Purdue’s graduation of August 2005 was sunny and hot. CERIAS had seven PhDs graduate in the ceremony (six CS and one Linguistics). In alphabetic order, they were:

•   Florian Buchholz (advisor: Spafford)
 
• James Early (advisors: Brodley and Spafford)
 
• Keith Frikken (advisor: Atallah)
 
• Murat Kantarcioglu (advisor: Clifton)
 
• Evgueniya Malaia (advisor: Raskin)
 
• Weichao Wang (advisor: Bhargava)
 
• Paul Williams (advisor: Spafford)
 

Following are some pictures following graduation (click on the thumbnail to get the full picture). Unfortunately, my camera didn’t quite get the right balance because of all the sun, so some of these are a little washed out, and I don’t have a program such as Photoshop to fix them up. If someone reading this wants to try that, or wants the full (large) photo files for other reasons, drop me a line.

If any of the students involved has good digital pictures of similar scenes, I would appreciate copies.

Again, congratulations to our grads!

- <spaf@purdue.edu>

Picture of Spaf and Evgueniya ("Evie") Malaia. Hint #1: Evie is the much prettier one. Hint #2: Spaf is the one with the beard.
 

Picture of Florian and Spaf.  The wind caught Florian’s tassle at the last moment.
 

Another picture of Florian and Spaf,  Florian has had his tassle adjusted.  Despite that,  he’s still smiling.
 

Picture of Jim Early and Spaf. Jim had the dark glasses on in case my tam fell off—the sun reflecting off my bald spot two feet below him might have been blinding!
   

Another picture of Jim and Spaf.
 

Picture of Spaf and Paul Williams
 

Another picture of Spaf and Paul
 

A third picture of Spaf and Paul, this one proving that he was not standing on a box.  I guess I really am that short!