From left to right in the image:
- Main Supervisor: Professor Sverre Holm, University of Oslo
- Second Opponent: Professor Hefeng Dong, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- The happy Dr. Sri Nivas Chandrasekran
- Committee manager: Professor Anne Solberg, University of Oslo
- First Opponent: Professor Robert McGough, Michigan State University, USA
- Co-supervisor: Professor Sven Peter Näsholm, University of Oslo,
- Chair of Defence: Professor Andreas Austeng, University of Oslo
Sri Nivas first presented his trial lecture Green's functions for compressional and shear waves in lossless and lossy media.
Thereafter, he defended his PhD thesis A Generalized Mathematical Framework to Model Geoacoustic Properties of the Seabed.
The Department announcement about Sri Nivas' trial lecture and PhD defence on this big day: