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<div>Geant4 Tutorial @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div>
<div>May 26th-30th, 2015</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Dear
Colleagues,</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">The SLAC
Geant4 team will conduct a four day hands-on</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">course
based on the newly released Geant4 version 10.1</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">hosted by
Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy, </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. It will cover </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">all the
application domains including high energy and </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">nuclear
physics, astrophysics and space engineering, </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">medical
applications and newly arising material science.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">The
lectures will cover all aspects of the toolkit of </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Geant4
version 10.1 from basic installation through </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">advanced
topics including multithreading and variance</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">reduction
options, and will be interspersed with </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">hands-on
sessions that build a progressively more </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">complex
application extensible to real use. The course </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">should be
of interest both to complete novices and to </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">those who
already have some basic familiarity with </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Geant4.
Participants are expected to have a reasonable </div>
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of C++.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">The
tutorial starts in the afternoon of May 26th </div>
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and runs through the afternoon of May 29th </div>
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with additional discussion time for selected </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">topics in
the morning of May 30th (Saturday). </div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">The
capacity is strictly limited to 60 on a first-</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">come-first-served
basis. We will commence registration </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">as soon as
the registration web page is ready, with </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">additional
announcement through this mailing list. </div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">The
registration form will also be linked at this URL:</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium"><a
href="http://www-public.slac.stanford.edu/geant4/Tutorial.asp"
target="_blank">http://www-public.slac.stanford.edu/geant4/Tutorial.asp</a></div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Please
forward this announcement to your colleagues </div>
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have interest.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Kind
regards,</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Makoto Asai</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">On behalf
of the SLAC Geant4 team and local organizers</div>
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