Speaking, Lecturing and Media

Professor Kostic Is an Occasional Keynote/Plenary/Inspirational Speaker and Lecturer

Selected Presentations (See also Publications and  Carnot.MKostic.com * Search “Zeroth Religion” for Everybody!):

• Sadi Carnot Legacy & 1824-2024 Reflections (PPT & Updated PDF): Engineering Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Challenges at International Colloquium (PolyTechnique.edu) (1drv): PPTs →Photo; → R.T.Vidéo (ALSO: Ubiquity of Heat and Entropy: From Sadi Carnot's 'Reflexions' to Challenges of the Second Law of Thermodynamics →PPT →Vidéo/Nancy & Q1Aya etc.
  Follow-up: Internal energy quality - Reversible equivalency

• Entropy and Second Law Misconceptions DEMYSTIFIED (XJTU, Xi'an, China, 2019) 

• Challenges to the Second Law of Thermodynamics: From Sadi Carnot to Holistic Generalization (San Diego, USA, 2016, updated 2023) 

• International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-16, Panel Presentation-PPT(OR)- Photos & Cartwheel), Beijing, Cina, 2018  

• Professor Kostic's "2017 Emeritus Lecture" at NIU (Presentation (PPT with Photos) and YouTube (recorded "timing-run practice")

• Brainstorming Illusive Thermal Phenomena: Reflections on the Caloric Theory and Thermal Energy (Tsinghua, Beijing, China, 2015) 

• Energy, Entropy, and Innovations: Energy Conservation and Reducing Pollution (QUST, Qingdao, China, 2015)

• Energy Everywhere Explained, NIU 2013

• Electromagnetic Nature of Thermo-Mechanical Energy, Photos, International Forum, Beijing, China 2011

• The_2nd_Law-Holistic Generalization, Tsinghua, Beijing, China 2011

• Unleashing Error Uncertainty Analysis of Measurement Results (NASA, USA, 2003) 

NEW: Undersized AC system better than oversized ! ... More... (2019): Topical Collection "Foundations and Ubiquity of Classical Thermodynamics"

More at: www.niu.edu/kostic* Expert Consulting and Advising (ECA)* Curriculum Vita (Bio)*CV1*Full-PDF *...NIU-Today*Arrangements for speaking, consulting, and/or expert-witness could be made directly by emailing Speaking-Consulting Enquiry to kostic@niu.edu or Prof.M.Kostic@gmail.com (preferred), or via Round Table Group Expert Consortium. Since Prof. Kostic has secured an "Early Retirement" from regular teaching (in Summer 2014), Special Arrangements for longer, in-residence focused collaboration, lecturing and consulting could be arranged.Energy & Environment * Zeroth-Religion.mkostic.com * PUBLICATIONS/Presentations * Energy&Environment*    YES! Thermodynamics, a science of energy, and the Mother of All Sciences will provide vision for future energy solutions! 

Professor Kostic has been delivering inspirational and motivational seminars and lectures in ENERGY Fundamentals and Future Challenges, as well as in the related Fluids/Thermal/Energy area, especially the Fundamental Laws of Nature and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, at international conferences and meetings, and at different educational and public institutions. Dr. Kostic is member of of the Round Table Group Expert Consortium, also ORCID (ID 0000-0001-8875-9801), and several professional associations and scientific advisory boards.   Elusive Nature of Entropy * SEE-Energy * Mech&Aero * BioEnergy *!NEW!P>NIUToday * OneDrive-Photos * Blg * NIUToday CLICK to view YouTube Presentation Video - NOT the actual presentation: Recorded as a PPT Practice "timing-run" before presentation.(PDF Flier-PPT-1D-Blg-NIUToday).

• • June 18-23, 2019: 2019 China Trip (NIU-Today): Professor Kostic visited and presented at Tsinghua University in Beijing (19-20 June 21019, PPT) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in Xi'an, China (20-23 June 2019, PPT). Sightseeing: Famen Temple and Shaanxi History Museum. More >

  • NIU-Today 2019: " Milivoje M. Kostic, professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, presented his latest work at Tsinghua University in Beijing (19-20 June) and Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in Xi’an, China (20-23 June 2019). The renowned Chinese colleagues have personally invited Kostic to present his latest work related to ever-increasing challenges to the Second Law of thermodynamics, including his current activity to critically analyze and demystify “Heat flowing from cold to hot without external intervention by using a ‘thermal inductor’,” a recent Science Advances paper published by a group of physicists from the University of Zurich in Switzerland."

  • August 2018:: Kostic invited to “Entransy Panel” at “IHTC16 - Heat Transfer Olympics,” hosted first time in China, in August 2018. See more at> NIU-Today2, (NIU-Today1), and Kostic named a panelist at 'Heat Transfer Olympics' * IHTC-16 Panel Sessions, (PPT-PDF * IHTC16-Presentation), NIU-Today, Kostic in China  * IHTC16 Photos * Cartwheel at 2018 IHTC16 Beijing China

  • January 29, 2018: Razglednica iz Amerike na TV-LAV. (First 15 minutes TV Interview with Professor Milivoje Kostic)

  • January 18, 2018: Professor Emeritus Milivoje Kostic, Northern Illinois University - Radio Televizija Srbija (RTS Serbian TV); Also Dnevnik TV-Lav

  • April 19, 2017:  M. Kostic,

• •  NIU-ME 2017 Emeritus Lecture: Energy and Environmental Landscape: Thermodynamic Fundamentals and Engineering Applications, "Laws of thermodynamics could unlock a bright future for energy! On Wednesday, April 19, 2017.  Professor Emeritus Milivoje Kostic will give a presentation on the future of energy and the environmental landscape. A reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Room 354 of the NIU Engineering Building (Map), and the lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. The event is sponsored by the science journal Entropy." * Photos * Presentation Video

  • June 2016:  M. Kostic, Challenges to the Second Law Challengers, Limits to the Second Law of Thermodynamics (Abstracts- PPT), AAAS Pacific Division 97th Annual Meeting, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, June 14-17, 2016 ... Dissecting 2ndLaw Challenges [https://goo.gl/cJ56jO]

• December 2015: Section of Thermodynamics of Entropy Journal (Editor-in Chief: Milivoje M. Kostic) > NIUToday >More (MKTag)* Guidelines for Authors (HTM).

Recent Publication (See also Publications and Kostic's Curriculum Vita):

• • M.M. Kostic, Entransy concept and controversies: A critical perspective within elusive thermal landscape, IJHMT-International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 115 (2017) 340–346,  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0017931017312474 *  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.07.059

  • The above article is posted here (Also Abstract).

  • Kostic, M.M. Entropy Generation Results of Convenience But without Purposeful Analysis and Due Comprehension—Guidelines for Authors. Entropy 2016, 18, 28

·        China 2015 Invited Lectures/Seminars ( www.kostic.niu.edu/China):

• • • Energy, Entropy, and Innovations: Energy Conservation and Reducing Pollution, QUST-Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, 12 December 2015. *Photo*P2*P3*P4*Video*NIU-China

    • Thermoscience Research and Innovative Applications: Energy Conservation and Reducing Pollution, Institute of Thermophysics, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 10 December 2015. *Photo*P2*P3*P4*

    • Nature of Energy, Heat and Entropy, and Thermal Innovations, Refrigeration and Built Environment, School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 7 December 2015. **Photo*P2*Video*

o   From Thermoscience Research to Innovative Applications, Building Energy Research Center, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2 December 2015. *Photo*P2*P3*BEC*

o   From Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Fundamentals to Thermal Innovations and Energy Conservation, Energy and Resource Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, 27 November 2015. *Photo*P2*P3*

o   Reflections on the Caloric Theory and Thermal Energy as a Distinguished Part of Internal Energy: Brainstorming Illusive Thermal Phenomena (PDF), Institute of Thermophysics, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 18 November 2015.*Photo*P2*P3*P4* (Free Thermo Functions-Functionals)

·        Fall 2015-Spring 2016: Exploring the Second Law of Thermodynamics (Editor: Milivoje M. Kostic) > NIUToday

·        Summer 2014: Prof. Kostic's Early Retirement and Start of a New Post-Retirement Career

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·        Plenary Lecture: "Energy and Environmental Landscape: The Laws of Thermodynamics and Nature ," The 8th WSEAS International Conference on ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT (EE'13), Rhodes Island, Greece, July 16-19, 2013. In "Recent Advances in Energy and Environmental Management"-PDF. ISSN: 2227-4359, ISBN: 978-960-474-312-4, WSEAS Press, 2013.

·        Invited Lectures: Some Challenges in Thermoscience Research and Application Potentials (PPT), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17 June 2013; [Photos][PPT][Sched]

Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi'an, China, 24 June 2013; Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, 26 June 2013. [Abstracts & PPTs-Photos]

[Photos]

·        Invited Seminar-II: Reflections on Thermal Energy, Reversible and Caloric Processes, Exergy and Entransy (PPT), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 18 June 2013. [Abstracts & PPTs-Photos]

Invited Seminar-III: Reflections on Thermo-Mechanical Energy Transfer, Photons, Phonons and Thermons-Thermomass (PPT), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 19 June 2013. [Abstracts & PPTs-Pho

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Invited Seminar-IV: Reflections on Real (Thermodynamic) Entropy, Disorder and Statistical Information Entropy (PPT), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 20 June 2013. [Abstracts & PPTs-Photos]

·        Kostic’s Research & Scholarly Interests and Activities: Fundamentals and Application of Energy, Presentation at NIU-Engineering College Meeting on January 8, 2013.

• • Special Issue Editor: "Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics,"  Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300; CODEN: ENTRFG), an international and interdisciplinary open access journal of entropy and information studies, Manuscript submission deadline: 20 December  2013. <http://goo.gl/YRVCq >

  • Keynote Lecture: Energy and Environment: Fundamentals, Challenges and Potentials, The 7th IASME/WSEAS International Conference on ENERGY and ENVIRONMENT (EE'12), Kos Island, Greece, July 14-17, 2012.(*) Recent Advances in Environmental & Geological Sciences, WSEAS Press 2012, ISBN 978-1-61804-110-4

  • Invited Lecture: "Holisticko rezonovanje Zakona Termodinamike i novi koncept termo-mehanickog prostiranja energije," VPTS, Uzice, Serbia, July 4, 2012. (Wiki*Net)

  • Invited Seminar: "Critical Issues in Nanofluids: Research and Application Potentials," Royal Institute of Technology - KTH (hosted by Nanocharacterization Center-Functional Materials), Stockholm, Sweden, 21 May 2012. (*)

• Invited Seminar: "Dissecting The Second Law of Thermodynamics: It Could Be Challenged But Not Violated," Royal Institute of Technology - KTH (hosted by Department of Energy Technology), Stockholm, Sweden, 22 May 2012. (*)

  • Invited Lecture: “Nanofluids Research: Critical Issues and Application Potentials," Norwegian University of Science and Technology -NTNU (hosted by NTNU Nanomechanical Lab - Report*VN*ThE-OB), Trondheim, Norway, 16 May 2012. (*)

  • Invited Presentation: Prof. Kostic's Research & Scholarly Interests and Activities - Fundamentals and Application of Energy, NIU-CEET College Faculty Meeting, 10 January 2012.

• Keynote Lecture: Electromagnetic Nature of Thermo-Mechanical Mass-Energy Transfer Due to Photon Diffusive Re-Emission and Propagation (Figs), International Forum on Frontier Theories of Thermal Science, Tsinghua University (Wiki), Beijing, China, December 18-20, 2011. *See NIUToday <http://goo.gl/PKzt2> *Presentation and Abstract.

• Invited Lecture: “Holistic Reasoning and Generalization of the Second Law of Energy Degradation and Entropy Generation," Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University (Wiki), Beijing, China, December 16, 2011. *SeeNIUToday <http://goo.gl/PKzt2> *Presentation and Abstract. *Also Related.

  • Keynote Lecture: Fundamental Laws of Nature: Mass-Energy, Work, Heat and Entropy - From Reversible Isentropic to Irreversible Caloric Processes (Related Reference&PPT), The 8th WSEAS International Conference on ENGINEERING EDUCATION (EDUCATION '11), Corfu Island, Greece July 14-16, 2011. (Also EE'12 )

  • Invited Lecture: Revisiting The Second Law of Energy Degradation and Entropy Generation: From Sadi Carnot’s Ingenious Reasoning to Holistic Generalization, (*) PPT Presentation>Abstract. The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Status and Challenges Symposium;(PDF...more): The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, June 12-16, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-7354-0985-9; Citation: AIP Conf. Proc. 1411, 327 (2011); doi: 10.1063/1.3665247 (2ndLaw)

  • (1) The Second Law of Energy Degradation: Efficient and Sustainable Energy Use, and (2) Advanced Heat Transfer Nanofluids: Challenges and Opportunities,  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 17 June 2010. Efficient and Sustainable Energy: Economy and Ecology Challenges, Uzice, Serbia, 2010

• ►Kostic Visited King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia

  • Energy Fundamentals and Sustainability, NIU-LLI Notable Lecture, at 11:30 am on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in Holmes Student Center, Room 505; NIU's Lifelong Learning Institute (NIU-LLI), see NIU Events.

  • The Second Law of Energy Degradation, Including Biological and Intelligent Processes, Seminar/Lecture on September 4, 2009 at University of Illinois at Chicago – Bioengineering Department  * Seminar Flier (PDF) * Handout*PPT * Kudos-P

  • SEE - Society Energy and Environment: The “Zeroth Religion” for Everybody! [PDF]*www.ZerothReligion.com*[in DoMinore]*(EPESE'09-an invited Plenary Lecture)

  • Energy Is Everything - Literally: Fundamentals and Future Challenges (PDF Handout & Feedback),New Ideas in Science - Alternative Energy Conference, Northern Illinois University, March 16, 2009.(*)(PPT*U&*-*)

  • Plenary Lecture: Kostic, M., Uniqueness and Universality of Heat Transfer (Related Reference&PPT), HMT'08-The5th WSEAS International Conference on HEAT and MASS TRANSFER, Acapulco, Mexico, January 24-27, 2008. (P) (ME News*NIU Kudos) Acapulco*US* Hyatt.

  • Plenary Lecture: Kostic, M., World Energy and Future (Related Reference&PPT), EEESD'08-The 4th IASME/WSEAS International Conference on ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEMS and SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, Algarve, Portugal, June 11-13, 2008.

  • Energy Fundamentals and Future Outlook, (News&ME*PPT&PDF), Presented at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU-短片) in Shanghai, China on 6 January 2009.

  • Energy Fundamentals and Applications, (News&ME*PPT&PDF), Presented at Zhejiang University (ZJU-短片-OR) in Hangzhou, China on 8 January 2009.

  • Plenary Lecture: Kostic, M., Heat Transfer, Thermal Energy and Entropy - Demystified , HMT'09(*)-The 6th WSEAS International Conference on HEAT and MASS TRANSFER, Ningbo, China, January 10-12, 2009.

  • Plenary Lecture: Kostic, M., The CFD Simulation of Flooding Flows and Scouring Around Bridge Structures for Improved Design and Stability, FLUIDS'09(*)-The 6th WSEAS International Conference on FLUID MECHANICS, Ningbo, China, January 10-12, 2009.

  • Energy and Nanofluids,(позив) Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 18 June 2008

  • Energy and Society (and+and) (2позив), Business-Technical College of Professional Studies (ВИСОКА ПОСЛОВНО-ТЕХНИЧКА ШКОЛА СТРУКОВНИХ СТУДИЈА), VPTS, Uzice, Serbia, (Wiki*Net, 2 July 2008.

·        Nanofluids Research-Critical Issues and Application Potential,  University of Hawaii at Manoa, ME Seminar, 9/18/2006.

·        Uncertainty Analysis of Measurement Results, NASA Glenn Research Center - Ohio Airspace Institute, August 1, 2003. (IMECE05)

·        Sampling and Aliasing: “What we ‘see’ is not what it is!”

·        Integration of Experimentation and Computation Engineering

·        Energy Pyramid: www.kostic.niu.edu/energy/energy_pyramid.htm & Information Pyramid

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Encyclopedia/Handbook/Book Invited Reference Publications:

• Kostic, M., Energy: Physics, in Encyclopedia of Environmental Management DOI: 10.1081/E-EEM-120046144, p. 808-823, Taylor & Francis, 2012.

  • Kostic, M., Energy: Global and Historical Background (Abstract), In Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology (B. L. Capehart, Editor),  ISBN: 978-0849336539, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2007. [Amazon][GoogleBooks]

  • ["However, regardless of imminent shortages of fossil fuels the outlook for future energy needs is encouraging. There are many diverse and abundant energy sources with promising future potentials, so that mankind should be able to enhance its activities, standard and quality of living, by diversifying energy sources, and by improving energy conversion and utilization efficiencies, while at the same time increasing safety and reducing environmental pollution."] (*) google_books

  • Kostic, M., Physics of Energy (Abstract), In Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology (B. L. Capehart, Editor), ISBN: 978-0849336539, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2007.  [Amazon] * Energy: Physics (c) 2012 Enc.Env.Mgmt.

  • ["Energy is a fundamental property of a physical system and refers to its potential to maintain a system identity or structure (forced mass-energy field in space) and to influence changes (via forced-displacement interactions) with other systems by imparting work (forced directional displacement) or heat (forced chaotic displacement/motion of a system molecular or related structures). Energy exists in many forms: electromagnetic (including light), electrical, magnetic, nuclear, chemical, thermal, and mechanical (including kinetic, elastic, gravitational, and sound) ... Energy is the ‘‘building block’’ and fundamental property of matter and space and, thus, the fundamental property of existence. Energy exchanges or transfers are associated with all processes (or changes) and, thus, are indivisible from time. If all energy is literally expelled from a confined space, then nothing, empty space will be left. As long as any matter is left it will contain the energy - even at zero absolute temperature the electrons will be orbiting around very energetic nucleus. Matter is and must be energetic, E=mc^2, thus literally, "energy is everything," no energy, nothing in the space. The mass and energy are manifestation of each other and are equivalent; they have a holistic meaning of mass-energy. (by M. Kostic)] ... Read More

  • Kostic, M. and L. G. Reifschneider, "Extrusion Die Design*" In Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing (S. Lee, Editor); (c) 2005 by Dekker, ISBN: 0-8247-5563-4 (Hardcover 5 Volume Set, 3640 pages); (c) 2006 by Taylor & Francis, ISBN: 0-8247-5499-9 (electronic, Abstract).

  • Kostic, M., "Work, Power, and Energy," In Encyclopedia of Energy (C.J. Cleveland, Editor-in-Chief), Volume 6, pp. 527-538, ISBN: 0-12-176480-X, Elsevier, 2004.

  • LeBlanc, G., Secco, R.A., and Kostic, M. "Viscosity" a chapter in "The Measurement, Instrumentation and Sensors Handbook" (J.G. Webster, Editor-in-Chief), ISBN: 0-8493-8347-1, CRC Press, 1999.

  • J.P. Hartnett and M. Kostic, Heat Transfer to Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids in Rectangular Ducts. In Advances in Heat Transfer, Vol. 19, p.247-356, Academic Press, 1989. NOTE: This is a 110 page chapter in the prestigious Academic Press' hard-cover series (periodicals), where the latest state-of-the-art of research and knowledge in different fields are presented. IECHAR10-PDF-HndOuts*AeT**IHTC-15>A>Kyoto*IMECE14>A

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