24th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
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Please find Vidyo connection details linked in the "Videoconference Rooms" page.
The home page of the 24th collaboration meeting is https://www.jlab.org/conference/2019/Geant4Collab.
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Registration F113
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Plenary 1 - Opening addresses / open requirements F113
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Conveners: Igor Strakovsky, Paul Gueye (Hampton University)- 9:00 AM
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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 and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments 15mSpeaker: Alberto Ribon (CERN)
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Open and new requirements - HEP Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers experiments 15mSpeaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments 15mSpeaker: Dr Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)
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Open and new requirements - Space science and engineering 15mSpeaker: Dennis Herbert Wright
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Open and new requirements - Medical and bio science 15mSpeaker: José Ramos Mendoz (UCSF)
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Plenary 2 - Collaboration tools F113
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GitLab, GitHub, Discourse, documentation, web
Conveners: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Gunter Folger (CERN)- 11:00 AM
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Geant4 CMake/Buildsystem Updates 20m
Review of updates and developments to the CMake build system.
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Git/GitLab/GitHub Update 20m
Review of first year of Git and GitLab for developing Geant4.
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Documentation Update and Discussion 35mSpeaker: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))
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Parallel 1A - Physics lists and validation tools F113
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validationi tools - future developments
physics lists developements
physics lists user documentationConveners: Gunter Folger (CERN), Alberto Ribon (CERN)- 2:00 PM
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EM infrastructure and Physics Lists update 15mSpeakers: Aleksandr Bagulia (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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geant-val 15m
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Updates to DoSSiER 15mSpeaker: Hans-Joachim Wenzel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Discussion 20m
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Parallel 1B - Visualization updates L102
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What's new, what's next ?
Conveners: Laurent Garnier, John Allison, Joseph Perl-
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Developments in 10.5 and for 10.6 20mSpeaker: John Allison
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G4Tools 20mSpeaker: Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Discussion 10m
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Parallel 2A - Status of hadronic models and their validation, part I F113
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Survey of various hadronic models and their validation, starting with the high energy ones (the FTF and QGS string models), then the intermediate ones (intranuclear cascade models, BERT, BIC, INCL), and then the low-energy ones (Precompound, de-excitation, etc.).
Conveners: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Alberto Ribon (CERN)- 4:00 PM
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The Bertini Model - Recent Progress, Status and Plans 20mSpeaker: Dennis Herbert Wright
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The FTF and QGS Models - Recent Progress, Status and Plans 30mSpeakers: Vladimir Uzhinskii (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)), Alberto Ribon (CERN)
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Discussion 20m
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Parallel 2B - Progress on biasing and fast simulation L102
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Review of biasing and fast simulation activities
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Introduction / general news 10mSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Update on GFlash revision (remote or local speaker) 30mSpeaker: Anna Zaborowska (CERN)
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From Woodcock viewpoint to weight calculation for occurrence biasing of charged particles 30mSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Discussion 20m
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Registration F113
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Plenary 3 - Physics updates I F113
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Overview presentations of last year's progress in electromagnetic and hadronic physics
Conveners: Dennis Herbert Wright, Dr Susanna Guatelli-
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Status of Electromagnetic Physics 40m
Progress in both low and high energy electromagnetic physics will be presented.
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High Energy Hadronic Physics 20m
A discussion of last year's progress in high energy hadronic physics
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Low Energy Hadronic Physics 20m
A discussion of last year's progress in low energy hadronic physics
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Discussion 10m
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Plenary 4 - Physics updates II F113
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Physics lists, physics validation
Conveners: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Gunter Folger (CERN)- 11:00 AM
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Varying Model Parameters 20mSpeaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Discussion 40m
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Parallel 3A - Status of hadronic models and their validation, part II F113
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Continuation of the survey of various hadronic models and their validation, starting with the high energy string models, ones, then the intermediate, intranuclear cascade models ones, and then the low-energy ones.
Conveners: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))-
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Varrying Bertini Model Parameters 25mSpeaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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FTF Parameter API 25mSpeaker: Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Validation Using CMS Data 25mSpeakers: Sunanda Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Discussion 15m
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Parallel 3B - Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples L102
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- Presentation of development in extended and advanced examples
- Discussion: Status of Work Plan 2019 Items
Conveners: Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)), Susanna Guatelli-
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Extended examples: Progress with work plan items 15mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Example dna/dnadamage1 5mSpeaker: Tran Ngoc Hoang ( Ton Duc Thang University)
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Calculation of microdosimetric quantities of proton track segments with Geant4-DNA 15mSpeaker: Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))
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new MPI/exMPI04 5mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Proposal for a new medical extended example 5mSpeaker: Susanna Guatelli
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Hadrontherapy: status and validation 15mSpeaker: Pablo Cirrone (Unknown)
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Geant4 Technical Forum F113
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Detailed Agenda is managed in the other Indico event.
https://indico.cern.ch/event/825319/Conveners: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Parallel 4A - New EM models and tools F113
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New EM physics models, options, and tools
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New Geant4-DNA physics models for electrons in DNA-related material (remote) 15mSpeaker: Marie-Claude Bordage
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New Geant4-DNA physics models for electrons in gold (remote) 15mSpeaker: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)
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Parallel 4B - Near-term kernel developments L102
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Update, 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
We will take advantage of this session to make it mainly a working session. Speakers are requested to prepare short presentations that underline the key points to be addressed during the discussions.Conveners: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))-
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Sub-event parallelism 15m
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Unified tracking mechanism for exotic particles (ions, muonic atoms, radicals, hyper-nuclear, phonon, e/h) 15m
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Revisit / retreat production thresholds and physics process framework 15m
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Refactoring transportation 15m
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Extension of command-based scorer 15m
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Update on Geant4 and timemory 15mSpeaker: Dr Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Plenary 5 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, analysis, examples updates I F113
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Conveners: Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)), Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)-
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Status of task level parallelism 20mSpeaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Status of event biasing & fast simulation 20mSpeaker: Anna Zaborowska (CERN)
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Review of Production Thresholds 20mSpeaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Discussion 10m
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Excursion and Banquet F113
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Parallel 5A - Documentation working session F113
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Plans for documentation, supported formats, division of material between guides
Conveners: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Daren Sawkey-
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Introduction 20m
Introduction to documentation working session/discussion
Speaker: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) - 9:20 AM
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Discussion 1h
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Parallel 5B - Medium- and longer-term R&Ds L102
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We will discuss the current and planned R&D activities related to the evolution of Geant4 to cope with new computing challenges.
Conveners: Witold Pokorski (CERN), Dr Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)-
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Geant4 Task Force for R&Ds 5mSpeakers: Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Geant Exascale pilot 15mSpeaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Making Geant4 stepping stateless 15mSpeakers: Andrei Gheata (CERN), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Geant4 Tasking model 15mSpeaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Machine Learning-based fast simulation framework 15mSpeaker: Ioana Ifrim (CERN)
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Discussion 10m
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Plenary 6 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, analysis, examples updates II F113
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Conveners: Ivana Hrivnacova (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR)), Laurent Garnier-
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Analysis 15mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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G4Tools 15mSpeaker: Guy Barrand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Extended examples 15mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Visualization and User Interface 30mSpeaker: John Allison
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Parallel 6A - Nuclear physics F113
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Covering more details of the low-energy nuclear models - such as precompound, de-excitation, particle-hp, QMD, radioactive decay, etc. - that have been not fully discussed in the previous two sessions, plus any other topic relevant to nuclear physics.
Conveners: Dennis Herbert Wright, Alberto Ribon (CERN)-
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Status of ParticleHP models 20m
A discussion of last year's progress in the the high precision particle models
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Radioactive Decay status 20m
A report on last year's progress in the radioactive decay process, models and database
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Precompound and Deexcitation models status and plans 20m
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Parallel 6B - Computing Performance L102
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1) Results and issues from experiments and user domains, 2) Performance profiling and benchmark (tools and applications), 3) Discussions
Conveners: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Gunter Folger (CERN)- 2:00 PM
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CMS 15mSpeakers: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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ALICE 15mSpeaker: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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ATLAS 15mSpeaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Geant4 CPU and Memory Profiling and Benchmark - Status Report 15mSpeaker: Julia Yarba (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Geant4 profiling using the KISTI-5 supercomputer 15mSpeaker: Kihyeon Cho
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Parallel 7A - Technical aspects of hadronic physics and remaining topics F113
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Technical aspects of hadronic physics - such as CPU performance, memory footprint and churn, memory leaks, non-reproducibility, code structure, multi-threading, etc. - will be covered here, plus remaining topics that were not sufficiently discussed in the other three sessions.
Conveners: Gunter Folger (CERN), Alberto Ribon (CERN)-
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Future plans for ParticleHP 40mSpeaker: Emilio Mendoza Cembranos (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)
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Parallel 7B - Geant4 in medicine L102
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- Fundamentals, code development, benchmarks and applications
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Evaluation of early radiation DNA damage in a fractal cell nucleus model using Geant4-DNA (remote) 15mSpeaker: Dosatsu Sakata (University of Tsukuba (JP))
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Current status of IRT for plasmid SSB simulations under the presence of scavengers 15mSpeaker: Jose Asuncion Ramos Mendez
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Validation of Geant4 for Microbeam Radiation Therapy 15mSpeaker: Susanna Guatelli
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Update of LightIonBraggPeak test with Li and O data 15mSpeaker: Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))
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A proposal for a physics list for gamma radiotherapy applications 15mSpeaker: Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
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Parallel 8A - New EM validation results F113
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Discussion on recent EM validation results and requirements
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Evaluation of the influence of physical and chemical parameters on water radiolysis simulations under MeV electron irradiation using Geant4-DNA 15mSpeaker: Wook Geun Shin
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Towards continuous integration testing of optical code 15mSpeaker: Daren Sawkey
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Validation of the Geant4 radioactive decay and emission of Auger electrons 15mSpeaker: Susanna Guatelli
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5D gamma conversion model: high energy tests 15mSpeaker: Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Discussion 30m
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Parallel 8B - Geometry Working Session L102
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Evolution of navigation, Field transport tuning & control, Review of open issues
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Status of VecGeom navigator integration 20mSpeaker: Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)
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Interpolation for field integration, accuracy and benchmark 20mSpeaker: Dmitry Sorokin (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)
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Accuracy of boundary crossing in field 10mSpeaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Status of separate Transportation for charged and neutral particles 10mSpeaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Open issues & discussion 30m
- Hook for external sub-navigation
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Plenary 7 - Summary of parallel sessions F113
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Conveners: Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES)), Igor Strakovsky-
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Report on Parallel 1A - Physics lists and validation tools 8mSpeakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Report on Parallel 1B - GUI / Visualization 8mSpeakers: Laurent Garnier, John Allison, Joseph Perl
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Report on Parallel 2B - Biasing and fast simulation 8mSpeakers: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))
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Report on Parallel 3B - Basic, extended and advanced examples 8mSpeakers: Ivana Hrivnacova (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Susanna Guatelli
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Report on Parallel 4B - Near-term kernel developments 8mSpeakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Report on Parallel 5A - Documentation 8mSpeakers: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Daren Sawkey
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Report on Parallel 2A, 3A, 6A, 7A - Hadronic physics 28mSpeakers: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Alberto Ribon (CERN), Dennis Herbert Wright, Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Plenary 8 - Summary of parallel sessions / closing session F113
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Conveners: Tran Ngoc, Laurent Garnier, Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))-
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Report on Parallel 5B - Medium- and longer-term R&Ds 8mSpeakers: Witold Pokorski (CERN), Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Report on Parallel 6B - Computing performance 8mSpeakers: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Gunter Folger (CERN)
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Report on Parallel 8B - Geometry 8mSpeakers: Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Report on Parallel 7B - Geant4 in medicine 8mSpeakers: Susanna Guatelli, Bruce Alan Faddegon
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Report on Parallel 4A, 8A - EM physics 15mSpeakers: Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN), Susanna Guatelli, Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3), Daren Sawkey
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Closing remarks 10mSpeakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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JLAB Experiment Hall tour F113
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Steering Board meeting F113
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