Photo Album: Ph.D. Defense and Celebration

The examination process is strict, but the celebration afterwards was truly fun. Due to some degree of success in my project, over seventy people from industry and research institutes attended my Ph.D. defense. In the evening, I received over fifty guests in a restaurant for the celebration. I was pretty impressed. Later I learnt, that the institute had appointed Dr. Gert Goldhahn, a friend of mine, to start to prepare the celebration two months before the event. Since the school is the oldest one in the world in the field of mining and metallurgy, lots of traditions still remain. (Click to enlarge)

	Asking questions		Defense
	Another round		Announcing the success of defense
	Congratulation		Another professor
	Now Dr. Li		celebration - beer (1)
	celebration - beer (2)		celebration - beer (3)
	celebration - food		Starting the programs with the joking by Prof. Hensel (my academic advisor)
	A new committee was formed, and I am required to start over for defense to receive my doctorate		Requesting to test the qualification of the committee; giving instruction for the test
	Read a Chinese idiom (in PingYing) to allow the Chinese natives to understand it?		Tough questions from the committee
	Not only the academic, but also the physical tests are required.		Prof. Lehnert was revenging me since he failed the test I just gave him. Everyone was asked to hit me once!
	Defense successful?		My doctorate certificate from the committee...
	And doctor hat ..., with many things on it, including an erotic picture ...		... thanks for granting me the doctorate ...
	... and I have even been granted as Dr. Libido, the angle advocate for the thin- and thick-wall problem zones ... (No wonder they put a sexual picture on my Doctor Hat)		I remember I worked on angle steel and have invented a simplified five-minute model! (they asked lots of questions implying sex activity with the "five minutes". Anyway, I am  Dr. Li now.
	A close look - after the party is over.