Name: 11th Geant4 Space Users Workshop
Start: 2015-08-26T08:00:00+09:00
End: 2015-08-28T18:00:00+09:00
Location: Hiroshima Institute of Technology Hiroshima Campus, Hiroshima, Japan

11th Geant4 Space Users Workshop

from Wednesday, 26 August 2015 (08:00) to Friday, 28 August 2015 (18:00)

Monday, 24 August 2015
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Yasushi Nagasaka (Hiroshima Institute of Technology)

09:15 JAXA status - Masanobu Ozaki (JAXA)

09:40 ESA status - Petteri Nieminen (ESA)

10:05 INTA status - Sergio Ibarmia (INTA)
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:00
Contributions

10:50 Radiation Transport and Space-Radiation Related Efforts at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center - Nasser Barghouty (NASA MSFC)

11:15 Applications of MRED for Predicting Single Event Effects - Robert Reed (Vanderbilt University)

11:40 announcement
12:45 Social event
Social event
12:45 - 21:40
Thursday, 27 August 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Kernel and Geometry Updates - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

09:30 Parallelization features (MT, MPI, TBB) - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

10:00 Visualization and UI updates - Koichi Murakami
10:30 break
break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 JPL mission activities and Geant4 applications for some of JPL mission - Shawn Kang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

11:25 Standard Electromagnetic Physics Update - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, G4AI)

11:55 Low-energy Electromagnetic Physics / Geant4-DNA Update - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS)

12:25 Welcome - President of Hiroshima Institute of Technology
12:40 lunch break
lunch break
12:40 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions

14:00 Integration of GPGPU for EM physics - Akinori Kimura (Ashikaga Institute of Technology)

14:25 The Space Elevator and Geant4 - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

14:50 Hadronic Physics Update - Dennis Wright (SLAC)
15:20 break
break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50
15:50 - 17:30
Contributions

15:50 Geant4 Applications to High Energy Astrophysics - Hirokazu Odaka (ISAS/JAXA)

16:15 In-orbit Performance Estimation of the Hard X-ray Imager onboard ASTRO-H with Monte Carlo simulations - Kouichi Hagino (ISAS/JAXA)

16:40 Development and Verification of the Response Function for the BGO Active Shields onboard ASTRO-H - Masanori Ohno (Hiroshima University)

17:05 The localizing algorithm of gamma-ray bursts and evaluation of systematic error in Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor using Geant4 - Takeshi Fujinuma (Saitama University)
Friday, 28 August 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 A study of gamma-ray production from neutron capture on gadolinium - Takatomi Yano (Kobe Univ.)

09:25 ESA Space Radiation Instrument Developments - Petteri Nieminen (ESA)

09:50 Geant4 and the Next Generation of Space-Borne Cosmic Ray Experiments - Mohammad Sabra (NASA/MSFC)

10:15 CIRSOS - Collaborative Iterative Radiation Shielding Optymisation System - Sergio Ibarmia (INTA)
10:40 break
break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Contributions

11:10 Geant4 Simulations of Space Radiation Sensors at The Aerospace Corporation - Mark Looper (The Aerospace Corporation)

11:35 Evaluation and Application of U.S. Medical Proton Facilities for Single Event Effects Test - Robert Reed (Vanderbilt University)

12:00 Simulation of medical proton accelerator - Joseph Perl (SLAC)
12:30 lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Geant4-DNS use-cases - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS)

14:25 Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation of absorbed dose and radiolysis yields enhancement from a gold nanoparticle under MeV proton irradiation - Ngoc Hoang Tran (Division of Nuclear Physics, Ton Duc Thang University, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.)

14:50 Toward construction of a neutron diffractometer for protein crystal with large unit cell at J-PARC ~ trial for improving data accuracy ~ - Katsuaki Tomoyori (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

15:15 GPU Acceleration of Physics Models in Geant4-DNA - Shogo OKADA (KEK)
15:40 break
break
15:40 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Open discussion / requirements to Geant4

16:30 Closing remarks