10 January 2011 Geant4 Tutorial Introduction J. Perl 1 Geant4 Winter Course Tutorial Texas A&M University January 2011 A five day hands-on course based on Geant4 version 9.4. Lectures will cover all aspects of Geant4 from basic installation through advanced topics and will be interspersed with examples that build a progressively more complex application. The course should be of interest both to complete novices and to those who already have some basic familiarity with Geant4. Participants are expected to have a reasonable knowledge of C++.

10 January Geant4 Tutorial Introduction J. Perl Introductory Information Tutorial Structure Lecturers

10 January Geant4 Tutorial Introduction J. Perl Monday Introduction, User Documents, Kernel, User Interface and Visualization Instructors will stay late to assist anyone who has problems running the first examples

10 January Geant4 Tutorial Introduction J. Perl Tuesday Materials, Geometry Placement, Visualization Commands, Physics and Primary Particles

10 January Geant4 Tutorial Introduction J. Perl Wednesday More Physics, Scoring, Advanced Visualization, Defining Commands, GDML and CAD Geometry and Still More Physics

10 January Geant4 Tutorial Introduction J. Perl Thursday More Physics, More Scoring, Trivial Analysis, Advanced Geometry, Storing Hits, Advanced Kernel Features and Event Biasing

10 January Geant4 Tutorial Introduction J. Perl Friday Parallel Sessions in Topical Areas and How to Get Future Upgrades

10 January Geant4 Tutorial Introduction J. Perl Lecturers All of the lecturers will be available throughout the week to help you with hands-on examples or individual questions. Makoto Asai - Run, Event, Detector Response, Geometry Sebastien Incerti - Low Energy Electromagnetics Tatsumi Koi - Hadronics, Neutrons and Ions Joseph Perl - Visualization, Installation, Medical Physics Dennis Wright - Hadronics