It is finished. On August 18, 2014 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation before an examining committee of seven, and a great cheering squad in the gallery. It was a long defence taking nearly the full three hours, but in the end I passed without corrections.
The process for Interdisciplinary PhDs at Dalhousie University is to have an examining committee comprised of my supervisor, my three committee members, a representative from the ID PhD program, a chair appointed by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and an External Examiner. My External was Dr. Gregory Grieve from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The candidate (me) gives a short presentation of less...