Program, Agenda

Program / Agenda

Monday 16 : Comparisons with data (Plenary, auditorium)

• 9h - 9h45 : Registration (LAL entrance), Breakfast Welcome (LAL cafeteria).
• 9h45 - 10h : Welcome.
• 10h - 10h15 : Opening remarks (J.Apostolakis)
• 10h15 - 12h35 : Comparison projects (auditorium).
• 10h15 : Atlas Accordion EM Calo (20 min presentation + 10 min. discussion): K. Kordas
• 10h45 : Babar Drift Chamber (20 min, presentation + 10 min. discussion): D. Wright
• 11h15 - 11h25 : Break (Coffee ?)
• 11h25 - 12h35 : More comparison results (auditorium).
• 11h25 : Atlas Forward/Endcap and Tile Had. Calo (30 min, presentation + 10 min. discussion)
• 12h05 : Atlas Inner Detector and Muons Chambers: F. Luehring (15 min + 5 disc.)
• 12h25 : Results from brachytherapy comparisons: MG Pia (10 min + 5 disc.)
• 12h35 - 12h55 : Introduction to Workshop Projects (auditorium).
• 12h35 : Introduction to the workshop training project. (10 min)
• 12h45 : Introduction to the space example project. (10 min)
• 12h55 - 14h15 : lunch (administrative restaurant) + coffee (LAL cafeteria).
• 14h15 - 16h : Parallel working sessions (see below).
• blue : Followup discussion to EM physics comparisons: a first appraisal
• 101 : Discussions on "Magnetis field" issues
• discussion on status after evaluation by VG.
• handling magnetic-field per volume: actions.
• time-dependent fields: actions.
• BgsTransportation report from BaBar friends.
• "bias" in chord intersection.
• 166 : LowEM
• 032 : Space Example Project
• 129 : Followup to other issues raised by comparisons
• 141 : : Training kit - general, kernel, fast simulation.
• deliberation room : free for the moment.
• 16h - 16h20 : break (cafeteria).
• 16h20- 18h00 : Geant4 comparisons with data (auditorium).
• 16h20 - 17h15 : Results of other comparisons of Geant4 with data.
• Hadronic physics: result highlights (15 min): HP Wellisch
• Std EM physics: result highlights (15 min):
• Low-E EM physics: result highlights (15 min): MG Pia
• 17h15 - 18h00 : General discussion on comparisons.

Tuesday 17 : Emphasis on kernel

• 9h - 10h30 : TSB meeting, following up comparison projects.
• 10h30 - 10h50 : break.
• 10h50 - 13h : Issues on kernel (Plenary, auditorium).
• New developments in kernel.
• Outstanding problems in kernel.
• 13h - 14h30 : lunch + coffee.
• 14h30 - 15h15 : "Novel" applications (Plenary: Auditorium) (10 min. presentation + 5 min discussion each)
• L.N.H.E.-X (Paulo Mora de Freitas)
• DNA project
• XMM and Chandra: results and followup
• 15h15 - 16h20 : Parallel working sessions (see below).
• teaching room (032): Space example project.
• blue room : Training kit : detector description
• auditorium : Training kit : UI & vis
• 141 : Training kit : EM physics,
• old seminar room (101) : field/geometry hands-on bug fixes
• 166 : Particles and physics lists.
• 129 : Hands-on bug fixes :
  • bug #127 (G4Cons: crash in G4ParticleChange) (VG)
  • bug #155 (Booleans: different geometries) (VG)
• deliberation room : M.Verderi : fast simulation.
• 16h15 - 16h30 : break.
• 16h30 - ... : Parallel working sessions.
• 032 : Space example project.
• blue room : Training kit : detector description (continuing).
• auditorium : Training kit : UI & vis (continuing)
• 141 : Training kit : EM physics (continuing)
• 101 : Geometry: Solids and Navigator, hands-on bug fixes
• 166 : LowEM ; progress, results.
• deliberation room: Hands-on bug fixes (cont.)
  • replica navigation problem (GC)
  • bug #127 (G4Cons: crash in G4ParticleChange) (VG)
  • bug #150 (DistanceToOut(p), p is outside) (JA)
  • bug #155 (Booleans: different geometries) (VG)
• 129 not free.

Wednesday 18 : Emphasis on facilities

• 9h00 - 10h50 : Issues on facilites (Plenary, auditorium).
• Analysis (30mn) :
  • G.Barrand (20mn) : Proposal for a new category "analysis" with a short demo.
  • discussions (10mn).
• Geant4 and interactive frameworks (60mn):
  • G.Barrand (10mn) : to pose the problem ; the Geant4 interactive framework, relashionship with other ones.
  • G.Barrand (10mn) : demo of the G4Lab and the OpenScientist interactive environment.
  • H.Yoshida (15mn) : How Geant4 can go with the java environment ? A case study with JAS.
  • Isidro Gonzalez Caballero (10mn) : Geant4 GUI built with ROOT.
  • discussions (15mn).
• J.Allison (15mn) : Naruto vis-ui mini-workshop . Summary of points not treated in the two first sub-sessions.
• Other topics :
  • G.Barrand (10mn) : Testing the interactivity (ui, visualization) ; at least pose the problem.
  • Youhei Morita (10mn) : persistency, status.
• 11h10 - 11h25 : break.
• 11h25 - 12h55 : Documentation and software management (Plenary).
  • Improvements on documents, examples, WWW, news group, etc...
  • Installation scripts.
  • Software management.
• 12h55 - 13h : M.G.Pia : Reports from previous day Training kit and Space Example parallel sessions ; preparation of the afternoon parallel sessions for these issues.
• 13h - 14h30 : lunch + coffee.
• 14h30 - 16h : Parallel working sessions.
• 032 : Space example project.
• blue : Training kit : HD physics.
• auditorium : XML (we have to see with the upper for clashes on ui and vis).
• David Rodriguez : usage of XML in CMS to store hit informations.
• I.Hrivnacova : Generating XML geometry from Geant4.
• I.Hrivnacova : Usage of GraXML (demo ?)
• G.Barrand : demo of GaudiLab to view a detector described in XML within Gaudi.
• G.Barrand : Demo of the OnX package to construct a GUI from an XML description.
• A.Pfeiffer or G.Barrand : AIDA XML description of histograms.
• 101 : Geometry: Solids issues
• 166 : LowEM ; discussion.
• 129 : Training kit : persistency
• 141 : Training kit : exercises.
• deliberation room : discussion on "Solids" issues
  • G4Assembly design (all)
  • G4Reflection/G4ReflectionSolid: plans (all)
  • Plan general code review (all)
• 16h - 16h20 : break.
• 16h20 - 18h : Parallel working sessions.
• 032 : Space example project.
• blue : Training kit : continuing.
• auditorium : analysis, GUI, vis : continuing.
• G.Barrand (5mn) : the open sourced SGI Open Inventor. Impact on Geant4 visualization.
• 101 : Geometry: Solids issues (hands-on)
• 166 : Standard, LowEM ; common issues.
• 129: Hands-on bug fixes :
  • still remaining from previous session (all)
  • bug #130 (step length < kCarTolerance) (JA)
  • QA CodeWizard fixes (GC)
• deliberation room : M.Verderi : fast simulation.
• 141 : still free.
• 20h : Social event.

Thursday 19 : Emphasis on milestone issues

• 9h - 10h30 : Software process (Plenary, LAL 101)
• Software Process Improvement to Geant4, G.Cosmo (25 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
• Design Software Process assessment results, H.P.Wellisch (20 min presentation + 10 min discussion)
• Software Process Improvement plan, G.Cosmo (25 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
• 10h30 - 10h50 : break.
• 10h50 - 13h : Other milestone issues.
• Testing.
• Training kits.
• Official publication.
• News group.
• 13h - 14h30 : lunch + coffee.
• 14h30 - 16h : Parallel working sessions.
• 032 : Space example project.
• blue : Training kit : assembling & future plans.
• auditorium :
• 101 : Geometry: remaining issues
• STL migration planning (all)
• A.O.B
• 166 : Geant4 publications
• (129, 141, deliberation room) :
• 16h - 16h20 : break.
• 16h20 - 18h00 : Category coordinators meeting
• Release plan.
• Software process improvements.
• Man power issues.

Friday 20 : Summary sessions (auditorium)

• 9h - 10h30 : TSB meeting.
• Reports and requirements from experiments/labs.
• Developments and releases.
• Supported platforms.
• Promotion for new application fields.
• 10h30 - 10h50 : break.
• 10h50 - 13h : Summaries from each category and report from TSB (10 mn each):
• Plan for software process improvements.
• Developments plan.
• 13h - 14h30 : lunch + coffee.
• 14h30 - 15h45 : Summary talks from each parallel working session (15 min. each)
• 15h45 - 16h : Concluding remarks (J.Apostolakis, Y.Watase).
• 16h00 : Workshop adjourn.
• 16h00 - 18h : CB /TSB joint meeting (Blue room).
• 18h - 19h30 : CB working dinner (LAL cafeteria).
• 19h30 - 21h30 : CB meeting (Blue room).

Saturday 21 : CB meeting

• 9h - 12h : See CB page for a detailed agenda.

Parallel working sessions (complete list attempted, but new proposals welcomed)

• Improvements of examples and Tryout to finalize training kits.
• GUI, analysis.
• Medical, space and other applications.
• An XML // session or XML things casted in various other sessions : XML & GUI, XML & vis, XML & Geometry, XML & analysis ?
• New Concrete Parametrisations (eg PAI) and the Class Category diagram
• Particles and physics lists.
• Space Example Project: during all parallel sessions
• LowE WG: Publications, New Projects
• LowE EM WG: Progress, Results
• LowE EM WG: Discussion
• Standard/LowE EM WGs: Common issues
• Geometry: Magnetic (and other) Fields
• Geometry: Solids and Navigator, hands-on bug fixes
• Geometry: Solids issues (2 sessions, second one hands-on)
• Geometry: remaining issues.
• Std EM: PAI model ; Fluctuations
• Std EM: Other issues
• Any other urgent outstanding problems (??)