{"id":577,"date":"2017-04-07T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/?p=577"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:57:48","slug":"its-a-kind-of-magic-first-arctrain-student-successfully-defends-his-phd-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/its-a-kind-of-magic-first-arctrain-student-successfully-defends-his-phd-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a kind of magic: First ArcTrain student successfully defends his PhD thesis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 28th 2017, 11:20 am. University of Bremen, building \u2018NW1\u2019, in front of room S1270. Around 40 people witness a historic metamorphosis: The first ArcTrain student is converted into an alumnus, meaning that he successfully defended his PhD thesis!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_578\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pic_georg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-578\" class=\"wp-image-578 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pic_georg-200x300.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pic_georg-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pic_georg.png 559w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographic proof: it happened! Copyright D. Pittauer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The title of Georg\u2019s presentation was \u2018<i>On the Generation of Near-Inertial Internal Gravity Waves by Wind<\/i>\u2019. In short, he investigated how wind energy is transported into the ocean. His 30-minutes talk was followed by various questions from his examining committee and the audience. Despite covering a multitude of aspects, none of the questions seemed to be a serious problem for him. My personal highlight was the audience\u2019s spontaneous applause when he remembered the name \u2018Ekman transport\u2019 after fighting for it for two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The reward for three and a half successfully finished years (apart from ever-lasting glory and reputation) was a classical PhD hat including a pipe-cleaner bike and a battery-driven ventilator. To sweeten him every future sip of coffee, we ArcTrain students gave him a mug with photos of all of us. ArcTrain speaker Prof. Michal Kucera said cordial words thanking Georg for all his commitment during the last three and a half years, not least for his highly motivated work as a student representative. But having praised him now in 1180 characters, we thought it would be appropriate to include a statement of the brand-new ArcTrain alumnus:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe day of my defense was special in many ways. Besides all the applause given to me it was also a day to celebrate so much more: a successful supervision, the chances the graduate school offered me and not at last the community of more than a dozen great ArcTrain fellows. Little of the work I did throughout the last three and a half years would have been possible without the advice, funding and friendship I received. So I want to say thank you. Thank you all so very much.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Georg from the blogging team, we are looking forward to the next eleven defenses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 28th 2017, 11:20 am. University of Bremen, building \u2018NW1\u2019, in front of room S1270. Around 40 people witness a historic metamorphosis: The first ArcTrain student is converted into an alumnus, meaning that he successfully defended his PhD thesis! The title of Georg\u2019s presentation was \u2018On the Generation of Near-Inertial Internal Gravity Waves by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,27],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","de","fr","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}