Geant4 21st Collaboration Meeting

Sep 12, 2016, 8:00 AM → Sep 16, 2016, 6:00 PM Europe/Rome

Aula Magna (Ferrara)

The 21st Geant4 Collaboration Meeting will take place at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, from September 12 to September 16, 2016. This will be a collaborator-only five-day event to discuss technical and organizational aspects of the Geant4 Collaboration.

Monday, September 12

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Plenary 1 - Opening addresses / open requirements

9:00 AM Welcome

Speaker: Diego Bettoni (FE)

9:10 AM Opening remarks

Speaker: Dr Makoto ASAI (SLAC National accelerator Laboratory)

Slides MeetingGoals.pptx

9:15 AM LHC and other HEP energy frontier experiments

Speaker: Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides ribon_requirements_hep_experiments_12Sep2016.pdf

9:27 AM HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments

Speaker: Dr Robert Hatcher (Fermilab)

Slides Geant4_2016_IF-Cosmic_Requirements_Plenary_Slides.pdf

9:39 AM Nuclear physics domain

Speaker: Dr Luis Sarmiento (Lund University)

Slides Pico-G4Coll2016_users.pdf

9:51 AM Space domain

Speaker: Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)

Slides GSantin_Geant4_16_User_requirements_Space_v09.pdf

10:03 AM Medical domain

Speaker: Dr Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

Slides User_Requirements_MedPhys_final.pdf

10:15 AM Material science and security application domains

Speaker: Enrico Bagli (FE)

Slides ebagli_160912_MaterialScience.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 2 - Documentation, Web pages, videos, outreach

Documentation: status and future ideas
Drupal: Migration
Videos: new initiative, updates and maintenance,
Outreach: discussion about how we present ourselves and our (web) presence, logo.

11:00 AM Documentation Overview

Speaker: Dr Alexander Howard (ETH Zürich)

Slides AH_documentation_g4ferrara2.pdf

11:20 AM Drupal Migration

Speaker: Dr Gunter Folger (CERN - PH/SFT)

Slides MigrationToDrupal-Ferrara-new.pdf

11:40 AM Videos

Speaker: Mr Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

Slides 2016-Plenary2.ppt

12:00 PM Outreach, G4logo and public presence

Discussion about Geant4 outreach activities, our public presence and also the design and shape of the Geant4 logo.

Speaker: Dr Alexander Howard (ETH Zürich)

Slides AH_outreach_g4ferrara.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:40 PM Parallel 1A - Physics List and validation tools

• Physics lists factory - current status
• Validation tools
• Physics lists documentation discussion

2:00 PM Physics List Factory

Speaker: Dr Robert Hatcher (Fermilab)

Slides Geant4_2016_PhysicsListFactory-Status.pdf

2:20 PM Special Purpose tools for validation

Speaker: Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

Slides G4Wkshop-2016-RooMUHistos.pdf

2:30 PM Statistical Testing for validation: status and plan

Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides StatTest_status.pdf

2:40 PM Discussion on Physics List category

Speaker: Dr Gunter Folger (CERN - PH/SFT)

Slides PhysicsListsDiscussion.pdf

3:10 PM Medical Validation Testing suite: technical details

Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides G4MSBG.pdf

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Parallel 1B - Advances on vis

• Open Inventor
• Qt
• /vis/viewer/interpolate
• ...

2:00 PM New features of vis

Speaker: Dr John Allison (Geant4 Associates International Ltd)

mp4

• First_interpolation.mp4
• Interpolated_cutaway_planes.mp4
• vis_viewer_interpolate_exampleB1.mp4

Slides New_Featurs_of_Vis_2016_without_video.pptx

2:20 PM Status of Qt driver

Speaker: Mr Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

Slides 2016-Vis-Parallel.ppt

2:40 PM HepRApp viewer

Speaker: Mr Brian Smith (Kromek Group)

3:00 PM Discussion

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 5:32 PM Parallel 2A - EM physics validation for medical use

1. Key experimental and theoretical medical physics benchmarks (see also session 4A).
2. Are the simulations getting better or worse in terms of accuracy and speed? Should we be working to improve the level of agreement between the experiment and simulation? Should we be working to improve the speed of the simulation?
3. Acceptability of the experimental benchmarks that have been identified and the tolerance(s) recommended for each benchmark.
4. Consideration of additional benchmarks.

4:00 PM Introduction to the session

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

4:02 PM Neutron yield from different targets for protons below 300 MeV

Speaker: Dr Jose Ramos Mendez (University of California San Francisco)

Slides G4MSBG_Neutrons.pdf

4:14 PM C-12 ion fragmentation validation

Speaker: Dr Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

4:26 PM Electron scattering test results

Speakers: Alfonso Mantero (INFN), Dr Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

Slides backscattering.pdf

4:38 PM Electron scattering from foils at 13-20 MeV

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

Slides ElectronScatterBenchmark.pdf

4:48 PM Bremsstrahlung from thick targets at radiotherapy energies

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

Slides BremBenchmark.pdf

4:58 PM Comparison of the Geant4 electromagnetic models for a gamma linac radiotherapy simulation

Speaker: Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

Slides 20160912.RT.pdf

5:10 PM A new utility to read DICOM data in Geant4

Speaker: Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

Slides 20160912.DICOM.pdf

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Parallel 2B - Crystals and solid state processes

• Support of crystal structures into Geant4 (discussion)
• Scattering of low-energy neutrons
• Electron-Hole propagation
• Phonon propagation
• Channeling effect

4:00 PM G4CMP -- Geant4 add-on framework for phonon and charge-carrier physics

Speakers: Dr Michael Kelsey (SLAC), Rob Agnese (University of Florida)

Slides g4cmp.pdf

4:30 PM NCrystal - Modelling scattering of low-energy neutrons in poly- and single-crystals

Speaker: Dr Xiao-Xiao Cai (European Spallation Source ERIC/Technical University of Denmark)

Slides CaiSep_Ferrara.pdf

5:00 PM Channeling in Geant4

Speaker: Enrico Bagli (FE)

Slides ebagli_160912_Channeling.pdf

5:15 PM Discussion

Slides crystal.jpg

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Reception

Tuesday, September 13

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Plenary 3 - Physics part 1

Updates on EM/Had physics

9:00 AM Progress in EM standard

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides Geant4EMStatus.pdf

9:30 AM Recent activities for low energy EM physics

Speaker: Dr SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3/CENBG)

Slides Swhard_13-09-2016.pdf

10:00 AM Highlights of hadronic physics for HEP

Speaker: Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Slides ribon_hadronic_hep_highlights_13Sep2016.odp ribon_hadronic_hep_highlights_13Sep2016.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 4 - Physics part 2

Updates on Had physics, Physics lists and their validation scheme

11:00 AM Highlights of Low Energy Hadronic Physics

Speaker: Dr Sarmiento Luis (Lund University)

Slides Pico-G4Coll2016_nuclear.pdf

11:26 AM Status and Plans of Hadronic Validation

Speaker: Dr Dennis Wright (SLAC)

Slides ValPlen.pdf

11:52 AM Model Parameter Variation Project

Speaker: Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

Slides G4Wkshop-2016-bertini-params.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Parallel 3A - New EM developments

Recent developments in physics modeling for the EM (std and lowE) categories. Validation will be covered in a separate parallel session

2:00 PM Firsov and Remizovich effects for low energy low angle proton scattering simulation

Speakers: Dr Alfonso Mantero (INFN), Dr Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

Slides Firsov_Geant4.pdf

2:15 PM New evaluated PIXE model from ANSTO

Speaker: Dr Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

Slides PIXE.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Christophe Inguimbert

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

Speaker: Dr Jose Ramos-Mendez

Slides Ramos_VRT.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Shogo Okada

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

Speaker: Nathanael Lampe

3:30 PM Evaluation of radio-induced DNA damages simulating the physical, physico-chemical and chemical stages with Geant4-DNA

Speaker: Mr Sylvain Meylan

2:00 PM → 3:35 PM Parallel 3B - Computing Performance

1) Results and issues from HEP experiments and Other fields (LHC and IF, Medical, Space)
2) Performance profiling and benchmark (tools, applications)

2:00 PM CMS: Remark on computing performance

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides PerformanceFullSimCMS.pdf

2:10 PM ATLAS: remarks on computing performance

Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides 201609-G4Wrk2016-ATLAS-Performance.pdf

2:20 PM Reduction of runtime memory in Geant4 using compressed sensing

Speaker: Mr Jonathan Madsen (Texas A&M University)

Slides JRMadsen_G4CompressedSensing.pdf

2:40 PM Performance profiling and benchmark for medical applications

Speaker: Prof. Kihyeon Cho (KISTI)

Slides g4_medical_091216.pptx

3:00 PM G4CPT with Open|Speedshop

Speaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

Slides g4cpt-oss-syjun.pdf g4cpt-oss-syjun.pptx

3:15 PM Geant4 MT Performance

Speaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

Slides g4cpt-mt-syjun.pdf g4cpt-mt-syjun.pptx

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 5:55 PM Parallel 4A - New EM physics validation results

Presentations:
- Validation of EM physics models and EM Physics Lists
- Benchmarking of Geant4-DNA
Discussion:
- current status of validation studies
- integration of the tests in the Geant4 system testing
- propose new validation studies

4:00 PM Electron scattering benchmark

Speaker: Daren Sawkey (Varian)

Slides automated_emsc.pdf

4:15 PM Validation of photon cross sections and a new test for brachytherapy

Speaker: Dr Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

Slides Attenuation_Brachy_validation.pdf

4:30 PM Bragg curves in water for 67.5 MeV protons

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)

Slides ProtonBPBenchmark.pdf

4:45 PM Validation of proton nozzle

Speaker: Mr Jae-ik Shin (KIRAMS,NCC)

Slides jishin_g4cm2016_2.pdf

4:55 PM Ion range validation in water

Speaker: Alvaro Perales

Slides IonRangeWater_AlvaroPerales-Molina.pdf

5:10 PM New data on fragmentation cross sections of alpha particles in water from GSI

Speaker: Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)

Slides MACG-AlphaFragmentation-G4CM-Ferrara-2016.pdf

5:25 PM Space background simulation for ATHENA mission

Speakers: Dr Alfonso Mantero (INFN), Dr Paolo Dondero (SWHARD)

Slides validation.pdf

5:40 PM An Universal Class in Geant4 For The Patient Geometry Model Construction from DICOM files

Speaker: Mr Álvaro Perales Molina (Virgen Macarena University Hospital. Seville (Spain))

Slides DICOMclass_Alvaro_Perales-Molina.pdf

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Parallel 4B - Basic and Extended Examples

Presentation of new extended examples
Discussion: Status of Work Plan 2016 Items, C++11 in basic examples

4:00 PM WG work plan status

Speaker: Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

Slides examples_parallel.pdf

4:30 PM New hadronic examples: Hadr07, AmBe

Speaker: Michel Maire

Slides Hadr07.pdf

4:35 PM New medical/dna/chem4 example

Speaker: Mathieu Karamitos

Slides chem4.pdf chem4.pptx

4:40 PM New monitoring example

Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides MonitoringExample.pdf

4:50 PM Discussion about parameters and integration of hits and analysis frameworks

Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

Slides analysis_integration.pdf ForIvana_analysis.pdf

Wednesday, September 14

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Parallel 5A - Dossier : Database of Scientific Simulation and Experimental Results: Development and Status

• Status Report
• Report on Dossier web-pages
• Python interface
• C++ interface
• First Experience with the system and status of testing
• Discussion

9:00 AM Status of DoSSiER

Speaker: Dr Hans Wenzel (FNAL)

Slides Parallel_Geant4_2016.pdf Parallel_Geant4_2016.pptx

9:20 AM Status of python uploader

Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides uploader_status.pdf

9:30 AM Status of C++ interface

Speaker: Dmitry Konstantinov (CERN/IHEP)

Slides fnal_db_geant4_collaboration_meeting.pdf

9:40 AM Demo: from running a test to displaying the results

Speakers: Dr Hans Wenzel (FNAL), Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

Slides Demo_Geant4_2016.pdf Demo_Geant4_2016.pptx

10:10 AM Status of Node.js-based Dossier server

Speakers: Ioana ifrim, Witek Pokorski (CERN)

Slides http://prezi.com/ejyt8lhggnhr/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Ioana_Ifrim.ppt

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Parallel 5B - Reverse MC and Biasing

Status and evolution of Reverse MC
Status of other biasing options

9:00 AM Recent development of the Reverse MC

Speaker: Dr Laurent Desorgher (Radiophysics Institute, CHUV, Lausanne)

Slides G4ReverseMCStatus21StG4CollaborationMeeting.pptx

9:20 AM Test of the Reverse MC

Speakers: Fan Lei, Dr Laurent Desorgher (Radiophysics Institute, CHUV, Lausanne), Peter Truscott

Slides GRAS_RMC_tests_-_G4WS_new.pptx

9:40 AM Status of Generic Biasing

Speaker: Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

Slides 5B_MarcVerderi.pdf 5B_MarcVerderi.pptx

9:50 AM Discussion : reverse MC and status of other biasing

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 5 - Tools (Drupal, Git, etc.)

Instructions / discussion on policies, workplan

11:00 AM Use of C++11 in Geant4, an update

Speaker: Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

Slides c++11_experience.pdf

11:20 AM DoSSiER: Database of Scientific Simulation and Experimental Results: Overview and Status of the Project

Speaker: Dr Hans Wenzel (FNAL)

Slides Plenary_Geant4_2016.pdf Plenary_Geant4_2016.pptx

11:40 AM Code improvement: Coverity static analysis, valgrind dynamic analysis

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

Slides Coverity_Valgrind.pptx

11:55 AM Use of git for releases and ideas for development

Speaker: Dr Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

Slides Geant42016-Plenary5-BenMorgan.pdf

12:30 PM → 9:30 PM Excursion

Thursday, September 15

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Plenary 6 - Updates on GUI, Vis, Analysis, examples

9:00 AM Visualization and GUIs

Speaker: Mr Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

Slides 2016-UpdateOnVis.pptx

9:20 AM Analysis and g4tools

Speakers: Guy Barrand, Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

Slides analysis.pdf g4tools_ferrara_2016.pdf

9:40 AM Geant4Py

Speaker: Dr Koichi Murakami (KEK)

Slides g4python.pdf

10:00 AM Basic & Extended Examples

Speaker: Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

Slides examples_plenary.pdf

10:15 AM Advanced Examples

Speaker: Dr Luciano Pandola (LNS)

Slides Pandola-AE-Ferrara2016.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 7 - Updates on kernel, geometry, MT/MPI

11:00 AM Status of Multi-Threading

Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides MT_status.pdf

11:15 AM Geometry Update

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

Slides Geometry+Persistency-Updates.pptx

11:30 AM Kernel Updates

Speaker: Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides Kernel_status.pdf

11:45 AM Crystal Concept Extension to Geant4

Speaker: Enrico Bagli (FE)

Slides ebagli_160915_Crystal.pdf

11:55 AM Geant4 at Extreme Scales

Speaker: Tom LeCompte (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides G4_At_Extreme_Scales.ppt

12:20 PM Discussion

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Parallel 6A - Hadronic models: development & validation, part I

Review of the development, tuning and validation of all the major hadronic models of Geant4, from the high-energy string models (FTF, QGS), to intra-nuclear cascade models (BERT, BIC, INCLXX), precompound/de-excitation, ParticleHP, Radioactive Decay, etc.

2:00 PM Update on hadronic string models

Speakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Dr Vladimir Uzhinsky (CERN)

Slides Uzhinsky.pdf

2:20 PM Update on intra-nuclear cascade models

Speaker: Jean-Christophe David

Transparents JCDavid-talk.pdf JCDavid-talk.pptx

2:40 PM Update on precompound de-excitation model

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides G4PrecoDeexStatus.pdf

3:00 PM Update on Geant4 simulations of n_TOF facility

Speaker: Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)

Slides MACG-G4CM-neutrons-Ferrara-2016-def.pdf

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Parallel 6B - Geant4 Development Tools and Modularization

Modularisation of Geant4 libraries
Migration from SVN to Git for version control
Usage of C Preprocessor Macros
Format and C++ API to access Data Libraries

2:00 PM Format and C++ Access to Data Libraries

Discussion on use of data libraries in Geant4 - I/O performance issues, inc data format - Usability issues, including C++ and Environment Variables

Speakers: Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Dr Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

Slides Geant42016-Parallel6B-DataLibraries.pdf

2:30 PM Migration from SVN to Git

Discussion/brainstorm on migrating Geant4 to Git - Migration of repository contents - Development workflow/model, inc branches, tags, testing - Development tools, inc g4svn, gitlab

Slides Geant42016-Parallel6B-GitIntro.pdf git_feedbackSLAC.pdf

3:00 PM Modularisation of Geant4 Libraries

Discussion on Geant4 CMake/Library build structure - New CMake functionality to simplify library/module declaration and dependencies. - Timeline for migration to new CMake system - Aspects related to Git migration and repository structure - Simplification of preprocessor usage for robust builds of both Geant4 and client applications

Slides Geant42016-Parallel6B-CMakeAndModularization.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Parallel 7A - Hadronic models: development & validation, part II

Continuation of the review of the development, tuning and validation of all the major hadronic models of Geant4, from the high-energy string models (FTF, QGS), to intra-nuclear cascade models (BERT, BIC, INCLXX), precompound/de-excitation, ParticleHP, Radioactive Decay, etc.

4:00 PM CMS calorimetric results

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides CMShadronics.pdf

4:20 PM Update on Radioactive Decay model

Speaker: Dr Dennis Wright (SLAC)

Slides RadDecay.pdf

4:40 PM Low-energy neutrons in poly- and single-crystals

Speakers: Thomas Kittelmann (European Spallation Source ERIC), Dr Xiao-Xiao Cai (European Spallation Source ERIC/Technical University of Denmark)

Slides Cai15Sep_Ferrara.pdf

5:00 PM Discussion

Speakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab)

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Parallel 7B - Geometry working session

• Update on USolids/VecGeom module developments
• New magnetic-field steppers classes
• Review of open issues
• Discussion

4:00 PM Recent updates to VecGeom

Speaker: Dr Sandro Wenzel (CERN)

Slides FerraraG4Meeting_VecGeom_SandroWenzel.pdf

4:15 PM Update on USolids/VecGeom integration in Geant4

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

Slides VecGeom_Geant4.pptx

4:30 PM New magnetic-field steppers classes

Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides FieldPropagationDevelopments-G4WrkFerrara2016-v2.pdf FieldPropagationDevelopments-G4WrkFerrara2016-v2.ppt

4:45 PM Quantized state system method for the field integration

Speakers: Mr Lucio Santi, Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

Slides gqlink-slides.pdf

5:00 PM Review of open issues

Slides problem-reports.pptx

5:15 PM Discussion

7:00 PM → 9:30 PM Collaboration Banquet

https://goo.gl/maps/1ro33cSw8Cz

Friday, September 16

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Parallel 8A - Low-energy Hadronic Physics

More detailed discussions of the low-energy hadronic physics models and libraries, in particular for Radioactive Decay and ParticleHP.
Any other hadronic topic which is not (or not fully) covered in the first two hadronic physics parallel session, can be discussed in this session.

9:00 AM Neutron validation at CEA

Speaker: Dr Hoang Tran (CEA)

Slides Geant4Meeting.pdf

9:15 AM Update of Data-driven Low Energy Nuclear Models

Speaker: Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides UpdateOfDataDrivenModel.pptx

9:30 AM Progress on the TRIPOLI-4/Geant4 Coupling

Speaker: Dr Davide Mancusi (CEA-Saclay)

Slides Mancusi_T4_G4.pdf

Video tracks.avi

9:45 AM Discussion

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Parallel 8B - HPC Simulation

1) Parallelism with Vectors and Coprocessors
2) HPC Algorithms and Models
3) Toward HPC MC production

9:00 AM Extending GeantV to accelerators

Speakers: Andrei Gheata (CERN), Philippe Canal (FermiLab), Dr Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

Slides GeantV_accelerators.pdf

9:15 AM Auto-vectorization: recent progress

Speakers: Guilherme Amadio (UNESP), Dr Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

Slides Auto-vectorization__recent_progress.pdf

9:30 AM Scheduling fine grain workloads in GeantV

Speaker: Andrei Gheata (CERN)

Slides sched_Ferrara_16_1.pptx

9:45 AM Progress in GeantV field propagation and EM physics

Speakers: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN), Dr Mihaly Novak (CERN), Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

Slides VecPhysAndField-G4Ferrara2016-v0.7.pptx VecPhysAndField-G4Wrk2016-v0.7.pdf

10:00 AM Neutron HPC proposal

Speaker: Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides nHPC.pdf

10:15 AM Discussion

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 8 - Report from parallel sessions

Parallel 1A-6B

11:00 AM Report on parallel session 1A

Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides report1A.pdf

11:07 AM Report on parallel session 1B

Speakers: Dr John Allison (Geant4 Associates International Ltd), Mr Laurent Garnier (OSUR / CNRS)

Slides 2016-VIs-Parallel-Resume.ppt

11:14 AM Report on parallel session 2A

Speakers: Prof. Bruce Faddegon (UCSF), Dr Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

Slides G4Session2ASummary.pdf

11:21 AM Report on parallel session 2B

Speakers: Enrico Bagli (FE), Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

Slides ebagli_160916_report2B.pdf

11:28 AM Report on parallel session 3A

Speakers: Dr Mihaly Novak (CERN), Dr SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3/CENBG)

Slides Summary-3A.pdf

11:35 AM Report on parallel session 3B

Speakers: Dr Gunter Folger (CERN - PH/SFT), Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

Slides session3B-summary.pdf

11:42 AM Report on parallel session 4A

Speakers: Dr Luciano Pandola (LNS), Dr Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

Slides summary_4A.pdf

11:49 AM Report on parallel session 4B

Speaker: Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay, CNRS)

Slides examples_parallel_summary.pdf

11:56 AM Report on parallel session 5A

Speaker: Dr Hans Wenzel (FNAL)

Slides Summary.pdf Summary.pptx

12:03 PM Report on parallel session 5B

Speakers: Dr Alexander Howard (ETH Zürich), Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

Slides AH_parallel5b.pdf

12:10 PM Report on parallel session 6A

Speakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

Slides Parallel6A_2016091611.pdf

12:17 PM Report on parallel session 6B

Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Dr Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

Slides Geant42016-Parallel6B-Summary.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Plenary 9 - Report from parallel sessions / Closing session

Parallel 7A-8B
Collaboration matters, release schedule

2:00 PM Report on parallel session 7A

Speakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Dr Julia Yarba (Fermilab), Krzysztof Genser (Fermilab)

Slides G4Wkshop-2016-Summary7A.pdf

2:07 PM Report on parallel session 7B

Speakers: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva), Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides 7B-Summary-Geometry-and-Field.pptx

2:14 PM Report on parallel session 8A

Speakers: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Dr Dennis Wright (SLAC)

Slides Parallel8A.pdf

2:21 PM Report on parallel session 8B

Speakers: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN), Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

Slides session8B-summary.pdf

2:28 PM Release schedule

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN, Geneva)

Slides Geant4-Release-10.3.ppt

2:43 PM Collaboration-wide efforts

Speakers: Dr Makoto ASAI (SLAC National accelerator Laboratory), Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

Slides Plenary9-CollaborationWideEfforts-final.pdf

3:03 PM Next collaboration meeting

Speaker: Dr Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

Slides 2017.pdf

3:15 PM Closing remarks

Speaker: Dr Makoto ASAI (SLAC National accelerator Laboratory)

Slides ClosingRemarks.pdf

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM SB meeting

3:30 PM → 3:40 PM Workshop adjourn