion
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: F113
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F113
Contributions

11:00 Analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:15 G4Tools - Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:30 Extended examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:45 Advanced examples - Susanna Guatelli

12:00 Visualization and User Interface - John Allison
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: F113
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: F113
Contributions

14:00 Status of ParticleHP models - Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)

14:20 Radioactive Decay status - Laurent Desorgher

14:40 Precompound and Deexcitation models status and plans - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

15:00 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: L102
Contributions

14:00 LHCb - Gloria Corti (CERN)

14:15 CMS - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

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

14:45 ATLAS - John Apostolakis (CERN)

15:00 Geant4 CPU and Memory Profiling and Benchmark - Status Report - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:15 Geant4 profiling using the KISTI-5 supercomputer - Kihyeon Cho
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: F113
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: F113
Contributions

16:00 Future plans for ParticleHP - Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)

16:40 Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: L102
Contributions

16:00 Evaluation of early radiation DNA damage in a fractal cell nucleus model using Geant4-DNA (remote) - Dosatsu Sakata (University of Tsukuba (JP))

16:15 Current status of IRT for plasmid SSB simulations under the presence of scavengers - Jose Asuncion Ramos Mendez

16:30 G4MSBG: recent developments - Susanna Guatelli

16:45 Validation of Geant4 for Microbeam Radiation Therapy - Susanna Guatelli

17:00 Update of LightIonBraggPeak test with Li and O data - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

17:15 A proposal for a physics list for gamma radiotherapy applications - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
Friday 27 September 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F113
Contributions

09:00 Evaluation of the influence of physical and chemical parameters on water radiolysis simulations under MeV electron irradiation using Geant4-DNA - Wook Geun Shin

09:15 Towards continuous integration testing of optical code - Daren Sawkey

09:30 Validation of the Geant4 radioactive decay and emission of Auger electrons - Susanna Guatelli

09:45 5D gamma conversion model: high energy tests - Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:00 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: L102
Contributions

09:00 Status of VecGeom navigator integration - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

09:20 Interpolation for field integration, accuracy and benchmark - Dmitry Sorokin (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

09:40 Accuracy of boundary crossing in field - John Apostolakis (CERN)

09:50 Status of separate Transportation for charged and neutral particles - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

10:00 Open issues & discussion
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: F113
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F113
Contributions

11:00 Report on Parallel 1A - Physics lists and validation tools - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Gunter Folger (CERN)

11:08 Report on Parallel 1B - GUI / Visualization - Laurent Garnier John Allison Joseph Perl

11:16 Report on Parallel 2B - Biasing and fast simulation - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

11:24 Report on Parallel 3B - Basic, extended and advanced examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Susanna Guatelli

11:32 Report on Parallel 4B - Near-term kernel developments - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:40 Report on Parallel 5A - Documentation - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) Daren Sawkey

11:48 Report on Parallel 2A, 3A, 6A, 7A - Hadronic physics - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Herbert Wright Gunter Folger (CERN)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: F113
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: F113
Contributions

14:00 Report on Parallel 5B - Medium- and longer-term R&Ds - Witold Pokorski (CERN) Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:08 Report on Parallel 6B - Computing performance - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Gunter Folger (CERN)

14:16 Report on Parallel 8B - Geometry - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)

14:24 Report on Parallel 7B - Geant4 in medicine - Susanna Guatelli Bruce Alan Faddegon

14:32 Report on Parallel 4A, 8A - EM physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Susanna Guatelli Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) Daren Sawkey

14:47 Version 10.6 release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

14:57 Next collaboration meeting - Laurent Garnier

15:07 Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
15:30

15:30 - 17:30
Room: F113

15:30 - 17:30
Room: F113