Dr. Mark Robert Baker’s teaching interests include introductory physics, general relativity, electrodynamics and classical mechanics. His research has focused on Noether’s theorems, conservation laws of field theories, gauge theory and gravitation.
Academic Degrees
PhD, Physics, University of Western Ontario
Publications & Presentations
- Mark Robert Baker; Canonical Noether and the energy–momentum non-uniqueness problem in linearized gravity; Classical and Quantum Gravity; 2021
- Mark Robert Baker, Natalia Kiriushcheva, Sergei Kuzmin; Noether and Hilbert (metric) energy-momentum tensors are not, in general, equivalent; Nuclear Physics B; 2021
- Mark Robert Baker, Julia Bruce-Robertson; Curvature tensors of higher-spin gauge theories derived from general Lagrangian densities; Canadian Journal of Physics, 2021
- Mark Robert Baker, Sergei Kuzmin; A connection between linearized Gauss–Bonnet gravity and classical electrodynamics; International Journal of Modern Physics D; 2019
Research Experiences
- Noether's theorems
- Conservation laws of field theories
- Gauge theory
- Gravitation
Teaching Interests
- Introductory Physics
- General Relativity
- Electrodynamics
- Classical Mechanics