Name: 13th Geant4 Space Users Workshop
Start: 2018-11-28T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2018-11-30T18:00:00-06:00
Location: No location set

13th Geant4 Space Users Workshop

from Wednesday, 28 November 2018 (08:00) to Friday, 30 November 2018 (18:00)

Monday, 26 November 2018
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Wednesday, 28 November 2018

09:00

09:00 - 09:30
09:30
09:30 - 10:45
Contributions

09:30 Welcome and overview of Johnson Space Center - Ana Firan (NASA/JSC)

09:55 ESA Status Report - Marco Vuolo (ESA)

10:20 JAXA Status report - Masanobu Ozaki (JAXA)
10:45 break
break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:30
Contributions

11:15 Remote sensing of hydrogen near the lunar surface via its effect on cosmic-ray secondary particles - Mark Looper (The Aerospace Corporation)

11:40 Alternatives to a forward Monte Carlo simulation: adjoint and improved sector-shielding techniques in Geant4 - Mark Looper (The Aerospace Corporation)

12:05 Using Geant4 to interpret data from MAVEN's Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) detector. - Patrick Dunn (University of California, Berkeley)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 15:00
Contributions

13:45 The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons Experiment on MSL: Geant4 Modeling Results - Audrey Martin (The University of Tennessee )

14:10 Test mass charging in the gravitational wave observatory, LISA: confronting simulations with observations - Peter Wass (University of Florida)

14:35 Using Geant4 in Space Elevator Research - Dennis Wright (SLAC)
15:00 break
break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Terrestrial Neutron-Induced Single Event Burnout Cross-Sections and FIT Rates for High-Voltage SiC Power MOSFETs - Robert Reed (ISDE/Vanderbilt University) Robert Reed (Vanderbilt University)

15:55 Simulating Active Magnetic Shielding for Space Radiation Dose Reduction - Kristine Ferrone
Thursday, 29 November 2018
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Geant4 kernel updates - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

09:55 Geant4 EM physics updates - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

10:20 Geant4 hadronic physics updates - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

10:45 Open discussion
11:00 break
break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:45
Contributions

11:30 GRAS implementation of the Geant4 Reverse Monte Carlo status report - Marco Vuolo (ESA)

11:55 SoftWare for Optimization of Radiation Detectors for space applications - Wade Duvall (Naval Research Laboratory)

12:20 Geant4 applications in space missions like HXMT and active galactic nucleus - Xiaobo Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
12:45 lunch break
lunch break
12:45 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 Simulating the Space Environment for Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Space Particle Sensor Signal Chains - Chad Lindstrom

14:25 Simulation of Secondary Cosmic Rays at Earth Atmosphere - Thomas Brall (Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU), Institute of Radiation Protection (ISS), Neuherberg, Germany)

14:50 NASA Shields-1: A Radiation Shielding Experiment developed with Radiation Modeling - Laurence Thomsen (NASA LaRC)
15:15 break
break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45
15:45 - 17:00
Contributions

15:45 Using GEANT4-dna-chemistry to Estimate DNA Damage from Radiation: Summary and Challenges - Alexander Henderson (University of Southern Mississippi)

16:10 A hybrid method calculating linear energy transfer for intensity modulated proton therapy - Xiaoning Ding (Mayo Clinic Arizona)
18:00

18:00 - 20:00
Friday, 30 November 2018
09:30
09:30 - 10:45
Contributions

09:30 The MPEXS series, a CUDA code based on Geant4 - Shogo Okada (KEK) Takashi Sasaki (KEK)

09:55 Monte-Carlo transport of low-energy electrons - Robert Reed (ISDE/Vanderbilt University) Robert Reed (Vanderbilt University)

10:20 Translation of Penelope 2018 to C++ and its interface to Geant4 - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)
10:45 break
break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:30
Contributions

11:15 Uses of GEANT4 within the Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG) - Ryan Rios

11:40 Hitomi-related Geant4 activities - Masanobu Ozaki (JAXA) Valentina Fioretti (INAF/IASF Bologna)

12:20 Workshop closing - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)
12:30

12:30 - 17:00