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Dr John Steele

Dr John Steele

Senior Lecturer

BSc (Hons), University of Aberdeen, 1986

MSc, University of Aberdeen, 1988

PhD, University of Aberdeen, 1989

Science
School of Mathematics & Statistics

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I was born in Lancashire, England, and grew up in Thurso,Ìýon the north coast of Scotland. I did my undergraduate degree at theÌý, graduating with First Class Honours in mathematics in 1986. I then stayed on to complete my MSc and PhD in General Relativity underÌý, graduating in 1989.

From there, I took up a position as a research associate atÌýÌýin Melbourne, funded by the Australian Research Council.

In 1992 I came to the University of New South Wales as an Associate Lecturer, initially on contract. I was granted tenure in November 1998, wasÌýpromoted to Lecturer at the end of 2001 and to Senior Lecturer in 2018. I was the School'sÌýDirector of Undergraduate Studies from July 2007 to January 2021, wasÌýelected toÌýthe University's Academic Board in 2017 and re-elected in 2021 and 2023.
Phone
9385 7060
E-mail
j.steele@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 5103 Red Centre Kensington Campus Â鶹Éçmadou
  • Journal articles | 2018
    Cowling MG; Hunt DC; Steele JD; Steele J, 2018, 'George Szekeres 1911-2005', Historical Records of Australian Science, 30, pp. 49 - 57,
    Journal articles | 2004
    Steele JD, 2004, 'Symmetries in some Newman-Tamburino Metrics', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 21, pp. 3587 - 3591
    Journal articles | 2002
    Steele JD, 2002, 'Computers and polynomials', Parabola, 38, pp. 1 - 5
    Journal articles | 2002
    Steele JD, 2002, 'Formalism for spacetimes with a homothety', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 19, pp. 259 - 268
    Journal articles | 2001
    Steele JD, 2001, 'Killing vectors with null bivectors', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18, pp. 3963 - 3964
    Journal articles | 1991
    Hall GS; Steele JD, 1991, 'Conformal vector fields in general relativity', Journal of Mathematical Physics, 32, pp. 1847 - 1853,
    Journal articles | 1991
    McIntosh CBG; Steele JD, 1991, 'All vacuum Bianchi I metrics with a homothety', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 8, pp. 1173 - 1184,
    Journal articles | 1991
    Steele JD, 1991, 'Simply-transitive homothety groups', General Relativity and Gravitation, 23, pp. 811 - 825,
    Journal articles | 1990
    Hall GS; Steele JD, 1990, 'Homothety groups in space-time', General Relativity and Gravitation, 22, pp. 457 - 468,
    Journal articles | 1990
    Steele JD, 1990, 'On homogeneous pure radiation fields', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 7, pp. L81 - L82,
  • Conference Papers | 1997
    Lun AW; Steele JD, 1997, 'Relativity today', in Hoenselaers CA; Perjes Z (ed.), firth Hungarian relativity workshop, pp. 3 - 21, presented at firth Hungarian relativity workshop

My particular interest is in exact solutions of Einstein's equations and the symmetries they admit, as well asÌý the history and basic structure of Relativity.Ìý

My last work was on an extending a formalism for vacuum space-times admitting an isometry to the cases of homothetic and conformal vectors, and applications of that formalism.