NPRE alumni and friends from all over the world are sending messages to share their memories and extend their congratulations to Emeritus Prof. George H. Miley on his stellar career.
Many of the well-wishers will be participating in the April conference NPRE is hosting to honor Professor Miley. To view a list of expected conference attendees and read the messages of alumni and friends, download this pdf. This list will be updated periodically.
NPRE is happy to host the Nuclear Energy Research Conference – Celebrating Professor Emeritus George H. Miley’s 50 Years of Research and Teaching at the University of Illinois, on Friday, April 15, 2011. To register for this event or, if you cannot attend, to share memories of your work with Professor Miley, please go to https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/3097411.
The all-day event will be held in 190 Engineering Science Building, 1101 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, Illinois. (view campus maps at http://illinois.edu/ricker/CampusMap?target=search&building=174)The conference will focus on the ground-breaking work Professor Miley and his students have accomplished in nuclear fission, fusion and plasma technologies, as well as the future directions for these fields. The program is shaping up to include panel discussions on the TRIGA reactor, Fusion, Lasers, Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC), and the part Professor Miley has played in shaping NPRE’s role in the College of Engineering and the University of Illinois. The conference will conclude with an invited lecture and tours of several facilities on the College of Engineering ca mpus.
For a more detailed story on Professor Miley’s career, please view the 2010 edition of NPRE’s New Generation n
ewsletter, available in pdf form at https://npre.illinois.edu/alumni/AlumniNewsFall10.pdf