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A guide to livestreamed PhD thesis defenses

A calendar of PhD defenses streamed openly by universities, plus recordings that remain available to watch.

A doctorate ends in public: the candidate presents years of research and answers a committee’s questions, and many universities stream the hour. PhD TV brings those scattered listings together, shows them in your local time, and offers a calendar feed so it’s easier to keep up.

Calendar feeds

Add every defense you can watch, or just the fields you follow, to any calendar app. No account needed.

Where the listings come from

Most listings come from public university pages, and some are sent in by people who know about them. Each defense page links back to its original source.

The line under each title

Under each title is one line saying in plain words what the thesis is about. A language model writes it from the title and the abstract, so it can be wrong: a candidate who writes their own featured defense page replaces it with their own words, and we can correct it. If you spot a wrong one, write to us.

Your own defense

If your defense is listed, you can open its page and choose “This is my defense, let me customize it” to create a featured page in your own words. It stays private until you send it in, then it is reviewed before going live.

If it is not listed yet, send it in. Anyone can contribute a defense, and candidates can create their featured page along the way.

Corrections and removals

Names and titles come from public university listings. If you would rather not appear here, just let us know and we’ll remove it. And if you notice a wrong time, unavailable stream, or missing recording, we’d be grateful to hear about that too.

Channel line-up

42 stations
  1. 01 Aalto
  2. 02 Aarhus
  3. 03 AUTh
  4. 04 Brown
  5. 05 Cornell
  6. 06 Dartmouth
  7. 07 TU Delft
  8. 08 TU/e
  9. 09 Erasmus
  10. 10 HOU
  11. 11 Técnico Lisboa
  12. 12 JADS
  13. 13 Karolinska
  14. 14 KTH
  15. 15 KU Leuven
  16. 16 Maastricht
  17. 17 MIT
  18. 18 NTUA
  19. 19 NMBU
  20. 20 NTNU
  21. 21 Princeton
  22. 22 Radboud
  23. 23 Tampere
  24. 24 Tilburg
  25. 25 UiT
  26. 26 UvA
  27. 27 Copenhagen
  28. 28 UEF
  29. 29 Groningen
  30. 30 ULiège
  31. 31 UiO
  32. 32 Oulu
  33. 33 Penn
  34. 34 USN
  35. 35 Turku
  36. 36 UT
  37. 37 Uppsala
  38. 38 UU
  39. 39 VU
  40. 40 VUB
  41. 41 WUR
  42. 42 Yale
Pictures

Where the pictures come from

A defense shows its own picture; otherwise we use the university’s, or a plate from its field. Every image is public domain or Creative Commons, specially cropped and toned for the page.

Contact

PhD TV is made and maintained by Nikolaos Batalas. To add a defense, use the submission form. For corrections or removals, send an email to nikolaos.batalas@gmail.com.