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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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<td>Marilena Bandieramonte
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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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normal; line-height: normal;">
<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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normal; line-height: normal;">
<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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normal; line-height: normal;">
<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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normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(220, 161, 13);">
<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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normal; line-height: normal;">
<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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normal; line-height: normal;">
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Alberto Ribon</font></p>
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normal; line-height: normal;">
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">On behalf of the Geant4
Collaboration</font></p>
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