Name: Geant4 School - University of Wollongong
Start: 2019-12-02T07:25:00+11:00
End: 2019-12-05T23:04:00+11:00
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Monday 2 December
- 08:00 → 09:00
  
  Registration - Building 32.G01, UOW Main Campus, Wollongong
  
  Attendees can register
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Session I: Geant4 Introduction, Geant4 Kernel
  
  Introduction to Geant4, Geant4 Installation, Kernel, GUI, Visualisation and Geometry
  - 09:00
    
    Introduction to the Geant4 School 15m
    
    Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
  - 09:15
    
    Lecture I: Introduction to Geant4 30m
    
    Intro, how to install Geant4, how to run Geant4 applications, Documentation, Examples
    
    Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
  - 09:45
    
    Lecture II: Geant4 Kernel 45m
    
    Speaker: David Bolst (University of Wollongong)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Session II: Geant4 GUI, Visualisation and Geometry functionality
  
  Geant4 User Interface, Visualisation and Geometry
  - 11:00
    
    Lecture III: Geant4 Geometry 45m
    
    Speaker: David Bolst (University of Wollongong)
  - 11:45
    
    Lecture IV: Geant4 Visualisation 15m
    
    Speaker: Dale Prokopovich (ANSTO)
  - 12:00
    
    Lecture V: Geant4 User Interface 30m
    
    Speaker: Dale Prokopovich (ANSTO)
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:30 → 17:30
  
  Hands-on session I: Hands-on session I. Geant4 Basic examples.
  
  Run basic examples and the brachytherapy advanced example
  
  Convener: David Bolst (CMRP, University of Wollongong)
Tuesday 3 December
- 08:30 → 10:30
  Session III: Modelling of beamlines, radioactive sources and human anatomies
  - 08:30
    
    Lecture VI: How to model radiation fields and sources 15m
    
    Speaker: Dean Cutajar (University of Wollongong)
  - 08:45
    
    Lecture VII: How to model beamlines 30m
    
    Speaker: David Bolst (University of Wollongong)
  - 09:15
    
    Lecture VIII: How to model external fields 20m
    
    Speaker: Brad Oborn (University of Wollongong)
  - 09:35
    
    Lecture IX: How to model human phantoms 30m
    
    Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
  - 10:05
    
    Lecture X: Geant4 physics component and physics lists 25m
    
    Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Session IV: Geant4 physics - part I
  
  Introduction to the Geant4 physics component. Geant4 EM Physics
  - 11:00
    
    Lecture XI: Geant4 EM physics 30m
    
    Speaker: Jeremy Brown
  - 11:30
    
    Lecture XII: Modelling of optical photons 30m
    
    Optical photons, scintillators and optical fibers
    
    Speaker: Jeremy Brown
  - 12:00
    
    Lecture XIII: Geant4 hadronic physics 30m
    
    Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:30 → 17:30
  
  Hands-on session II: Brachytherapy, how to model radioactive sources in terms of radiation field and geometry, store energy deposition, select physics lists
  
  Convener: Susanna Guatelli
- 19:00 → 22:00
  
  Social Dinner: Social Dinner, Novotel, North Wollongong
Wednesday 4 December
- 08:30 → 10:30
  Session V: Physics, examples, speed-up techniques and visualisation tools for medical physics applications
  - 08:50
    
    Lecture XIV: G4-Med: a benchmarking system for medical physics 30m
    
    Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
  - 09:20
    
    Lecture XV: Geant4 examples for medical applications 30m
    
    Extended and Advanced examples for dosimetry, microdosimetry and nuclear medicine
    
    Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
  - 09:50
    
    Lecture XVI: How to speed up your simulation 10m
    
    Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
  - 10:00
    
    Lecture XVII: gMocrean visualistion tool 30m
    
    Speaker: Shogo Okada
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Session VI: Scoring and analysis
  - 11:00
    
    Lecture XIIX:The doiPET Advanced Example 30m
    
    Speaker: Abdella mohammednur Ahmed (Wollongong University and ANSTO)
  - 11:30
    
    Lecture XIX: Geant4 scoring 30m
    
    G4Multifunctional Detectors and scoring meshes. How to calculate dose
    
    Speaker: Dean Cutajar (University of Wollongong)
  - 12:00
    
    Lecture XX: Geant4 analysis component 30m
    
    Speaker: Shogo Okada
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:30 → 17:30
  
  Hands-on session III: Hands-on session III. Geant4 for modelling medical particle accelerators and detectors
  
  Convener: David Bolst (CMRP, University of Wollongong)
Thursday 5 December
- 08:30 → 10:30
  Session VII: Geant4 for radiobiology
  - 08:30
    
    Lecture-DNA-I:Physica models for track structure Monte Carlo codes 45m
    
    Speaker: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)
  - 09:15
    
    Lecture-DNA-II: Geant4-DNA 45m
    
    Speaker: Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)
  - 10:00
    
    Lecture-DNA-IV: Track structure models for gold 30m
    
    Speaker: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS, Japan)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Session VIII: Geant4 for radiobiology
  - 11:00
    
    Lecture-DNA-IV: Evaluation of early radiation DNA damage in a fractal cell nucleus model using Geant4-DNA 45m
    
    Speaker: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS, Japan)
  - 11:45
    
    Lecture-DNA-V: Bridging the gap between physical interactions and biological responses 45m
    
    Speaker: Stephen McMahon (Queen's University Belfast)
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:30 → 17:30
  
  Hands-on session IV: Geant4-DNA examples
  
  Conveners: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS), Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)