[gate-users] conference announcement- Geant4 at the physics-medicine-biology frontier- Nov 2005

[Sophie Kerhoas]

Dear colleagues, 

We are pleased to invite you to Bordeaux,France to attend
the International Geant4 2005 Conference, from November 3rd till
November 10th, 2005. This is the 10th in the series of International
Geant4 meetings, and includes an extended user plenary session of over
two days. It is also the second organized in France (the Laboratoire de
l’Accélérateur Linéaire in Orsay – France hosted in October 2000). This
year, the event will be hosted by the Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de
Bordeaux-Gradignan, a CNRS/IN2P3 – Bordeaux 1 University laboratory, in
collaboration with DAPNIA (CEA) and will give an up-to-date report on
the continuous developments and various applications of the Monte Carlo
simulation toolkit Geant4 provided by the Geant4 collaboration.
Originally developed for the simulation of large scale particle physics
experiments, the field of applications of Geant4 is growing fast
worldwide especially at the physics-medicine-biology frontier.  

For the first time in France, this year's conference will give the
opportunity to users to present their own applications in this growing
and demanding domain, and to learn the Geant4 toolkit through a
dedicated short course.

The conference will be divided into three parts :

* a 2.5 day user plenary session dedicated to Geant4 simulations with a
strong interest at the physics-medicine-biology frontier. In particular,
the following topics will be addressed :
- review of simulation applications for medicine
- validation of Geant4 models for medical physics
- simulation of radiotherapy and irradiation setups (beams, heads, …)
- treatment planning in radiotherapy
- dosimetry
- parallelisation
- imaging techniques (GATE, PET, …)
- data handling (DICOM)
- related GRID developments and applications
- the Geant4 DNA project and related Monte Carlo tools 
Users will also have the opportunity to present their applications
through posters. 

* a 1 day new-user short course presenting Geant4 latest version to new
comers (providing the attendees with a CD-ROM). 

* The traditional 4-day Geant4 collaboration workshop accessible by
invitation. It will be mainly addressed to Geant4 developers and will
cover toolkit and collaboration matters.


The conference web site is available at the following address :
http://geant4.in2p3.fr/2005. Registration will open soon. 


For more information, please do not hesitate to contact :
geant4-2005 at cenbg.in2p3.fr

Best regards,

The local organizing committee : S. Incerti (IN2P3), S. Kerhoas-Cavata
(SPhN / DAPNIA) and Ph. Moretto (IN2P3 / Université Bordeaux 1)
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