Draft:David L Wiltshire

David L Wiltshire
Wiltshire in 2024
Born5 May 1962
New Plymouth, New Zealand
Alma mater
AwardsDan Walls Medal (2023)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury
Doctoral advisorGary Gibbons

David Lauri Wiltshire is a theoretical physics professor at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Career

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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

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In 2023 Wiltshire was awarded the Dan Walls Medal by the New Zealand Institute of Physics.[5]

Books

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  • David L Wiltshire, Matt Visser & Susan Scott, The Kerr Spacetime: Rotating black holes in general relativity (2009) ISBN 978-0-521-88512-6

References

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  1. ^ "David L Wiltshire - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  2. ^ "The dark-energy deniers". physicsworld.com. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Gravitational energy and cosmic "acceleration"". www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~dlw24. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "NZIP Award Recipients – New Zealand Institute of Physics". Retrieved 23 April 2024.
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