Travel Blog: Thesis Defense in Delhi.

Was in Delhi on the 14th of January for my Thesis Defense. I had submitted my thesis for review on the 2nd of July. The defense was held in the committee room. My guides Dr. Arzad Kherani and Dr. Anirban Mahanti were present along with Prof Huzur Saran, Prof. Sanjiva Prasad and Dr. Vinay Ribeiro. The presentation went on fine and was done with the paper work in 2 days time. The following snaps were taken during my stay from 12th of January to the 18th of January. The first one is the Ernet lab in Bharti Building. It shows Mrinal busy with his PhD forms.

Mrinal, Rajeshji, and Negiji were a common sight in the Ernet lab, as seen in the snap. The next snap is of the presentation room in the Ernet lab. This TV was used for most of my presentation while in IIT Delhi.

The next snap has my first machine in this lab. It was a Dual Core (not core2duo) which heated up each time I ran the simulation for more than 6 hours. Every time I booted the PC, the top command would show a process consuming 100% of the CPU utilization. The 400 GB hard drive had about 250Gigs of raw dump of the simulation data. Man, I really loved working in IIT.

The next snap is of the view from this lab during the night. The smell of fresh air of IIT and the chilly winterly winds shall never be forgotten.

The next snap is of the main building taken on the 18th of January. Pretty nostalgic and was not in a mood to leave IIT. The camera was shaking each time I held it as I didn't know when I would get to see this scene again.