We are pleased to invite you to Bordeaux, France to attend the International Geant4 Conference 2005. This is the 10th in the series of International Geant4 meetings, and includes an extended user plenary session of over two days. It is also the second organized in France (the Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire in Orsay – France hosted in October 2000). This year, the event will be hosted by the Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan, a CNRS/IN2P3 – Bordeaux 1 University laboratory, in collaboration with DAPNIA (CEA) and will give an up-to-date report on the continuous developments and various applications of the Monte Carlo simulation toolkit Geant4 provided by the Geant4 collaboration. Originally developed for the simulation of large scale particle physics experiments, the field of applications of Geant4 is growing fast worldwide especially at the physics-medicine-biology frontier. This year's conference will give the opportunity to users to present their own applications in this growing and demanding domain, and to learn the Geant4 toolkit through a dedicated short course.

The conference will be divided into three parts :

a 2.5 day user plenary session dedicated to Geant4 simulations with a strong interest at the physics-medicine-biology frontier. In particular, the following topics will be addressed :
- review of simulation applications for medicine
- validation of Geant4 models for medical physics
- simulation of radiotherapy and irradiation setups (beams, heads, …)
- treatment planning in radiotherapy
- dosimetry
- parallelisation
- imaging techniques (GATE, PET, SPECT, …)
- data handling (DICOM)
- related GRID developments and applications
- the Geant4 DNA project and related Monte Carlo tools
Users will also have the opportunity to present their applications through posters.

a 1 day new-user short course presenting Geant4 latest version to new comers (providing the attendees with a CD-ROM).

The traditional 4-day Geant4 collaboration workshop accessible by invitation. It will be mainly addressed to Geant4 developers and will cover toolkit and collaboration matters.

The official language of the conference will be English. It will take place at the Mercure Château Chartrons hotel in Bordeaux city center, an attractive place ideally located and easy to reach. A strong effort has been made to organize pleasant visits during the Saturday afternoon and the Sunday (visit of Bordeaux famous vineyards, Atlantic coast tour and conference dinner).

Registration is open. For more information, please write to : geant4-2005@cenbg.in2p3.fr

Download the conference poster here (pdf). To open this file, get Adobe Reader here. If you wish to receive a printed copy, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The organizing committee : Sébastien Incerti, Sophie Kerhoas-Cavata and Philippe Moretto

Last update on September 13th, 2005