Congratulations to my PhD student Mahdie Hamdan! He successfully passed his viva on 25 November 2025. The external examiner was Prof. Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick), and internal examiner Dr Ana Ros Camacho. The viva was chaired by Dr Jonathan Thompson. Many thanks to all of them!

Mahdie has now implemented the minor revisions requested by the examiners. His thesis is titled Infinite volume ground states in the non-Abelian quantum double model, and can be found by clicking the link.