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(PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) University Jena)Joerg Hennig (2022)

Director of Studies for 200-300-level Mathematics

Office: Science III, room 215
Tel +64 3 479 7765
Email joerg.hennig@otago.ac.nz

About

Jörg completed a PhD in theoretical physics in 2007 under the supervision of Gernot Neugebauer at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. After spending four years in Potsdam as a post-doctoral fellow at the Albert Einstein Institute, he was appointed at the University of Otago's Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 2011.

Teaching responsibilities

Teaching responsibilities include:

  • COMO 303 Numerical Methods
  • MATH 203 Calculus of Several Variables
  • MATH 130 Fundamentals of Modern Mathematics 1
  • MATH 4NT Analytic Number Theory

Research Interests

Jörg's primary research interests lie in the field of General Relativity — Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. In particular, he is studying:

  • axisymmetric and stationary spacetimes
  • cosmological models
  • numerical relativity
  • the application of pseudo-spectral methods to the numerical solution of hyperbolic PDEs.

For more details, see this page: https://gravity.otago.ac.nz/people/jorg-hennig/81-2/

Publications

Hennig, J. (2026). The balance problem for n aligned black holes. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 3177, 012022. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/3177/1/012022 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Hennig, J. (2025). The conformally invariant wave equation on a Schwarzschild black hole background. New Zealand Mathematical Society (NZMS) Colloquium. (pp. 18). Retrieved from https://www.ivvy.com.au/event/COTEX6/home.html Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Hennig, J. (2025). Soliton methods and the black hole balance problem. Wave Motion, 134, 103490. doi: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2025.103490 Journal - Research Article

Hennig, J. (2024). Soliton methods and the black hole balance problem. Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Conference on Wave Science (KOZWaves). (pp. 17). Retrieved from https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/kozwaves-2024-the-6th-australasian-conference-on-wave-science2 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Hennig, J. (2023). The characteristic initial value problem for the conformally invariant wave equation on a Schwarzschild background. Classical & Quantum Gravity, 40, 085006. doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/acc2a9 Journal - Research Article

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