Chairs

Members (In Alphabetical Order)

NAME	AFFILIATION	AREAS OF WORK/EXPERTISE
Richard Arnold	Victoria University	Astrostatistics Astrophysics Geophysics Bayesian Inference MCMC
Florian Beyer	University of Otago	Mathematical and Computational Cosmology General Relativity
Richard Easther	University of Auckland	Inflationary Cosmology, Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds from Early Universe Turbulence and Phase Transitions Astrophysical Tests of Models of The Early Universe Dark Matter Cosmological Observables
Matt Edwards	University of Auckland	Bayesian inference, MCMC, Time series analysis, Spectral density estimation, Approximation methods, Bayesian nonparametrics, Parameter estimation for LIGO (supernovae) Parameter estimation for LISA (extreme mass ratio inspirals, and white dwarf binaries).
JJ Eldridge	University of Auckland	Astrophysics Stellar Evolution of Single and Binary Stars Supernovae Gamma-Ray Bursts Stellar Populations and Spectral Synthesis High-Redshift Galaxies
Jörg Frauendiener	University of Otago	Gravitational Waves Conformal Field Equations and Asymptotic Structure Initial Boundary Value Problems for Einstein’s Field Equations
Chris Gordon	University of Canterbury	High Energy Astrophysics Cosmology Dark Matter
Jörg Hennig	University of Otago	Axisymmetric and Stationary Equilibrium Configurations in General Relativity Cosmological Spacetimes Numerical Relativity Numerical Time Evolution with Pseudospectral Methods
Jeong Eun (Kate) Lee	University of Auckland	Bayesian Inference MCMC Gaussian Processes Mixture Models Big Data
Wouter van Zeist	University of Auckland	Astrophysics Stellar evolution of single and binary stars Gravitational waveform synthesis Supernovae
Patricio Maturana Russel	University of Auckland	Bayesian Inference MCMC Nested Sampling Evidence Calculation
Petra Nianqi Tang	University of Auckland	Astrophysics, Stellar evolution of single and binary stars, Stochastic gravitational wave background, Bayesian Inference
David Wiltshire	University of Canterbury	General Relativity Quantum Gravity Black Holes and Cosmology