Matt Visser () is a
mathematics
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Professor
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at
Victoria University of Wellington
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, in New Zealand.
Career
Visser completed a PhD at the
University of California, Berkeley
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, supervised by
Mary K. Gaillard.
Visser's research interests include
general relativity
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,
quantum field theory
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and
cosmology
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.
Visser has produced a large number of research papers on the subject of
wormhole
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s, gravitational horizons and notably the emerging subject of
acoustic metrics.
He is the author of the reference book on the current state of wormhole theory, ''Lorentzian Wormholes — from Einstein to Hawking'' (1996) and co-editor of ''Artificial Black Holes'' (2002).
Awards
In 2013 Visser was awarded the
Dan Walls Medal by the New Zealand Institute of Physics.
Books
*David L Wiltshire, Matt Visser & Susan Scott
''The Kerr Spacetime: Rotating black holes in general relativity'' (2009)
*M Novello, Matt Visser & G E Volovik
''Artificial Black Holes'' (2002)
*Matt Visser
''Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein To Hawking'' (1995)
See also
*
Roman ring
References
External links
Matt Visser's personalized homepageresearch papers by Matt Visser on arXiv
*
New Zealand mathematicians
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Living people
New Zealand people of Dutch descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at St Bernard's College, Lower Hutt
Fellows of the American Physical Society
James Cook Research Fellows
University of California, Berkeley alumni
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