today I spoke to Dr Surattana. I think you will *not* need to have your
proposal defence by December 20th, but perhaps we might have a "progress
report" (I will talk to the committee about this). I think simply we want to
check that students are making some progress or doing some work. Then it
should be straightforward to just say what you are doing and what it is about.
It will *not* have to be what is in the proposal defence (I'm pretty sure).
So, nothing to worry about.
I will update more when I've spoken to the others.