Early Retirement

Professor Kostic's Early Retirement and Start of a New Post-Retirement Career

Also " It Is ..."  & "Кад бих...." & "Flips+Media...." Also Entransy Panel at IHTC16 - Heat Transfer Olympics" -  NIU-Today*

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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

     It is my pleasure to inform you that, in favor of pursuing and focusing on my fundamental research and writings, also due to a favorite opportunity for my early retirement, and uncertainties of the future of Illinois' State-universities retirement-law changes (SURS), I have retired from regular duties in 2014, but plan to refocus and enhance my professional activities, i.e., to start a new post-retirement career with emphases on national and international research and collaboration, including expert consulting and advising, as well as 'motivational' expert speaking and lecturing. 

     I am now available for longer international collaboration to finish my fundamental and creative scholarly and innovative work, including fundamental and industrial research and development, being postponed in the past due to my prior "everyday distractions."

     Look forward to collaborating and meeting with you in the future.

    With Best Wishes, and

    Respectfully Yours,

    Milivoje Kostic

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

Selected Presentations (See also Publications):

• 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)