Congratulations to Mirco di Gioia for passing his MPhil viva today (Friday 23 March)! The examiners were James Lucietti (Edinburgh, external) and Dorje Brody (internal).  The title of the thesis is “Supersymmetry of de-Sitter solutions in string theory“. Mirco’s supervisors were Jan Gutowski and Andrea Prinsloo. The image below shows a schematic of anti de Sitter space (picture credit link here).