Résumé
Gavin Richard Putland

In brief

Born:	Home Hill, Q, Australia
Resident:	Melbourne, Australia
Highest qualification:	PhD in Electrical Engineering (University of Queensland, 1996) for the thesis Modeling of Horns and Enclosures for Loudspeakers, supervised by Dr. L. V. Skattebol
Religion:	"Greek" Orthodox (since 1988).

Publications

(a) Journal articles:

• G. R. Putland, "Thermal Time Constants and Dynamic Compressibility of Air in Fiber-Filled Loudspeaker Enclosures", J. Audio Engineering Soc. (New York), vol. 46, no. 3 (March 1998), pp. 139-151. [Winner of an AES Publications Award; see vol. 48, no. 11 (November 2000), p.1077.]

• G. R. Putland, "Acoustical Properties of Air vs. Temperature and Pressure", J. Audio Engineering Soc., vol. 42, no. 11 (November 1994), pp. 927-933.

• G. R. Putland, "Every One-Parameter Acoustic Field Obeys Webster's Horn Equation", J. Audio Engineering Soc., vol. 41, no. 6 (June 1993), pp. 435-451.

• G. R. Putland, "Comments on `Acoustic Waveguide Theory' ", J. Audio Engineering Soc., vol. 39, no. 6 (June 1991), pp. 469-471. Reprinted in Loudspeakers Volume 4: Transducers, Measurement and Evaluation (New York: Audio Engineering Soc., 1996), pp. 184-186.

(b) Book contributions:

• B. Boashash & G. R. Putland, "Polynomial Wigner-Ville Distributions", in B. Boashash (ed.), Time-Frequency Signal Analysis and Processing: A Comprehensive Reference (Elsevier, 2003; ISBN 0-08-044335-4), Article 5.4, pp. 185-192.

• B. Boashash & G. R. Putland, "Design of High-Resolution Quadratic TFDs with Separable Kernels", in B. Boashash (ed.), ibid., Article 5.7, pp. 213-222.

• B. Boashash & G. R. Putland, "Discrete Time-Frequency Distributions", in B. Boashash (ed.), ibid., Article 6.1, pp. 232-241.

• B. Boashash & G. R. Putland, "Computation of Discrete Quadratic TFDs", in B. Boashash (ed.), ibid., Article 6.5, pp. 268-278.

(c) Conference paper:

• G. R. Putland & B. Boashash, "Can a signal be both monocomponent and multicomponent?" Third Australasian Workshop on Signal Processing Applications (WoSPA 2000), Brisbane, December 14-15, 2000, Paper 32 (PDF © QUT SPRC).

(d) Magazine article:

• G. R. Putland, "A Light Beam for a Finderscope", Sky and Telescope (Cambridge, MA), vol. 82, no. 4 (October 1991), pp. 418-420.

Employment highlights

Since June 2006: Research Officer, ProsperAustralia:

Preparation of papers and other educational resources on the advantages of taxing economic rent and removing taxes on productive activities.

July 2003 to June 2006: Communications Officer, ProsperAustralia:

Educating the public on the advantages of taxing economic rent and removing taxes on productive activities.

October 1999 to June 2003: Senior Research Assistant, Signal Processing Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology:

Selected research, co-writing, technical editing, reviewing, programming, computation and graphing, typesetting, copy-editing, desktop publishing.

1995 to 1997: Lecturer A, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Queensland:

Lecturing on Signals & Systems (Semester 2/96), 3rd-year circuit theory (1/97), 2nd-year electronics (2/97). Coordination of 3rd-year laboratory subject (1/96 to 2/97), 4th-year seminars (2/96 to 2/97), 4th-year theses (2/96 to 2/97). Developing PowerPoint slides and tutorial questions/solutions for parts of the new introductory EE subject (2/95).

February 1989 - June 1993: Tutor, University of Queensland Union College:

Tutoring introductory subjects in Engineering Mathematics (1989-93), Pure and Applied Mathematics (1990), Electrical Engineering (1991-2).

1992: Senior Tutor, University of Queensland Union College:

Coordinating the pastoral and tutorial programs in the College.

1990: Tutorial Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland:

Tutoring in 3rd-year Electronics Lab. Revising scripts for 12 hours of laboratory work.

1989: Casual Tutor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Queensland:

Tutoring six Engineering Mathematics subjects.

1986 to 1987: Engineer Class 2, Radio Design (Country) Section, Telecom Australia:

Path designs for customer and low-capacity radio bearers and Digital Radio Concentrator Systems, including Monto, Duaringa, Jericho, Mitchell, Muttaburra and Augathella DRCSs.