Summary of COM meets LightMAT 2025
Thank you to all for attending the 64th Annual Conference of Metallurgy and Materials hosting LightMAT! View our overview of the key highlights and insights from our event.
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Symposia
- Innovations in Manufacturing
- Alloy development and characterization: Structural and functional materials
- Joining and multi-material design
- Materials for Clean Energy Transition – Hydrogen, Magnets, and Batteries
- Computational materials design and engineering
- Materials and Processes for Closed-Loop Circularity in Transport Applications
- Sustainable Metal Supply: Mining, Processing and Recycling
- *NEW* CIPFA – Driving Innovation in Sustainable Manufacturing
Plenary Speakers
- Monday, July 7
Innovative materials and product development – From the alpine ski industry to the aerospace industry
Félix Lapointe, Co-founder & CEO Ferreol Technologies and Ferreol Skis - Tuesday, July 8
Challenges and future directions pertaining to in-situ characterization in additive manufacturing
Nikhil Gupta, Professor, New York University - Wednesday, July 9
The Future of Responsible Aluminium: Connecting the entire value chain metals
Saurabh Sedha, Manager, Rio Tinto
Short Courses
- Continuous Improvement Methodologies to Assure Sustainable Metallurgical Operations.
Course Organizer: Carmine Ciriello
Organizing Committee
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR Julie Lévesque, Centre de métallurgie du Québec
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR Axel von Hehl, Universität Siegen
SECRETARY Lukas Bichler, UBC
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR Étienne Martin, Polytechnique Montreal
SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Mihriban Pekguleruyz, McGill University
Symposium Chairs
Materials Symposium Chairs
Innovations in Manufacturing
Mohsen Mohammadi, University of New Brunswick
Alec Davis, University of Manchester
Alloy development and characterization: Structural and functional materials
Mousa Javidani, UQAC
Ida Westermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Joining and multi-material design
Elliot Biro, University of Waterloo
Hajo Dieringa, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Materials for Clean Energy Transition – Hydrogen, Magnets, and Batteries
Youliang He, CANMET-Mat
Saeed Tamimi, University of Strathclyde, UK
Computational materials design and engineering
Cliff Butcher, University of Waterloo
Alexander Hartmaier, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Materials and Processes for Closed-Loop Circularity in Transport Applications
Irmgard Weißensteiner, Montanuniversität Leoben
Lei Ray Pan, Rio Tinto Alcan
Metallurgy Symposium Chairs
Sustainable Metal Supply: Mining, Processing and Recycling
Alessandro Navarra, McGill University
Pasquale Cavaliere, University of Salento
CIPFA Chairs
Samira Keivanpour, Polytechnique Montréal
Ahmad Ibrahim, CTT Group
Julie Lévesque, Québec Metallurgy Center
Show Management
Brigitte Farah, Managing Director
Victoria Di Woo, Digital Design Specialist
Simone Florence, Event and Office Coordinator
Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors
