Matt Visser

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Matt Visser
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Matt Visser, 2010
Education
Awards Dan Walls Medal (2013)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions Victoria University of Wellington
Doctoral advisor Mary K. Gaillard
Notable students Silke Weinfurtner

Matt Visser ( FRSNZ ) is a mathematics professor at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand.

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Career

Visser completed a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by Mary K. Gaillard. [1]

Visser's research interests include general relativity, quantum field theory and cosmology.

Visser has produced a large number of research papers on the subject of wormholes, 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. [2]

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