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

Geant4 21st Collaboration Meeting

from Monday 12 September 2016 (08:00) to Friday 16 September 2016 (18:00)

Monday 12 September 2016

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Aula Magna
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Diego Bettoni (FE)

09:10 Opening remarks - Makoto ASAI (SLAC National accelerator Laboratory)

09:15 LHC and other HEP energy frontier experiments - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

09:27 HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments - Robert Hatcher (Fermilab)

09:39 Nuclear physics domain - Luis Sarmiento (Lund University)

09:51 Space domain - Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)

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

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

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

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

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

12:00 Outreach, G4logo and public presence - Alexander Howard (ETH Zürich)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula Magna
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:00 Physics List Factory - Robert Hatcher (Fermilab)

14:20 Special Purpose tools for validation - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

14:30 Statistical Testing for validation: status and plan - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:40 Discussion on Physics List category - Gunter Folger (CERN - PH/SFT)

15:10 Medical Validation Testing suite: technical details - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:00 New features of vis - John Allison (Geant4 Associates International Ltd)

14:20 Status of Qt driver - Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

14:40 HepRApp viewer - Brian Smith (Kromek Group)

15:00 Discussion
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
16:00
16:00 - 17:32
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:00 Introduction to the session - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

16:02 Neutron yield from different targets for protons below 300 MeV - Jose Ramos Mendez (University of California San Francisco)

16:14 C-12 ion fragmentation validation - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

16:26 Electron scattering test results - Alfonso Mantero (INFN) Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

16:38 Electron scattering from foils at 13-20 MeV - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

16:48 Bremsstrahlung from thick targets at radiotherapy energies - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

16:58 Comparison of the Geant4 electromagnetic models for a gamma linac radiotherapy simulation - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

17:10 A new utility to read DICOM data in Geant4 - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:00 G4CMP -- Geant4 add-on framework for phonon and charge-carrier physics - Michael Kelsey (SLAC) Rob Agnese (University of Florida)

16:30 NCrystal - Modelling scattering of low-energy neutrons in poly- and single-crystals - Xiao-Xiao Cai (European Spallation Source ERIC/Technical University of Denmark)

17:00 Channeling in Geant4 - Enrico Bagli (FE)

17:15 Discussion
18:30

18:30 - 20:30
Room: Aula Magna
Tuesday 13 September 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Progress in EM standard - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

09:30 Recent activities for low energy EM physics - SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3/CENBG)

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

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

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

11:52 Model Parameter Variation Project - Julia Yarba (Fermilab)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula Magna
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:00 Firsov and Remizovich effects for low energy low angle proton scattering simulation - Alfonso Mantero (INFN) Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

14:15 New evaluated PIXE model from ANSTO - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

14:30 New developments of MicroElec processes for low-energy electron transport in Al, Ag and Si - Christophe Inguimbert

14:45 Flagged uniform particle split for Geant4-DNA - Jose Ramos-Mendez

15:00 MPEXS-DNA, a GPU implementation of Geant4-DNA - Shogo Okada

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

15:30 Evaluation of radio-induced DNA damages simulating the physical, physico-chemical and chemical stages with Geant4-DNA - Sylvain Meylan
14:00 - 15:35
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:00 CMS: Remark on computing performance - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

14:10 ATLAS: remarks on computing performance - John Apostolakis (CERN)

14:20 Reduction of runtime memory in Geant4 using compressed sensing - Jonathan Madsen (Texas A&M University)

14:40 Performance profiling and benchmark for medical applications - Kihyeon Cho (KISTI)

15:00 G4CPT with Open|Speedshop - Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

15:15 Geant4 MT Performance - Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
16:00
16:00 - 17:55
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:00 Electron scattering benchmark - Daren Sawkey (Varian)

16:15 Validation of photon cross sections and a new test for brachytherapy - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

16:30 Bragg curves in water for 67.5 MeV protons - Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

16:45 Validation of proton nozzle - Jae-ik Shin (KIRAMS,NCC)

16:55 Ion range validation in water - Alvaro Perales

17:10 New data on fragmentation cross sections of alpha particles in water from GSI - Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)

17:25 Space background simulation for ATHENA mission - Alfonso Mantero (INFN) Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

17:40 An Universal Class in Geant4 For The Patient Geometry Model Construction from DICOM files - Álvaro Perales Molina (Virgen Macarena University Hospital. Seville (Spain))
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:00 WG work plan status - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

16:30 New hadronic examples: Hadr07, AmBe - Michel Maire

16:35 New medical/dna/chem4 example - Mathieu Karamitos

16:40 New monitoring example - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:50 Discussion about parameters and integration of hits and analysis frameworks - Andrea Dotti Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)
Wednesday 14 September 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Status of DoSSiER - Hans Wenzel (FNAL)

09:20 Status of python uploader - Andrea Dotti Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:30 Status of C++ interface - Dmitry Konstantinov (CERN/IHEP)

09:40 Demo: from running a test to displaying the results - Hans Wenzel (FNAL) Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

10:10 Status of Node.js-based Dossier server - Ioana ifrim Witek Pokorski (CERN)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Recent development of the Reverse MC - Laurent Desorgher (Radiophysics Institute, CHUV, Lausanne)

09:20 Test of the Reverse MC - Fan Lei Laurent Desorgher (Radiophysics Institute, CHUV, Lausanne) Peter Truscott

09:40 Status of Generic Biasing - Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

09:50 Discussion : reverse MC and status of other biasing
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Aula Magna
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:30 - 21:30
Room: Aula Magna
Thursday 15 September 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Visualization and GUIs - Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

09:20 Analysis and g4tools - Guy Barrand Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

09:40 Geant4Py - Koichi Murakami (KEK)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:20 Discussion
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula Magna
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:00 Update on hadronic string models - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Vladimir Uzhinsky (CERN)

14:20 Update on intra-nuclear cascade models - Jean-Christophe David

14:40 Update on precompound de-excitation model - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

15:00 Update on Geant4 simulations of n_TOF facility - Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:00 Format and C++ Access to Data Libraries - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

14:30 Migration from SVN to Git

15:00 Modularisation of Geant4 Libraries
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:00 CMS calorimetric results - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

16:20 Update on Radioactive Decay model - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

16:40 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)

17:00 Discussion - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Julia Yarba (Fermilab)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:00 Recent updates to VecGeom - Sandro Wenzel (CERN)

16:15 Update on USolids/VecGeom integration in Geant4 - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

16:30 New magnetic-field steppers classes - John Apostolakis (CERN)

16:45 Quantized state system method for the field integration - Lucio Santi Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

17:00 Review of open issues

17:15 Discussion
19:00

19:00 - 21:30
Room: Aula Magna
Friday 16 September 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Neutron validation at CEA - Hoang Tran (CEA)

09:15 Update of Data-driven Low Energy Nuclear Models - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:30 Progress on the TRIPOLI-4/Geant4 Coupling - Davide Mancusi (CEA-Saclay)

09:45 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Extending GeantV to accelerators - Andrei Gheata (CERN) Philippe Canal (FermiLab) Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

09:15 Auto-vectorization: recent progress - Guilherme Amadio (UNESP) Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

09:30 Scheduling fine grain workloads in GeantV - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

09:45 Progress in GeantV field propagation and EM physics - John Apostolakis (CERN) Mihaly Novak (CERN) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:17 Report on parallel session 6B - Andrea Dotti Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula Magna
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:00 Report on parallel session 7A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Julia Yarba (Fermilab) Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

14:07 Report on parallel session 7B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva) John Apostolakis (CERN)

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

14:21 Report on parallel session 8B - John Apostolakis (CERN) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

14:28 Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

14:43 Collaboration-wide efforts - Makoto ASAI (SLAC National accelerator Laboratory) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

15:03 Next collaboration meeting - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

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

15:30 - 17:00
Room: Aula Magna

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Workshop adjourn
15:30 - 15:40
Room: Aula Magna

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