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La Trobe University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Staff profile

Dr John Schutz

Honorary Associate

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Room 2.13 / Business Building, Bendigo

Qualifications

  • BE, BSc(Melb), PhD(Mon).

Professional involvement

  • I am a member of the Australian Mathematical Society, the Australian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation and the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation.

Research interests

  • I have been involved in research into spacetime and geometry for most of my career. My present main interest is in fluctuations of the electromagnetic field.

Recent publications and presentations

  • Independent Axioms for Minkowski Space-Time. Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, 373 (Addison-Wesley-Longman, Harlow, 1997). ISBN 0 582 31760 6.
  • A projective characterisation of ellipsoids by isotropy. Journal of Geometry, 87, 2007, 143-149.
  • A system of axioms for hyperbolic geometry. Journal of Geometry, to appear 2008.

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