Training
by INFN and not-INFN collaborators
Maria Grazia Pia
INFN Genova
on behalf of an international (not-only-INFN) training team
http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/training/
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova
Geant4 Workshop 2004
Background
Geant4 training was raised as a crucial issue for
Geant4 at the 1st Geant4 Workshop of the post-RD44
era
– See E. Daly’s and MGP’s talks at Geant4 Workshop 1999 (at ESTEC)
The need of a coordinated, collaboration-wide effort to
provide a coherent set of training material triggered the
development of a Geant4 Training Kit and the
organization of Geant4 courses by the Geant4
Collaboration
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova
Geant4 Workshop 2004
not-onlyINFN
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova
Geant4 Workshop 2004
Recent courses
2004
Geant4 Short Course at IEEE NSS-MIC, Roma, 17 October 2004
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Katsuya Amako, Gabriele Cosmo, Giuseppe Daquino, Susanna Guatelli, Aatos Heikkinen, MGP, Dennis
Wright
Introduction to Geant4, National Software School, Alghero, June 2004
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MGP
Geant4 Tutorial at NPL (MCNEG), Teddington, March 2004
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Susanna Guatelli
Geant4 Tutorial, CPS Innovation, Knoxville (TN), January 2004 (industry)
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Susanna Guatelli
2003
Geant4 Tutorial at Medical Physics School, Archamps, November 2003
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Susanna Guatelli
Geant4 Finnish User Workshop, Helsinki, October 2003
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Aatos Heikinnen & Finnish team, Petteri Nieminen, MGP
Geant4 Short Course at IEEE NSS-MIC, Portland, Usa, October 2003
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Katsuya Amako, Makoto Asai, (Gabriele Cosmo), Susanna Guatelli, MGP, Dennis Wright
Geant4 Tutorial at Alenia Spazio, Torino, July 2003 (industry)
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Susanna Guatelli
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova
Geant4 Workshop 2004
Geant4 Training
Do we have a common vision
for Geant4 training?
We lack a coordinated Geant4 Training plan
– Training is left to spontaneous improvisation
– No reference for the users wishing to learn Geant4
Agree and coordinate a Geant4 Collaboration training plan
– Regular courses
– Dates and locations fixed well in advance
Our training material is scattered and outdated
– The Training Kit is not maintained
– There is confusion about the reference training material
– Some training material is not in a generally usable format
Update and maintain the reference Training Kit material
– Identify a responsible team for the maintenance of training material
– Coordinate the team
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova
Geant4 Workshop 2004
Beyond the Training Kit
Complementary training techniques and tools
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Web-based self-training
Executable exercises
Training CD
Training videos
What is compatible with the available resources?
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova
Geant4 Workshop 2004
Sharing responsibilities
The same core people doing (attempting to do) everything
– Mostly still the former RD44 category coordinators…
Get more of our younger collaborators involved in
training activities
– Share workload and responsibilities (and visibility)
– Develop training expertise
– Extend the contacts between users and the Collaboration
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Genova
Geant4 Workshop 2004