16–20 Sept 2024
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
America/New_York timezone

Program

In-Person PHITS Advanced Tutorial at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

PROGRAM

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Monday, 16th September, 2024
Time Agenda Tutor
8:00 am to 9:00 am Registration Rm. 1221 A/B
9:00 am to 9:30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks  
9:30 am to 10:00 am PHITS Installation and Checkup Dr. Yuho Hirata
10:00 am to 10:15 am Coffee break  
10:15 am to 11:00 am Overview of Recent PHITS Updates Dr. Takuya Furuta
11:00 am to 12:30 pm Review Exercise- 1 Dr. Yuho Hirata
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Lunch at Shaw Hall

*At Participants Own Expense

 
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Review Exercise- 2 Dr. Yuho Hirata
3:00 pm to 3:15 pm Coffee break  
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm Post-Course Q & A  
4:15 pm to 6:15 pm

Poster Session and 

Meet & Greet

(Light snacks will be served)

Outside rm. 1300 LAB
6:15 pm Adjourn  
 
Tuesday, 17th September, 2024
Time Agenda Tutor
8:00 am to 9:30 am Advanced Source Definition 1: Definition of source energy spectra, use of RI source data library, and definition of multiple sources Dr. Yuho Hirata
9:30 am to 9:45 am Coffee break  
9:45 am to 11:15 am

Advanced Source Definition 2: Particle data dump from tallies and definition of sources based on particle data dump files

Dr. Takuya Furuta
11:15 am to 12:30 pm Variance Reduction - Basic: Variance reduction using importance biasing for deep penetration and forced collision in thin targets Dr. Tatsuhiko Ogawa
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Lunch at Shaw Hall

*At Participants Own Expense

 
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Variance Reduction - Advanced: Variance reduction weight window method supported by automated weight window generator Dr. Tatsuhiko Ogawa
3:00 pm to 3:15 pm Coffee break  
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm Supplementary functions: Transform, Magnetic field, Multiplier, Counter, Electric field, Timer Dr. Tatsuhiko Ogawa
4:15 pm to 5:15 pm Post-Course Q & A  
5:15 pm  Adjourn  
 
Wednesday, 18th September, 2024
Time Agenda Tutor
8:00 am to 9:30 am DCHAIN: Decay and buildup calculation of radioactive inventory over irradiation and cooling periods Dr. Yuho Hirata
9:30 am to 9:45 am Coffee break  
9:45 am to 11:15 am Lattice, Universe and Voxel Geometry: Application of universe to define nested geometry and its further application to make repetitive geometry using lattice function Dr. Takuya Furuta
11:15 am to 12:30 pm Nuclei and Ion Reactions: Parameter configuration for reaction physics models and nuclear data called by nuclear reaction simulation Dr. Tatsuhiko Ogawa
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Lunch at Shaw Hall 

*At Participants Own Expense

 
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Open Session 1:  Reserved for unfinished lectures. If the tutorial remains on schedule, participants can work on their own inputs with assistance from tutors  
3:00 pm to 3:15 pm Coffee break  
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm Post-Course Q & A  
4:15 pm Adjourn  
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Group Dinner at Pizza House

*Dinner Paid by FRIB

*Drinks At Participants Own Expense

4790 S Hagadorn Rd, East Lansing, MI 48823
 
Thursday, 19th September, 2024
Time Agenda Tutor
8:00 am to 9:30 am Shielding Exercise: Practical shielding exercise of maze shielding, deep-penetration and remnant dose prediction Dr. Tatsuhiko Ogawa
9:30 am to 9:45 am Coffee break  
9:45 am to 11:15 am Semiconductor Simulation: Practical exercise for semiconductor single event effect simulation for macroscopic and microscopic system Dr. Takuya Furuta
11:15 am to 12:30 pm Detector Simulation: Practical exercise on how to simulate detector performance, consider detector energy resolution, and simulate coincidence detectors Dr. Yuho Hirata
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Lunch at Shaw Hall

*At Participants Own Expense

 
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm FRIB Tour and Group Photos  
3:00 pm to 3:15 pm Coffee break  
3:15 pm to 4:45 pm Open Session 2: Reserved for unfinished lectures. If the tutorial remains on schedule, participants can work on their own inputs with assistance from tutors  
4:45 to 5:45 pm Post-Course Q & A  
5:45 pm Adjourn  
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Special Planetarium Show

Out There: The Quest for Extrasolar Worlds

at Abrams Planetarium

755 Science Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824
 
Friday, 20th September, 2024
Time Agenda Tutor
8:30 am to 9:30 am Automated Run Using Script Files: Application of script or batch files and external file import for iterative calculation Dr. Yuho Hirata
9:30 am to 9:45 am Coffee break  
9:45 am to 11:15 am PHITS High Performance Computing: Large-scale calculation deployment with help of memory-shared (OpenMP) and memory-distributed (MPI) parallelism Dr. Takuya Furuta
11:15 am to 12:30 pm Open Session 3: Reserved for unfinished lectures. If the tutorial remains on schedule, participants can work on their own inputs with assistance from tutors  
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Lunch at Crossroads Food Court

*At Participants Own Expense

427 N Shaw Ln, East Lansing, MI 48824
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Spartan Shop and

MSU Dairy Ice Cream

*At Participants Own Expense

49 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824 and 474 S Shaw Ln, East Lansing, MI 48824
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Post-Course Q & A  
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Closing Session  
4:30 pm Adjourn