Daniel Allman has successfully defended his thesis “Equilibrium and Quench-Dynamical Studies of Ultracold Fermions in Ring-Shaped Optical Traps” and earned his Ph.D. The flagship result of his work is a study of quench-induced spontaneous currents in rings of fermionic superfluid, with a manuscript that we have submitted to Physical Review A currently under review. We have also learned quite a few things about phase fluctuations recently that Parth Sabharwal is going to be busy following up on for a while. Many thanks to Luigi Amico, Alex Rimberg, and James Whitfield for serving as members of Dan’s thesis committee.