Organization-MC2000

Conference Scope and Objectives

The Monte Carlo Method and its applications have been frequently addressed at several major Conferences, Congresses, Meetings and Workshops organized in recent years on topics related to Radiation Shielding, Radiation Physics, Medical Physics, High Energy Physics etc. These events included at least one Session fully dedicated to the Monte Carlo Method, with a strong emphasis normally given to its "applications" on aspects related to the principal topics and areas of interest.

To the best knowledge of the organizers, the last organized Conference specifically devoted to Monte Carlo issues related to Radiation Physics and Transport was held in 1993 at Saclay, under the title "Advanced Monte Carlo Computer Programs for Radiation Transport". Since then, not only significant developments have taken place in computational and data issues, but also "state-of-the-art" computer codes and tools have been released.

At the International Conference "Monte Carlo 2000 - Advanced Monte Carlo for Radiation Physics, Particle Transport Simulation and Applications", all sessions will be dedicated to Monte Carlo issues. This Conference has been organized around three main categories of Monte Carlo simulations: Radiation Physics, Particle Transport Simulation and Applications involving electron-photon, neutron-gamma and hadronic codes.

For each of the three main categories of Monte Carlo simulations, e.g.

electron-photon
neutron-gamma
hadronic

the following issues will be addressed:

Theory and methods
Physics and modeling issues
Algorithm developments
Computational Science
Basic data
Analysis of experiments and measurements
Benchmarks
Status of general-purpose codes
Tools (Graphics and Analysis)
Applications

A more detailed structure of the Technical Program and of the Conference Sessions is due by November 15, 1999, when the Second Announcement and Call for Papers will be broadcast.

Special sessions will be organized with invited speakers delivering talks on:

past, present and future of Monte Carlo for Radiation Physics and Particle Transport Simulation
open problems, "hot" topics, "needs & requirements", developments
overview and "state-of-the-art" on selected topics
prospectives of Monte Carlo simulations for the 21st century

During recent years, substancial and significant developments have occured which are related to the advent of powerful processors and computing architectures and to the large-scale implementation of modern information technologies and networked systems. The conjugation of these factors gradually strenghten the usage of the Monte Carlo methods and techniques in "traditional" domains and applications, with an increasing complexity of the systems being described. At the same time, several multi-disciplinary projects have emerged during the last decade which require the study of high intensity accelerator and target systems for multiple applications in different domains.

For this reason, a special emphasis on "Applications" is to be paid at "Monte Carlo 2000".