Training by INFN and not-INFN collaborators

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Trainingby 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/
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Background

• Geant4 training was raised as a crucial issue for
  Geant4 at the 1st Geant4 Workshop of the
  post-RD44 era
• See E. Dalys and MGPs 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

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not-only-INFN
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Recent courses

• 2004
• Geant4 Short Course at IEEE NSS-MIC, Roma, 17
  October 2004
• Katsuya Amako, Gabriele Cosmo, Giuseppe Daquino,
  Susanna Guatelli, Aatos Heikkinen, MGP, Dennis
  Wright
• Introduction to Geant4, National Software School,
  Alghero, June 2004
• MGP
• Geant4 Tutorial at NPL (MCNEG), Teddington, March
  2004
• Susanna Guatelli
• Geant4 Tutorial, CPS Innovation, Knoxville (TN),
  January 2004 (industry)
• Susanna Guatelli
• 2003
• Geant4 Tutorial at Medical Physics School,
  Archamps, November 2003
• Susanna Guatelli
• Geant4 Finnish User Workshop, Helsinki, October
  2003
• Aatos Heikinnen Finnish team, Petteri Nieminen,
  MGP
• Geant4 Short Course at IEEE NSS-MIC, Portland,
  Usa, October 2003
• Katsuya Amako, Makoto Asai, (Gabriele Cosmo),
  Susanna Guatelli, MGP, Dennis Wright
• Geant4 Tutorial at Alenia Spazio, Torino, July
  2003 (industry)
• Susanna Guatelli

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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• Our training material is scattered and outdated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

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Beyond the Training Kit

• Complementary training techniques and tools
• Web-based self-training
• Executable exercises
• Training CD
• Training videos
• What is compatible with the available resources?

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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