Väitöstilaisuuksissa -- choreography in thesis examinations

• Perttu Puska, Espoo 29.10.1999
  (dressing up well)

• Kimmo Kärkkäinen, Espoo 7.1.2003
  (valvojana)

• Björn Widenberg, Lund 5.6.2003 (onneksi en ole valvojana tässä tilaisuudessa)
  note the exhausted face of Gerhard Kristensson

• Mario Goncalo Mestre Verissimo Silveirinha, Lissabon 1.9.2003 (here a little bit more awake...)
  juhlallinen komitea ** after-defence speculations

• Juha Avelin, Espoo 14.11.2003
  opening words ** sometimes we need two opponents ** intelligent-sounding discussions after the defence

• Juhani Hämäläinen, Jyväskylä 30.10.2004
  "the parameter space can be partitioned..." (opponent, candidate, and the custos Juha Merikoski) ** can I believe this claim? ** final speech ** every speech includes a joke

• Ainhoa Gorriti, Delft 2.11.2004
  The whole committee etC.. ** Final words

• Liisi Jylhä, Espoo 14.3.2008
  Luk Arnaut served as opponent to Liisi

• with Marco Ribeiro (Pamplona, 2008)

• with Victor Veselago (Pamplona, 2008)

• with Benedict Munk (Nice, 2006)

• Sérgio de Almeida Matos, Lissabon 10.9.2010
  Júri de doutoramento

• M. Mohamed Hicham Belyamoun, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 1.12.2010
  (from left: Victor Fouad Hannna, Olivier Dubrunfaut, Alain Bossavit, ego, the candidate Belyamoun, André Nicolet, Saïd Zouhdi, Florence Ossart)

• Johanna Leppävirta, Aalto University, 5.8.2011
  (with Professor David Hammer (Tufts University) as opponent)

• Jiaran Qi, Aalto University, 14.9.2011
  (with Professor Raj Mittra (Penn State) as opponent) ** (Karonkka - Lappi)

• Henrik Kettunen, Aalto University, 15.12.2011
  (with Professor Andrea Alù (University of Texas, Austin) as opponent) -photos: Sami Ilvonen ** (with Sergei Tretyakov)