Schedule

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Monday 11 Nov	Morning	Tutorial 1 Introduction / Basics part 1 / Installation	PE Auditorium (Bldg. 593 Room 11)
Monday 11 Nov	Afternoon	Tutorial 2 Hands-on Novice level tutorials: Geometry/Visualisation	Bldg. 593 Room 13 & 25
Tuesday 12 Nov	Morning	Tutorial 3 Lectures: Primaries, Tracking, Physics Processes	PE Auditorium (Bldg. 593 Room 11)
Tuesday 12 Nov	Afternoon	Tutorial 4 Hands-on tutorials: sensitivity, fields, UI/Vis:	Bldg. 593 Room 13 & 25
Wednesday 13 Nov	Morning	Tutorial 5 Lectures: More on physics, optics, parameterisation.	PE Auditorium (Bldg. 593 Room 11)
	Afternoon	Tutorial 6 Physics processes / Advanced level tutorials	PE Auditorium (Bldg. 593 Room 11)
	Evening	Discussion	PE Auditorium (Bldg. 593 Room 11)
Thursday 14 Nov	Morning	Users' presentations / Invited talks	LHC Auditorium (Bldg. 30, 7^th floor)
	Afternoon	Users' presentations	IT Auditorium (Bldg. 31, Room 3-004)
	Evening	Dinner & Town meeting	CERN Cafeteria
Friday 15 Nov	Morning	Presentations by Geant4 developers	IT Auditorium (Bldg. 31, Room 3-004)
Friday 15 Nov	Afternoon	Users' presentations	IT Auditorium (Bldg. 31, Room 3-004)

Note :

Please refer the CERN site map to determine location of buildings in the CERN site.
Lecturers of tutorials are to be confirmed.
Invited speakers should provide a copy of the slides to the session chairperson.
Talks will be made available on the web during the workshop. Speakers are encouraged to have PPT, PostScript or PDF versions of their talks available.
More information on the tutorials are available on the tutorial page.

November 11^th (Monday) : Morning session (Lectures)

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 10:30 Introduction and Getting Started

9:00 Welcome (pdf) and Introduction (pdf)

J. Apostolakis

9:30 Getting Started - Part I (ppt)

M. Asai

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 Materials, Units and Geometry

11:00 Materials and System of Units (pdf)

G. Cosmo

11:30 Basic Geometry Features (pdf)

G. Cosmo

November 11^th (Monday) : Afternoon session (Hands-on and mini-lectures)

13:30 - 14:30

Attendees with their own laptops will be guided to the installation.

All users will be encouraged to try a test program that verifies the installation.

13:30 Installation for users with laptop/notebook computers

14:00 Installation verification

14:30-15:45 Hands-on exercises: 14:30 Hands-on exercise 1: geometry and materials; A. Ribon; 15:00 Hands-on exercise 2: visualising a geometry; A. Ribon, J. Generowicz

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 18:15 Visualisation and User Interface

16:15 First steps with Geant4 User Commands (ppt)

M. Asai

16:35 First steps with Visualization and User Interface (pdf)

J. Generowicz

17:05 - 17:25 Recreating the EM field of a setup/detector.

17:05 A first Magnetic Field (pdf)

J. Apostolakis

17:25 - 17:40 A first tour of the documentation

17:25 Documentation, User Forum and User Support (pdf)

G. Folger

17:40 - 18:30 Hands-on sessions.

17:40 Hands-on exercise 4: Visualizing an event

A. Ribon, J. Generowicz

18:05 Hands-on exercise 5: adding a field

A. Ribon, J. Apostolakis

November 12th (Tuesday) : Morning session (Lectures)

8:30 - 9:00: Registration

9:00 - 10:30 Primaries and Tracking: 9:00 Primary Particle Generation (ppt); M. Asai; 9:30 Physics Processes, tracking and cuts (pdf); J. Apostolakis

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:45 Physics Processes, Part I

11:00 Standard Electromagnetic Processes (pdf)

M. Maire

11:35 Low Energy Electromagnetic processes (Part I) (ppt)

M.G. Pia

12:10 Hadronics processes (Part I) (pdf)

J.P. Wellisch

November 12^th (Tuesday) : Afternoon session (Hands-on and mini-lectures)

14:00 -14:45 Hands-on exercise

14:00 Trying out physics lists

A. Ribon

14:45 - 15:45 Sensitive detector elements

14:45 A first Sensitive Detector (ppt)

M. Asai

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:30 A quick tour of Geant4 examples: novice, extended and advanced

Novice examples

M. Asai

Extended examples

M. Maire

Advanced examples (ppt)

A. Howard

16:30 - 16:50 Refining the EM field.

16:15 Optimising the tracking in field (pdf)

J. Apostolakis

16:50 - 18:30

16:50 Hands-on exercise on sensitive detectors

A. Ribon, M. Asai

17:15 Hands-on exercise on field optimisation

A. Ribon, J. Apostolakis

18:00 Further hands-on time

Instructors will be available to assist attendees in trying out examples.

November 13^th (Wednesday) : Morning session

9:00 - 10:30 More on physics processes

9:00 Hadronics processes (Part II) (pdf)

J.P. Wellisch

9:45 Multiple Scattering (pdf)

L. Urban

10:05 Low Energy Electromagnetic Processes (Part II) (ppt)

A. Howard

10:25 Optical Processes (pdf)

J. Apostolakis

10:45 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:45 Parameterisation and track selection

11:15 Shower Parameterization (pdf)

J. Apostolakis

11:35 Adding a new process: an introduction (ppt)

V. Ivantchenko

12:25 Stack Management (ppt)

M. Asai

November 13^th (Wednesday) : Afternoon session

14:00 - 14:40 Geometry

14:00 Geometry: Advanced Features (pdf)

G. Cosmo

14:40 - 15:30 Analysis

14:40 Analysis with AIDA (pdf)

L. Moneta

15:05 Geant4 User classes (ppt)

S. Guatelli

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:15 More on using geant4 interactively

16:00 More on User Commands (ppt)

M. Asai

16:30 More on Geant4 Visualization and GUI (demo)

J. Generowicz

17:15-18:00 Installing Geant4

Installation of Geant4: demonstration, hands-on, questions (pdf)

G. Cosmo

November 13^th (Wednesday) : Evening session

Feedback and questions

18:00-19:00 Feedback, questions, free discussion

November 14^th (Thursday) : Morning session

Users' presentations / Invited talks

Each talk includes 5 minutes discussion

8:50 - 9:00: Opening address

9:00 - 11:00 Invited talks: 9:00 Status of the BaBar Simulation (ppt); V. Ivantchenko; 9:30 Alice Experience with Geant4 (ppt); I. Gonzalez; 10:00 Geant4 in the Gaudi framework (ppt); W. Pokorski; 10:30 Geant4 in the HARP experiment (ppt); V. Ivantchenko
11:00 - 12:00 Users' presentations: 11:00 CERN PS ZT9 beam line simulation for the HARP experiment (pdf); A. Jemtchougov, JINR-Dubna, HARP; 11:30 Coupling between NMR and SIC (sonde intracerebral) (ppt); A. Desbree, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay

November 14^th (Thursday) : Afternoon session

User's presentations

Each talk includes 5 minutes discussion

14:00 - 16:30 Users' presentations: 14:00 Simulation for the new generation of gamma-ray detector : AGATA (ppt); J. Roccaz, CSNSM Orsay; 14:30 GATE, a simulation platform for nuclear medecine based on Geant4 (ppt); D. Lazaro, LPC Clermont-Ferrand; 15:00 Geant4 Simulation of the TRIUMF-ISAC Gamma-Ray Escape Suppressed Spectrometer (TIGRESS) (ppt); M. Schumaker, University of Guelph; 15:30 Simulation of ion propagation in the microbeam line of CENBG using Geant4 (ppt); S. Incerti, IN2P3

16:00 - 17:15 LHC Experiments Geant4 Physics Comparisons: 16:00 New beam test simulation application for ATLAS Tile Calorimeter in FADS/Goofy framework (ppt); V. Tsulaia, JINR Dubna, ATLAS; 16:30 Geant4 physics validation of the ATLAS EM calorimeter; G. Parrour, ATLAS; 17:00 Geant4 simulation of the ATLAS Muon test beam (ppt); A. Rimoldi, ATLAS

November 14^th (Thursday) : Evening

Dinner & Town Meeting

Note: Dinner at CERN Cafeteria (COOP), not pre-paid (i.e. not included in workshop fee).

November 15^th (Friday) : Morning session

Presentations by Geant4 developers

Each talk includes 5 minutes discussion

9:00 - 10:30 Recent Developments: 9:00 Developments in kernel: importance biasing and scoring (pdf); M. Dressel; 9:20 Recent Developments in Hadronic Physics Processes (pdf); J.P. Wellisch; 10:10 Recent Developments in Electromagnetic Physics Processes (ppt); V. Grichine, M. Maire

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 Customising Run Management (ppt)

M. Asai

11:30 Highlights of the upcoming Geant4 5.0 Release (pdf)

G. Cosmo

11:45 Future developments: cuts by region, status of development (ppt)

J. Apostolakis

12:00 User Requirements, HyperNews and Problem Reporting (ppt)

J. Apostolakis

12:15 - 12:45 User's presentations

12:15 Application of Geant4 in brachytherapy (ppt)

S. Guatelli, INFN Genova, Italy

November 15^th (Friday) : Afternoon session

User's presentations

Each talk to include 5 minutes for discussion

14:00 - 15:30 Visualisation and Interactivity: 14:00 Recent Developments in Geant4 Visualisation and User Interfaces (html); J. Allison; 14:30 Open Scientist (Demo); G. Barrand; 15:00 IGUANA (Demo, ppt); L. Tuura

15:30 - 16:00 Workshop close

16:00 Adjourn

Workshop local organizing committee

Fri 15 Nov 2002

CERN Accelerating science

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November 11th (Monday) : Morning session (Lectures)

November 11th (Monday) : Afternoon session (Hands-on and mini-lectures)

November 12th (Tuesday) : Morning session (Lectures)

November 12th (Tuesday) : Afternoon session (Hands-on and mini-lectures)

November 13th (Wednesday) : Morning session

November 13th (Wednesday) : Afternoon session

November 13th (Wednesday) : Evening session

Feedback and questions

November 14th (Thursday) : Morning session

Users' presentations / Invited talks

November 14th (Thursday) : Afternoon session

User's presentations

November 14th (Thursday) : Evening

Dinner & Town Meeting

November 15th (Friday) : Morning session

Presentations by Geant4 developers

November 15th (Friday) : Afternoon session

User's presentations

November 11^th (Monday) : Morning session (Lectures)

November 11^th (Monday) : Afternoon session (Hands-on and mini-lectures)

November 12^th (Tuesday) : Afternoon session (Hands-on and mini-lectures)

November 13^th (Wednesday) : Morning session

November 13^th (Wednesday) : Afternoon session

November 13^th (Wednesday) : Evening session

November 14^th (Thursday) : Morning session

November 14^th (Thursday) : Afternoon session

November 14^th (Thursday) : Evening

November 15^th (Friday) : Morning session

November 15^th (Friday) : Afternoon session