OK, I survived the initial defense unscathed. By both Molvig and Chris' accounts I did very well. There were no major qualms on the part of the MIT folks. So my ordres in hand are to polish up the document, flesh out the data section a little bit, and that's it.

Molvig is out for the next two weeks, so I can't get anything approved before then. After that there are only two weeks until I have to have a finished document turned in. So the likely train of events will be:

* I spend the next 2 weeks finishing the thesis document itself
* Molvig returns and we do some minor revision cycles
* I fly out to Cambridge and do a final defense on or around April 25th.
* I submit the thesis by the April 29th deadline and graduate on June 3rd.
* ???
* PROFIT!!!

The actual scheduling of the next month will be worked out tomorrow morning before Molvig leaves (to go skiing, ugh). I'll update you all on what the actual chain of events will be when I have more concrete information.

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I did make a few minor mistakes in my talk, but the biggest problem during the talk was that somehow one of the MIT guys missed that adaption in energy space was my idea, so when I got to the end of my talk he wasn't aware that I had described anything new. He was asking me, "but what is your contribution?" and I was thinking, "...where have you been for the last hour?" Anyway, minor communication flub. Stemmed from the fact that I described the code's spatial adaptive mesh refinement system early on and he didn't catch that it only worked in physical space and not in energy space.