Announcement of the PHITS Tutorial in Madrid, Spain 2024
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Venue:
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales
Calle José Gutiérrez Abascal, 228006 Madrid, Spain
https://www.industriales.upm.es
Dates: 12th to 15th March 2024
Deadline for registration: 19th February 2024
Registration Fee: Free
Language: English
Course contents:
1) Beginner course (Basic + exercise lectures), for people starting with PHITS
2) Intermediate course (Hands-on session + advanced lectures), for people with
beginner diploma in PHITS
Maximum number of participants: 30 in the Beginner course, and 20 in the Intermediate
course (accepted by order of registration and profile).
PHITS Lecturers:
Dr. Tatsuhiko Sato (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Japan
Dr. Hiroshi Iwase (High Energy Accelerator Organization, KEK) Japan
Local organizers and lecturers in Monte Carlo Codes and applications:Dr. Gonzalo García (UPM)
Dra. Nuria García (UPM)
Dr. Oscar Cabellos (UPM)
Dr. Eduardo Gallego (UPM)

gf.garcia@upm.es(queries and questions)

Eligibility for participation: Open to everyone who has PHITS licenseAdmission to the course will be in order of registration, based on the profile of thecandidates.
Registration link: https://forms.office.com/e/7W9GGZ4Q5V

PHITS is a general-purpose Monte Carlo particle transport simulation code developed
under collaboration between Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and several institutes
all over the world. It can deal with the transport of nearly all particles over wide energy
ranges, using several nuclear reaction models and nuclear data libraries. PHITS cansupport your research in the fields of accelerator technology, radiotherapy, spaceradiation, and in many other fields which are related to particle and heavy ion transportphenomena. See PHITS website in more detail. (http://phits.jaea.go.jp)
If you would like to attend the course, you have to obtain the PHITS license in prior to
the registration to the course. It is free of charge, and the instruction to get the license isgiven below (https://phits.jaea.go.jp/howtoget.html). For persons belonging to an
institute in Spain or other pre-approved countries listed on the website, we recommend toobtain the license via OECD/NEA databank because the approval process is much faster.
After obtaining the PHITS license, please register to the course via the following link
(https://forms.office.com/e/7W9GGZ4Q5V).
During the registration, you can freely select the beginner or intermediate course level,
but we strongly recommend taking the beginner course if you have not experience andyou have not taken the beginner PHITS course before.
Attendees must bring a laptop PC with either Windows or Mac OS. There is no particularskill that should be learned in prior to attending the beginner course, but we recommend
taking a brief look of PHITS tutorial video on YouTube to grasp the image of the tutorialcontents.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe8Wrr-sE8vy-ygWoAqWVrvK89PfxUFYO
If you have any question about the course, please contact us via PHITS website(https://phits.jaea.go.jp/contact/edit/en), or by email with the local organizers at UPM,
Dr. Gonzalo García, gf.garcia@upm.es

Overview of the PHITS codeProgram
Tuesday, 12 March
10:30-11:00 Registration
11:00-11:15 Presentation of the Course (Remarks from local organizer and lecturers)
11:15-13:00 General Lectures in Monte Carlo Codes and applications
13:00-14:30 (lunch)*
14:30-16:00: Installation & introduction I
16:00-16:30: (coffee Break)
16:30-18:30: Basic Lecture I (geometry) / Exercise (stop α, β, γ-rays & neutron)
Wednesday, 13 March
9:00-10:30 Basic Lecture I (source) / Exercise (melt snowman)
10:30-11:00 (coffee Break)
11:00-13:00 Basic Lecture II (tally) / Advanced course (options)
13:00-14:30 (lunch)
14:30-16:00: Basic Lecture II (tally) / Hands-on session
16:00-16:30: (coffee Break)
16:30-18:30: Basic Lecture III (parameter setting) / Hands-on session
Thursday, 14 March
9:00-10:30 Basic Lecture III (parameter setting) / Advanced course (TBA)
10:30-11:00 (coffee Break)
11:00-13:00 Advanced Lecture (complicated source definition)
13:00-14:30 (lunch)
14:30-16:00: Exercise (stop α, β, γ-rays & neutron) / Hands-on session
16:00-16:30: (coffee Break)
16:30-18:30: Exercise (melt snowman)/Hands-on session
Social dinner: 20.30-22.30**
Friday, 15 March
9:00-10:30 Advanced course (script)
10:30-11:00 (coffee Break)
11:00-13:00 Q & A session
13.00-14.00 Farewell cocktail**
The contents of “Advanced course (TBA)” will be selected from “cosmicray”, ”detector”,“shielding”, “weightA”, “weightB”, “BNCT”, “XrayTherapy”, and “RT-PHITS” basedon the participants’ requests.
* For coffees and lunches, attendees can purchase a voucher directly at the Faculty Restaurant** Social dinner and Farewell cocktail courtesy of the Organizers
With the sponsoring of the “Federico Goded”
Chair of Nuclear Safety Council - CSN and UPM

Lecturers ProfileName
Tatsuhiko SatoPosition/Organization
Research fellow / Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Specially appointed professor / Osaka University
Education and employment history
2001 Mar. Ph.D., Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto
University
2001 Apr. Researcher, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute2005 Oct. Researcher, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (due to reorganization)2011 Oct. Principal Researcher, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
2018 Dec. – Specially appointed professor, Osaka University (Cross appointment contract)2022 Apr. – Research fellow, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Research area and outcomes
He is the principal investigator of the current PHITS development team. He also used the code byhimself for cosmic-ray research and medical physics. He developed a model for estimating theterrestrial cosmic-ray fluxes for both solar quiet and storm periods based on the airshower simulation
performed by PHITS. He also developed a model for estimating the therapeutic effects of charged
particle therapy and boron neutron capture therapy based on the microdosimetric simulation performedby PHITS. He is a member of International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)
Committee 2 since 2017. He published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers including 50
corresponding-author ones, and they have been cited by more than 8,000 times (according to GoogleScholar).

Name
Hiroshi Iwase
Position/Organization
Associate Professor / High Energy Accelerator Research Organization(KEK)
Education and employment history
2003 Mar. Ph.D., Department of Quantum Science and Energy
Engineering, Tohoku University
2003 Apr. Postdoc, Geschellschaft fuer Schwerionnen Forschung(GSI)
2006 Oct. Assistant Professor, Radiation Science Center, KEK
2021 Apr. Associate Professor, Radiation Science Center, KEK
Research area and outcomes
He is a member of PHITS development team. His activity on PHITS was mainly in the period whenRIKEN, GSI, and MSU were going to develop their own RI beam facility, and he contributed the useof PHITS in these research laboratories. In KEK he is involved in radiation safety and also
SOKENDAI education. Presently his research themes are improving the photo-nuclear models andlow energy heavy ion reactions in PHITS.