G4NAMU at AAPM Minneapolis

Time: Sunday, 6-7:30 PM

(apologies to the few who couldn't make this time slot, hope to see you some other time during the week)

Location: Hilton Minneapolis (the conference headquarters hotel connected by skyway to the convention center), 3rd floor, room name: "Directors Row 2".

Currently confirmed attendees

(all others welcome of course, including those who are new to G4NAMU or Geant4)

• Bruce Faddegon
• Harald Paganetti
• Jerimy Polf
• Steve Petersen
• Salahuddin Ahmad
• Steve Peterson
• Joao Seco
• Jean-Francois Carrier
• Jim McDonough or another from Penn
• Louis Archambault
• Alex Dzyubak
• Xin Liu
• Joseph Perl

While we intend to reserve most of our time for discussion, we will have a projector,

so feel free to bring any materials you want to show to the group.

Agenda (suggestions still welcome, and the real point is just for us to all have a chance to meet one another):

(25 min): Joseph

• Very brief introduction to Geant4 and G4NAMU
• Introduce ourselves
• Show list of Geant4-related talks and posters for the week
  http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/g4namu/aapm2007/Geant4Presentations.htm
• What's new in releases 8.3 and 9.0, current best practices (for medical physics)
• Highlights of recent Geant4 external review
• What new features can be expected in next few releases
• What's going on in Japan (significant effort there in medical applications of Geant4)

(30 min): Bruce and Others:

• Show some recent results (not time or place for detailed scientific presentations, but rather just show a few results to stimulate discussion or to make people aware that they should pay attention to relevant materials, whether here at AAPM or elsewhere)

(30 min): General discussion.

• What does this community want from the Geant4 collaboration and how can we get there.
• How can we divide up the work so that we all move forward (documenting, for example, benchmarks and variance reduction techniques that we all need)
• APS CMPWG group has a benchmarking group that is meeting in Florida at end of Sept. Would be good to find a G4NAMU member who can attend.