Draft Minutes of TSB meeting #16

6 February 2002 - 9:00-13:00

Attendance: 

CERN: John Apostolakis (chairman), Pedro Arce, Gabriele Cosmo, Gunter Folger, Vladimir Ivanchenko, Juergen Knobloch, Pere Mato, Maria Grazia Pia, Albert De Roeck, Sergei Sadilov, Hans-Peter Wellisch  

ESA (phone): Petteri Nieminen

Fukui (phone): Satoshi Tanaka

Helsinki (phone): Aatos Heikinnen

KEK: Katsuya Amako, Takashi Sasaki

Kobe: Hisaya Kurashige

LAPP: Michel Maire

LPNHE: Guy Barrand, Marc Verderi

Naruto: Hajime Yoshida

SLAC: Makoto Asai, Dennis Wright

TRIUMF: Peter Gumplinger

Excuses: J. Allison, I. Gudowska, B. Lockman, N. Starkov, J. M. Fernandez-Varea

Minutes: V.Ivanchenko, draft 26 February 2002 v0.1

Regular Items

• Minutes of  the meeting #15 were approved.
• New group from Prague Technical University have applied to be a member of G4. They wish to provide an example of using of G4 for radiation therapy and simulation of accelerator for the therapy. The proposal is endorsed by the TSB.
• INFN substitute two G4 members by two new students
• McLaren (CERN) is accepted to be a new member of collaboration, he will work in testing team
• M. Donzelmann (SLAC) is accepted as a new member, who will work on visualization and analysis 

Proposals for Milestones for 2002

• Priorities and new requests from experiments
• Proposed working group goals
• Top priority goals
• Physics/comparison
• New models
• Biasing
• Recommended physics lists
• Software process
• Advance examples
• Performance benchmarks and statistical tests
• Model approach to EM physics
• Tutorials

Status of 2001 Milestones

Development: Working group goals

• Initial goals
• Status 13 November 2001

Milestones 2001

• The detailed description of development and new functionality is presented in the summary from Working Group reports at the Category Coordinators meeting.

• Major development part of milestones for 2001 were achieved with a small number of exceptions and implementation is be available in 4.0 release. 

• The general G4 paper is in progress. 

• The documentation has been upgraded. The Training kit was exercised in connection with several tutorials. 

• The comparison projects have made significant progress and publications on these projects are expected to be a milestone for 2002. 

• Some elements for the regression suite have been implemented by the Low Energy EM Group and in Hadronic Working Group. 

Status of pending actions

• Actions 10.2, 11.9, 12.2, 14.4, 14.6, 14.9, 14.10, 15.1, 15.2, 15.4, 15.6, 15.7 have been closed with the delivery of 4.0 and in the TSB meeting #15 

New pending actions

Action 16.1

D. Wright to organize an upgrade of Application Developer Manual and plan for the inclusion of the description of range of applicability for physics models in the documentation. 

Action 16.2

J. Apostolakis  to setup a group of categpry coordinators to establish a regression suit.

AOB

• Next meeting March,1 will be joint TSB/CB meeting