Announcement of the PHITS Intermediate Course and MiniWorkshop at Yonsei University in Wonju, South Korea 2024
Place: Convergence Hall (Rm. 323), Yonsei University Mirae Campus, Wonju
Eligibility for participation: Open to everyone who has PHITS license.
Course date: July 23-24, 2024

Deadline for registration: June 28, 2024
Maximum number of participants: 30 (accepted in order of registration)
Registration Fee: Free (Lunch and dinner are at your own expense)Language: English
Course contents: 1.5-day intermediate course + 0.5-day workshop
Lecturer: Dr. Tatsuhiko Sato (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Japan
Local organizer: Prof. Yeon Soo Yeom (Yonsei University), South Korea

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, space radiation,and in many other fields which are related to particle and heavy ion transport phenomena.
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 institutein South Korea or other pre-approved countries listed on the website, we recommend
obtaining 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.gle/z7MfDsHPnkVKYWnZ6).

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Attendees must bring a laptop PC with either Windows or Mac OS. During the course,
they will learn the advanced usages of PHITS such as complicated source & geometry
definitions and the variance reduction technique. Thus, it is desirable that all attendees
have the basic knowledge of PHITS, which can be obtained by taking the online PHITS
tutorial for beginners held on 10-14th June (https://phits.jaea.go.jp/News.html#news0055).
During the mini-workshop, attendees are encouraged to present their research (~10 min)and discuss it with the lecturer and other participants.
If you have any question about the course, please contact us via PHITS website(https://phits.jaea.go.jp/contact/edit/en).

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Tentative Program
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:30 Opening remarks
10:30-12:00 Advanced lecture (Complicated source definition)(lunch)13:00-14:30 Advanced lecture (Useful functions)
15:00-16:00 Advanced lecture (Variance reduction: Importance method)
16:30-18:00 Advanced lecture (Variance reduction: Weight Window method)(official dinner)
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
10:00-12:00 Advanced lecture (TBA)(lunch)13:00-18:00 Mini-workshop

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Lecturer Profile
Name
Tatsuhiko Sato

Position/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 re-organization)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

Major professional accomplishments
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 51
corresponding-author ones, and they have been cited by more than 8,000 times (according to GoogleScholar).

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