Matt Visser

Matt Visser
Matt Visser, 2010
Education	University of California, Berkeley(PhD)
Awards	Dan WallsMedal (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	General relativity Quantum field theory Cosmology
Institutions	Victoria University of Wellington
Doctoral advisor	Mary K. Gaillard
Notable students	Silke Weinfurtner

Matt Visser(FRSNZ) is amathematicsProfessoratVictoria University of Wellington,in New Zealand.

Career

Visser completed a PhD at theUniversity of California, Berkeley,supervised byMary K. Gaillard.

Visser's research interests includegeneral relativity,quantum field theoryandcosmology.

Visser has produced a large number of research papers on the subject ofwormholes,gravitational horizons and notably the emerging subject ofacoustic 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 ofArtificial Black Holes(2002).

Awards

In 2013 Visser was awarded theDan WallsMedal 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)ISBN978-0-521-88512-6
• M Novello, Matt Visser & G E Volovik,Artificial Black Holes(2002)ISBN978-981-02-4807-9
• Matt Visser,Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein To Hawking(1995)ISBN978-1-56396-394-0

See also

• Roman ring

External links

• Matt Visser's personalized homepage
• research papers by Matt Visser on arXiv
• Matt Visserpublications indexed byGoogle Scholar