Doctoral defence

These days at the university I work in, a PhD thesis is defended by

its author in front of some live people and at least one person

attending by an Internet and telephone connection. This was a defence

I attended (as an "internal examiner") last week. The external

examiner is in the lower left screen while the student (now a PhD),

her supervisor (on the left) and the other internal examiner (on the

right) are in the upper left. I am in the upper right screen. All of

us in the room with official roles were wearing our academic gowns.



There are official pictures taken at these events but none looked like

this. The screen images were very faded, so I took advantage of the

need to bring up contrast to cartoonify the image a bit. :)