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            <td>[EXTERNAL] Announcement of the next Geant4 Technical
              Forum, March 11th (Thu), 16:00 CET</td>
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            <td>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:14:19 +0000</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Marilena Bandieramonte
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marilena.bandieramonte@cern.ch"><marilena.bandieramonte@cern.ch></a></td>
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            <td>geant4-announce (Geant4 announcements)
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:geant4-announce@cern.ch"><geant4-announce@cern.ch></a></td>
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            <td>Alberto Ribon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Alberto.Ribon@cern.ch"><Alberto.Ribon@cern.ch></a>, Marc
              Verderi <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:verderi@llr.in2p3.fr"><verderi@llr.in2p3.fr></a></td>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Dear colleagues,</font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">We are pleased to
            announce the next "Geant4 Technical Forum", the forum for
            Geant4 users and developers, that will be held on
            <b>Thursday, March 11th, 2021</b> from 16:00 to 19:00
            Central European Time (CET). </font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Due to the Covid-19
            persisting situation, this edition of the Technical Forum
            will be held only online, through Zoom. Please find the
            connection details on the agenda page, at the following
            link:  <a
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__indico.cern.ch_event_1011728_&d=DwMFAw&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=i3BxiInvFIdWuzU_zoMBCQ&m=j2m5lU4i2wdmIguv9hXXAYz0jMPrDRGVpPielPB4it4&s=VNYTpMIHPkahxjAJwtNuAfKP7aIPaioIlmRgSIbRFBQ&e="
              moz-do-not-send="true">https://indico.cern.ch/event/1011728/</a></font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The main focus of this
            edition of the Technical Forum for the developer part is the
            discussion of this year Geant4 work-plan, that will shape
            the content of the 2021 <b>Geant4 major release 11.0</b>,
            with in particular:</font></p>
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          <li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height:
            normal;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>The
              new tasking model that will become the default one in
              replacement of the MT scheme</font>
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          <li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height:
            normal;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Improvements
              and developments regarding EM and Hadronic Physics</font>
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          <li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height:
            normal;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>VecGeom
              library becoming the default for the solids</font>
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          <li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height:
            normal;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>The
              adoption of C++17 </font>
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          <li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height:
            normal;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Improvement
              of the data library handling</font>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">In addition to the
            presentation of the 2021 work-plan, there will be the
            opportunity for users to give inputs and express requests
            and requirements to the Geant4 collaboration. We encourage
            as usual, all our users to contribute to the session with
            their inputs that may concern basic functionalities,
            technical issues, performances, user support or other
            Geant4-user related aspects. Please use this opportunity to
            discuss priority or time sensitivity regarding existing open
            issues and to raise new issues or new aspects of existing
            ones.</font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Please send your
            proposals, issues for discussion, feedbacks and new
            requirements  to Marilena Bandieramonte</font></p>
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          <span style="color: #000000"><font size="3" face="Times New
              Roman"><<a href="mailto:marilena.bandieramonte@cern.ch"
                moz-do-not-send="true">marilena.bandieramonte@cern.ch</a>>,
              Marc Verderi <<a href="mailto:verderi@in2p3.fr"
                moz-do-not-send="true">verderi@in2p3.fr</a>> and
              Alberto Ribon <<a href="mailto:alberto.ribon@cern.ch"
                moz-do-not-send="true">alberto.ribon@cern.ch</a>> </font></span></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">by Thursday, March 4th,
            so that the agenda can be finalised accordingly.  </font></p>
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          <b><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">In view of the
                main topic of this edition of the Geant4 Technical
                Forum, we strongly encourage you to forward this message
                to your colleagues and other Geant4 users, and involve
                those that might be interested and give early feedbacks
                to the Geant4 community in order to improve and
                strengthen our collaboration and synergies.</font></i></b></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">We look forward to your
            responses and your participation.</font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Best regards,</font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Marilena Bandieramonte</font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Marc Verderi</font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Alberto Ribon</font></p>
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          <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">On behalf of the Geant4
            Collaboration</font></p>
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