Another PhD comes into being

Nic (wearing the bow tie) successfully defended his Phd thesis this

afternoon. His supervisor is immediately to the left of him, and one

of his supervisory committee on the extreme left of the picture (I was

another). His external examiner is on the screen (two internal

examiners cannot be seen), and the Associate Dean is the person at the

table on the right. The technical person looking after the video

links is in the far corner.



Nic's not really a PhD yet -- he has to be officially granted that at

the graduation ceremony in five months. But we all called him Doc

anyway.



We are told not to take pictures at these events, but it was over at

this point so I grabbed a shot or two so the external could see what

she looked like to us. (This is a mash of two pictures, the joining

of which you can see clearly in the lower right.)