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" ;-)

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