Process

Once you get a permission to defend your thesis in public, you need to start to organize the defence, which involves:
- publishing the study: creating a layout with a graphic designer, taking the book into the print
- organize the examination (with the custos, with SoD research secretary)
- organize publicity (with UIAH PR office)

Officially, the examination process takes two months from the day the examiner(s) get the book. In practice, this time is usually a bit shorter.

Sending a pdf before the book comes out?

As soon as you get the first final version of the book in .pdf format, you can send it to the examiners through the custos. This is not an official version, but makes everybody's life far easier. This version MUST be similar to the one that goes to print: one of the most frustrating things for an examiner is to read a book, write hundreds of notes into its pages, and then get a new, different version. Examiners are busy people, who do not have several days to reorganize their notes anew. I've been p-ssed off a few times when this has happened. Do not make the examiner your puppet: they do not like it.

Contacts between the student and the examiners are a no-no!!!
Once you know your examiners, you have to show restraint and respect their independent judgment. ANY CONTACTS TO THEM MUST TAKE PLACE THROUGH THE CUSTOS; you are not allowed to contact them independently. This is an unwritten academic rule which must be paid respect to.