Public Lectures
Breaking Down Organizational Silos through Normalizing Uncertainty
Bish Chanda, FICM, Princial Consultant, Change Management & Mining Project Development
November 14th, 2019
Key Performance Indicator Driver Tree – Empowering Managers
Arnab De, Chief Financial Officer at Mag One Products Inc.
October 18th, 2019
Tailings Dams Management for the Twenty-First Century
Dr. Franco Oboni, Oboni Riskope Associates Inc.
September 9th, 2019
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Mixed-Integer Programming Techniques for Strategic Open-Pit Mine Planning
Dr. Gonzalo Muñoz, IVADO Postdoctoral Fellow at Polytechnique Montréal
May 16th, 2018
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Beyond Boom and Bust: New Leadership Paradigm to Manage Risks of Commodity Prices
Bish Chanda, Independent Consultant, Change Management & Mining Project Development
January 24th, 2018
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Financial Risk: To Hedge or Not to Hedge
Antoine Lajoie, President of FINMETRIX Inc.
November 23rd, 2017
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Open Pit Block Scheduling with Exposed Ore Reserve
Jorge Amaya, Ph.D., Center for Mathematical Modeling & Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universidad de Chile
October 18th, 2017
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Geometallurgical Workflows to Optimize Mining Decisions
Julian Ortiz, PhD, Associate Professor, The Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining, Queen’s University
March 29th, 2017
KNITRO: The Leading Solver for Non-Linear Optimization: An Artelys Optimization Tool
Maxime Fender, Optimization Consultant, Artelys Canada, Montreal
November 12th, 2015
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – The Journey to the 40% Mine
Dean Millar, Director of ERCM group of MIRARCO and Professor of Energy in Mining, Laurentian University
October 30th, 2015
Integrated Equipment Data Management System (IEDMS) in Surface Mining
Vladislav Kecojevic, Professor of Mining Engineering, West Virginia University
September 29th, 2015
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Estimation of Stresses and Properties of Coal-Rock Mass Based on Inverse Problem Solution
Larisa Nazarova, Principle Researcher, Institute of Mining, Russian Academy of Science
May 14th, 2015
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Design & Opertaing Principles in Caving Methods-compressed
Vassilios Kazakidis, Associate Professor, Mining Engineering, Laurentian University
May 12th, 2015
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Exploring the Web of Data for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Marshall Ma, Research Associate, Geoinformatics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
March 19th, 2015
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Searching for the Critical Success Factors in Mining Projects
Knud Sinding, Associate Professor of Business, University of South Denmark
February 25th, 2015
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Stochastic Programming with Recourse for Aircraft Separation under Uncertainty
Jérémy Omer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Operations Research, École Polytechnique
January 23rd, 2015
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – How Can Manufacturing Design Tools and Processes Assist in Developing Mine Design and Operations
François Bouffard, Industry Affairs Director, Dassault Systèmes Inc., and Cameron Reed, VP Corporate Development, Dassault Systèmes Inc.
November 6th, 2014
Open Pit Transition Depth Determination through Global Analysis of Open Pit and Underground Mine Production Scheduling
Kadri Dagdelen, Professor, Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado
October 24, 2014
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Model to Metal Reconciliation: Delivering on Promises
Marcelo Godoy, Group Executive, Resource Modeling Newmont Mining Corporation
September 11th, 2014
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – The Mine Planning Problem: From the Discrete to the Continuous Framework
Jorge Amaya, Professor, Centre for Mathematical Modeling, Universidad de Chile, Santiago
June 12th, 2014
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Stochastic Long-Term Production Scheduling of the LabMag Iron Ore Deposit
Michael Spleit, Senior Mining Engineer, New Millennium Iron Corp
May 28th, 2014
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Energy Efficieny Improvement Opportunities in the Mineral Industry
Kostas Fytas, Professor at the Laval University, Quebec City
February 27th, 2014
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Mine to Plant Production Scheduling
Alessandro Navarra, Professor at the Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile
February 12th, 2014
Procurement Strategy Implementation in a Mining Company
Marika Tuomela-Pyykkönen, Graduate research trainee at the Oulu Business School at University of Oulu, Finland
December 11, 2013
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – The Development of a Risk-based Framework to Support Strategic Decisions for an Optimal Transition of Resource to Reserves in Marine Mining
Tom Wambeke, Research engineer at IHC Merwede & PhD student at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The
August 14,2013
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Why Sustainability Matters in Mine Optimization
Dr. Bruno Lemelin, Vice-President Sustainable Mining Development, Global Mining and Metallurgy, SNC-Lavalin
December 5th, 2012
Known Unknowns: Planning with parameter uncertainty
Dr. Shi Mannor, Associate Professor, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
September 12th, 2012
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Short-Term Scheduling in Open Pit Mines
Michel Gamache, Adjunct Professor,Ecole Polytechnique, Quebec
April 18th, 2012
Long Term Planning at Xstrata Nickel’s Raglan Operation
Kenny Cheong, Senior Engineer – Long Term, Xstrata Nickel, Mine Raglan, Quebec
January 25th, 2012
Modelling Geotechnical Risk in Mines
John Mcgaughey, President, Mira Geoscience Ltd., Quebec
January 18th, 2012
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Orebody Modeling and Mine Planning at a Cement Plant in Peru
Julio Villon, Chief of Raw Material Division, Cementos Lima, Peru
December 7th, 2011
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – The Use of Hybrid Models to Integrate the Main Dynamic Characteristics of the Physical Phenomena
Dr. Amilcar Soares, Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
November 9th, 2011
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Real Options and Mining: Numerical Methods and Nash Equilibrium or, How Optimal Operation Informs Optimal Regulation
Dr. Geoff Evatt, School of Mathematics, The University of Manchester
October 5th, 2011
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Joint Stochastic Optimization of Short- and Long-Term Mine Production Planning Method and Application in a Large Operating Gold Mine
Dr. Arja Jewbali, Senior Manager – Geostatistics, Newmont Mining Corp., Denver, USA
October 4th, 2011
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Automated Modeling: Gleaning Information from Mine Data
Dr. Rajive Ganguli, Professor of Mining Engineering, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
April 13th, 2011
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Metaheuristic Methods for Open Pit Mine Scheduling
Dr. Jacques A. Ferland, Universite de Montral, Departement d’informatique de recherche operationnelle, Montreal
March 30th, 2011
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – The Dragon, the Elephant, and You: Resources and the Evolution of the Global Economy
Gordon Peeling, CEO, Mining Association of Canada
February 23rd, 2011
The Impact of Hedging Against Foreign Exhange & Energy Price Risk
Dr. Margaret Armstrong, Professor at Ecole des Mines-ParisTech, Paris
January 26th, 2011
COSMO – CIM & MES Seminar – Strategic Mine Planning at the Iron Ore Company of Canada
Rod Williams, Resource Development Manager, IOC
January 19th, 2011
Geostatistics with Location-dependent Statistic
David Francisco Machuca Mory, PhD Candidate University of Alberta, Canada
May 12th, 2010
Simulating CO2 Sequestration: Are the Models Ready?
Thomas Graf, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
March 23rd, 2010
Mine Planning and Mineral Reserves
Dr. Marcelo Godoy, Senior Ore Reserves Analyst, Golder Associates S.A., Santiago de Chile, Chile
March 8th, 2010
A Better Way of Strategic Mine Planning
Peter Stone, Senior R&D Manager, BHP Billiton, Melbourn, Australia
February 24th, 2010
Climate Change: From Here to Eternity
Lawrence Mysak, President, IAPSO and Canada Steamship Lines, Professor Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences McGill University
November 11th, 2009
A Diamond Deposit is not a Geostatistician’s Best Friend
David Rose, Mineral Resource Analyst, De Beers, Canada
October 21st, 2009
Enterprise Optimization for Mining and Mineral Processing Businesses
Gerald Whittle, Whittle consulting, Melbourne, Australia
October 16th, 2009
Cut-Off Grade Estimation – Old Principles Revisited – Application to Optimization of Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return
Jean-Michel Rendu, Consultant, U.S.
September 14th, 2009
Business Challenges at the Mine Level
Alex Henderson, General Manager Mines Technical Servies, Vale Inco Limited, Canada
April 20th, 2009
The Chain of Mining Method: A Reality Check for Meeting MineProduction Expectations
Dr. Marcelo Godoy, Golder Associates S.A. , Santiago de Chile, Chile
March 5, 2008
Managing Grade Risk in Stope Design Optimization: Probabilistic Model and Application in Sublevel Stoping at Kidd Creek Mine
Nicole Grieco, Mining and Metals Group, AMEC Americas, Oakville, Ontario
February 22, 2008
Global Energy Trend and the World Crude Oil Production Capacity Forecast
Gento Mogi, Associate Professor, Dr.Eng., The University of Tokyo, Japan
January 25, 2008
Large-Scale Autonomous Systems for Mining Automation
Dr. Fabio Ramos, University of Sydney, Australia
January 16, 2008
Geometallurgy: How to Best Link Geology, Mine Planning and Future Mill Performance
Michel Dagbert, President of Geomachina International Inc. and Senior Consultant for Geostat Sytems International Inc., Canada
November 14, 2007
Risk Assessment in Strategic and Tactical Geomechanical Underground Mine Design
Will F. Bawden, Professor and Director, Lassonde Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
October 31, 2007
Fracture System Modelling and FracturedReservoir Simulation
Hussein Mustapha, PhD, Reservoir Engineering Research Institute (RERI), Palo Alto, California, USA
October 12, 2007
Mine Planning Optimization at Xstrata Nickel – Raglan Mine
Bruno Lemelin, Engineering Supervisor, Xstrata Nickel, Canada
October 10, 2007
Non-linear Kriging Based on Splines – Estimation of Spatially DIsturbed Data
Gerald van den Boogaart, Professor of Statistics, University of Greifswald, Germany
September 24, 2007
Energy Sustainability, CO2 Reduction and Storage
Michael E. Karmis, Virginia Tech
April 2007
Continuous Improvement in a Large Open Pit Mine
Kapila Karunaratna, Barrick Gold
March 2007
Resource Assessment for Mining and In-Situ Production of Oil Sands
Clayton V. Deutsch, University of Alberta
February 2007
Mining for Diamonds – A De Beers Perspective
Malcolm Thurston, De Beers, Canada
January 2007
Poirier Mines: The Performance after Six Years
Maxine Wiber, V-P Mine Reclamation, BHP Billiton Base Metals
December 2006
Assessing Uncertainty in Deposit Appraisal: Example from WCA Turbidite Offshore Deposit
Amisha Maharaja, Stanford Center for Reservoir Forecasting, Stanford University, California
November 2006
Canada’s Mining Industry: Prosperous but Challenged
Gordon R. Peeling, President and CEO, The Mining Association of Canada
October 2006
Application of the Truncated Gaussian Simulation Method to a Copper Deposit
Serge Seguret, École des Mines, Fontainebleau, France
September 2006
Breaking Evidences and Establishing New Paradigms: Subjective thus Informative Probabilities. Implications for Resources Engineering
Prof. Andre Journel, Stanford Center for Reservoir Forecasting, Stanford University, California
May 2006
Decision Making in Dynamic Environments under Parameter Uncertainty
Prof Shie Mannor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
April 2006
Long- and Short-term Mine Production Optimization at LKAB’s Kiruna Mine, Sweden
Prof. A. Newman, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Geometallurgy: Spatial Modelling of Grindability and Flotability
Michel Dagbert, Geostat Systems, Montreal
March 2006
Mining and Sustainable Development
Pierre Gratton, VP, The Mining Association of Canada AND Application of Stochastic Modelling and Mine Planning to Capital Decisions at INCO Ltd.
Dr. Olivier Tavchandjian, INCO
February 2006
