Name: Geant4 21st Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2016-09-12T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Ferrara

Monday, September 12, 2016

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Aula Magna
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Diego Bettoni (FE)

9:10 AM Opening remarks - Makoto ASAI (SLAC National accelerator Laboratory)

9:15 AM LHC and other HEP energy frontier experiments - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

9:27 AM HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments - Robert Hatcher (Fermilab)

9:39 AM Nuclear physics domain - Luis Sarmiento (Lund University)

9:51 AM Space domain - Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)

10:03 AM Medical domain - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

10:15 AM Material science and security application domains - Enrico Bagli (FE)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Magna
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:00 AM Documentation Overview - Alexander Howard (ETH Zürich)

11:20 AM Drupal Migration - Gunter Folger (CERN - PH/SFT)

11:40 AM Videos - Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

12:00 PM Outreach, G4logo and public presence - Alexander Howard (ETH Zürich)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:00 PM Physics List Factory - Robert Hatcher (Fermilab)

2:20 PM Special Purpose tools for validation - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

2:30 PM Statistical Testing for validation: status and plan - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:40 PM Discussion on Physics List category - Gunter Folger (CERN - PH/SFT)

3:10 PM Medical Validation Testing suite: technical details - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:00 PM New features of vis - John Allison (Geant4 Associates International Ltd)

2:20 PM Status of Qt driver - Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

2:40 PM HepRApp viewer - Brian Smith (Kromek Group)

3:00 PM Discussion
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:32 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:00 PM Introduction to the session - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

4:02 PM Neutron yield from different targets for protons below 300 MeV - Jose Ramos Mendez (University of California San Francisco)

4:14 PM C-12 ion fragmentation validation - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

4:26 PM Electron scattering test results - Alfonso Mantero (INFN) Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

4:38 PM Electron scattering from foils at 13-20 MeV - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

4:48 PM Bremsstrahlung from thick targets at radiotherapy energies - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

4:58 PM Comparison of the Geant4 electromagnetic models for a gamma linac radiotherapy simulation - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

5:10 PM A new utility to read DICOM data in Geant4 - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:00 PM G4CMP -- Geant4 add-on framework for phonon and charge-carrier physics - Michael Kelsey (SLAC) Rob Agnese (University of Florida)

4:30 PM NCrystal - Modelling scattering of low-energy neutrons in poly- and single-crystals - Xiao-Xiao Cai (European Spallation Source ERIC/Technical University of Denmark)

5:00 PM Channeling in Geant4 - Enrico Bagli (FE)

5:15 PM Discussion
6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM Progress in EM standard - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

9:30 AM Recent activities for low energy EM physics - SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3/CENBG)

10:00 AM Highlights of hadronic physics for HEP - Alberto Ribon (CERN)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Magna
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:00 AM Highlights of Low Energy Hadronic Physics - Sarmiento Luis (Lund University)

11:26 AM Status and Plans of Hadronic Validation - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

11:52 AM Model Parameter Variation Project - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:00 PM Firsov and Remizovich effects for low energy low angle proton scattering simulation - Alfonso Mantero (INFN) Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

2:15 PM New evaluated PIXE model from ANSTO - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

2:30 PM New developments of MicroElec processes for low-energy electron transport in Al, Ag and Si - Christophe Inguimbert

2:45 PM Flagged uniform particle split for Geant4-DNA - Jose Ramos-Mendez

3:00 PM MPEXS-DNA, a GPU implementation of Geant4-DNA - Shogo Okada

3:15 PM A Geant4 application for flexible and extendable DNA geometries incorporating physical and chemical genome damage - Nathanael Lampe

3:30 PM Evaluation of radio-induced DNA damages simulating the physical, physico-chemical and chemical stages with Geant4-DNA - Sylvain Meylan
2:00 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:00 PM CMS: Remark on computing performance - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

2:10 PM ATLAS: remarks on computing performance - John Apostolakis (CERN)

2:20 PM Reduction of runtime memory in Geant4 using compressed sensing - Jonathan Madsen (Texas A&M University)

2:40 PM Performance profiling and benchmark for medical applications - Kihyeon Cho (KISTI)

3:00 PM G4CPT with Open|Speedshop - Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

3:15 PM Geant4 MT Performance - Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:55 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:00 PM Electron scattering benchmark - Daren Sawkey (Varian)

4:15 PM Validation of photon cross sections and a new test for brachytherapy - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

4:30 PM Bragg curves in water for 67.5 MeV protons - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

4:45 PM Validation of proton nozzle - Jae-ik Shin (KIRAMS,NCC)

4:55 PM Ion range validation in water - Alvaro Perales

5:10 PM New data on fragmentation cross sections of alpha particles in water from GSI - Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)

5:25 PM Space background simulation for ATHENA mission - Alfonso Mantero (INFN) Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

5:40 PM An Universal Class in Geant4 For The Patient Geometry Model Construction from DICOM files - Álvaro Perales Molina (Virgen Macarena University Hospital. Seville (Spain))
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:00 PM WG work plan status - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

4:30 PM New hadronic examples: Hadr07, AmBe - Michel Maire

4:35 PM New medical/dna/chem4 example - Mathieu Karamitos

4:40 PM New monitoring example - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

4:50 PM Discussion about parameters and integration of hits and analysis frameworks - Andrea Dotti Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of DoSSiER - Hans Wenzel (FNAL)

9:20 AM Status of python uploader - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

9:30 AM Status of C++ interface - Dmitry Konstantinov (CERN/IHEP)

9:40 AM Demo: from running a test to displaying the results - Hans Wenzel (FNAL) Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

10:10 AM Status of Node.js-based Dossier server - Ioana ifrim Witek Pokorski (CERN)
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM Recent development of the Reverse MC - Laurent Desorgher (Radiophysics Institute, CHUV, Lausanne)

9:20 AM Test of the Reverse MC - Fan Lei Laurent Desorgher (Radiophysics Institute, CHUV, Lausanne) Peter Truscott

9:40 AM Status of Generic Biasing - Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

9:50 AM Discussion : reverse MC and status of other biasing
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Magna
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:00 AM Use of C++11 in Geant4, an update - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

11:20 AM DoSSiER: Database of Scientific Simulation and Experimental Results: Overview and Status of the Project - Hans Wenzel (FNAL)

11:40 AM Code improvement: Coverity static analysis, valgrind dynamic analysis - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

11:55 AM Use of git for releases and ideas for development - Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Thursday, September 15, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM Visualization and GUIs - Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

9:20 AM Analysis and g4tools - Guy Barrand Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

9:40 AM Geant4Py - Koichi Murakami (KEK)

10:00 AM Basic & Extended Examples - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

10:15 AM Advanced Examples - Luciano Pandola (LNS)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Magna
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:00 AM Status of Multi-Threading - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:15 AM Geometry Update - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

11:30 AM Kernel Updates - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:45 AM Crystal Concept Extension to Geant4 - Enrico Bagli (FE)

11:55 AM Geant4 at Extreme Scales - Tom LeCompte (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:20 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:00 PM Update on hadronic string models - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Vladimir Uzhinsky (CERN)

2:20 PM Update on intra-nuclear cascade models - Jean-Christophe David

2:40 PM Update on precompound de-excitation model - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

3:00 PM Update on Geant4 simulations of n_TOF facility - Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:00 PM Format and C++ Access to Data Libraries - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

2:30 PM Migration from SVN to Git

3:00 PM Modularisation of Geant4 Libraries
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:00 PM CMS calorimetric results - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

4:20 PM Update on Radioactive Decay model - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

4:40 PM Low-energy neutrons in poly- and single-crystals - Thomas Kittelmann (European Spallation Source ERIC) Xiao-Xiao Cai (European Spallation Source ERIC/Technical University of Denmark)

5:00 PM Discussion - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Julia Yarba (Fermilab)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:00 PM Recent updates to VecGeom - Sandro Wenzel (CERN)

4:15 PM Update on USolids/VecGeom integration in Geant4 - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

4:30 PM New magnetic-field steppers classes - John Apostolakis (CERN)

4:45 PM Quantized state system method for the field integration - Lucio Santi Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

5:00 PM Review of open issues

5:15 PM Discussion
7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Friday, September 16, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM Neutron validation at CEA - Hoang Tran (CEA)

9:15 AM Update of Data-driven Low Energy Nuclear Models - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

9:30 AM Progress on the TRIPOLI-4/Geant4 Coupling - Davide Mancusi (CEA-Saclay)

9:45 AM Discussion
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM Extending GeantV to accelerators - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Philippe Canal (FermiLab) Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

9:15 AM Auto-vectorization: recent progress - Guilherme Amadio (UNESP) Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

9:30 AM Scheduling fine grain workloads in GeantV - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

9:45 AM Progress in GeantV field propagation and EM physics - John Apostolakis (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

10:00 AM Neutron HPC proposal - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

10:15 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Magna
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:00 AM Report on parallel session 1A - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:07 AM Report on parallel session 1B - John Allison (Geant4 Associates International Ltd) Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

11:14 AM Report on parallel session 2A - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF) Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

11:21 AM Report on parallel session 2B - Enrico Bagli (FE) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

11:28 AM Report on parallel session 3A - Mihaly Novak (CERN) SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3/CENBG)

11:35 AM Report on parallel session 3B - Gunter Folger (CERN - PH/SFT) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

11:42 AM Report on parallel session 4A - Luciano Pandola (LNS) Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

11:49 AM Report on parallel session 4B - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

11:56 AM Report on parallel session 5A - Hans Wenzel (FNAL)

12:03 PM Report on parallel session 5B - Alexander Howard (ETH Zürich) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

12:10 PM Report on parallel session 6A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

12:17 PM Report on parallel session 6B - Andrea Dotti Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:00 PM Report on parallel session 7A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Julia Yarba (Fermilab) Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

2:07 PM Report on parallel session 7B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva) John Apostolakis (CERN)

2:14 PM Report on parallel session 8A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Wright (SLAC)

2:21 PM Report on parallel session 8B - John Apostolakis (CERN) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

2:28 PM Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

2:43 PM Collaboration-wide efforts - Makoto ASAI (SLAC National accelerator Laboratory) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

3:03 PM Next collaboration meeting - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

3:15 PM Closing remarks - Makoto ASAI (SLAC National accelerator Laboratory)
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna

Workshop adjourn
Workshop adjourn
3:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Aula Magna