Some pictures of my thesis defense on October 29th 2009. Click on the images for a larger view.
Waiting with my paranimfen Connie Kwisthout (left) and Patrick van Elewout (right) for the opposition to arrive after the defense
My promotor Prof. Jan van Leeuwen is announcing the decision of the promotion committee...
... and since they indeed decided to award the doctoral degree, I am about to receive the bul or doctoral diploma
And with a firm handshake I have been promoted to Doctor
After that, Jan delivers the laudatio, referring to my PhD candidacy in Utrecht
Prof. Arno Siebes, head of the promotion committee
Some of my collegues at the reception afterwards
Evaluating the defense with Jan
Admiring the indeed beautiful bul (in Latin!)
A tag cloud of the thesis contents. Actually, the most frequent "words" happened to be "x", "=", "P", and "NP" ;-)