Prof Matt Visser
Professor
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research
address
Phone: 04 463 5115
Fax: 04 463 5045
Location: Room 321, Cotton Building, Gate 7 Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus
Currently Teaching
MATH 141 - Calculus 1A
Course Coordinator
MATH 243 - Multivariable Calculus
Course Coordinator
MATH 465 - General Relativity and Cosmology
Course Coordinator
Qualifications
PhD UC Berkeley
Research Interests
Black Holes, General Relativity, Cosmology
Biography
Undergraduate: Victoria University of Wellington.
Graduate: University of California at Berkeley.
Matt Visser is Professor of Mathematics at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published widely in the areas of general relativity, quantum field theory, and theoretical cosmology. He is best known for his contributions to the theory of traversable wormholes, chronology protection, and analogue spacetimes.
Book on "Wormhole physics": Lorentzian wormholes: from Einstein to Hawking
Book on "Analogue gravity": Artificial Black Holes
Book on "Rotating black holes": The Kerr spacetime: rotating black holes in general relativity
Honours
Fellow of the American Physical Society