PROGRAM

Program Overview

The conference general program will run for three days, from October 22th to October 24th, 2025,
and will include plenary lectures, presentations of papers and discussions.


Plenary lectures

“Mineral liberation – The key to unlock the optimization problem of separation processes”

Prof. Jocelyn Bouchard
Université Laval (Canada)

Jocelyn Bouchard received a B.Eng. (materials and metallurgical engineering, 2001), M.Sc. (metallurgical engineering, 2004) and Ph.D. degrees (electrical engineering, 2007) from Université Laval. He worked at Niobec Mine, Xstrata Process Support and GENIVAR before accepting an academic position at his alma mater in 2012. He held the Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd and ArcelorMittal Mines chair in mineral processing education from 2012 to 2017. The Canadian Mineral Processors granted him the Bill Moore Special Achievement Award in 2014 in recognition of outstanding results achieved throughout the early part of his career in mineral processing. He was Visiting Scholar at the department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering of the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2019-2020. Prof. Bouchard chaired the 19th IFAC Symposium on Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing (Montreal, 2022). He is currently the director of Centre E4m, Université Laval research centre on geology and mineral resource engineering.

Experiences in Fault Tolerant Control: Suggestions for Mining/Metals”

Prof. Ron Patton
University of Hull (UK)

Ron was born in Tarma, Peru. He graduated with BEng (E&EE), MEng (Control) and PhD (Control) degrees at the University of Sheffield UK (‘72,’74 & ’80). He was Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam (’78-’81), & York Universities (’81-’94), leaving York as Senior Lecturer to the Chair of Control & Intelligent Systems Engineering at Hull University in 1995, and is now Emeritus Professor. His life work includes mathematical modelling in Biology, ship positioning, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant flight/satellite control, and fault tolerant control for marine energy systems, with GS record of 33,167 citations (h72) (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5490-3139). He was awarded IEEE Fellow in 2010, for contributions to ‘Robust Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control’. (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5490-3139). Ron is founder member of the IFAC TC Safeprocess (since 1990), leading Hull Safeprocess ’97 and was TC chair (’96-’02). He has co-authored/ authored books on Fault Diagnosis (4), Fault Tolerant Control (1) & Eigenstructure Assignment (1).

“Current Status of Circular Economy in Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy”

Prof. Luis Cisternas
Universidad de Antofagasta (Chile)

Dr. Luis Cisternas holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Professor Cisternas has also served as a visiting professor at several institutions, including CAPEC at DTU in Denmark, Aalto University in Finland, IRME at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue in Canada, and Wuhan University of Technology in China. His research focuses on developing systematic tools (computer-aided) and experimental methods to address issues within the mining industry. These issues can be categorized into several topics: modeling, design, and optimization of mineral processes; the use of seawater in mining, and froth flotation. Professor Cisternas serves as the Associate Editor of the Green and Smart Mining Engineering Journal (KeAi Publishing). He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review (Taylor & Francis), Minerals (MDPI), International Journal of Mining Science and Technology (Elsevier), and Minerals and Mineral Materials (OAE Publishing Inc). He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed journal articles listed in the Web of Science, more than 100 conference papers, over 35 book chapters, and nine books.

“Flotation pulp and froth measurements for industrial process monitoring, control and optimization”

Dr. Lidia Auret
Stone Three Inc.

Lidia Auret is a senior process data scientist (research and training focus) at Stone Three and holds extraordinary/honorary associate professorships at the Departments of Chemical Engineering at Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She served as senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University from 2012 to 2018. From 2019, she served various roles at Stone Three, including manager for the process monitoring business unit. Her research interests include data analytics, machine learning for process monitoring and control in industrial processes. Lidia has authored 40 peer-reviewed publications and supervised 3 PhD and 24 Masters students. She is a member of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and an executive committee member of the South African Council for Automation and Control, as well as vice-chair (publications) for IFAC Technical Committee 6.2 and industry chair for IEEE Control Systems Society.


Workshops

W1: Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Systems in the Mining and Metallurgy Industries

Dr. Antonio Moran Cárdenas

Workshop 1 (NOS PUCP)

22 October 2025

09:00 – 12:30 h

W2: Intelligent Event Recognition and Alarm management in Industrial Processes

Dr. John William Vásquez

Workshop 2 (NOS PUCP)

22 October 2025

09:00 – 12:30 h

W3: Fault-Tolerant Control for Industrial Automation

Prof. Ron Patton

Workshop 3 (NOS PUCP)

22 October 2025

14:00 – 17:30 h

WC1: Control Avanzado para el Procesamiento de Minerales y Metales

Dr. Raúl Rivas Pérez

Workshop C2 (Campus PUCP)

21 October 2025

14:00 – 17:30 h


Instructions for speakers

Presentation and equipment: In each room, HDMI connection to the projector will be available, so you will use your laptop. Please ensure that you are in the session room at the latest 15 minutes before starting your session to check the connection. Members of the organizing team will support session chairs in case of need.

Duration and Schedule of presentation: Each presentation will be 15 minutes long, followed by a 5-minute Q&A session. More details and the schedule are provided in the technical program.

Format: Even if there is no template recommended, we strongly suggest including the IFAC MMM2025 logo on the front page of the presentation.

Session Chairing: A chair and co-chair are responsible to chair a session and manage the time for presentations and Q&A. Chair and co-chairs are assigned in the program. Please check the program and inform yourselves about your session.


Proceedings

The proceedings shall be published shortly after the conference in IFAC-PapersOnLine


Social Program

TBA