Reports & Presentations

• IEEE NSS MIC 2011, Valencia (Spain), October 2011
  • Description of Hadron-induced Showers in Calorimeters using the Geant4 Simulation Toolkit, A. Dotti et al.
• International Workshop on Recent Advances in Monte Carlo Techniques for Radiation Therapy, Montreal (Canada), June 2011
  • Recent Developments in Geant4 for Medical Physics, J. Perl et al.
  • The Geant4-DNA project, S. Incerti et al.
• MC 2010 International Workshop on medical sciences, MC2010, Stockholm (Sweden), November 2010
  • Geant4 Hadronic Physics and the Geant4-DNA project, A. Ivantchenko et al.
• 3^rd Monte Carlo Conference, MC2010, Tokyo (Japan), October 2010
  • The Geant4 Toolkit: Evolution and Status, J. Apostolakis, M. Asai et al.
  • An Overview of Geant4 Hadronic Physics Improvements, D. Wright et al.
  • Validation of Geant4 Hadronic Generators vs Thin Target Data, D. Wright, S. Banerjee et al.
  • Recent Improvements in Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics Models and Interfaces, V. Ivantchenko et al.
  • Modeling Radiation Chemistry and Biology in the Geant4 Toolkit, A. Mantero et al.
  • Development of the Fritiof Model in Geant4, V. Uzhinsky et al.
  • Recent Developments in Pre-equilibrium and De-excitation Models in Geant4, J.M. Quesada et al.
  • INCL intra-nuclear cascade and ABLA de-excitation models in Geant4, P. Kaitaniemi et al.
  • New native QMD code in Geant4, T. Koi et al.
• Computing in High Energy Physics, CHEP 2010, Taipei (Taiwan), October 2010
  • Geant4 electromagnetic physics for the LHC and other HEP applications, A. Schalicke et al.
  • Improvements in the Geant4 Hadronic Physics, S. Banerjee et al.
  • Simulation Strategies for the ATLAS Experiment at LHC, A. Rimoldi et al.
  • Validation and Tuning of the CMS Full Simulation, M. Hildreth et al.
• Presentations at the 7^thGeant4 Space Users' Workshop, Seattle (USA), August 2010
• CALOR 2010, Beijing (China), May 2010
  • Recent Improvements on the Description of Hadronic Interactions in Geant4, A. Dotti et al.
  • Gflash as a Parameterized Calorimeter Simulation for CMS, S.Y. Jun
• Presentations at the 6^thGeant4 Space Users' Workshop, Madrid (Spain), May 2009
• Computing in High Energy Physics, CHEP 2009, Prague (Czech Republic), March 2009
  • Validation of Geant4 Hadronic Physics Models at Intermediate Energies, S. Banerjee et al.
  • Geant4E Track Extrapolation in the Belle Experiment, L. Piilonen et al.
• Recent Progress of Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics and Readiness for the LHC Start, V. Ivantchenko et al., ACAT 2008, Erice (Italy), November 2008
• IEEE NSS MIC RTSD 2008, Dresden (Germany), October 2008
  • Improved Description of Bremsstrahlung for High-Energy Electrons in Geant4, A. Schaelicke
  • Validation of Geant4 Hadronic Physics Models at Intermediate Energies, S. Banerjee
  • Validation of High Energy String Models in Geant4, V. Uzhinsky et al.
  • Fritiof Model in Geant4, V. Uzhinsky
  • New Native QMD Code in Geant4, T. Koi
  • Detailed Comparison Between Geant4 and the TARC Experiment, A. Howard
  • New Geant4 Developments for Doppler Broadening Simulation in Compton Scattering - Development of Charge Transfer Simulation Models in Geant4, M.G. Pia et al.
  • Validation of Geant4 X-Ray Fluorescence Transitions - Validation of Geant4 electromagnetic models against calorimetry measurements in the energy range up to 1 MeV, M. Sudhakar
  • Status of Instrumental Background Simulations for Gamma-Ray Telescopes with Geant4, A. Zoglauer et al.
  • Application of the Geant4 PIXE Implementation for Space Missions - New Models for PIXE Simulation with Geant4, G. Weidenspointner
  • A Volume Visualization Driver in Geant4 for Radiotherapy Simulation, A. Kimura et al.
  • Geant4 Simulation for Education in Medical Application, K. Murakami et al.
• CALOR 2008, Pavia (Italy), May 2008
  • Progress in hadronic physics modeling in Geant4, G. Folger et al.
  • Geant4 Physics Evaluation with Testbeam Data of the ATLAS Hadronic End-Cap Calorimeter, A. Kiryunin et al.
• First Results in a Thread-Parallel Geant4, X. Dong and G. Cooperman, Workshop on Virtualization and multi-core technologies for LHC, CERN - Geneva, April 2008
• Presentations at the 5^thGeant4 Space Users' Workshop, Tokyo (Japan), February 2008
• Geant4 for microdosimetry, M.G. Pia et al., Radiobiology at INFN Workshop, Trieste (Italy), February 2008
• IEEE NSS MIC 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), October 2007
  • Microdosimetry in biological cells with the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit, S. Incerti et al.
  • Validation of Geant4 Simulation against Energy-Charge Albedo and Calorimetric Measurements, A. Lechner
  • Benchmarks of medical dosimetry simulations on the grid, S. Chauvie et al.
• Computing in High Energy Physics, CHEP 2007, Victoria BC (Canada), September 2007
  • The performance of the Geant4 Standard EM package for LHC and other applications, V. Ivantchenko et al.
  • A Geant4 based simulation for proton therapy, T. Aso et al.
  • Final results of the precision validation of Geant4 models in the pre-equilibrium and nuclear de-excitation phase (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
• 3^rd McGill International Workshop on Monte Carlo Techniques in Radiotherapy delivery and verification, Montreal (Canada), May 2007
  • Geant4 Status and Recent Developments (ppt), M. Asai et al.
  • Comparison of Geant4 Results to EGSnrc and Measured Data in Large Field Electron Dose Distributions, J. Perl et al.
  • Geant4 and Fano cavity: where are we ?, S. Elles et al.
  • Geant4 Monte Carlo Characterization of Novel Electronic Brachytherapy System (ppt), D. Liu et al.
• International Workshop on Monte Carlo codes & MCNEG 2007, Teddington (UK), March 2007
  • Geant4: A High Energy Physics all particle transport toolkit, and User Application examples, M.G. Pia et al.
  • Geant4 for Microdosimetry, M.G. Pia et al.
  • Hadrontherapy Geant4 application: how Monte Carlo helps Hadrontherapy, G.A.P. Cirrone et al.
• The Japan Taiwan Symposium on Simulation in Medicine, Tsukuba (Japan), December 2006
  • Geant4 Simulation capabilities and application results, M.G. Pia et al.
  • Software Suite for Particle Therapy Simulation, T. Sasaki
  • Application of Geant4 to Ion therapy at HIBMC, T. Akagi
  • 2-D Dose-CT Mapping in Geant4, H. Tachibana
  • Geant4 simulation at the laboratory astrophysics in Taiwan, C.H. Wang
  • Volume Visualization Tools for Geant4 Simulation, A. Saitoh
  • Applications of Geant4 for Education, H. Yoshida
• Presentations at the 4^thGeant4 Space Users' Workshop, Pasadena, California (USA), November 2006
• IEEE NSS 2006, San Diego, California (USA), November 2006
  • Validation of the Bremsstrahlung Models of Geant4 (ppt), S. Chauvie et al.
  • Monte Carlo Simulation of Electromagnetic Interactions of Radiation with Liquid Water in the Framework of the Geant4-DNA Project (ppt), Z. Francis et al.
  • Geant4 Anthropomorphic Phantoms (ppt), S. Guatelli et al.
  • Validation of Geant4 Electromagnetic and Hadronic Models against Proton Data (ppt), S. Guatelli et al.
  • Simulation for LHC Radiation Background: Optimisation of Monitoring Detectors and Experimental Validation (ppt), B. Mascialino et al.
  • Geant4 Atomic Relaxation Validation Against the NIST Reference Data (ppt), V. Zampichelli et al.
• 10^th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD06), Siena (Italy), October 2006
  • Software for Detectors, Detectors for Software, M.G. Pia
  • The Geant4-DNA project: physics and biological models, S. Chauvie et al.
  • Radiation Shielding Simulation For Interplanetary Manned Missions, S. Guatelli et al.
  • Geant4 simulation for LHC radiation background: optimisation of monitoring detectors and experimental validation, B. Mascialino et al.
• Hadronic Shower Simulation Workshop, Batavia, Illinois (USA), September 2006
  • Geant4 Overview (ppt), J. Apostolakis et al.
  • Validation in Geant4 (ppt), T. Koi et al.
  • Low and High Energy Modeling in Geant4 (ppt), D. Wright et al.
• Presentations at the Geant4 Physics Verification and Validation Workshop, CERN - Geneva, July 2006
• Fine simulation for heavy ion therapy, M. G. Pia et al., NIRS - MedAustron Joint Symposium, Innsbruck (Austria), February 2006
• Computing in High Energy Physics, CHEP 2006, Mumbai (India), February 2006
  • Geant4 in production: status and developments (ppt), J. Apostolakis et al.
  • Recent developments and upgrades to the Geant4 geometry modeler (ppt), G. Cosmo et al.
  • The recent upgrades in the Geant4 Standard Electromagnetic Physics Package, M. Maire et al.
  • Geant4 Acceptance Suite for Key Observables (ppt), A. Ribon et al.
  • Systematic validation of Geant4 electromagnetic and hadronic models against proton data (pps), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Geant4E: Error propagation for track reconstruction inside the Geant4 framework, P. Arce Dubois
  • Simulation in a Distributed Computing Environment (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Simulation of heavy ion therapy system using Geant4 (ppt), S. Kameora et al.
• Geant4 capabilities for microdosimetry (ppt), M.G. Pia et al., MICROS 2005, Venezia (Italy), November 2005
• Geant4 Medical Applications (ppt), M.G. Pia et al., 9^th ICATPP Conference, Como (Italy), October 2005
• Workshop for SPENVIS and Geant4 Space applications, Leuven (Belgium), October 2005
  • Status and Plans for Geant4 Hadronics (ppt), D. Wright
  • Validation of Geant4 Physics Models (ppt), M.G. Pia
  • Recent Developments and Validation of the Geant4 Standard Electromagnetic Package, V. Ivantchenko
  • Implementation of the Magnetocosmics Geant4 code into SPENVIS (ppt), L. Desorgher
  • Geant4-Based Microdosimetry Analysis Tool GEMAT (ppt), F. Lei
  • Simulation of Radiation Monitors for Future Space Missions, B. Tome'
  • The DESIRE Project: Geant4 Simulations of the Columbus/ISS Radiation Environment (ppt), T. Ersmark
  • Mars Radiation Environment Characterisation - a Geant4-Based Model, A. Keating
  • Geant4 Simulation of a Packaging for Solid-State Radiation Monitoring Sensors, R. Capra
  • Simulation for Radiation Shielding in Interplanetary Manned Missions (ppt), S. Guatelli
  • Geant4 Anthropomorphic Phantoms: Models of the Human Body for Space Radiation Protection Studies (ppt), S. Guatelli
  • Geant4 Simulation of Very Low Energy Electromagnetic Interactions, R. Capra
  • Planned ESA Geant4 Activities (ppt), P. Nieminen
• Presentations at 4^th Geant4 Developers Workshop on bio-medical applications and physics validation, Genova (Italy), July 2005
• Presentations at the 2^nd Finnish Geant4 Workshop, Helsinki (Finland), June 2005
• Monte Carlo 2005 Topical Meeting, Chattanooga, Tennessee (USA), April 2005
  • The Geant4 Kernel: Status and Recent Developments (ppt), M. Asai et al.
  • Geant4 "Standard" Electromagnetic Package (ppt), V. Ivantchenko et al.
  • Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic Physics (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Hadronic Physics Simulation Engines for Geant4, J.P. Wellisch
  • Implementing the Bertini Intra-Nuclear Cascade in the Geant4 Hadronic Framework, A. Heikkinen
  • Extending the Bertini Model to Kaons (ppt), D. Wright
  • Parton String Models in Geant4 (ppt), G. Folger
  • The Binary Cascade, J.P. Wellisch
  • Ion Transport Simulation using Geant4 Hadronic Physics (ppt), T. Koi
  • The Neutron Transport code, J.P. Wellisch
  • Implementation of Nuclear-Nuclear Physics in the Geant4 Radiation Transport Toolkit for Interplanetary Space Missions (ppt), P. Truscott et al.
  • Atomic Relaxation Models (ppt), A. Mantero et al.
  • Geant4 simulation of an ocular proton beam & benchmark against MC codes (ppt), D.R. Shipley
  • Monte Carlo Simulation for Radiotherapy in a distributed computing environment (ppt), S. Chauvie et al.
  • A general purpose Dosimetric System for Brachytherapy (ppt), S. Chauvie et al.
  • Radiation Protection for interplanetary manned missions (ppt), S. Guatelli et al.
  • Precision validation of Geant4 electromagnetic physics (ppt), S. Guatelli et al.
  • Test Beam Simulation for ESA BepiColombo mission (ppt), A. Mantero et al.
  • Test Beam Simulation for ESA BepiColombo mission (ppt), A. Mantero et al.
• Presentations on Geant4 in production: past, present and future, CERN - Geneva, December 2004.
• IEEE/NSS/MIC Conference, Rome (Italy), October 2004
  • The Geant4 geometry modeler (ppt), G. Cosmo et al.
  • A library for simulated X-ray emission from planetary surfaces (ppt), A. Mantero et al.
  • Models for the simulation of X-ray fluorescence and PIXE (ppt), A. Mantero et al.
  • Dosimetry for interplanetary missions (ppt), S. Guatelli et al.
  • A Geant4-based simulation of an accelerator's head used for intensity modulated radiation therapy (ppt), M. Piergentili et al.
  • Monte Carlo based implementation of an Energy Modulation System for Proton Therapy (ppt), G.A.P. Cirrone et al.
  • Validation of Geant4 electromagnetic physics versus protocol data (ppt), B. Mascialino et al.
  • Experience with software process in physics experiments (ppt), M. Piergentili et al.
  • Application of statistical methods for the comparison of data distributions (ppt), B. Mascialino et al.
• 9^th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors, Siena (Italy), May 2004.
  • Technology transfer from HEP computing to the medical field: overview and application to dosimetry (ppt), M. G. Pia
  • Geant4 and its validation (ppt), L. Pandola
  • The Geant4 toolkit capability in the hadron-therapy field simulations (ppt), G.A.P. Cirrone
  • Results from ATLAS Tile Calorimeter: a comparison between data and Geant4 simulation, A. Dotti
  • Space environment and effects analysis for ESA missions, G. Santin
• Geant4: a general overview (ppt), G.Cosmo et al., Geant4 Users Workshop, KEK (Japan), July 2003.
• Computing in High Energy Physics, CHEP 2003, San Diego, California (USA), March 2003
  • String Parton Models in Geant4, G. Folger
  • Bertini Nuclear Cascade implementation in Geant4, A. Heikkinen
  • Electro and Gamma Nuclear Physics in Geant4, J.P. Wellisch et al.
  • The Geant4 Hadronic Verification Suite for the Cascade Energy Range, V. Ivantchenko et al.
  • Using Geant4 in the BaBar simulation, D. Wright et al.
  • Validation of Geant4 by the CMS Experiment (ppt), CMS Collaboration
  • Status of the physics validation studies using Geant4 in ATLAS (ppt), ATLAS Collaboration
• 8^th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors, Siena (Italy), October 2002.
  • The Geant4 Toolkit: simulation capabilities and application results (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • New Geant4 based simulation tools for space radiation shielding and effects analysis (ppt), G. Santin
  • GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission): a PET/SPECT general-purpose simulation platform (ppt), G. Santin
  • Parallel Geant4 simulation in medical and space science applications, (ppt) J. Moscicki et al.
  • Simulation and analysis for astroparticle experiments (ppt), A. Howard et al.
• Tools for simulation and analysis, A. Pfeiffer et al., ICHEP02, Amsterdam, 2002
• Talks at the Salamanca Geant4 School, Salamanca (Spain), 15-19 July 2002
• Geant4 and Anaphe mini-Workshop, Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), July 2002
• Geant4 toolkit for simulation of HEP experiments V.Ivanchenko, ACAT02, Moscow, June 2002
• MCNEG Workshop 2002, Stoke-on-Trent (UK), April 2002
  • The Geant4 Toolkit: Overview (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Medical applications of the Geant4 Simulation Toolkit (ppt), M.G. Pia
• Talks at the SLAC Geant4 Users' Workshop's, Stanford (USA), 18-22 February 2002
• Simulation software: applications and results in the bio-medical domain (ppt), M.G. Pia et al., VII International Conference on Advanced Technologies and Particle Physics, Como, 2001
• Computing in High Energy Physics, CHEP 2001, Beijing (China), September 2001
  • Geant4 toolkit: status & utilisation, J. Apostolakis et al.
  • From HEP computing to bio-medical research and vice-versa: technology transfer and application results (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Software Process in Geant4, G. Cosmo
  • Architecture of Collaborating Frameworks (ppt), A. Pfeiffer
  • Simulation for Astroparticle Experiments and Planetary Explorations (ppt), A. Brunengo et al.
  • Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic Physics (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
• The Geant4 Simulation toolkit (ppt), G. Santin, Monte Carlo Workshop for Nuclear Medicine applications, July 2001
• Geant4: simulation capabilities and application results (ppt), M.G. Pia et al., EPS-HEP Conference, Budapest, July 2001
• Round Table on Monte Carlo Methods for Space Applications, ESA/ESTEC (The Netherlands), June 2001
  • Overview of Geant4 (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic Physics (ppt), M.G. Pia
  • Geant4 Low Energy Polarised Processes (ppt), G. Depaola and F. Longo
  • Space Applications of Geant4 Polarized Processes (ppt), G. Depaola and F. Longo
  • Advanced software engineering in simulation development and applications (ppt), M.G. Pia
  • Geant4 application to X and Gamma-ray Telescopes (ppt), F. Longo et al.
  • Geant4-DNA (ppt), M.G. Pia
• AIFM Congress, Stresa (Italy), June 2001
  • Comparison between Plato isodose distribution of a 192Ir source and those simulated with Geant4 toolkit (ppt), F. Foppiano
  • Applicazione del toolkit Montecarlo Geant4 per la dosimetria di trattamenti brachiterapici (ppt, in Italian), F. Foppiano
  • Test preliminari sull'impiego del toolkit Geant4 in campo medico (ppt, in Italian), S. Garelli
• The Geant4-DNA Project (ppt), P. Nieminen et al., Congress of the Italian Association for Radiation Research, Frascati, November 2000
• Monte Carlo 2000 Conference, Lisbon (Portugal), October 2000
  • Geant4 electromagnetic physics (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Space applications of the Geant4 Toolkit, P. Nieminen et al.
  • Medical applications of the Geant4 Toolkit (ppt), S. Chauvie et al.
• IX^th International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (Calor2000), Annecy, October 2000
  • Methodology of Physics Simulation Software, S. Giani
  • Application of the Geant4 Monte Carlo code to the dosimetry of brachytherapy treatments (ppt), S. Garelli et al.
  • Geant4 Hadron Kinetic Model (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Pre-equilibrium and Equilibrium decays in Geant4, V. Lara
• The application of Geant4 simulation code for brachytherapy treatment (ppt), F. Foppiano et al., Congress of the Italian Association of Oncological Radiotherapy (AIRO), Pisa (Italy), October 2000
• Montecarlo simulation of isodose distribution for Ir-192 brachytherapy treatments with the Geant4 toolkit (ppt), S. Garelli et al., 19^th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO), Istanbul (Turkey), September 2000
• Geant4 at the CERN School of Computing, Marathon (Greece), September 2000.
  • Object-Oriented Design and Implementation - M.Asai
  • Introduction to Geant4 - M.Asai
  • Exercises: Geant4 and JAS - M.Asai, G.Cosmo, T.Johnson, M.Verderi
• The application of Geant4 simulation code to the verification of a brachytherapy calibration procedure, (ppt) F. Foppiano et al., XIII International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR), Heidelberg (Germany), May 2000
• Overview of the Geant4 OO Simulation Toolkit (ppt), M.G. Pia et al., XXXII PTCOG Workshop, Uppsala (Finland), April 2000
• GLAST progress, G. Barbiellini, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (USA), March 2000
• Karolinska Institute Seminar, Stockholm (Sweden), March 2000
  • Geant4 for medical applications: Overview (ppt) P. Nieminen and M.G. Pia
  • Low Energy Electromagnetic Physics (ppt), P. Nieminen and M.G. Pia
  • Medical applications (ppt), P. Nieminen and M.G. Pia
  • Interactions of radiation at cellular and DNA level (ppt), P. Nieminen and M.G. Pia
• Low Energy Extension of Geant4 Electromagnetic Processes (ppt), P. Nieminen et al., Space Radiation Environment Workshop & Workshop on Radiation Monitoring for the ISS, Farnborough, Hampshire (UK), November 1999
• CNTC Workshop on Modern Software and Computing, Martina Franca (Italy), October 1999
  • Use of Geant4 (ppt), M.G. Pia et al.
  • Borexino Geant4-based simulation (ppt), S. Magni
• Application of the GEANT4 Radiation Transport Toolkit to Space Radiation Effects, R. Gurriaran, 5^th Compton Symposium, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (USA), August 1999
• Geant4's capabilities: kernel and auxiliary parts, J. Apostolakis for the Geant4 Collaboration, CALOR99, Lisbon (Portugal), June 1999
• Use of GEANT4 in CMS (ppt), V. Lefébure, AIHENP99, Crete, April 1999
• The Geant4 Object Oriented Simulation Toolkit (ppt), M.G. Pia for the Geant4 Collaboration, EPS-HEP Conference, Tampere, 1999
• Geant4 based tracking programs for CTF and BOREXINO, G. Pieri, Laboratorio Nazionale del Gran Sasso, Frascati (Italy), 1999
• Simulation of an X-Ray Telescope for Space Applications, E. Daly, ESA (The Netherlands), 1999
• Worldwide Collaboration to Develop a Detector Simulator for High Energy Experiments Based on Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (in Japanese), T. Sasaki et al., Information Processing Society of Japan, Symposium on Object-Orientation 99, Tokyo (Japan), 1999