2026 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2026

Session

T-PLEN1 Plenary Session | Session plénière - Normand Mousseau, U. de Montréal

T-PLEN1

23 Jun 2026, 09:00

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

1036. What can physicists contribute to the climate challenge?

Normand Mousseau (Université de Montréal)

23/06/2026, 09:00

Herzberg Public and Plenary Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg et plénières

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)

Global warming is a central issue for our civilization. While it has broad impact, it is at its core simply a matter of energy balance. Given its fundamental nature, global warming has attracted the attention of many physicists over the years. This includes climatologists, of course, many of whom hold a physics degree, and whose main work focuses on describing and understanding the impact of...

1037. Challenges and advances in the modelling of activated processes: methodological developments and application of the kinetic Activation-Relaxation Technique

Normand Mousseau (Université de Montréal)

Herzberg Public and Plenary Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg et plénières

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Understanding processes underlying the evolution of materials (aging, defect formation, chemical reactions, catalysis) requires simulation methods that can describe the atomistic kinetics of materials over time scales of seconds and more. While off-lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, such as the kinetic Activation-Relaxation Technique [1], have already demonstrated their ability to access...