Users workshops,publications, presentationsand HyperNews

Makoto Asai (SLAC)10/Oct/2002

Geant4 delta-review

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OutlineThis presentation addresses to the recommendations

#5.3 (practically) and #5.5.5.3 We recommend that Geant4 adopt a more flexible approach in i

ts interaction with users. The Geant4 Collaboration should examine its support structure, and in particular, improve its support of those users that are not affiliated with development team.

5.5 We recommend that Genat4 collaborators increase their participation in appropriate workshops and that they publish both their models and the validation results in refereed journals. We also recommend a wider adoption of HyperNews or similar tools for communication.

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Geant4 users workshopUsers workshops were held or are going to be held hosted by several institutes for anonymous user communities.

KEK - Dec.2000, Jul.2001, Mar.2002, Jul.2002SLAC - Feb.2002Spain (supported by INFN) - Jul.2002CERN - Nov.2002 (planned)ESA - Jan.2003 (planned) - dedicated to space-relatedMini workshops of one or two days were held or are planned at several places by some collaborators.

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Geant4 Users Workshop @ SLACAbout 100 registered participants from HEP, space, medical and other application fields, many of them are not affiliated with developers

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Geant4 Users Workshop @ SLAC30 tutorials / lectures in 3 days by 14 developers21 users presentations (7 invited), 6 developers presentations

http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/UsersWorkshop

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Geant4 Users Workshop @ SLACAll tutorial materials are on WebInstallation / exercise CD-ROM for both Linux and Windows

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Geant4 users workshop @ Spain

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Geant4 tutorials / lecturesIn addition to the users workshops, many tutorial courses and lectures with some discussion time slots were held for various user communities.

CERN School of ComputingItalian National School for HEP/Nuclear PhysicistsMC2000MCNEG workshopKEK, SLAC, DESY, FNAL, INFN, Frascati, Karolinska, GranSasso, etc.ATLAS, CMS, LHCbTutorials/lectures at universities

U.K. - Imperial Italy - Genoa, Bologna, Udine, Roma, Trieste

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Publications and presentationsGeant4 general paper had already been in public as preprint and also had already been submitted to NIM.

CERN-IT-2002-003KEK Preprint 2002-85SLAC-PUB-9350

Other publications, participations/presentations at workshops, conferences, meetings, etc. are listed in our public Web page.http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/geant4/reports/reports.html

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HyperNewsHyperNews system was set up in April 2001

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HyperNewsMore than 1,500 postings in 18 categories

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HyperNews is quite active

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Some postings are quite novice…

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Some are excellent users contribution

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SummaryUsers workshops were held and are planned hosted by several institutes for anonymous user communities.

Almost all materials given at users workshops and tutorial courses are publicly available on Web.

In addition to the users workshops, tutorials and seminars were held at many places with great efforts of developers.We are making our best effort to make Geant4 be publicized through both publications and presences to conferences/workshops.HyperNews system was set up in April 2001 and exchanges of news by both users and developers are getting more and more massive.

In many cases, experienced users helped novice users.

We are making our best effort to keep ourselves touching with anonymous users.