Geant4 School - University of Wollongong

Australia/Sydney
    • Registration - Building 32.G01, UOW Main Campus, Wollongong

      Attendees can register

    • Session I: Geant4 Introduction, Geant4 Kernel

      Introduction to Geant4, Geant4 Installation, Kernel, GUI, Visualisation and Geometry

      • 1
        Introduction to the Geant4 School
        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
      • 2
        Lecture I: Introduction to Geant4

        Intro, how to install Geant4, how to run Geant4 applications, Documentation, Examples

        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
      • 3
        Lecture II: Geant4 Kernel
        Speaker: David Bolst (University of Wollongong)
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • Session II: Geant4 GUI, Visualisation and Geometry functionality

      Geant4 User Interface, Visualisation and Geometry

      • 4
        Lecture III: Geant4 Geometry
        Speaker: David Bolst (University of Wollongong)
      • 5
        Lecture IV: Geant4 Visualisation
        Speaker: Dale Prokopovich (ANSTO)
      • 6
        Lecture V: Geant4 User Interface
        Speaker: Dale Prokopovich (ANSTO)
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • 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)
    • Session III: Modelling of beamlines, radioactive sources and human anatomies
      • 7
        Lecture VI: How to model radiation fields and sources
        Speaker: Dean Cutajar (University of Wollongong)
      • 8
        Lecture VII: How to model beamlines
        Speaker: David Bolst (University of Wollongong)
      • 9
        Lecture VIII: How to model external fields
        Speaker: Brad Oborn (University of Wollongong)
      • 10
        Lecture IX: How to model human phantoms
        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
      • 11
        Lecture X: Geant4 physics component and physics lists
        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • Session IV: Geant4 physics - part I

      Introduction to the Geant4 physics component. Geant4 EM Physics

      • 12
        Lecture XI: Geant4 EM physics
        Speaker: Jeremy Brown
      • 13
        Lecture XII: Modelling of optical photons

        Optical photons, scintillators and optical fibers

        Speaker: Jeremy Brown
      • 14
        Lecture XIII: Geant4 hadronic physics
        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • 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
    • Social Dinner: Social Dinner, Novotel, North Wollongong
    • Session V: Physics, examples, speed-up techniques and visualisation tools for medical physics applications
      • 15
        Lecture XIV: G4-Med: a benchmarking system for medical physics
        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
      • 16
        Lecture XV: Geant4 examples for medical applications

        Extended and Advanced examples for dosimetry, microdosimetry and nuclear medicine

        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
      • 17
        Lecture XVI: How to speed up your simulation
        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
      • 18
        Lecture XVII: gMocrean visualistion tool
        Speaker: Shogo Okada
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • Session VI: Scoring and analysis
      • 19
        Lecture XIIX:The doiPET Advanced Example
        Speaker: Abdella mohammednur Ahmed (Wollongong University and ANSTO)
      • 20
        Lecture XIX: Geant4 scoring

        G4Multifunctional Detectors and scoring meshes. How to calculate dose

        Speaker: Dean Cutajar (University of Wollongong)
      • 21
        Lecture XX: Geant4 analysis component
        Speaker: Shogo Okada
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • Hands-on session III: Hands-on session III. Geant4 for modelling medical particle accelerators and detectors
      Convener: David Bolst (CMRP, University of Wollongong)
    • Session VII: Geant4 for radiobiology
      • 22
        Lecture-DNA-I:Physica models for track structure Monte Carlo codes
        Speaker: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)
      • 23
        Lecture-DNA-II: Geant4-DNA
        Speaker: Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)
      • 24
        Lecture-DNA-IV: Track structure models for gold
        Speaker: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS, Japan)
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • Session VIII: Geant4 for radiobiology
      • 25
        Lecture-DNA-IV: Evaluation of early radiation DNA damage in a fractal cell nucleus model using Geant4-DNA
        Speaker: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS, Japan)
      • 26
        Lecture-DNA-V: Bridging the gap between physical interactions and biological responses
        Speaker: Stephen McMahon (Queen's University Belfast)
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • Hands-on session IV: Geant4-DNA examples
      Conveners: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS), Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)