Congratulations to Robert Piel for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Monday 29 January and the examiners were Naratip Santitissadeekorn and Matt Turner. The title of his project is “Adaptive, Structure-preserving Finite Elements through Subdivision“. His project is supervised by Werner Bauer and his second supervisor is Cesare Tronci.The image below shows a screenshot of the beginning of Section 4.3 of Robert‘s confirmation report.