Gravity and Cosmology Group

Welcome to the Gravity and Cosmology Group.

Supervisor: Chris Stevens (many of the below are co-supervised by Prof. Jörg Frauendiener, University of Otago)

• Jesse Satherley, Ph.D., "Astrophysical implications of non-linear gravitational and electromagnetic scattering" (2024-)
• Breanna Camden, MSc., "The Physical interpretation of the Newman-Penrose constants and Newman's H-space", (2024-)
• Lachlan Campion, MSc. "The generalised conformal field equations in the presence of trace-free matter fields" , (2024-)
• Joseph Galinski, MSc. "Angular momentum in general relativity", (2024-)
• Jonathan Brook, Math. Phys. Hons, "Identifying singularities in General Relativity", (2024-)
• Tanmayee Boddu, Math. Phys. Hons, "Global linearised gravitational wave scattering in an expanding universe", (2024-)
• Merlyn Barrer, MMathSci, "Constructing initial data on past null infinity" (2023-)
• Areeba Merriam, Ph.D., "A numerical implementation of the Friedrich-Nagy gauge" (2023-)
• Sebenele Thwala, Ph.D., "Scattering of gravitational waves in asymptotically flat space-times" (2023-)

Supervisor: David Wiltshire

• Marco Galoppo
• Christopher Harvey-Hawes
• Morag Hills
• Zachary Lane
• Michael Williams
• Manon Van Zyl
• Tegan Gould

Completed after 2022 (Chris Stevens):

• Ollie Markwell, MSc., "Numerically Investigating The Conformal Field Equations Near Spatial Infinity" (2024)
• Jack Zidich, MSc., "Toward a numerical implementation of Cauchy-characteristic matching" (2024)
• Breanna Camden, Math. Phys. Hons, "Colliding non-linear gravitational and electromagnetic plane waves in plane symmetry" (2023)
• Lachlan Campion, Math. Phys. Hons, "Conformal geodesics and the conformal Gauss gauge" (2023)
• Jack Aimer, MMathSci, "Quasinormal modes of black holes" (2023)
• Alex Goodenbour, MSc., "Covariant charges on the null boundary of space-time" Co-supervised by David Wiltshire (2022)