--- a/ChengsongTanPhdThesis/main.tex	Tue Nov 22 12:50:04 2022 +0000
+++ b/ChengsongTanPhdThesis/main.tex	Sat Nov 26 16:18:10 2022 +0000
@@ -317,7 +317,27 @@
 
 \begin{acknowledgements}
 \addchaptertocentry{\acknowledgementname} % Add the acknowledgements to the table of contents
-The acknowledgments and the people to thank go here, don't forget to include your project advisor\ldots
+I would like to express my deepest thanks to my supervisor Doctor Christian Urban, 
+who have been always extremely supportive thoughout my PhD, in all sorts of ways.
+Supervisionwise, Christian always 
+thinks in terms of the best interests for the student, to which I am eternally grateful for. 
+I would also like to thank Doctor Ning Zhang, who have always been very gentle and caring to me,
+quick to lend a
+helping hand at difficult times. 
+I want to thank Doctor Kathrin Stark, my SIGPLAN mentor, for offering brilliant advice
+at the late stage of my PhD. My transition from a PhD student to a postdoc researcher
+could not have been so smooth without Kathrin's mentoring.
+I want to thank Jeanna Wheeler, my UMO mentor, for helping me regulate my mental health
+and productivity, by being always encouraging
+and compassionate in her sessions.
+
+I want to thank my father Haiyan Tan and my mother Yunan Cheng,
+for their unconditional love, and who I have not seen
+face to face for three years. 
+I really miss you.
+I want to thank my friends Yuying Chen, Kai Zeng, Rui Luo, Jingyi Liu, Qingtian Ye, and many others,
+who have always been very patient and compassionate, giving clever advice when I turned to 
+them for help.
 \end{acknowledgements}
 
 %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -447,7 +467,6 @@
 \include{Chapters/Bitcoded2}
 \include{Chapters/Finite} 
 \include{Chapters/Cubic}
-\include{Chapters/Further}
 \include{Chapters/RelatedWork}
 \include{Chapters/Future}
 
@@ -455,12 +474,12 @@
 %	THESIS CONTENT - APPENDICES
 %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-\appendix % Cue to tell LaTeX that the following "chapters" are Appendices
+%\appendix % Cue to tell LaTeX that the following "chapters" are Appendices
 
 % Include the appendices of the thesis as separate files from the Appendices folder
 % Uncomment the lines as you write the Appendices
 
-\include{Appendices/AppendixA}
+%\include{Appendices/AppendixA}
 %\include{Appendices/AppendixB}
 %\include{Appendices/AppendixC}