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David L Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
 Wiltshire in 2024 | |
| Born | 5 May 1962 New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | Dan Walls Medal (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury |
| Doctoral advisor | Gary Gibbons |
David Lauri Wiltshire is a theoretical physics professor at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Career
[edit]Wiltshire completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Gary Gibbons.[1]
Wiltshire's research interests include general relativity, cosmology and quantum gravity.
Wiltshire is best known for the timescape cosmology.[2] He reinterprets dark energy as a misidentification of gradients in gravitational energy in an inhomogeneous universe, in which the present epoch cosmic web is dominated by voids.[3][4] His predictions about average cosmic expansion will be subject to precision tests including observations by the Euclid mission, the Dark Energy Survey, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).
Awards
[edit]In 2023 Wiltshire was awarded the Dan Walls Medal by the New Zealand Institute of Physics.[5]
Books
[edit]- David L Wiltshire, Matt Visser & Susan Scott, The Kerr Spacetime: Rotating black holes in general relativity (2009) ISBN 978-0-521-88512-6
References
[edit]- ^ "David L Wiltshire - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "The dark-energy deniers". physicsworld.com. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ "Gravitational energy and cosmic "acceleration"". www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~dlw24. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ Wiltshire, David L. (2009). "From time to timescape - Einstein's unfinished revolution". Int. J. Mod. Phys. D. 18 (14): 2121–2134. doi:10.1142/S0218271809016193. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ "NZIP Award Recipients – New Zealand Institute of Physics". Retrieved 23 April 2024.
External links
[edit]- David Wiltshire's personalized homepage
- research papers by David L Wiltshire on arXiv
- David L Wiltshire publications indexed by Google Scholar