June 15, 2016. IFA News
On tuesday June 14, 2016, at 1 PM, our PhD student Adam Hardy Linsill Rorisang defended his thesis for opting to a PhG degree in Astrophysics in Sala Juan Mouat of the Facultad de Ciencias. Adam becomes, in this way, our first graduate from the Astrophysics PhD Program of the Instituto de Fisica y Astronomía, opened in year 2013. The student presented his thesis "Observational Constraints on the Disc Dispersal and Planet Formation Processes" to a comittee that included two external evaluators and another one from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, all of which unanimously determined to award him with a 7.0, the highest grade possible, for his work. Later, professors and students alike shared a moment of happy celebration together with Adam. Image: Adam Hardy begins his thesis defense in Sala Juan Mouat.