Name: 7th Geant4 Space Users Workshop
Start: 2010-08-18T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2010-08-20T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Hilton Hotel Seattle Downtown, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

7th Geant4 Space Users Workshop

from Wednesday, 18 August 2010 (08:00) to Friday, 20 August 2010 (18:00)

Monday, 16 August 2010
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Wednesday, 18 August 2010

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Opening address - Mark Anderson (Executive Chief Engineer, Boeing Research and Technology)

09:30 Applications of Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulations Techniques for Predicting Single Event Effects in Microelectronics - Reed Robert (Vanderbilt University)

10:00 JAXA activities - Masanobu Ozaki (JAXA)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 Status of ESA Geant4 R&D activities - Giovanni Santin (ESA/ESTEC)

11:30 INTA activities - Sergio Ibarmia Huete (INTA)

12:00 Geant4 simulation of the Low Earth Orbit radiation environment on the NHXM prompt X-ray background - Valentina Fioretti (INAF/IASF - Bologna)

12:20 discussion
12:40 lunch break
lunch break
12:40 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Use of Geant4 simulations in understanding LRO/CRaTER observations - Mark Looper (The Aerospace Corporation)

14:20 SIXS module Dose Mapping and X-ray Detector - Bepicolombo mission - Francisco Garcia (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

14:40 The highly miniaturised radiation monitor - Edward Mitchell (Imperial College)

15:00 Physics models for the simulation of biological effects of radiation and shielding with the Geant4 toolkit: the ESA AO6041 project - SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3)

15:20 discussion
15:40 break
break
15:40 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 G4MRES A Geant4-based operational tool to evaluate space weather effects on satellites - Sergio Ibarmia Huete (INTA)

16:20 The Radiation Environment from Galactic Cosmic Rays in a Lunar Habitat - Zi-Wei Lin (East Carolina University)

16:40 Background Simulations with Geant4 for the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Balloon Experiment - Philip von Doetinchem (UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory)

17:00 Geant4 modeling of radiation exposure in ultra-long-haul flights: a proposal - SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3)

17:20 Background Simulations of the Wide Field Imager aboard the International X-ray Observatory - Hauf Steffen (TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt)

17:40 discussion
Thursday, 19 August 2010

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 General updates and perspectives - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

09:30 Geometry: Current Status and Plans - Norman Graf (SLAC)

10:00 Overview of Geant4 electromagnetic physics developments - SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Updates and Perspectives of Geant4 Hadronic Physics for Space Applications - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

11:30 Updates to Bertini Cascade - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:50 Recent development of nuclues nucleus and low energy neutron interactions in Geant4 - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:10 Reverse Monte Carlo in Geant4 and in GRAS - Giovanni Santin (ESTEC) Makoto Asai (SLAC) Petteri Nieminen (ESTEC)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Overview of NASA/JPL activities - Insoo Jun (JPL)

14:20 Geant4 and MCNPX: Comparison of Electron Beam Transport Simulation - Shawn Kang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

14:40 Geant4 Simulation of Dynamitron Beam Uniformity and Energy Distribution - Danielle Hohreiter (Jet Propulsion Lab - California Institute of Technology)

15:00 e-LINAC Beam Facility Characterization For Its Use For Space Detectors Performance Studies - Ercan Pilicer (INFN Perugia)

15:20 discussion
15:40 break
break
15:40 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Phonon Transport in Geant4 - Daniel Brandt (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:20 Creme: A new website providing advanced tools for modeling radiation-induced energy deposition - Brian Sierawski (Vanderbilt University ISDE)

16:40 CREME-MC demo - Marcus Mendenhall (Vanderbilt University EECS/ISDE)

17:10 discussion
18:30

18:30 - 21:30
Room: Soundview Room
Friday, 20 August 2010

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Organizing and Implementing Efficient Geometry Strategies for Geant4 - B. Charles Rasco (Smarter Than You Software, JIHIR, ORNL)

09:20 slic & lcdd: A Detector Response Simulation Program - Norman Graf (SLAC)

09:40 Towards High-Fidelity Simulations of Radiation Effects in Complex Systems - Ashok Raman (CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC))

10:00 Symmetric branches of Geant4: How the medical and aerospace user communities bring common issues and solutions to the simulation toolkit - Joseph Perl (SLAC)

10:20 discussion
10:40 break
break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:45
Contributions

11:00 Geant4 Technical Forum and general discussion
11:45 lunch break
lunch break
11:45 - 12:30

12:30

12:30 - 17:00