Congratulations to Elliott Farrall for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place on Monday 22 September. The title of Elliott’s thesis is “Conditions for the Non-Negativity of Excess Functionals in Constrained Variational Problems“. The external examiner was Prof Martin Kružík (Czech Academy of Sciences), and the internal examiner was James Grant. Elliott’s primary supervisor was Jon Bevan and second supervisor was Jonathan Deane. The photo below shows Elliott and Jon at the viva celebration.