Name: 20th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2015-09-28T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2015-10-02T18:00:00-05:00
Location: No location set

Monday, September 28, 2015

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome to Fermilab - Robert Roser (Fermilab)

9:10 AM Meeting Logistics - V. Daniel Elvira (Fermilab)

9:20 AM Meeting Objectives - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

9:30 AM Geant4 user requirements from HEP Energy Frontier Experiments - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

9:42 AM Geant4 user requirements from Intensity Frontier Experiments - Robert Hatcher (FNAL/CD)

9:54 AM Geant4 user requirements from Cosmic and Underground Experiments - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

10:06 AM Geant4 user requirements from Medical Domain - Joseph Perl (SLAC)

10:18 AM Geant4 user requirements from Space Domain - Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 AM Welcome - Paul Gueye (Hampton University)

11:05 AM Goudsmit-Saunderson multiple scattering model - Mihaly Novak (CERN)

11:35 AM Status of G4DNA Chemistry - Karamitros Mathieu (CENBG/CNRS)

12:05 PM A Novel, Moment-Preserving Electron Transport Method - David Dixon (UNM)

12:35 PM EM mini-Forum
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Willson Hall Hornet's Nest WH8XO
Contributions

11:00 AM G4CP Results and Issues from LHC experiments - John Apostolakis (CERN)

11:25 AM G4CP Results and Issues from Intensity Frontier - Robert Hatcher (FNAL/CD)

11:50 AM TAU - Boyana Norris (University of Oregon)

12:15 PM Memory Leakage Monitoring - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

12:35 PM Discussion
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

2:00 PM Update on CMake build - Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

2:20 PM Update on analysis - Guy BARRAND (LAL) Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay)

2:40 PM Update on Vis & GUIs - Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

3:00 PM Update on Basic & Extended Examples - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay)

3:15 PM Update on Advanced Examples - Francesco ROMANO (INFN LNS)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

4:00 PM Drupal Migration - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Gunter Folger (CERN)

4:30 PM Physics validation tools - Hans Wenzel (Fermilab)

5:00 PM Users' Guides and physics list documentation - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

5:30 PM The general Geant4 paper - Dennis Wright (SLAC)
6:15 PM

6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - 15N
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

8:30 AM Multiple scattering upgrade: better lateral displacement (L. Urban)

9:00 AM Validation of multiple scattering angle - Daren Sawkey (Varian Medical Systems)

9:20 AM Systematic test of gamma-ray models with NIST data (S. Guatelli)

9:40 AM Therapeutic C-12 Range benchmarking in Geant4 - Susanna Guatelli (Univ of Wollongong)

10:00 AM Recent validation results from the ESA ROSSINI2 project - Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)

10:20 AM Discussion
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

8:30 AM Updates in Vis - Joseph Perl (SLAC) Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

8:50 AM Multithreading visualisation - John Allison (Geant4 Associates)

9:15 AM Problems with Qt driver - Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

9:25 AM How to test vis - Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

9:50 AM Discussion
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WH5SW - Board Room
Contributions

8:30 AM G4CMP - Phonon - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

8:50 AM G4CMP - charge-carrier - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

9:10 AM MicroElec - Mélanie Raine (CEA)

9:30 AM Channeling - Enrico Bagli (INFN)

9:50 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 AM Geant4 String Models - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:35 AM Geant4 Cascade Models - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:55 AM Status Report on the Varied Model Parameters Interface (Bertini) - Julia Yarba (FNAL)

12:15 PM Status of the Precompound Model - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

12:35 PM Discssion
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

11:00 AM medical/dna examples - Mathieu Karamitos (Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre-Dame, Indiana) SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3)

11:25 AM exoticphysics/ucn example - Peter Gumplinger (TRIUMF)

11:35 AM parameterisation/Par02 - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:45 AM biasing/GB04 - Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

11:50 AM eventgenerator/basicPrimary - Michel Maire (IN2P3/LAPP)

11:55 AM parallel/MPI/ex03 - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:05 PM Work plan items & discussion - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

2:00 PM Geometry Updates - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Apostolakis (CERN)

2:15 PM Random Number Generators - the MixMax Generator - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Apostolakis (CERN)

2:30 PM Updates on Run, Event and Detector - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

2:50 PM Trackinfo Enhancements - Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

3:20 PM Discussion - Alexander Howard (ETH, Zurich)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

4:00 PM Overview of Geant4 Hadronic Models Development - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

4:15 PM Radioactive Decays Status and Plans - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

4:35 PM ParticleHP and NeutronHp Status and Plans - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

4:55 PM GND/LEND Status and Plans - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

5:10 PM Status of Geant4 Hadronic Validation - Julia Yarba (FNAL)

5:25 PM Discussion
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

8:30 AM Developments in muon-nuclear models - Dennis Wright (SLAC) Kevin Lynch (York College/CUNY)

8:50 AM Progress on Radioactive Decay and PhotoEvaporation database - Dennis Wright (SLAC) Laurent Desorgher (SapceIT GmbH)

9:10 AM Angular Correlations in PhotoEvaporation - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

9:30 AM Requests for development in low-energy hadronics - Michael Taylor (University of Manchester)

9:50 AM Discussion
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WH1E use WH8XO for vidyo
Contributions

8:30 AM Recent developments in USolids/VecGeom, status & plans - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN PH/SFT)

9:00 AM Interfacing USolids/VecGeom in Geant4 - Guilherme Lima (Fermilab)

9:20 AM Extensions to testing suite and effects on using coarse/precise safety calculation - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) Tatiana Nikitina (CERN PH/SFT)

9:40 AM Open issues in transportation and transport in field - John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:00 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 AM Update on standard EM physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

11:30 AM Update on Low Energy / DNA physics - SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3)

12:00 PM Validation of EM physics - Daren Sawkey (Varian Medical Systems)

12:20 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Luch Break
Luch Break
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria

1:15 PM

1:15 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Chicago
Thursday, October 1, 2015
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

8:30 AM FNAL Validation Update - Hans Wenzel (Fermilab)

8:50 AM A new Process Level Validation Tool - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

9:20 AM Physics Lists in Extended Examples - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay) Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/IPN Orsay)

9:30 AM Physics List Factory Update - Robert Hatcher (FNAL/CD)

9:40 AM Discussion on Physics List documentation
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

8:30 AM Session Introduction - Enrico Bagli (INFN) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

8:35 AM Status of Geant4 Reverse MC - Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)

8:55 AM Generic-based versus Standard Geometrical Importance Biasing - Alexander Howard (ETH, Zurich)

9:25 AM Status of Channeling, and requirements from Parallel 2C 'Solid State Physics' - Enrico Bagli (INFN)

9:55 AM Status of Generic Biasing - Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

10:15 AM General Discussion
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WH5SW - Board Room
Contributions

8:30 AM Short update on Stepper Development - John Apostolakis (CERN)

8:55 AM Working session - investigation of 'Locator' issue
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 AM Radioactive decay in super-heavy nuclei - Luis Sarmiento (Lund University)

11:15 AM TARC Validation - Alexander Howard (ETH, Zurich)

11:30 AM NeutronHP-ParticleHP Merger - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:45 AM Low Energy Requirements

12:00 PM Plans for Low Energy Hadronics - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Wright (SLAC)
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

11:00 AM C++11 Compilers support - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:20 AM CMake Support for C++11/14/1z - Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

11:40 AM Mini Course on C++11 Features - Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/IPN Orsay)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

2:00 PM Summary of C++11 Taskforce Work - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:20 PM C++11 Style Guidelines Document - Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/IPN Orsay)

2:40 PM MPI Status and Upcoming Work - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

3:00 PM Intro to C++11 atomics and proposal for G4atomic - Jonathan Madsen (Texas A&M University)
3:30 PM Coffe Break and Group Photo
Coffe Break and Group Photo
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

4:00 PM Status of Fast Cross-Section - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

4:20 PM Report from CALICE results and shower shape discussion - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

5:10 PM Validation low-mass single diffraction model - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Vladimir Grichine (LPI)

5:20 PM Validation of kaon-proton elastic scattering - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Vladimir Grichine (LPI)

5:30 PM Deletion policy of physics processes for MT - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

4:00 PM GATE GPU - Julien Bert

4:30 PM GeantV: Status and Plan - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

5:00 PM Performance of VecGeom - Sandro Wenzel (CERN)

5:30 PM Vector Physics Model - Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

5:50 PM Discussion
6:00 PM Time for travel
Time for travel
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Meson Sabika
Friday, October 2, 2015
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

8:30 AM Parallel session 1A - Daren Sawkey (Varian Medical Systems) Paul Gueye (Hampton University) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

8:40 AM Parallel session 1B - Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab) V. Daniel Elvira (Fermilab)

8:50 AM Parallel session 2A - Daren Sawkey (Varian Medical Systems) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

9:00 AM Parallel session 2B - Joseph Perl (SLAC) Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

9:10 AM Parallel session 2C - Enrico Bagli (INFN) Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

9:20 AM Parallel session 3A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Julia Yarba (FNAL)

9:30 AM Parallel session 3B - Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/IPN Orsay) Peter Gumplinger (TRIUMF)

9:40 AM Parallel session 4A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

9:50 AM Parallel session 4B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:00 AM Parallel session 5A - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Robert Hatcher (FNAL/CD)

10:10 AM Parallel session 5B - Enrico Bagli (INFN) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

10:20 AM Parallel session 5C - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Apostolakis (CERN)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 AM Parallel session 6A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Wright (SLAC)

11:10 AM Parallel session 6B - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

11:20 AM Parallel session 7A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:30 AM Parallel session 7B - John Apostolakis (CERN) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

11:40 AM Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research)

12:00 PM Next collaboration meeting - Enrico Bagli (INFN)

12:10 PM Closing remarks - Makoto ASAI (SLAC) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)
12:30 PM Adjourn
Adjourn
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West

12:35 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

1:30 PM Welcome - Tim Meyer (Fermilab)

1:40 PM General status report and prospects - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

1:50 PM Physics status report and prospects - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

2:00 PM Requirements of Intensity Frontier experiments - Laura Fields (Fermilab)

2:30 PM Requirements from LZ experiment - Carl Vuosalo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2:40 PM Requirements from CDMS experiment - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

2:50 PM Open discussion
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West

3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall - One West