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

24th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, September 23, 2019 (8:00 AM) to Friday, September 27, 2019 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 23, 2019

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: F113
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F113
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Amber Boehnlein (Jefferson Lab)

9:10 AM Opening remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

9:15 AM Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

9:30 AM Open and new requirements - HEP Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers experiments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

9:45 AM Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

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

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

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

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

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

11:55 AM Documentation Update and Discussion - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))
12:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: F113
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: F113
Contributions

2:00 PM Changes to Physics Lists - Gunter Folger (CERN)

2:15 PM EM infrastructure and Physics Lists update - Aleksandr Bagulia (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

2:30 PM geant-val

2:45 PM Updates to DoSSiER - Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

3:00 PM Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: L102
Contributions

2:00 PM Developments in 10.5 and for 10.6 - John Allison

2:20 PM Vis mini-workshop 2019 - John Allison

2:40 PM G4Tools - Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

3:00 PM Qt and OpenGL updates - Laurent Garnier

3:20 PM Discussion
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: F113
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: F113
Contributions

4:00 PM INCL++ - Recent Progress, Status and Plans - Jean-Christophe David

4:20 PM The Bertini Model - Recent Progress, Status and Plans - Dennis Herbert Wright

4:40 PM The FTF and QGS Models - Recent Progress, Status and Plans - Vladimir Uzhinskii (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)) Alberto Ribon (CERN)

5:10 PM Discussion
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: L102
Contributions

4:00 PM Introduction / general news - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

4:10 PM Update on GFlash revision (remote or local speaker) - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

4:40 PM From Woodcock viewpoint to weight calculation for occurrence biasing of charged particles - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

5:10 PM Discussion
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: F113
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F113
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of Electromagnetic Physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

9:40 AM High Energy Hadronic Physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

10:00 AM Low Energy Hadronic Physics - Dennis Herbert Wright

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

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

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

11:35 AM Discussion
12:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: F113
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: F113
Contributions

2:00 PM Varrying Bertini Model Parameters - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

2:25 PM FTF Parameter API - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

2:50 PM Validation Using CMS Data - Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

3:15 PM Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: L102
Contributions

2:00 PM Extended examples: Progress with work plan items - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

2:15 PM Advanced examples: progress - Susanna Guatelli

2:30 PM Example dna/microprox - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)

2:35 PM Example dna/chem5 - Jose Ramos Mendez (University of California San Francisco)

2:40 PM Example dna/dnadamage1 - Tran Ngoc Hoang ( Ton Duc Thang University)

2:45 PM Calculation of microdosimetric quantities of proton track segments with Geant4-DNA - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

3:00 PM new MPI/exMPI04 - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

3:05 PM Proposal for a new medical extended example - Susanna Guatelli

3:10 PM Hadrontherapy: status and validation - Pablo Cirrone (Unknown)
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: F113

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: F113
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F113
Contributions

9:00 AM New Geant4-DNA physics models for electrons in DNA-related material (remote) - Marie-Claude Bordage

9:15 AM New Geant4-DNA physics models for electrons in gold (remote) - Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)

9:30 AM Status of MPEXS-DNA - Shogo Okada (KEK, Japan)

9:45 AM Geant4-DNA for other solid state materials - Susanna Guatelli

10:00 AM Directional brem splitting - Daren Sawkey

10:15 AM X-ray fluorescence with ANSTO libraries - Susanna Guatelli
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: L102
Contributions

9:00 AM Sub-event parallelism

9:15 AM Unified tracking mechanism for exotic particles (ions, muonic atoms, radicals, hyper-nuclear, phonon, e/h)

9:30 AM Revisit / retreat production thresholds and physics process framework

9:45 AM Refactoring transportation

10:00 AM Extension of command-based scorer

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

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

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

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

12:00 PM Geometry updates - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

12:20 PM Discussion
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: F113
Thursday, September 26, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F113
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

9:20 AM Videos - Laurent Garnier

9:30 AM Discussion
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: L102
Contributions

9:00 AM Geant4 Task Force for R&Ds - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

9:05 AM Geant Exascale pilot - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

9:20 AM Making Geant4 stepping stateless - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Witold Pokorski (CERN)

9:35 AM Geant4 Tasking model - Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

9:50 AM VectorFlow framework - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

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

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

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

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

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

11:45 AM Advanced examples - Susanna Guatelli

12:00 PM Visualization and User Interface - John Allison
12:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: F113
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: F113
Contributions

2:00 PM Status of ParticleHP models - Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)

2:20 PM Radioactive Decay status - Laurent Desorgher

2:40 PM Precompound and Deexcitation models status and plans - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

3:00 PM Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: L102
Contributions

2:00 PM LHCb - Gloria Corti (CERN)

2:15 PM CMS - Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

2:30 PM ALICE - Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

2:45 PM ATLAS - John Apostolakis (CERN)

3:00 PM Geant4 CPU and Memory Profiling and Benchmark - Status Report - Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

3:15 PM Geant4 profiling using the KISTI-5 supercomputer - Kihyeon Cho
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: F113
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: F113
Contributions

4:00 PM Future plans for ParticleHP - Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)

4:40 PM Discussion
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: L102
Contributions

4:00 PM Evaluation of early radiation DNA damage in a fractal cell nucleus model using Geant4-DNA (remote) - Dosatsu Sakata (University of Tsukuba (JP))

4:15 PM Current status of IRT for plasmid SSB simulations under the presence of scavengers - Jose Asuncion Ramos Mendez

4:30 PM G4MSBG: recent developments - Susanna Guatelli

4:45 PM Validation of Geant4 for Microbeam Radiation Therapy - Susanna Guatelli

5:00 PM Update of LightIonBraggPeak test with Li and O data - Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))

5:15 PM A proposal for a physics list for gamma radiotherapy applications - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
Friday, September 27, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F113
Contributions

9:00 AM Evaluation of the influence of physical and chemical parameters on water radiolysis simulations under MeV electron irradiation using Geant4-DNA - Wook Geun Shin

9:15 AM Towards continuous integration testing of optical code - Daren Sawkey

9:30 AM Validation of the Geant4 radioactive decay and emission of Auger electrons - Susanna Guatelli

9:45 AM 5D gamma conversion model: high energy tests - Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:00 AM Discussion
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: L102
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of VecGeom navigator integration - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

9:20 AM Interpolation for field integration, accuracy and benchmark - Dmitry Sorokin (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

9:40 AM Accuracy of boundary crossing in field - John Apostolakis (CERN)

9:50 AM Status of separate Transportation for charged and neutral particles - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

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

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

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

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

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

11:32 AM 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 AM Report on Parallel 5A - Documentation - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) Daren Sawkey

11:48 AM 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 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: F113
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: F113
Contributions

2:00 PM Report on Parallel 5B - Medium- and longer-term R&Ds - Witold Pokorski (CERN) Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2:08 PM Report on Parallel 6B - Computing performance - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Gunter Folger (CERN)

2:16 PM Report on Parallel 8B - Geometry - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN)

2:24 PM Report on Parallel 7B - Geant4 in medicine - Susanna Guatelli Bruce Alan Faddegon

2:32 PM Report on Parallel 4A, 8A - EM physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN) Susanna Guatelli Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) Daren Sawkey

2:47 PM Version 10.6 release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

2:57 PM Next collaboration meeting - Laurent Garnier

3:07 PM Closing remarks - Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: F113

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: F113

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