Senior Lecturer
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/